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Recent advances in 3D human shape reconstruction from single images have shown impressive results, leveraging on deep networks that model the so-called implicit function to learn the occupancy status of arbitrarily dense 3D points in space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Nicolas Ugrinovic , Albert Pumarola , Alberto Sanfeliu , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

Recent progress in human shape learning, shows that neural implicit models are effective in generating 3D human surfaces from limited number of views, and even from a single RGB image. However, existing monocular approaches still struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Marco Pesavento , Yuanlu Xu , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Robert Maier , Ziyan Wang , Chun-Han Yao , Marco Volino , Edmond Boyer , Adrian Hilton , Tony Tung

In crowded urban environments where traffic is dense, current technologies struggle to oversee tight navigation, but surface-level understanding allows autonomous vehicles to safely assess proximity to surrounding obstacles. 3D or 2D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Akarshani Ramanayake , Nihal Kodikara

Learning neural implicit surfaces from volume rendering has become popular for multi-view reconstruction. Neural surface reconstruction approaches can recover complex 3D geometry that are difficult for classical Multi-view Stereo (MVS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Mohamed Shawky Sabae , Hoda Anis Baraka , Mayada Mansour Hadhoud

We introduce a new implicit shape representation called Primary Ray-based Implicit Function (PRIF). In contrast to most existing approaches based on the signed distance function (SDF) which handles spatial locations, our representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Brandon Yushan Feng , Yinda Zhang , Danhang Tang , Ruofei Du , Amitabh Varshney

Learning a dense 3D model with fine-scale details from a single facial image is highly challenging and ill-posed. To address this problem, many approaches fit smooth geometries through facial prior while learning details as additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Xingyu Ren , Alexandros Lattas , Baris Gecer , Jiankang Deng , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) aim to parameterize discrete signals through implicit continuous functions. However, formulating each image with a separate neural network~(typically, a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP)) leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Wenyong Zhou , Taiqiang Wu , Zhengwu Liu , Yuxin Cheng , Chen Zhang , Ngai Wong

Implicit fields have recently shown increasing success in representing and learning 3D shapes accurately. Signed distance fields and occupancy fields are decades old and still the preferred representations, both with well-studied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Edoardo Mello Rella , Ajad Chhatkuli , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

We propose a novel neural architecture for representing 3D surfaces, which harnesses two complementary shape representations: (i) an explicit representation via an atlas, i.e., embeddings of 2D domains into 3D; (ii) an implicit-function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Matthew Fisher , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir G. Kim

Reconstructing the high-fidelity surface from multi-view images, especially sparse images, is a critical and practical task that has attracted widespread attention in recent years. However, existing methods are impeded by the memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Rui Peng , Shihe Shen , Kaiqiang Xiong , Huachen Gao , Jianbo Jiao , Xiaodong Gu , Ronggang Wang

Neural radiance-density field methods have become increasingly popular for the task of novel-view rendering. Their recent extension to hash-based positional encoding ensures fast training and inference with visually pleasing results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Radu Alexandru Rosu , Sven Behnke

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Xiaoyang Lyu , Peng Dai , Zizhang Li , Dongyu Yan , Yi Lin , Yifan Peng , Xiaojuan Qi

Neural implicit representations are widely used for 3D shape modeling due to their smoothness and compactness, but traditional MLP-based methods struggle with sharp features, such as edges and corners in CAD models, and require long…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guying Lin , Lei Yang , Congyi Zhang , Hao Pan , Yuhan Ping , Guodong Wei , Taku Komura , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

Indoor scene reconstruction from monocular images has long been sought after by augmented reality and robotics developers. Recent advances in neural field representations and monocular priors have led to remarkable results in scene-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Wei Dong , Chris Choy , Charles Loop , Or Litany , Yuke Zhu , Anima Anandkumar

We present ANISE, a method that reconstructs a 3D~shape from partial observations (images or sparse point clouds) using a part-aware neural implicit shape representation. The shape is formulated as an assembly of neural implicit functions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Dmitry Petrov , Matheus Gadelha , Radomir Mech , Evangelos Kalogerakis

Multi-view mesh reconstruction remains a core challenge in computer graphics and vision, especially for recovering high-frequency geometry from sparse observations. Recent methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Nandhana Sunil , Abhirami R Iyer , Avirup Mandal

Multi-view surface reconstruction is an ill-posed, inverse problem in 3D vision research. It involves modeling the geometry and appearance with appropriate surface representations. Most of the existing methods rely either on explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zhangjin Huang , Zhihao Liang , Haojie Zhang , Yangkai Lin , Kui Jia

Neural implicit functions have recently shown promising results on surface reconstructions from multiple views. However, current methods still suffer from excessive time complexity and poor robustness when reconstructing unbounded or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jingyang Zhang , Yao Yao , Shiwei Li , Tian Fang , David McKinnon , Yanghai Tsin , Long Quan

Neural implicit functions have achieved impressive results for reconstructing 3D shapes from single images. However, the image features for describing 3D point samplings of implicit functions are less effective when significant variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yixin Zhuang , Yunzhe Liu , Yujie Wang , Baoquan Chen

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