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Normal estimation for unstructured point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Current methods achieve encouraging results by mapping local patches to normal vectors or learning local surface fitting using neural networks.…

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3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has shown its detailed expressive ability and highly efficient rendering speed in the novel view synthesis (NVS) task. The application to inverse rendering still faces several challenges, as the discrete nature…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zuo-Liang Zhu , Jian Yang , Beibei Wang

In this paper, we present a generalizable method for 3D surface reconstruction from raw point clouds or pre-estimated 3D Gaussians by 3DGS from RGB images. Unlike existing coordinate-based methods which are often computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shenxing Wei , Jinxi Li , Yafei Yang , Siyuan Zhou , Bo Yang

Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based volume rendering has demonstrated significant capabilities in surface reconstruction. Although promising, SDF-based methods often fail to capture detailed geometric structures, resulting in visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yifan Wang , Di Huang , Weicai Ye , Guofeng Zhang , Wanli Ouyang , Tong He

Various SDF-based neural implicit surface reconstruction methods have been proposed recently, and have demonstrated remarkable modeling capabilities. However, due to the global nature and limited representation ability of a single network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Leyuan Yang , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

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 surfaces can be used to recover accurate 3D geometry from imperfect point clouds. In this work, we show that state-of-the-art techniques work by minimizing an approximation of a one-sided Chamfer distance. This shape metric…

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In this article, we introduce a finite element method designed for the robust computation of approximate signed distance functions to arbitrary boundaries in two and three dimensions. Our method employs a novel prediction-correction…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Amina El Bachari , Johann Rannou , Vladislav A. Yastrebov , Pierre Kerfriden , Susanne Claus

The aim of Shape From Shading (SFS) problem is to reconstruct the relief of an object from a single gray level image. In this paper we present a new method to solve the problem of SFS using Machine learning method. Our approach belongs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Lyes Abada , Saliha Aouat

We present MatDecompSDF, a novel framework for recovering high-fidelity 3D shapes and decomposing their physically-based material properties from multi-view images. The core challenge of inverse rendering lies in the ill-posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chengyu Wang , Isabella Bennett , Henry Scott , Liang Zhang , Mei Chen , Hao Li , Rui Zhao

We introduce a neural implicit framework that exploits the differentiable properties of neural networks and the discrete geometry of point-sampled surfaces to approximate them as the level sets of neural implicit functions. To train a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tiago Novello , Guilherme Schardong , Luiz Schirmer , Vinicius da Silva , Helio Lopes , Luiz Velho

Signed distance functions (SDFs) is an attractive framework that has recently shown promising results for 3D shape reconstruction from images. SDFs seamlessly generalize to different shape resolutions and topologies but lack explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Our objective is to leverage a differentiable radiance field \eg NeRF to reconstruct detailed 3D surfaces in addition to producing the standard novel view renderings. There have been related methods that perform such tasks, usually by…

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Surface parametrization is a crucial part in various fields, having applications in computer graphic, medical imaging, scientific computing and computational engineering. The majority of surface parametrization approaches are performed on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ka Ho Lai , Lok Ming Lui

We present a novel deep learning framework for flow field predictions in irregular domains when the solution is a function of the geometry of either the domain or objects inside the domain. Grid vertices in a computational fluid dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ali Kashefi , Davis Rempe , Leonidas J. Guibas

Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) for surface representation are commonly generated offline and subsequently loaded into interactive applications like games. Since they are not updated every frame, they only provide a rigid surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yu Wei Tan , Nicholas Chua , Clarence Koh , Anand Bhojan

Recently, building on the foundation of neural radiance field, various techniques have emerged to learn unsigned distance fields (UDF) to reconstruct 3D non-watertight models from multi-view images. Yet, a central challenge in UDF-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Junkai Deng , Fei Hou , Xuhui Chen , Wencheng Wang , Ying He

Due to the unique characteristics of underwater environments, accurate 3D reconstruction of underwater objects poses a challenging problem in tasks such as underwater exploration and mapping. Traditional methods that rely on multiple sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zeyu Chen , Jingyi Tang , Gu Wang , Shengquan Li , Xinghui Li , Xiangyang Ji , Xiu Li

Emerging from low-level vision theory, steerable filters found their counterpart in prior work on steerable convolutional neural networks equivariant to rigid transformations. In our work, we propose a steerable feed-forward learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Pavlo Melnyk , Michael Felsberg , Mårten Wadenbäck

Dense 3D object reconstruction from a single image has recently witnessed remarkable advances, but supervising neural networks with ground-truth 3D shapes is impractical due to the laborious process of creating paired image-shape datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Chen-Hsuan Lin , Chaoyang Wang , Simon Lucey