English
Related papers

Related papers: NoKSR: Kernel-Free Neural Surface Reconstruction v…

200 papers

In this work, we introduce SCALAR-NeRF, a novel framework tailored for scalable large-scale neural scene reconstruction. We structure the neural representation as an encoder-decoder architecture, where the encoder processes 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yu Chen , Gim Hee Lee

3D semantic scene labeling is fundamental to agents operating in the real world. In particular, labeling raw 3D point sets from sensors provides fine-grained semantics. Recent works leverage the capabilities of Neural Networks (NNs), but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Lyne P. Tchapmi , Christopher B. Choy , Iro Armeni , JunYoung Gwak , Silvio Savarese

In recent years, implicit functions have drawn attention in the field of 3D reconstruction and have successfully been applied with Deep Learning. However, for incremental reconstruction, implicit function-based registrations have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yijun Yuan , Andreas Nuechter

The inverse design of metamaterial architectures presents a significant challenge, particularly for nonlinear mechanical properties involving large deformations, buckling, contact, and plasticity. Traditional methods, such as gradient-based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Qibang Liu , Seid Koric , Diab Abueidda , Hadi Meidani , Philippe Geubelle

We propose a fast and accurate surface reconstruction algorithm for unorganized point clouds using an implicit representation. Recent learning methods are either single-object representations with small neural models that allow for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Siddhant Ranade , Gonçalo Dias Pais , Ross Tyler Whitaker , Jacinto C. Nascimento , Pedro Miraldo , Srikumar Ramalingam

We present SuperNormal, a fast, high-fidelity approach to multi-view 3D reconstruction using surface normal maps. With a few minutes, SuperNormal produces detailed surfaces on par with 3D scanners. We harness volume rendering to optimize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xu Cao , Takafumi Taketomi

Rasterization based methods have recently enabled high-quality novel view synthesis at real-time rates, but their underlying volumetric primitives do not expose a direct, globally consistent surface representation, leaving sur face…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinkai Cui , Kaiwen Song , Chumeng Niu , Juyong Zhang

Accurate and compact representation of signed distance functions (SDFs) of implicit surfaces is crucial for efficient storage, computation, and downstream processing of 3D geometry. In this work, we propose a general learning method for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bobo Lian , Zidong Wang , Dandan Wang , Chenjian Wu , Minxin Chen

Implicit neural field generating signed distance field representations (SDFs) of 3D shapes have shown remarkable progress in 3D shape reconstruction and generation. We introduce a new paradigm for neural field representations of 3D scenes;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Extracting surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) can be accomplished using traditional algorithms, such as Marching Cubes. However, since they rely on sign flips across the surface, these algorithms cannot be used directly on Unsigned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Federico Stella , Nicolas Talabot , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

Point cloud registration is to estimate a transformation to align point clouds collected in different perspectives. In learning-based point cloud registration, a robust descriptor is vital for high-accuracy registration. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Guiyu Zhao , Zhentao Guo , Xin Wang , Hongbin Ma

Surface reconstruction is very challenging when the input point clouds, particularly real scans, are noisy and lack normals. Observing that the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and the implicit moving least-square function (IMLS) provide a dual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Zixiong Wang , Pengfei Wang , Pengshuai Wang , Qiujie Dong , Junjie Gao , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

Surface reconstruction and novel view rendering from sparse-view images are challenging. Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based methods struggle with fine details, while 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based approaches lack global geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zihui Gao , Jia-Wang Bian , Guosheng Lin , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

Digital twins are fundamental to the development of autonomous driving and embodied artificial intelligence. However, achieving high-granularity surface reconstruction and high-fidelity rendering remains a challenge. Gaussian splatting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jianheng Liu , Yunfei Wan , Bowen Wang , Chunran Zheng , Jiarong Lin , Fu Zhang

This study addresses the partial-to-complete geometry reconstruction of deformable objects (DOs) from point-cloud observations toward precise DO manipulation. Recent DO reconstruction approaches often adopt implicit neural representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Deokmin Hwang , Minseok Song , Daehyung Park

Reconstructing complex structures from planar cross-sections is a challenging problem, with wide-reaching applications in medical imaging, manufacturing, and topography. Out-of-the-box point cloud reconstruction methods can often fail due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Thomas Walker , Salvatore Esposito , Daniel Rebain , Amir Vaxman , Arno Onken , Changjian Li , Oisin Mac Aodha

We propose an octree guided neural network architecture and spherical convolutional kernel for machine learning from arbitrary 3D point clouds. The network architecture capitalizes on the sparse nature of irregular point clouds, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Huan Lei , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

Neural implicit reconstruction via volume rendering has demonstrated its effectiveness in recovering dense 3D surfaces. However, it is non-trivial to simultaneously recover meticulous geometry and preserve smoothness across regions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ziyu Tang , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Di Huang , Hujun Bao , Tong He , Guofeng Zhang

We present Neural Kernel Fields: a novel method for reconstructing implicit 3D shapes based on a learned kernel ridge regression. Our technique achieves state-of-the-art results when reconstructing 3D objects and large scenes from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Francis Williams , Zan Gojcic , Sameh Khamis , Denis Zorin , Joan Bruna , Sanja Fidler , Or Litany

Signed distance fields (SDFs) are a widely used implicit surface representation, with broad applications in computer graphics, computer vision, and applied mathematics. To reconstruct an explicit triangle mesh surface corresponding to an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Silvia Sellán , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein