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Neural Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) provide a differentiable environment representation to readily obtain collision checks and well-defined gradients for robot navigation tasks. However, updating neural SDFs as the scene evolves entails…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 S. Talha Bukhari , Daniel Lawson , Ahmed H. Qureshi

Learning signed distance functions (SDFs) from point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. However, without ground truth signed distances, point normals or clean point clouds, current methods still struggle from learning SDFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Recent works on implicit neural representations have made significant strides. Learning implicit neural surfaces using volume rendering has gained popularity in multi-view reconstruction without 3D supervision. However, accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Decai Chen , Peng Zhang , Ingo Feldmann , Oliver Schreer , Peter Eisert

This paper presents a neural incremental Structure-from-Motion (SfM) approach, Level-S$^2$fM, which estimates the camera poses and scene geometry from a set of uncalibrated images by learning coordinate MLPs for the implicit surfaces and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuxi Xiao , Nan Xue , Tianfu Wu , Gui-Song Xia

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

This work aims to improve texture inpainting after clutter removal in scanned indoor meshes. This is achieved with a new UV mapping pre-processing step which leverages semantic information of indoor scenes to more accurately match the UV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jelle Vermandere , Maarten Bassier , Maarten Vergauwen

In this paper, we study the problem of continuous 3D shape representations. The majority of existing successful methods are coordinate-based implicit neural representations. However, they are inefficient to render novel views or recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhuoman Liu , Bo Yang , Yan Luximon , Ajay Kumar , Jinxi Li

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is an irreplaceable modelling step in many engineering designs, but it is often computationally expensive. Some graph neural network (GNN)-based CFD methods have been proposed. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Loh Sher En Jessica , Naheed Anjum Arafat , Wei Xian Lim , Wai Lee Chan , Adams Wai Kin Kong

We present a method to automatically compute correct gradients with respect to geometric scene parameters in neural SDF renderers. Recent physically-based differentiable rendering techniques for meshes have used edge-sampling to handle…

We address the problem of semantic correspondence, that is, establishing a dense flow field between images depicting different instances of the same object or scene category. We propose to use images annotated with binary foreground masks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Junghyup Lee , Dohyung Kim , Wonkyung Lee , Jean Ponce , Bumsub Ham

Modeling the mechanics of fluid in complex scenes is vital to applications in design, graphics, and robotics. Learning-based methods provide fast and differentiable fluid simulators, however most prior work is unable to accurately model how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Arjun Mani , Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya , Elliot Creager , Carl Vondrick , Richard Zemel

Dense indoor scene modeling from 2D images has been bottlenecked due to the absence of depth information and cluttered occlusions. We present an automatic indoor scene modeling approach using deep features from neural networks. Given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yinyu Nie , Shihui Guo , Jian Chang , Xiaoguang Han , Jiahui Huang , Shi-Min Hu , Jian Jun Zhang

Neural radiance fields have recently revolutionized novel-view synthesis and achieved high-fidelity renderings. However, these methods sacrifice the geometry for the rendering quality, limiting their further applications including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jingnan Gao , Zhuo Chen , Xiaokang Yang , Yichao Yan

Scene understanding is an important capability for robots acting in unstructured environments. While most SLAM approaches provide a geometrical representation of the scene, a semantic map is necessary for more complex interactions with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Radu Alexandru Rosu , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Plane Geometry Diagram Synthesis has been a crucial task in computer graphics, with applications ranging from educational tools to AI-driven mathematical reasoning. Traditionally, we rely on manual tools (e.g., Matplotlib and GeoGebra) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Chengrui Zhang , Maizhen Ning , Tianyi Liu , Zihao Zhou , Jie Sun , Qiufeng Wang , Kaizhu Huang

Implicit neural field generating signed distance field representations (SDFs) of 3D shapes have shown remarkable progress in 3D shape reconstruction and generation. We introduce a new paradigm for neural field representations of 3D scenes;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

We introduce SparseNeuS, a novel neural rendering based method for the task of surface reconstruction from multi-view images. This task becomes more difficult when only sparse images are provided as input, a scenario where existing neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Peng Wang , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

The rapid development of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) has led to remarkable progress in 2D visual understanding; however, extending these capabilities to 3D scene understanding remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Hongpei Zheng , Lintao Xiang , Qijun Yang , Qian Lin , Hujun Yin

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

Video semantic segmentation aims to generate accurate semantic maps for each video frame. To this end, many works dedicate to integrate diverse information from consecutive frames to enhance the features for prediction, where a feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Jiafan Zhuang , Zilei Wang , Junjie Li