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Available algorithms for the initialization of volume fractions typically utilize exact functions to model fluid interfaces, or they rely on computationally costly intersections between volume meshes. Here, a new algorithm is proposed that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Tobias Tolle , Dirk Gründing , Dieter Bothe , Tomislav Marić

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

Recovery of a 3D head model including the complete face and hair regions is still a challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. In this paper, we consider this problem using only a few multi-view portrait images as input. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xueying Wang , Yudong Guo , Zhongqi Yang , Juyong Zhang

Obtaining high-quality 3D reconstructions of room-scale scenes is of paramount importance for upcoming applications in AR or VR. These range from mixed reality applications for teleconferencing, virtual measuring, virtual room planing, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Dejan Azinović , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Dan B Goldman , Matthias Nießner , Justus Thies

We present Manifold Diffusion Fields (MDF), an approach that unlocks learning of diffusion models of data in general non-Euclidean geometries. Leveraging insights from spectral geometry analysis, we define an intrinsic coordinate system on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Ahmed A. Elhag , Yuyang Wang , Joshua M. Susskind , Miguel Angel Bautista

Ridge surfaces represent important features for the analysis of 3-dimensional (3D) datasets in diverse applications and are often derived from varying underlying data including flow fields, geological fault data, and point data, but they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Nicolas Klenert , Verena Lepper , Daniel Baum

Implicit Neural Representations have gained prominence as a powerful framework for capturing complex data modalities, encompassing a wide range from 3D shapes to images and audio. Within the realm of 3D shape representation, Neural Signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Amine Ouasfi , Adnane Boukhayma

Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) are vital implicit representations to represent high fidelity 3D surfaces. Current methods mainly leverage a neural network to learn an SDF from various supervisions including signed distances, 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We introduce a novel depth estimation technique for multi-frame structured light setups using neural implicit representations of 3D space. Our approach employs a neural signed distance field (SDF), trained through self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Rukun Qiao , Hiroshi Kawasaki , Hongbin Zha

In this paper, we aim to create generalizable and controllable neural signed distance fields (SDFs) that represent clothed humans from monocular depth observations. Recent advances in deep learning, especially neural implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Qianli Ma , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

We propose a method to interpolate Signed Distance Function (SDF) data from a discrete set of samples. Unlike prior work, our approach ensures that the new SDF data values are fully consistent with the input and each other, such that the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Letao Chen , Sanju Mupparaju , Christopher Batty , Silvia Sellán , Oded Stein

Three-dimensional (3D) freehand ultrasound (US) is a widely used imaging modality that allows non-invasive imaging of medical anatomy without radiation exposure. Surface reconstruction of US volume is vital to acquire the accurate…

Signed distance fields (SDFs) are a form of surface representation widely used in computer graphics, having applications in rendering, collision detection and modelling. In interactive media such as games, high-resolution SDFs are commonly…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yu Wei Tan , Nicholas Chua , Clarence Koh , Anand Bhojan

Recent years have seen the development of mature solutions for reconstructing deformable surfaces from a single image, provided that they are relatively well-textured. By contrast, recovering the 3D shape of texture-less surfaces remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Jan Bednařík , Pascal Fua , Mathieu Salzmann

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

Object-centric surface reconstruction from multi-view images is crucial in creating editable digital assets for AR/VR. Due to the lack of geometric constraints, existing methods, e.g., NeuS necessitate annotating the object masks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Haotian Bai , Yize Chen , Lin Wang

We study the problem of reconstructing 3D feature curves of an object from a set of calibrated multi-view images. To do so, we learn a neural implicit field representing the density distribution of 3D edges which we refer to as Neural Edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Yunfan Ye , Renjiao Yi , Zhirui Gao , Chenyang Zhu , Zhiping Cai , Kai Xu

In modern computer vision, the optimal representation of 3D shape continues to be task-dependent. One fundamental operation applied to such representations is differentiable rendering, as it enables inverse graphics approaches in learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

Scene and object reconstruction is an important problem in robotics, in particular in planning collision-free trajectories or in object manipulation. This paper compares two strategies for the reconstruction of nonvisible parts of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Rafał Staszak , Piotr Michałek , Jakub Chudziński , Marek Kopicki , Dominik Belter

We present Gradient-SDF, a novel representation for 3D geometry that combines the advantages of implict and explicit representations. By storing at every voxel both the signed distance field as well as its gradient vector field, we enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Christiane Sommer , Lu Sang , David Schubert , Daniel Cremers