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This paper proposes a novel approach for rendering a pre-trained Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) in real-time on resource-constrained devices. We introduce Re-ReND, a method enabling Real-time Rendering of NeRFs across Devices. Re-ReND is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Sara Rojas , Jesus Zarzar , Juan Camilo Perez , Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Ali Thabet , Albert Pumarola , Bernard Ghanem

Reconstructing soft tissues from stereo endoscope videos is an essential prerequisite for many medical applications. Previous methods struggle to produce high-quality geometry and appearance due to their inadequate representations of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ruyi Zha , Xuelian Cheng , Hongdong Li , Mehrtash Harandi , Zongyuan Ge

We propose an analysis-by-synthesis method for fast multi-view 3D reconstruction of opaque objects with arbitrary materials and illumination. State-of-the-art methods use both neural surface representations and neural rendering. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Markus Worchel , Rodrigo Diaz , Weiwen Hu , Oliver Schreer , Ingo Feldmann , Peter Eisert

Partitioning a polygonal mesh into meaningful parts can be challenging. Many applications require decomposing such structures for further processing in computer graphics. In the last decade, several methods were proposed to tackle this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Bruno Roy

Fine-detailed reconstructions are in high demand in many applications. However, most of the existing RGB-D reconstruction methods rely on pre-calculated accurate camera poses to recover the detailed surface geometry, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Lu Sang , Bjoern Haefner , Xingxing Zuo , Daniel Cremers

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for photorealistic view synthesis, representing scenes with spatially distributed Gaussian primitives. While highly effective for rendering, achieving accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenzhi Guo , Bing Wang

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

In real-world scenarios, many factors may harm face recognition performance, e.g., large pose, bad illumination,low resolution, blur and noise. To address these challenges, previous efforts usually first restore the low-quality faces to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Xiaoguang Tu , Jian Zhao , Qiankun Liu , Wenjie Ai , Guodong Guo , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Jiashi Feng

Research on differentiable scene representations is consistently moving towards more efficient, real-time models. Recently, this has led to the popularization of splatting methods, which eschew the traditional ray-based rendering of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Shrisudhan Govindarajan , Daniel Rebain , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Key part of robotics, augmented reality, and digital inspection is dense 3D reconstruction from depth observations. Traditional volumetric fusion techniques, including truncated signed distance functions (TSDF), enable efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Soumya Mazumdar , Vineet Kumar Rakesh , Tapas Samanta

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

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have constituted a remarkable breakthrough in image-based 3D reconstruction. However, their implicit volumetric representations differ significantly from the widely-adopted polygonal meshes and lack support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jiaxiang Tang , Hang Zhou , Xiaokang Chen , Tianshu Hu , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Gang Zeng

Capturing the 3D geometry of transparent objects is a challenging task, ill-suited for general-purpose scanning and reconstruction techniques, since these cannot handle specular light transport phenomena. Existing state-of-the-art methods,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jiahui Lyu , Bojian Wu , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

State-of-the-art neural implicit surface representations have achieved impressive results in indoor scene reconstruction by incorporating monocular geometric priors as additional supervision. However, we have observed that multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Ziyi Chen , Xiaolong Wu , Yu Zhang

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

Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Judith Treffler , Vladimír Kubelka , Henrik Andreasson , Martin Magnusson

Signed distance functions (SDFs) is an attractive framework that has recently shown promising results for 3D shape reconstruction from images. SDFs seamlessly generalize to different shape resolutions and topologies but lack explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Neural Surface Reconstruction has become a standard methodology for indoor 3D reconstruction, with Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) proving particularly effective for representing scene geometry. A variety of applications require a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Remi Chierchia , Léo Lebrat , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes , Rodrigo Santa Cruz

Representing complex objects with basic geometric primitives has long been a topic in computer vision. Primitive-based representations have the merits of compactness and computational efficiency in higher-level tasks such as physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Weixiao Liu , Yuwei Wu , Sipu Ruan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Face restoration under complex degradations still remains an ill-posed inverse problem due to severe information loss. Although diffusion models benefit from strong generative priors, most methods still condition only on low-quality inputs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zirui Wang , Xianhui Lin , Yi Dong , Bo Wei , Gangjian Zhang , Siteng Ma , Zebiao Zheng , Xing Liu , Hong Gu , Minjing Dong