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Uncertainty quantification is essential when dealing with ill-conditioned inverse problems due to the inherent nonuniqueness of the solution. Bayesian approaches allow us to determine how likely an estimation of the unknown parameters is…

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Implicit neural rendering, which uses signed distance function (SDF) representation with geometric priors (such as depth or surface normal), has led to impressive progress in the surface reconstruction of large-scale scenes. However,…

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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

Surface reconstruction and novel view rendering from sparse-view images are challenging. Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based methods struggle with fine details, while 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based approaches lack global geometry…

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In this work, we present a new method for 3D face reconstruction from sparse-view RGB images. Unlike previous methods which are built upon 3D morphable models (3DMMs) with limited details, we leverage an implicit representation to encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Moran Li , Haibin Huang , Yi Zheng , Mengtian Li , Nong Sang , Chongyang Ma

Neural signed-distance fields (SDFs) are a versatile backbone for neural geometry representation, but enforcing CAD-style developability usually requires Gaussian-curvature penalties with full Hessian evaluation and second-order…

In visual computing, 3D geometry is represented in many different forms including meshes, point clouds, voxel grids, level sets, and depth images. Each representation is suited for different tasks thus making the transformation of one…

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Minimally invasive procedures have been advanced rapidly by the robotic laparoscopic surgery. The latter greatly assists surgeons in sophisticated and precise operations with reduced invasiveness. Nevertheless, it is still safety critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zeqing Wang , Han Fang , Yihong Xu , Yutong Ban

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have shown promise in applications like view synthesis and depth estimation, but learning from multiview images faces inherent uncertainties. Current methods to quantify them are either heuristic or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Lily Goli , Cody Reading , Silvia Sellán , Alec Jacobson , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Accurate 3D shape representation is essential in engineering applications such as design, optimization, and simulation. In practice, engineering workflows require structured, part-based representations, as objects are inherently designed as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nicolas Talabot , Olivier Clerc , Arda Cinar Demirtas , Alexis Goujon , Hieu Le , Doruk Oner , Pascal Fua

This paper presents Neural Visibility Field (NVF), a novel uncertainty quantification method for Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) applied to active mapping. Our key insight is that regions not visible in the training views lead to inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Shangjie Xue , Jesse Dill , Pranay Mathur , Frank Dellaert , Panagiotis Tsiotras , Danfei Xu

It is an important task to reconstruct surfaces from 3D point clouds. Current methods are able to reconstruct surfaces by learning Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) from single point clouds without ground truth signed distances or point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Neural implicit shape representations are an emerging paradigm that offers many potential benefits over conventional discrete representations, including memory efficiency at a high spatial resolution. Generalizing across shapes with such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Vincent Sitzmann , Eric R. Chan , Richard Tucker , Noah Snavely , Gordon Wetzstein

Recently, it has shown that priors are vital for neural implicit functions to reconstruct high-quality surfaces from multi-view RGB images. However, current priors require large-scale pre-training, and merely provide geometric clues without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Wenyuan Zhang , Emily Yue-ting Jia , Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Kanle Shi , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Neural 3D implicit representations learn priors that are useful for diverse applications, such as single- or multiple-view 3D reconstruction. A major downside of existing approaches while rendering an image is that they require evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Tarun Yenamandra , Ayush Tewari , Nan Yang , Florian Bernard , Christian Theobalt , Daniel Cremers

Neural 3D scene representations have shown great potential for 3D reconstruction from 2D images. However, reconstructing real-world captures of complex scenes still remains a challenge. Existing generic 3D reconstruction methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fangjinhua Wang , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Michael Niemeyer , Richard Szeliski , Marc Pollefeys , Federico Tombari

Neural Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) excel at reconstructing watertight manifolds but fail on thin structures and open boundaries due to strict inside--outside constraints. Conversely, Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) accommodate general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiayi Kong , Xuhui Chen , Chen Zong , Fei Hou , Junhui Hou , Wenping Wang , Ying He

Understanding sources of uncertainty is fundamental to trustworthy three-dimensional scene modeling. While recent advances in neural radiance fields (NeRFs) achieve impressive accuracy in scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ruxiao Duan , Alex Wong

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…

Neural surfaces learning has shown impressive performance in multi-view surface reconstruction. However, most existing methods use large multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) to train their models from scratch, resulting in hours of training for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jianyao Xu , Qingshan Xu , Xinyao Liao , Wanjuan Su , Chen Zhang , Yew-Soon Ong , Wenbing Tao