LiDAR Point Clouds to 3-D Urban Models A Review

R Wang, J Peethambaran… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three-dimensional (3-D) urban models are an integral part of numerous applications, such
as urban planning and performance simulation, map** and visualization, emergency …

State of the art in surface reconstruction from point clouds

M Berger, A Tagliasacchi, LM Seversky… - … Conference of the …, 2014 - infoscience.epfl.ch
The area of surface reconstruction has seen substantial progress in the past two decades.
The traditional problem addressed by surface reconstruction is to recover the digital …

Mobilenerf: Exploiting the polygon rasterization pipeline for efficient neural field rendering on mobile architectures

Z Chen, T Funkhouser, P Hedman… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated amazing ability to synthesize
images of 3D scenes from novel views. However, they rely upon specialized volumetric …

Flexible isosurface extraction for gradient-based mesh optimization

T Shen, J Munkberg, J Hasselgren, K Yin… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This work considers gradient-based mesh optimization, where we iteratively optimize for a
3D surface mesh by representing it as the isosurface of a scalar field, an increasingly …

Neural dual contouring

Z Chen, A Tagliasacchi, T Funkhouser… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We introduce neural dual contouring (NDC), a new data-driven approach to mesh
reconstruction based on dual contouring (DC). Like traditional DC, it produces exactly one …

Support-free volume printing by multi-axis motion

C Dai, CCL Wang, C Wu, S Lefebvre, G Fang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a new method to fabricate 3D models on a robotic printing system
equipped with multi-axis motion. Materials are accumulated inside the volume along curved …

Nerfmeshing: Distilling neural radiance fields into geometrically-accurate 3d meshes

MJ Rakotosaona, F Manhardt… - … conference on 3D …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the introduction of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), novel view synthesis has recently
made a big leap forward. At the core, NeRF proposes that each 3D point can emit radiance …

VDB: High-resolution sparse volumes with dynamic topology

K Museth - ACM transactions on graphics (TOG), 2013 - dl.acm.org
We have developed a novel hierarchical data structure for the efficient representation of
sparse, time-varying volumetric data discretized on a 3D grid. Our “VDB”, so named because …

Meshudf: Fast and differentiable meshing of unsigned distance field networks

B Guillard, F Stella, P Fua - European conference on computer vision, 2022 - Springer
Abstract 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 …

Dual octree graph networks for learning adaptive volumetric shape representations

PS Wang, Y Liu, X Tong - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present an adaptive deep representation of volumetric fields of 3D shapes and an
efficient approach to learn this deep representation for high-quality 3D shape reconstruction …