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Generating continuous surfaces from discrete point cloud data is a fundamental task in several 3D vision applications. Real-world point clouds are inherently noisy due to various technical and environmental factors. Existing data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Stuti Pathak , Rhys G. Evans , Gunther Steenackers , Rudi Penne

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive performance in 3D scene reconstruction. Beyond novel view synthesis, it shows great potential for multi-view surface reconstruction. Existing methods employ optimization-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Chensheng Dai , Shengjun Zhang , Min Chen , Yueqi Duan

We present a novel approach to large-scale point cloud surface reconstruction by developing an efficient framework that converts an irregular point cloud into a signed distance field (SDF). Our backbone builds upon recent transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Zhen Li , Weiwei Sun , Shrisudhan Govindarajan , Shaobo Xia , Daniel Rebain , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Reconstructing the underlying 3D surface of an object from a single image is a challenging problem that has received extensive attention from the computer vision community. Many learning-based approaches tackle this problem by learning a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Nicolai Häni , Jun-Jee Chao , Volkan Isler

Compared with previous 3D reconstruction methods like Nerf, recent Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting (G-3DGS) methods demonstrate impressive efficiency even in the sparse-view setting. However, the promising reconstruction performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Chuanrui Zhang , Yingshuang Zou , Zhuoling Li , Minmin Yi , Haoqian Wang

Three-dimensional scene reconstruction from sparse-view satellite images is a long-standing and challenging task. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and its variants have recently attracted attention for its high efficiency, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xuejun Huang , Xinyi Liu , Yi Wan , Zhi Zheng , Bin Zhang , Mingtao Xiong , Yingying Pei , Yongjun Zhang

Poisson Surface Reconstruction is a widely-used algorithm for reconstructing a surface from an oriented point cloud. To facilitate applications where only partial surface information is available, or scanning is performed sequentially, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Sidhanth Holalkere , David S. Bindel , Silvia Sellán , Alexander Terenin

In this paper, we present a novel deep method to reconstruct a point cloud of an object from a single still image. Prior arts in the field struggle to reconstruct an accurate and scalable 3D model due to either the inefficient and expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Anh-Duc Nguyen , Seonghwa Choi , Woojae Kim , Sanghoon Lee

To reduce cost in storing, processing and visualizing a large-scale point cloud, we consider a randomized resampling strategy to select a representative subset of points while preserving application-dependent features. The proposed strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Siheng Chen , Dong Tian , Chen Feng , Anthony Vetro , Jelena Kovačević

3D Morphable Models (3DMMs) provide promising 3D face reconstructions in various applications. However, existing methods struggle to reconstruct faces with extreme expressions due to deficiencies in supervisory signals, such as sparse or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zidu Wang , Xiangyu Zhu , Tianshuo Zhang , Baiqin Wang , Zhen Lei

In this paper, we propose a novel method for joint recovery of camera pose, object geometry and spatially-varying Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (svBRDF) of 3D scenes that exceed object-scale and hence cannot be captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Carolin Schmitt , Božidar Antić , Andrei Neculai , Joo Ho Lee , Andreas Geiger

It is vital to infer signed distance functions (SDFs) from 3D point clouds. The latest methods rely on generalizing the priors learned from large scale supervision. However, the learned priors do not generalize well to various geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a fundamental step in many applications in computer vision. In this paper, we develop an efficient iterative method on a variational model for the surface reconstruction from point clouds. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Dong Wang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged in computer vision as a promising rendering technique. By adapting the principles of Elliptical Weighted Average (EWA) splatting to a modern differentiable pipeline, 3DGS enables real-time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ling Chen , Bao Yang

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

Point cloud is a collection of 3D coordinates that are discrete geometric samples of an object's 2D surfaces. Using a low-cost 3D scanner to acquire data means that point clouds are often in lower resolution than desired for rendering on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic

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

A learning-based 3D reconstruction method for long-span bridges is proposed in this paper. 3D reconstruction generates a 3D computer model of a real object or scene from images, it involves many stages and open problems. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Fangqiao Hu , Jin Zhao , Yong Huang , Hui Li

Object reconstruction from 3D point clouds has been a long-standing research problem in computer vision and computer graphics, and achieved impressive progress. However, reconstruction from time-varying point clouds (a.k.a. 4D point clouds)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Tuan-Anh Vu , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Quang-Hieu Pham , Sai-Kit Yeung

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian representations have significantly improved the quality and efficiency of image-based scene reconstruction. Their explicit nature facilitates real-time rendering and fast optimization, yet extracting accurate…