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3D shape representations that accommodate learning-based 3D reconstruction are an open problem in machine learning and computer graphics. Previous work on neural 3D reconstruction demonstrated benefits, but also limitations, of point cloud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Jun Gao , Wenzheng Chen , Tommy Xiang , Clement Fuji Tsang , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

This paper addresses the limitations of neural rendering-based multi-view surface reconstruction methods, which require an additional mesh extraction step that is inconvenient and would produce poor-quality surfaces with mesh aliasing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qitong Zhang , Jieqing Feng

Representing 3D shape in deep learning frameworks in an accurate, efficient and compact manner still remains an open challenge. Most existing work addresses this issue by employing voxel-based representations. While these approaches benefit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Dominic Jack , Jhony K. Pontes , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes , Sareh Shirazi , Frederic Maire , Anders Eriksson

Meshes are ubiquitous in visual computing and simulation, yet most existing machine learning techniques represent meshes only indirectly, e.g. as the level set of a scalar field or deformation of a template, or as a disordered triangle soup…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Tianchang Shen , Zhaoshuo Li , Marc Law , Matan Atzmon , Sanja Fidler , James Lucas , Jun Gao , Nicholas Sharp

Computational imaging is increasingly vital for a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from biological to material sciences. This includes applications where the object is known and sufficiently sparse, allowing it to be described with a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Jacob Seifert , Yifeng Shao , Allard P. Mosk

We present a unified framework tackling two problems: class-specific 3D reconstruction from a single image, and generation of new 3D shape samples. These tasks have received considerable attention recently; however, existing approaches rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Paul Henderson , Vittorio Ferrari

Multi-view mesh reconstruction remains a core challenge in computer graphics and vision, especially for recovering high-frequency geometry from sparse observations. Recent methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Nandhana Sunil , Abhirami R Iyer , Avirup Mandal

We propose VisFusion, a visibility-aware online 3D scene reconstruction approach from posed monocular videos. In particular, we aim to reconstruct the scene from volumetric features. Unlike previous reconstruction methods which aggregate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Huiyu Gao , Wei Mao , Miaomiao Liu

Mesh reconstruction from a 3D point cloud is an important topic in the fields of computer graphic, computer vision, and multimedia analysis. In this paper, we propose a voxel structure-based mesh reconstruction framework. It provides the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Chenlei Lv , Weisi Lin , Baoquan Zhao

Feed-forward 3D reconstruction from sparse, low-resolution (LR) images is a crucial capability for real-world applications, such as autonomous driving and embodied AI. However, existing methods often fail to recover fine texture details.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinyuan Hu , Changyue Shi , Chuxiao Yang , Minghao Chen , Jiajun Ding , Tao Wei , Chen Wei , Zhou Yu , Min Tan

We present Hybrid-CSR, a geometric deep-learning model that combines explicit and implicit shape representations for cortical surface reconstruction. Specifically, Hybrid-CSR begins with explicit deformations of template meshes to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shanlin Sun , Thanh-Tung Le , Chenyu You , Hao Tang , Kun Han , Haoyu Ma , Deying Kong , Xiangyi Yan , Xiaohui Xie

Mesh reconstruction from multi-view images is a fundamental problem in computer vision, but its performance degrades significantly under sparse-view conditions, especially in unseen regions where no ground-truth observations are available.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haoyang Wang , Liming Liu , Peiheng Wang , Junlin Hao , Jiangkai Wu , Xinggong Zhang

Neural rendering can be used to reconstruct implicit representations of shapes without 3D supervision. However, current neural surface reconstruction methods have difficulty learning high-frequency geometry details, so the reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Yiqun Wang , Ivan Skorokhodov , Peter Wonka

Sparse-view 3D reconstruction is a major challenge in computer vision, aiming to create complete three-dimensional models from limited viewing angles. Key obstacles include: 1) a small number of input images with inconsistent information;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Bi'an Du , Lingbei Meng , Wei Hu

We propose a novel optimization framework for computing the medial axis transform that simultaneously preserves the medial structure and ensures high medial mesh quality. The medial structure, consisting of interconnected sheets, seams, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ningna Wang , Rui Xu , Yibo Yin , Zichun Zhong , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang , Xiaohu Guo

Our goal is to efficiently learn personalized animatable 3D head avatars from videos that are geometrically accurate, realistic, relightable, and compatible with current rendering systems. While 3D meshes enable efficient processing and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Shrisha Bharadwaj , Yufeng Zheng , Otmar Hilliges , Michael J. Black , Victoria Fernandez-Abrevaya

LiDAR-based fully sparse architecture has garnered increasing attention. FSDv1 stands out as a representative work, achieving impressive efficacy and efficiency, albeit with intricate structures and handcrafted designs. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Lue Fan , Feng Wang , Naiyan Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Designing an efficient yet deployment-friendly 3D backbone to handle sparse point clouds is a fundamental problem in 3D perception. Compared with the customized sparse convolution, the attention mechanism in Transformers is more appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Haiyang Wang , Chen Shi , Shaoshuai Shi , Meng Lei , Sen Wang , Di He , Bernt Schiele , Liwei Wang

We demonstrate the possibility of what we call sparse learning: accelerated training of deep neural networks that maintain sparse weights throughout training while achieving dense performance levels. We accomplish this by developing sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tim Dettmers , Luke Zettlemoyer

We present a method for differentiable rendering of 3D surfaces that supports both explicit and implicit representations, provides derivatives at occlusion boundaries, and is fast and simple to implement. The method first samples the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Forrester Cole , Kyle Genova , Avneesh Sud , Daniel Vlasic , Zhoutong Zhang