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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Lutao Jiang , Ruyi Ji , Libo Zhang

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

In this article, we introduce a finite element method designed for the robust computation of approximate signed distance functions to arbitrary boundaries in two and three dimensions. Our method employs a novel prediction-correction…

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This paper presents a high-efficiency, CPU-only volumetric mapping framework based on a Truncated Signed Distance Field (TSDF). The system incrementally fuses raw LiDAR point-cloud data into a voxel grid using a directional bitmask-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Jose E. Maese , Luis Merino , Fernando Caballero

Reconstructing a continuous surface from a raw 3D point cloud is a challenging task. Recent methods usually train neural networks to overfit on single point clouds to infer signed distance functions (SDFs). However, neural networks tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Takeshi Noda , Chao Chen , Weiqi Zhang , Xinhai Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

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

We present a learning-based method, namely GeoUDF,to tackle the long-standing and challenging problem of reconstructing a discrete surface from a sparse point cloud.To be specific, we propose a geometry-guided learning method for UDF and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Siyu Ren , Junhui Hou , Xiaodong Chen , Ying He , Wenping Wang

Real-time 3D reconstruction from RGB-D sensor data plays an important role in many robotic applications, such as object modeling and mapping. The popular method of fusing depth information into a truncated signed distance function (TSDF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Malte Splietker , Sven Behnke

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in training Neural Networks to approximate Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) for representing open surfaces in the context of 3D reconstruction. However, UDFs are non-differentiable at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Miguel Fainstein , Viviana Siless , Emmanuel Iarussi

Accurate 3D models of the human heart require not only correct outer surfaces but also realistic inner structures, such as the ventricles, atria, and myocardial layers. Approaches relying on implicit surfaces, such as signed distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Hieu Le , Jingyi Xu , Nicolas Talabot , Jiancheng Yang , Pascal Fua

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

Shape manipulation is a central research topic in computer graphics. Topology editing, such as breaking apart connections, joining disconnected ends, and filling/opening a topological hole, is generally more challenging than geometry…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yunxiao Zhang , Zixiong Wang , Zihan Zhao , Rui Xu , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Wenping Wang , Changhe Tu

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,…

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3D point cloud anomaly detection is essential for robust vision systems but is challenged by pose variations and complex geometric anomalies. Existing patch-based methods often suffer from geometric fidelity issues due to discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Bozhong Zheng , Jinye Gan , Xiaohao Xu , Xintao Chen , Wenqiao Li , Xiaonan Huang , Na Ni , Yingna Wu

Neural distance fields (NDF) have emerged as a powerful tool for addressing challenges in 3D computer vision and graphics downstream problems. While significant progress has been made to learn NDF from various kind of sensor data, a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Akshit Singh , Karan Bhakuni , Rajendra Nagar

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

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) have driven impressive progress in view synthesis by using ray-traced volumetric rendering. Splatting-based methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) provide faster rendering by rasterizing 3D primitives.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Antonella Rech , Nicola Conci , Nicola Garau

We propose an algorithm to reconstruct explicit polygonal meshes from discretely sampled Signed Distance Function (SDF) data, which is especially effective at recovering sharp features. Building on the traditional Dual Contouring of Hermite…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xiana Carrera , Ningna Wang , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein , Silvia Sellán

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…

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