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This work investigates the use of Neural implicit representations, specifically Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), for geometrical queries and motion planning. We show that by adding the capacity to infer occupancy in a radius to a pre-trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Michael Pantic , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Lionel Ott

Reconstructing the high-fidelity surface from multi-view images, especially sparse images, is a critical and practical task that has attracted widespread attention in recent years. However, existing methods are impeded by the memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Rui Peng , Shihe Shen , Kaiqiang Xiong , Huachen Gao , Jianbo Jiao , Xiaodong Gu , Ronggang Wang

We address the problem of clothed human reconstruction from a single image or uncalibrated multi-view images. Existing methods struggle with reconstructing detailed geometry of a clothed human and often require a calibrated setting for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yukang Cao , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

We investigate the performance of a simple signed distance function (SDF) based method by direct comparison with standard SVM packages, as well as K-nearest neighbor and RBFN methods. We present experimental results comparing the SDF…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-17 Erik M. Boczko , Todd Young , Minhui Zie , Di Wu

Partitioning a polygonal mesh into meaningful parts can be challenging. Many applications require decomposing such structures for further processing in computer graphics. In the last decade, several methods were proposed to tackle this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Bruno Roy

Federated learning increasingly operates in a large-model regime where communication, memory, and computation are all scarce. Typically, non-IID client data induce drift that degrades the stability and performance of local training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shuchen Zhu , Zhengyang Huang , Yuqi Xu , Peijin Li

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end relightable neural inverse rendering system that achieves high-quality reconstruction of geometry and material properties, thus enabling high-quality relighting. The cornerstone of our method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Deheng Zhang , Jingyu Wang , Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Sergey Prokudin , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Siyu Tang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for photorealistic view synthesis, representing scenes with spatially distributed Gaussian primitives. While highly effective for rendering, achieving accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenzhi Guo , Bing Wang

We present a novel 3D shape completion framework that unifies multimodal conditioning, leveraging both 2D images and 3D partial scans through a latent diffusion model. Shapes are represented as Truncated Signed Distance Functions (TSDFs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Simon Schaefer , Juan D. Galvis , Xingxing Zuo , Stefan Leutengger

A signed distance function (SDF) as the 3D shape description is one of the most effective approaches to represent 3D geometry for rendering and reconstruction. Our work is inspired by the state-of-the-art method DeepSDF that learns and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Shun Yao , Fei Yang , Yongmei Cheng , Mikhail G. Mozerov

Multi-view neural surface reconstruction has exhibited impressive results. However, a notable limitation is the prohibitively slow inference time when compared to traditional techniques, primarily attributed to the dense sampling, required…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Chaerin Min , Sehyun Cha , Changhee Won , Jongwoo Lim

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

The success of neural fields for 3D vision tasks is now indisputable. Following this trend, several methods aiming for visual localization (e.g., SLAM) have been proposed to estimate distance or density fields using neural fields. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Itsuki Ueda , Yoshihiro Fukuhara , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Hiroaki Aizawa , Hidehiko Shishido , Itaru Kitahara

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as a promising approach for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, NeRF-based methods encode shape, reflectance, and illumination implicitly and this makes it challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ruofan Liang , Jiahao Zhang , Haoda Li , Chen Yang , Yushi Guan , Nandita Vijaykumar

We introduce a new implicit shape representation called Primary Ray-based Implicit Function (PRIF). In contrast to most existing approaches based on the signed distance function (SDF) which handles spatial locations, our representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Brandon Yushan Feng , Yinda Zhang , Danhang Tang , Ruofei Du , Amitabh Varshney

Neural implicit surface representations are currently receiving a lot of interest as a means to achieve high-fidelity surface reconstruction at a low memory cost, compared to traditional explicit representations.However, state-of-the-art…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Shuo Sun , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

Neural implicit functions have emerged as a powerful representation for surfaces in 3D. Such a function can encode a high quality surface with intricate details into the parameters of a deep neural network. However, optimizing for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wang Yifan , Shihao Wu , Cengiz Oztireli , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

In recent years, implicit surface representations through neural networks that encode the signed distance have gained popularity and have achieved state-of-the-art results in various tasks (e.g. shape representation, shape reconstruction,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Petros Tzathas , Petros Maragos , Anastasios Roussos

We present a novel framework for motion planning in dynamic environments that accounts for the predicted trajectories of moving objects in the scene. We explore the use of composite signed-distance fields in motion planning and detail how…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Mark Nicholas Finean , Wolfgang Merkt , Ioannis Havoutis

We propose a differentiable sphere tracing algorithm to bridge the gap between inverse graphics methods and the recently proposed deep learning based implicit signed distance function. Due to the nature of the implicit function, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Shaohui Liu , Yinda Zhang , Songyou Peng , Boxin Shi , Marc Pollefeys , Zhaopeng Cui