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We propose a novel method for reconstructing explicit parameterized surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), a widely used implicit neural representation (INR) for 3D surfaces. While traditional reconstruction methods like Marching…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Haotian Yin , Przemyslaw Musialski

Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based volume rendering has demonstrated significant capabilities in surface reconstruction. Although promising, SDF-based methods often fail to capture detailed geometric structures, resulting in visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yifan Wang , Di Huang , Weicai Ye , Guofeng Zhang , Wanli Ouyang , Tong He

The reconstruction of high-quality shape geometry is crucial for developing freehand 3D ultrasound imaging. However, the shape reconstruction of multi-view ultrasound data remains challenging due to the elevation distortion caused by thick…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Hongbo Chen , Yuchong Gao , Shuhang Zhang , Jiangjie Wu , Yuexin Ma , Rui Zheng

Neural rendering can be used to reconstruct implicit representations of shapes without 3D supervision. However, current neural surface reconstruction methods have difficulty learning high-frequency geometry details, so the reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Yiqun Wang , Ivan Skorokhodov , Peter Wonka

We extend the recently proposed sparse voxel rasterization paradigm to the task of high-fidelity surface reconstruction by integrating Signed Distance Function (SDF), named SVRecon. Unlike 3D Gaussians, sparse voxels are spatially…

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The medial axis, a lower-dimensional descriptor that captures the extrinsic structure of a shape, plays an important role in digital geometry processing. Despite its importance, computing the medial axis transform robustly from diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiayi Kong , Chen Zong , Jun Luo , Shiqing Xin , Fei Hou , Hanqing Jiang , Chen Qian , Ying He

We present iSDF, a continual learning system for real-time signed distance field (SDF) reconstruction. Given a stream of posed depth images from a moving camera, it trains a randomly initialised neural network to map input 3D coordinate to…

Accurate mapping and localization are very important for many industrial robotics applications. In this paper, we propose an improved Signed Distance Function (SDF) for both 2D SLAM and pure localization to improve the accuracy of mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Xingyin Fu , Zheng Fang , Xizhen Xiao , Yijia He , Xiao Liu

Neural implicit surface reconstruction with signed distance function has made significant progress, but recovering fine details such as thin structures and complex geometries remains challenging due to unreliable or noisy geometric priors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qiyu Feng , Jiwei Shan , Shing Shin Cheng , Hesheng Wang

It is vital to infer a signed distance function (SDF) in multi-view based surface reconstruction. 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) provides a novel perspective for volume rendering, and shows advantages in rendering efficiency and quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Recent advances in learning 3D shapes using neural implicit functions have achieved impressive results by breaking the previous barrier of resolution and diversity for varying topologies. However, most of such approaches are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Weikai Chen , Cheng Lin , Weiyang Li , Bo Yang

We investigate the performance of a simple signed distance function (SDF) based method by direct comparison with standard SVM packages, as well as K-nearest neighbor and RBFN methods. We present experimental results comparing the SDF…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-17 Erik M. Boczko , Todd Young , Minhui Zie , Di Wu

This study addresses the challenge of ensuring safe spacecraft proximity operations, focusing on collision avoidance between a chaser spacecraft and a complex-geometry target spacecraft under disturbances. To ensure safety in such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Hang Zhou , Tao Meng , Kun Wang , Chengrui Shi , Renhao Mao , Weijia Wang , Jiakun Lei

Recent work has made significant progress on using implicit functions, as a continuous representation for 3D rigid object shape reconstruction. However, much less effort has been devoted to modeling general articulated objects. Compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Jiteng Mu , Weichao Qiu , Adam Kortylewski , Alan Yuille , Nuno Vasconcelos , Xiaolong Wang

We introduce a novel approach for rendering static and dynamic 3D neural signed distance functions (SDF) in real-time. We rely on nested neighborhoods of zero-level sets of neural SDFs, and mappings between them. This framework supports…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Vinícius da Silva , Tiago Novello , Guilherme Schardong , Luiz Schirmer , Hélio Lopes , Luiz Velho

Accurate segmentation of vascular networks from sparse CT scan slices remains a significant challenge in medical imaging, particularly due to the thin, branching nature of vessels and the inherent sparsity between imaging planes. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Salvatore Esposito , Daniel Rebain , Arno Onken , Changjian Li , Oisin Mac Aodha

Segmentation of medical images constitutes an essential component of medical image analysis, providing the foundation for precise diagnosis and efficient therapeutic interventions in clinical practices. Despite substantial progress, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Muzammal Shafique , Nasir Rahim , Jamil Ahmad , Mohammad Siadat , Khalid Malik , Ghaus Malik

We present a novel 3D shape completion framework that unifies multimodal conditioning, leveraging both 2D images and 3D partial scans through a latent diffusion model. Shapes are represented as Truncated Signed Distance Functions (TSDFs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Simon Schaefer , Juan D. Galvis , Xingxing Zuo , Stefan Leutengger

The inverse design of metamaterial architectures presents a significant challenge, particularly for nonlinear mechanical properties involving large deformations, buckling, contact, and plasticity. Traditional methods, such as gradient-based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Qibang Liu , Seid Koric , Diab Abueidda , Hadi Meidani , Philippe Geubelle

Given only a set of images, neural implicit surface representation has shown its capability in 3D surface reconstruction. However, as the nature of per-scene optimization is based on the volumetric rendering of color, previous neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jing Li , Jinpeng Yu , Ruoyu Wang , Zhengxin Li , Zhengyu Zhang , Lina Cao , Shenghua Gao