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Localization of a robotic system within a previously mapped environment is important for reducing estimation drift and for reusing previously built maps. Existing techniques for geometry-based localization have focused on the description of…

This paper introduces a novel framework for continuous 3D trajectory optimization in cluttered environments, leveraging online neural Euclidean Signed Distance Fields (ESDFs). Unlike prior approaches that rely on discretized ESDF grids with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Guillermo Gil , Jose Antonio Cobano , Luis Merino , Fernando Caballero

Neural distance fields (NDF) have emerged as a powerful tool for addressing challenges in 3D computer vision and graphics downstream problems. While significant progress has been made to learn NDF from various kind of sensor data, a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Akshit Singh , Karan Bhakuni , Rajendra Nagar

We propose a novel variational approach for computing neural Signed Distance Fields (SDF) from unoriented point clouds. To this end, we replace the commonly used eikonal equation with the heat method, carrying over to the neural domain what…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Samuel Weidemaier , Florine Hartwig , Josua Sassen , Sergio Conti , Mirela Ben-Chen , Martin Rumpf

Efficient representation of point clouds is fundamental for LiDAR-based 3D object detection. While recent grid-based detectors often encode point clouds into either voxels or pillars, the distinctions between these approaches remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yuhao Huang , Sanping Zhou , Junjie Zhang , Jinpeng Dong , Nanning Zheng

To achieve fully autonomous navigation, vehicles need to compute an accurate model of their direct surrounding. In this paper, a 3D surface reconstruction algorithm from heterogeneous density 3D data is presented. The proposed method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Luis Roldão , Raoul de Charette , Anne Verroust-Blondet

Surface reconstruction for point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Most of the latest methods resolve this problem by learning signed distance functions from point clouds, which are limited to reconstructing closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Yi Fang , Zhizhong Han

Recent works on implicit neural representations have shown promising results for multi-view surface reconstruction. However, most approaches are limited to relatively simple geometries and usually require clean object masks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jingyang Zhang , Yao Yao , Long Quan

In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-level convolution architecture for 3D visual grounding. Conventional methods are difficult to meet the requirements of real-time inference due to the two-stage or point-based architecture.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Wenxuan Guo , Xiuwei Xu , Ziwei Wang , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

This paper presents a novel geometric representation for CAD Boundary Representation (B-Rep) based on volumetric distance functions, dubbed B-Rep Distance Functions (BR-DF). BR-DF encodes the surface mesh geometry of a CAD model as signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Fuyang Zhang , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Xiang Xu , Yasutaka Furukawa

This paper presents a robust 6-DoF localization framework based on a direct, CPU-based scan-to-map registration pipeline. The system leverages G-EDF, a novel continuous and memory-efficient 3D distance field representation. The approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 José E. Maese , Lucía Coto-Elena , Luis Merino , Fernando Caballero

Optical remote sensing imagery is indispensable for Earth observation, yet persistent cloud occlusion limits its downstream utility. Most cloud removal (CR) methods are optimized for low-level fidelity and can over-smooth textures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zaiyan Zhang , Jie Li , Shaowei Shi , Qiangqiang Yuan

We propose a novel fast and robust 3D point clouds segmentation framework via coupled feature selection, named 3DCFS, that jointly performs semantic and instance segmentation. Inspired by the human scene perception process, we design a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Liang Du , Jingang Tan , Xiangyang Xue , Lili Chen , Hongkai Wen , Jianfeng Feng , Jiamao Li , Xiaolin Zhang

Conflating/stitching 2.5D raster digital surface models (DSM) into a large one has been a running practice in geoscience applications, however, conflating full-3D mesh models, such as those from oblique photogrammetry, is extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Shuang Song , Rongjun Qin

We present a novel method, called NeuralUDF, for reconstructing surfaces with arbitrary topologies from 2D images via volume rendering. Recent advances in neural rendering based reconstruction have achieved compelling results. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Lingjie Liu , Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Our goal in this paper is to apply the topological signal processing (TSP) framework to the analysis of 3D Point Clouds (PCs) represented on simplicial complexes. Building on Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) theory for vector fields, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Tiziana Cattai , Stefania Sardellitti , Stefania Colonnese , Sergio Barbarossa

Surface reconstruction from multi-view images is a core challenge in 3D vision. Recent studies have explored signed distance fields (SDF) within Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to achieve high-fidelity surface reconstructions. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Baixin Xu , Jiangbei Hu , Jiaze Li , Ying He

Accurate 3D models of the human heart require not only correct outer surfaces but also realistic inner structures, such as the ventricles, atria, and myocardial layers. Approaches relying on implicit surfaces, such as signed distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Hieu Le , Jingyi Xu , Nicolas Talabot , Jiancheng Yang , Pascal Fua

Camera and LiDAR sensor modalities provide complementary appearance and geometric information useful for detecting 3D objects for autonomous vehicle applications. However, current end-to-end fusion methods are challenging to train and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Anas Mahmoud , Jordan S. K. Hu , Steven L. Waslander

Signed distance-radiance field (SDF-NeRF) is a promising environment representation that offers both photo-realistic rendering and geometric reasoning such as proximity queries for collision avoidance. However, the slow training speed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Runfa Blark Li , Keito Suzuki , Bang Du , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov , Truong Nguyen