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Main Authors: Guan, Yushi, Kwan, Daniel, Liang, Ruofan, Panneer, Selvakumar, Jain, Nilesh, Ahuja, Nilesh, Vijaykumar, Nandita
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15722
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author Guan, Yushi
Kwan, Daniel
Liang, Ruofan
Panneer, Selvakumar
Jain, Nilesh
Ahuja, Nilesh
Vijaykumar, Nandita
author_facet Guan, Yushi
Kwan, Daniel
Liang, Ruofan
Panneer, Selvakumar
Jain, Nilesh
Ahuja, Nilesh
Vijaykumar, Nandita
contents Implicit neural representations (INRs) have become an important method for encoding various data types, such as 3D objects or scenes, images, and videos. They have proven to be particularly effective at representing 3D content, e.g., 3D scene reconstruction from 2D images, novel 3D content creation, as well as the representation, interpolation, and completion of 3D shapes. With the widespread generation of 3D data in an INR format, there is a need to support effective organization and retrieval of INRs saved in a data store. A key aspect of retrieval and clustering of INRs in a data store is the formulation of similarity between INRs that would, for example, enable retrieval of similar INRs using a query INR. In this work, we propose INRet, a method for determining similarity between INRs that represent shapes, thus enabling accurate retrieval of similar shape INRs from an INR data store. INRet flexibly supports different INR architectures such as INRs with octree grids, triplanes, and hash grids, as well as different implicit functions including signed/unsigned distance function and occupancy field. We demonstrate that our method is more general and accurate than the existing INR retrieval method, which only supports simple MLP INRs and requires the same architecture between the query and stored INRs. Furthermore, compared to converting INRs to other representations (e.g., point clouds or multi-view images) for 3D shape retrieval, INRet achieves higher accuracy while avoiding the conversion overhead.
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spellingShingle INRet: A General Framework for Accurate Retrieval of INRs for Shapes
Guan, Yushi
Kwan, Daniel
Liang, Ruofan
Panneer, Selvakumar
Jain, Nilesh
Ahuja, Nilesh
Vijaykumar, Nandita
Machine Learning
Implicit neural representations (INRs) have become an important method for encoding various data types, such as 3D objects or scenes, images, and videos. They have proven to be particularly effective at representing 3D content, e.g., 3D scene reconstruction from 2D images, novel 3D content creation, as well as the representation, interpolation, and completion of 3D shapes. With the widespread generation of 3D data in an INR format, there is a need to support effective organization and retrieval of INRs saved in a data store. A key aspect of retrieval and clustering of INRs in a data store is the formulation of similarity between INRs that would, for example, enable retrieval of similar INRs using a query INR. In this work, we propose INRet, a method for determining similarity between INRs that represent shapes, thus enabling accurate retrieval of similar shape INRs from an INR data store. INRet flexibly supports different INR architectures such as INRs with octree grids, triplanes, and hash grids, as well as different implicit functions including signed/unsigned distance function and occupancy field. We demonstrate that our method is more general and accurate than the existing INR retrieval method, which only supports simple MLP INRs and requires the same architecture between the query and stored INRs. Furthermore, compared to converting INRs to other representations (e.g., point clouds or multi-view images) for 3D shape retrieval, INRet achieves higher accuracy while avoiding the conversion overhead.
title INRet: A General Framework for Accurate Retrieval of INRs for Shapes
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15722