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We present a novel deep learning-based approach to the 3D reconstruction of clothed humans using weak supervision via 2D normal maps. Given a single RGB image or multiview images, our network infers a signed distance function (SDF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jane Wu , Diego Thomas , Ronald Fedkiw

High fidelity representation of shapes with arbitrary topology is an important problem for a variety of vision and graphics applications. Owing to their limited resolution, classical discrete shape representations using point clouds, voxels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Rahul Venkatesh , Sarthak Sharma , Aurobrata Ghosh , Laszlo Jeni , Maneesh Singh

Font design is of vital importance in the digital content design and modern printing industry. Developing algorithms capable of automatically synthesizing vector fonts can significantly facilitate the font design process. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zeqing Xia , Bojun Xiong , Zhouhui Lian

While novel view synthesis (NVS) for dynamic scenes has seen significant progress, reconstructing temporally consistent geometric surfaces remains a challenge. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) offer powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Minje Kim , Younghyun Noh , Jaesoon Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

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

We propose a novel 3D spatial representation for data fusion and scene reconstruction. Probabilistic Signed Distance Function (Probabilistic SDF, PSDF) is proposed to depict uncertainties in the 3D space. It is modeled by a joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Wei Dong , Qiuyuan Wang , Xin Wang , Hongbin Zha

Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) can be used to represent non-watertight surfaces. However, current approaches to converting them into explicit meshes tend to either be expensive or to degrade the accuracy. Here, we extend the marching cube…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Benoit Guillard , Federico Stella , Pascal Fua

This paper addresses the limitations of neural rendering-based multi-view surface reconstruction methods, which require an additional mesh extraction step that is inconvenient and would produce poor-quality surfaces with mesh aliasing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qitong Zhang , Jieqing Feng

Extracting surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) can be accomplished using traditional algorithms, such as Marching Cubes. However, since they rely on sign flips across the surface, these algorithms cannot be used directly on Unsigned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Federico Stella , Nicolas Talabot , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

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

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

We present Progressively Deblurring Radiance Field (PDRF), a novel approach to efficiently reconstruct high quality radiance fields from blurry images. While current State-of-The-Art (SoTA) scene reconstruction methods achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Cheng Peng , Rama Chellappa

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end relightable neural inverse rendering system that achieves high-quality reconstruction of geometry and material properties, thus enabling high-quality relighting. The cornerstone of our method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Deheng Zhang , Jingyu Wang , Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Sergey Prokudin , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Siyu Tang

Industrial 3D face assets creation typically reconstructs topology-consistent face meshes from multi-view images for downstream production. However, high-quality reconstruction usually requires manual processing or specific capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yating Wang , Ran Yi , Xiaoning Lei , Ke Fan , Jinkun Hao , Lizhuang Ma

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

Neural implicit 3D representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for reconstructing surfaces from multi-view images and synthesizing novel views. Unfortunately, existing methods such as DVR or IDR require accurate per-pixel object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Michael Oechsle , Songyou Peng , Andreas Geiger

Rendering bridges the gap between 2D vision and 3D scenes by simulating the physical process of image formation. By inverting such renderer, one can think of a learning approach to infer 3D information from 2D images. However, standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Shichen Liu , Tianye Li , Weikai Chen , Hao Li

The signed distance field is a popular implicit shape representation in robotics, providing geometric information about objects and obstacles in a form that can easily be combined with control, optimization and learning techniques. Most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yiming Li , Xuemin Chi , Amirreza Razmjoo , Sylvain Calinon

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

Existing methods in neural scene reconstruction utilize the Signed Distance Function (SDF) to model the density function. However, in indoor scenes, the density computed from the SDF for a sampled point may not consistently reflect its real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ruihong Yin , Yunlu Chen , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers