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Dense 3D object reconstruction from a single image has recently witnessed remarkable advances, but supervising neural networks with ground-truth 3D shapes is impractical due to the laborious process of creating paired image-shape datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Chen-Hsuan Lin , Chaoyang Wang , Simon Lucey

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

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

We introduce a novel depth estimation technique for multi-frame structured light setups using neural implicit representations of 3D space. Our approach employs a neural signed distance field (SDF), trained through self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Rukun Qiao , Hiroshi Kawasaki , Hongbin Zha

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

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…

We introduce a new generative approach for synthesizing 3D geometry and images from single-view collections. Most existing approaches predict volumetric density to render multi-view consistent images. By employing volumetric rendering using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Salvatore Esposito , Qingshan Xu , Kacper Kania , Charlie Hewitt , Octave Mariotti , Lohit Petikam , Julien Valentin , Arno Onken , Oisin Mac Aodha

Fast and efficient collision detection is essential for motion generation in robotics. In this paper, we propose an efficient collision detection framework based on the Signed Distance Field (SDF) of robots, seamlessly integrated with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Xiankun Zhu , Yucheng Xin , Shoujie Li , Houde Liu , Chongkun Xia , Bin Liang

Accurate and compact representation of signed distance functions (SDFs) of implicit surfaces is crucial for efficient storage, computation, and downstream processing of 3D geometry. In this work, we propose a general learning method for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bobo Lian , Zidong Wang , Dandan Wang , Chenjian Wu , Minxin Chen

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

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

Vision-centric 3D environment understanding is both vital and challenging for autonomous driving systems. Recently, object-free methods have attracted considerable attention. Such methods perceive the world by predicting the semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Lizhe Liu , Bohua Wang , Hongwei Xie , Daqi Liu , Li Liu , Zhiqiang Tian , Kuiyuan Yang , Bing Wang

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

Signed distance fields (SDFs) are a form of surface representation widely used in computer graphics, having applications in rendering, collision detection and modelling. In interactive media such as games, high-resolution SDFs are commonly…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yu Wei Tan , Nicholas Chua , Clarence Koh , Anand Bhojan

Accurate surface estimation is critical for downstream tasks in scientific simulation, and quantifying uncertainty in implicit neural 3D representations still remains a substantial challenge due to computational inefficiencies, scalability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Rushil Desai

This paper proposes a deep-learning-based method for recovering a signed distance function (SDF) of a given hypersurface represented by an implicit level set function. Using the flexibility of constructing a neural network, we use an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Yesom Park , Chang hoon Song , Jooyoung Hahn , Myungjoo Kang

We propose a feed-forward method for dense Signed Distance Field (SDF) regression from unstructured image collections in less than three seconds, without camera calibration or post-hoc fusion. Our key insight is that the intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , George Kopanas , Marc Stamminger , Peter Hedman

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 a novel approach to large-scale point cloud surface reconstruction by developing an efficient framework that converts an irregular point cloud into a signed distance field (SDF). Our backbone builds upon recent transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Zhen Li , Weiwei Sun , Shrisudhan Govindarajan , Shaobo Xia , Daniel Rebain , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

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