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Modeling the mechanics of fluid in complex scenes is vital to applications in design, graphics, and robotics. Learning-based methods provide fast and differentiable fluid simulators, however most prior work is unable to accurately model how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Arjun Mani , Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya , Elliot Creager , Carl Vondrick , Richard Zemel

Reconstructing objects with realistic materials from multi-view images is problematic, since it is highly ill-posed. Although the neural reconstruction approaches have exhibited impressive reconstruction ability, they are designed for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jia Li , Lu Wang , Lei Zhang , Beibei Wang

Image reconstruction is an inverse problem that solves for a computational image based on sampled sensor measurement. Sparsely sampled image reconstruction poses addition challenges due to limited measurements. In this work, we propose an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Liyue Shen , John Pauly , Lei Xing

In this paper, we present a novel double diffusion based neural radiance field, dubbed DD-NeRF, to reconstruct human body geometry and render the human body appearance in novel views from a sparse set of images. We first propose a double…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Guangming Yao , Hongzhi Wu , Yi Yuan , Lincheng Li , Kun Zhou , Xin Yu

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) are widely adopted for their outstanding generative fidelity, yet their sampling is computationally demanding. Polynomial-based multistep samplers mitigate this cost by accelerating inference; however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Soochul Park , Yeon Ju Lee , SeongJin Yoon , Jiyub Shin , Juhee Lee , Seongwoon Jo

In this work we target a learnable output representation that allows continuous, high resolution outputs of arbitrary shape. Recent works represent 3D surfaces implicitly with a Neural Network, thereby breaking previous barriers in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Julian Chibane , Aymen Mir , Gerard Pons-Moll

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have been a vital representation to represent 3D shapes or scenes with neural networks. An SDF is an implicit function that can query signed distances at specific coordinates for recovering a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Qiang Bai , Bojian Wu , Xi Yang , Zhizhong Han

In this publication we introduce SAMPLE, a structure search approach for commensurate organic monolayers on inorganic substrates. Such monolayers often show rich polymorphism with diverse molecular arrangements in differently shaped unit…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-29 Lukas Hörmann , Andreas Jeindl , Alexander T. Egger , Michael Scherbela , Oliver T. Hofmann

Material creation and reconstruction are crucial for appearance modeling but traditionally require significant time and expertise from artists. While recent methods leverage visual foundation models to synthesize PBR materials from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Zhi Ying , Boxiang Rong , Jingyu Wang , Maoyuan Xu

In the field of computer vision, the numerical encoding of 3D surfaces is crucial. It is classical to represent surfaces with their Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) or Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs). For tasks like representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Virgile Foy , Fabrice Gamboa , Reda Chhaibi

In recent years, the field of implicit neural representation has progressed significantly. Models such as neural radiance fields (NeRF), which uses relatively small neural networks, can represent high-quality scenes and achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 David Dadon , Ohad Fried , Yacov Hel-Or

Driven by the increasing demand for accurate and efficient representation of 3D data in various domains, point cloud sampling has emerged as a pivotal research topic in 3D computer vision. Recently, learning-to-sample methods have garnered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chengzhi Wu , Yuxin Wan , Hao Fu , Julius Pfrommer , Zeyun Zhong , Junwei Zheng , Jiaming Zhang , Jürgen Beyerer

Sampling from unnormalized densities presents a fundamental challenge with wide-ranging applications, from posterior inference to molecular dynamics simulations. Continuous flow-based neural samplers offer a promising approach, learning a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wuhao Chen , Zijing Ou , Yingzhen Li

Constructing 3D representations of object geometry is critical for many robotics tasks, particularly manipulation problems. These representations must be built from potentially noisy partial observations. In this work, we focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Herbert Wright , Weiming Zhi , Martin Matak , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Tucker Hermans

This paper introduces a novel continual learning framework for synthesising novel views of multiple scenes, learning multiple 3D scenes incrementally, and updating the network parameters only with the training data of the upcoming new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yuze Wang , Junyi Wang , Chen Wang , Wantong Duan , Yongtang Bao , Yue Qi

The Deep Material Network (DMN) has emerged as a powerful framework for multiscale materials modeling, enabling efficient and accurate prediction of material behavior across different length scales. Unlike conventional data-driven…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Ting-Ju Wei , Wen-Ning Wan , Chuin-Shan Chen

Modeling reflections from 2D images is essential for photorealistic rendering and novel view synthesis. Recent approaches enhance Gaussian primitives with reflection-related material attributes to enable physically based rendering (PBR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Jimin Tang , Weiqi Zhang , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

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

Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Functions (BSDFs) encode how a material reflects or transmits the incoming light. The most commonly used model is the Microfacet BSDF. It computes material response from the micro-geometry of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Beibei Wang , Wenhua Jin , Jiahui Fan , Jian Yang , Nicolas Holzschuch , Ling-Qi Yan

3D surface reconstruction from multi-view images is essential for scene understanding and interaction. However, complex indoor scenes pose challenges such as ambiguity due to limited observations. Recent implicit surface representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xulong Wang , Siyan Dong , Youyi Zheng , Yanchao Yang