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Surface reconstruction for point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Most of the latest methods resolve this problem by learning signed distance functions from point clouds, which are limited to reconstructing closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Yi Fang , Zhizhong Han

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

Existing methods in neural scene reconstruction utilize the Signed Distance Function (SDF) to model the density function. However, in indoor scenes, the density computed from the SDF for a sampled point may not consistently reflect its real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ruihong Yin , Yunlu Chen , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

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

Neural Fields (NFs) have gained momentum as a tool for compressing various data modalities - e.g. images and videos. This work leverages previous advances and proposes a novel NF-based compression algorithm for 3D data. We derive two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Janis Postels , Yannick Strümpler , Klara Reichard , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

This paper proposes an algorithm for synthesizing novel views under few-shot setup. The main concept is to develop a stable surface regularization technique called Annealing Signed Distance Function (ASDF), which anneals the surface in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Byeongin Joung , Byeong-Uk Lee , Jaesung Choe , Ukcheol Shin , Minjun Kang , Taeyeop Lee , In So Kweon , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Extracting meshes that exactly match the zero-level set of neural signed distance functions (SDFs) remains challenging. Sampling-based methods introduce discretization error, while continuous piecewise affine (CPWA) analytic approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Seonghun Oh , Youngjung Uh , Jin-Hwa Kim

We extend the recently proposed sparse voxel rasterization paradigm to the task of high-fidelity surface reconstruction by integrating Signed Distance Function (SDF), named SVRecon. Unlike 3D Gaussians, sparse voxels are spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Seunghun Oh , Jaesung Choe , Dongjae Lee , Daeun Lee , Seunghoon Jeong , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Jaesik Park

Compositional implicit surface representations model scenes as collections of objects, each encoded by a Signed Distance Field (SDF). A fundamental limitation of this approach is that multiple SDFs can produce geometries that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Deniz Sayin Mercadier , Federico Stella , Aurel Bizeau , Nicolas Talabot , Pascal Fua

In this paper, we study the problem of continuous 3D shape representations. The majority of existing successful methods are coordinate-based implicit neural representations. However, they are inefficient to render novel views or recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhuoman Liu , Bo Yang , Yan Luximon , Ajay Kumar , Jinxi Li

Methods allowing the synthesis of realistic cell shapes could help generate training data sets to improve cell tracking and segmentation in biomedical images. Deep generative models for cell shape synthesis require a light-weight and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 David Wiesner , Julian Suk , Sven Dummer , David Svoboda , Jelmer M. Wolterink

Accurate segmentation of vascular networks from sparse CT scan slices remains a significant challenge in medical imaging, particularly due to the thin, branching nature of vessels and the inherent sparsity between imaging planes. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Salvatore Esposito , Daniel Rebain , Arno Onken , Changjian Li , Oisin Mac Aodha

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

The closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is an embedding method developed to solve a variety of partial differential equations (PDEs) on smooth surfaces, using a closest point representation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 A. Petras , L. Ling , C. Piret , S. J. Ruuth

We propose a novel variational approach for computing neural Signed Distance Fields (SDF) from unoriented point clouds. To this end, we replace the commonly used eikonal equation with the heat method, carrying over to the neural domain what…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Samuel Weidemaier , Florine Hartwig , Josua Sassen , Sergio Conti , Mirela Ben-Chen , Martin Rumpf

Reconstructing signed distance functions (SDFs) from point cloud data benefits many robot autonomy capabilities, including localization, mapping, motion planning, and control. Methods that support online and large-scale SDF reconstruction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zhirui Dai , Qihao Qian , Tianxing Fan , Nikolay Atanasov

Three-dimensional (3D) spot beamfocusing (SBF), in contrast to conventional angular-domain beamforming, concentrates radiating power within a very small volume in both radial and angular domains in the near-field zone. Recently the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Mohammad Amir Fallah , Mehdi Monemi , Mehdi Rasti , Matti Latva-Aho

Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) are a natural implicit representation for open surfaces but, unlike Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), are challenging to triangulate into explicit meshes. This is especially true at high resolutions where neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Federico Stella , Nicolas Talabot , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

Recent work achieved impressive progress towards joint reconstruction of hands and manipulated objects from monocular color images. Existing methods focus on two alternative representations in terms of either parametric meshes or signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Zerui Chen , Yana Hasson , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Neural implicit surfaces are a promising tool for geometry processing that represent a solid object as the zero level set of a neural network. Usually trained to approximate a signed distance function of the considered object, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Guillaume Coiffier , Louis Bethune