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The neural implicit representation has shown its effectiveness in novel view synthesis and high-quality 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. However, most approaches focus on holistic scene representation yet ignore individual objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Qianyi Wu , Xian Liu , Yuedong Chen , Kejie Li , Chuanxia Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Jianmin Zheng

Scene Completion is the task of completing missing geometry from a partial scan of a scene. Most previous methods compute an implicit representation from range data using a Truncated Signed Distance Function (T-SDF) computed on a 3D grid as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jean Pierre Richa , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette , Nicolas Dalmasso

Key part of robotics, augmented reality, and digital inspection is dense 3D reconstruction from depth observations. Traditional volumetric fusion techniques, including truncated signed distance functions (TSDF), enable efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Soumya Mazumdar , Vineet Kumar Rakesh , Tapas Samanta

Reconstructing open surfaces from multi-view images is vital in digitalizing complex objects in daily life. A widely used strategy is to learn unsigned distance functions (UDFs) by checking if their appearance conforms to the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Presenting a 3D scene from multiview images remains a core and long-standing challenge in computer vision and computer graphics. Two main requirements lie in rendering and reconstruction. Notably, SOTA rendering quality is usually achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mulin Yu , Tao Lu , Linning Xu , Lihan Jiang , Yuanbo Xiangli , Bo Dai

Given only a set of images, neural implicit surface representation has shown its capability in 3D surface reconstruction. However, as the nature of per-scene optimization is based on the volumetric rendering of color, previous neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jing Li , Jinpeng Yu , Ruoyu Wang , Zhengxin Li , Zhengyu Zhang , Lina Cao , Shenghua Gao

Dense real-time tracking and mapping from RGB-D images is an important tool for many robotic applications, such as navigation or grasping. The recently presented Directional Truncated Signed Distance Function (DTSDF) is an augmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Malte Splietker , Sven Behnke

In crowded urban environments where traffic is dense, current technologies struggle to oversee tight navigation, but surface-level understanding allows autonomous vehicles to safely assess proximity to surrounding obstacles. 3D or 2D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Akarshani Ramanayake , Nihal Kodikara

We present a simple algorithm for differentiable rendering of surfaces represented by Signed Distance Fields (SDF), which makes it easy to integrate rendering into gradient-based optimization pipelines. To tackle visibility-related…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zichen Wang , Xi Deng , Ziyi Zhang , Wenzel Jakob , Steve Marschner

As commonly used implicit geometry representations, the signed distance function (SDF) is limited to modeling watertight shapes, while the unsigned distance function (UDF) is capable of representing various surfaces. However, its inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chuanxiang Yang , Yuanfeng Zhou , Guangshun Wei , Long Ma , Junhui Hou , Yuan Liu , Wenping Wang

Neural implicit representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for 3D reconstruction. However, despite their success, existing methods fail to capture fine geometric details and thin structures, especially in scenarios where only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Aarya Patel , Hamid Laga , Ojaswa Sharma

We describe in this short note a technique to convert an implicit surface into a Signed Distance Function (SDF) while exactly preserving the zero level-set of the implicit. The proposed approach relies on embedding the input implicit in the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Pierre-Alain Fayolle

Learning surfaces from neural radiance field (NeRF) became a rising topic in Multi-View Stereo (MVS). Recent Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based methods demonstrated their ability to reconstruct accurate 3D shapes of Lambertian scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 LI Yang , WU Ruizheng , LI Jiyong , CHEN Ying-cong

Neural distance fields (NDF) have emerged as a powerful tool for addressing challenges in 3D computer vision and graphics downstream problems. While significant progress has been made to learn NDF from various kind of sensor data, a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Akshit Singh , Karan Bhakuni , Rajendra Nagar

Unsigned distance functions (UDFs) have been a vital representation for open surfaces. With different differentiable renderers, current methods are able to train neural networks to infer a UDF by minimizing the rendering errors with the UDF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Chunsheng Wang , Kanle Shi , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Neural implicit surface reconstruction using volume rendering techniques has recently achieved significant advancements in creating high-fidelity surfaces from multiple 2D images. However, current methods primarily target scenes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lintao Xiang , Hongpei Zheng , Bailin Deng , Hujun Yin

Generative AI has emerged as a transformative paradigm in engineering design, enabling automated synthesis and reconstruction of complex 3D geometries while preserving feasibility and performance relevance. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ashish S. Nair , Sandipp Krishnan Ravi , Itzel Salgado , Changjie Sun , Sayan Ghosh , Liping Wang

Neural implicit representation of geometric shapes has witnessed considerable advancements in recent years. However, common distance field based implicit representations, specifically signed distance field (SDF) for watertight shapes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yujie Lu , Long Wan , Nayu Ding , Yulong Wang , Shuhan Shen , Shen Cai , Lin Gao

We propose a novel method for reconstructing explicit parameterized surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), a widely used implicit neural representation (INR) for 3D surfaces. While traditional reconstruction methods like Marching…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Haotian Yin , Przemyslaw Musialski

In recent years, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has revolutionized three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction with its implicit representation. Building upon NeRF, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has departed from the implicit representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Bin Zhang , Bi Zeng , Zexin Peng