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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

We present Neural Kernel Fields: a novel method for reconstructing implicit 3D shapes based on a learned kernel ridge regression. Our technique achieves state-of-the-art results when reconstructing 3D objects and large scenes from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Francis Williams , Zan Gojcic , Sameh Khamis , Denis Zorin , Joan Bruna , Sanja Fidler , Or Litany

Reconstructing a surface from a point cloud is an underdetermined problem. We use a neural network to study and quantify this reconstruction uncertainty under a Poisson smoothness prior. Our algorithm addresses the main limitations of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Silvia Sellán , Alec Jacobson

Neural implicit surface representations have recently emerged as popular alternative to explicit 3D object encodings, such as polygonal meshes, tabulated points, or voxels. While significant work has improved the geometric fidelity of these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yanran Guan , Andrei Chubarau , Ruby Rao , Derek Nowrouzezahrai

\textit{Implicit neural representations} (INRs) have emerged as a promising framework for representing signals in low-dimensional spaces. This survey reviews the existing literature on the specialized INR problem of approximating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Luiz Schirmer , Tiago Novello , Vinícius da Silva , Guilherme Schardong , Daniel Perazzo , Hélio Lopes , Nuno Gonçalves , Luiz Velho

We present Neural Splines, a technique for 3D surface reconstruction that is based on random feature kernels arising from infinitely-wide shallow ReLU networks. Our method achieves state-of-the-art results, outperforming recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Francis Williams , Matthew Trager , Joan Bruna , Denis Zorin

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

Implicit neural networks have emerged as a crucial technology in 3D surface reconstruction. To reconstruct continuous surfaces from discrete point clouds, encoding the input points into regular grid features (plane or volume) has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Shengtao Li , Ge Gao , Yudong Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Ming Gu

Accurate surface geometry representation is crucial in 3D visual computing. Explicit representations, such as polygonal meshes, and implicit representations, like signed distance functions, each have distinct advantages, making efficient…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Christian Stippel , Felix Mujkanovic , Thomas Leimkühler , Pedro Hermosilla

Shape implicit neural representations (INRs) have recently shown to be effective in shape analysis and reconstruction tasks. Existing INRs require point coordinates to learn the implicit level sets of the shape. When a normal vector is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage , Stephen Gould

We present a novel approach for super-resolution that utilizes implicit neural representation (INR) to effectively reconstruct and enhance low-resolution videos and images. By leveraging the capacity of neural networks to implicitly encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Mary Aiyetigbo , Wanqi Yuan , Feng Luo , Nianyi Li

We propose a level-set-based semi-Lagrangian method on graded adaptive Cartesian grids to address the problem of surface reconstruction from point clouds. The goal is to obtain an implicit, high-quality representation of real shapes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Silvia Preda , Matteo Semplice

We introduce SparseNeuS, a novel neural rendering based method for the task of surface reconstruction from multi-view images. This task becomes more difficult when only sparse images are provided as input, a scenario where existing neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Peng Wang , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

3D reconstruction of indoor and urban environments is a prominent research topic with various downstream applications. However, existing geometric priors for addressing low-texture regions in indoor and urban settings often lack global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Xiyu Zhang , Chong Bao , Yipeng Chen , Hongjia Zhai , Yitong Dong , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang

Recovering high-quality surfaces from irregular point cloud is ill-posed unless strong geometric priors are available. We introduce an implicit self-prior approach that distills a shape-specific prior directly from the input point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kyle Fogarty , Chenyue Cai , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Cengiz Öztireli

This comparative study evaluates various neural surface reconstruction methods, particularly focusing on their implications for scientific visualization through reconstructing 3D surfaces via multi-view rendering images. We categorize ten…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Siyuan Yao , Weixi Song , Chaoli Wang

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

Identifying changes in a pair of 3D aerial LiDAR point clouds, obtained during two distinct time periods over the same geographic region presents a significant challenge due to the disparities in spatial coverage and the presence of noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Peter Naylor , Diego Di Carlo , Arianna Traviglia , Makoto Yamada , Marco Fiorucci

Modeling scene geometry using implicit neural representation has revealed its advantages in accuracy, flexibility, and low memory usage. Previous approaches have demonstrated impressive results using color or depth images but still have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Dongyu Yan , Xiaoyang Lyu , Jieqi Shi , Yi Lin

Neural implicit methods have achieved high-quality 3D object surfaces under slight specular highlights. However, high specular reflections (HSR) often appear in front of target objects when we capture them through glasses. The complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jiaxiong Qiu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Yifan Zhu , Ze-Xin Yin , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Ren