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We leverage repetitive elements in 3D scenes to improve novel view synthesis. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have greatly improved novel view synthesis but renderings of unseen and occluded parts remain…

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated the remarkable potential of neural networks to capture the intricacies of 3D objects. By encoding the shape and color information within neural network weights, NeRFs excel at producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Dawid Malarz , Weronika Smolak , Jacek Tabor , Sławomir Tadeja , Przemysław Spurek

We present a method for differentiable rendering of 3D surfaces that supports both explicit and implicit representations, provides derivatives at occlusion boundaries, and is fast and simple to implement. The method first samples the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Forrester Cole , Kyle Genova , Avneesh Sud , Daniel Vlasic , Zhoutong Zhang

In this paper we present a novel method for efficient and effective 3D surface reconstruction in open scenes. Existing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) based works typically require extensive training and rendering time due to the adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Gaochao Song , Chong Cheng , Hao Wang

Generative AI has emerged as a transformative paradigm in engineering design, enabling automated synthesis and reconstruction of complex 3D geometries while preserving feasibility and performance relevance. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ashish S. Nair , Sandipp Krishnan Ravi , Itzel Salgado , Changjie Sun , Sayan Ghosh , Liping Wang

The field of computer graphics was revolutionized by models such as Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting, displacing triangles as the dominant representation for photogrammetry. In this paper, we argue for a triangle comeback.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jan Held , Renaud Vandeghen , Adrien Deliege , Abdullah Hamdi , Silvio Giancola , Anthony Cioppa , Andrea Vedaldi , Bernard Ghanem , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

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

3D surface reconstruction from images is essential for numerous applications. Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have emerged as a promising framework for 3D modeling. However, NeRFs require accurate camera poses as input, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yiyang Chen , Siyan Dong , Xulong Wang , Lulu Cai , Youyi Zheng , Yanchao Yang

Since the advent of Neural Radiance Fields, novel view synthesis has received tremendous attention. The existing approach for the generalization of radiance field reconstruction primarily constructs an encoding volume from nearby source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Jingliang Li , Qiang Zhou , Chaohui Yu , Zhengda Lu , Jun Xiao , Zhibin Wang , Fan Wang

In recent years, neural implicit surface reconstruction has emerged as a popular paradigm for multi-view 3D reconstruction. Unlike traditional multi-view stereo approaches, the neural implicit surface-based methods leverage neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Qianyi Wu , Kaisiyuan Wang , Kejie Li , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai

Differentiable volumetric rendering-based methods made significant progress in novel view synthesis. On one hand, innovative methods have replaced the Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) network with locally parameterized structures, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Hugo Blanc , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , Alexis Paljic

Recent works on 3D reconstruction from posed images have demonstrated that direct inference of scene-level 3D geometry without test-time optimization is feasible using deep neural networks, showing remarkable promise and high efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Noah Stier , Anurag Ranjan , Alex Colburn , Yajie Yan , Liang Yang , Fangchang Ma , Baptiste Angles

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has enabled the creation of highly realistic 3D scene representations from sets of multi-view images. However, inpainting missing regions, whether due to occlusion or scene editing, remains a challenging task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Mahtab Dahaghin , Milind G. Padalkar , Matteo Toso , Alessio Del Bue

We consider the challenging problem of learning Signed Distance Functions (SDF) from sparse and noisy 3D point clouds. In contrast to recent methods that depend on smoothness priors, our method, rooted in a distributionally robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Amine Ouasfi , Shubhendu Jena , Eric Marchand , Adnane Boukhayma

Differentiable physics is a powerful tool in computer vision and robotics for scene understanding and reasoning about interactions. Existing approaches have frequently been limited to objects with simple shape or shapes that are known in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Michael Strecke , Joerg Stueckler

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) coupled with GANs represent a promising direction in the area of 3D reconstruction from a single view, owing to their ability to efficiently model arbitrary topologies. Recent work in this area, however, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Dario Pavllo , David Joseph Tan , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Federico Tombari

Accurate and dense mapping in large-scale environments is essential for various robot applications. Recently, implicit neural signed distance fields (SDFs) have shown promising advances in this task. However, most existing approaches employ…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shuangfu Song , Junqiao Zhao , Kai Huang , Jiaye Lin , Chen Ye , Tiantian Feng

In this work, we use multi-view aerial images to reconstruct the geometry, lighting, and material of facades using neural signed distance fields (SDFs). Without the requirement of complex equipment, our method only takes simple RGB images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zixuan Xie , Rengan Xie , Rong Li , Kai Huang , Pengju Qiao , Jingsen Zhu , Xu Yin , Qi Ye , Wei Hua , Yuchi Huo , Hujun Bao

As Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) implementations become faster, more efficient and accurate, their applicability to real world mapping tasks becomes more accessible. Traditionally, 3D mapping, or scene reconstruction, has relied on expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Adam Korycki , Colleen Josephson , Steve McGuire