Deformable Shape Reconstruction

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Deformable shape reconstruction studies how to recover the changing geometry of objects such as tissue, cloth, hands, and soft robots from incomplete observations. Methods use deformable meshes and templates, neural implicit fields and Gaussian splats, or sensor-based shape estimates, often combining visual evidence with physical or geometric constraints. The work supports applications including surgical navigation, robotic manipulation, animation, and simulation, with growing attention to real-time reconstruction and prediction. A central challenge is recovering accurate, physically plausible shapes despite occlusion, sparse views, camera motion, and differences between training objects and objects encountered in practice.

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  1. ParCo-SDF: Learning Prior-Free Partial-to-Complete Signed Distance Fields of Deformable Objects

    May 28, 2026Deokmin Hwang, Minseok Song, Daehyung ParkImplicit Neural Representations3D Reconstruction

    School of Computing, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

  2. SEMAGIC: Learning Semantically Consistent Deformable 3D Representations from In-the-Wild Images

    May 27, 2026Sky Cen, Wufei Ma, Guofeng Zhang +2Deformable Shape ReconstructionNon-Rigid Shape Correspondence

    Johns Hopkins University · CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

  3. PhysHanDI: Physics-Based Reconstruction of Hand-Deformable Object Interactions

    May 10, 2026Jihyun Lee, Changmin Lee, Donghwan Kim +13D ReconstructionHand-Object Interaction Reconstruction

    School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.

  4. Kinematics-Driven Gaussian Shape Deformation for Blurry Monocular Dynamic Scenes

    May 9, 2026Yeon-Ji Song, Kiyoung Kwon, Junoh Lee +23D Gaussian Splatting3D Reconstruction

    AI Institute, Seoul National University · Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Seoul National University · Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology +1

  5. A skin-like conformal sensor for real-time shape mapping

    May 2, 2026Kaiping Yin, Sooik Im, Chaorui Qiu +5Tactile Sensing3D Reconstruction

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA · Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA. +2

  6. MeshLAM: Feed-Forward One-Shot Animatable Textured Mesh Avatar Reconstruction

    Apr 23, 2026Yisheng He, Steven Hoi3D Reconstruction3D Avatar Generation

    Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group

  7. Face Anything: 4D Face Reconstruction from Any Image Sequence

    Apr 21, 2026Umut Kocasari, Simon Giebenhain, Richard Shaw +14D ReconstructionDeformable Shape Reconstruction

    Technical University of Munich, Germany · Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, London, UK

  8. MASS: Mesh-inellipse Aligned Deformable Surfel Splatting for Hand Reconstruction and Rendering from Egocentric Monocular Video

    Apr 10, 2026Haoyu Zhu, Yi Zhang, Lei Yao +23D Hand Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

  9. ReconPhys: Reconstruct Appearance and Physical Attributes from Single Video

    Apr 9, 2026Boyuan Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Yongkang Li +9Deformable Shape ReconstructionFeed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

    GigaAI · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Tsinghua University

  10. 4D Vessel Reconstruction for Benchtop Thrombectomy Analysis

    Apr 8, 2026Ethan Nguyen, Javier Carmona, Arisa Matsuzaki +24D ReconstructionDeformable Shape Reconstruction

    UCLA Health · UCLA Physics and Astronomy · Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network +1

  11. InverseDraping: Recovering Sewing Patterns from 3D Garment Surfaces via BoxMesh Bridging

    Apr 3, 2026Leyang Jin, Zirong Jin, Zisheng Ye +43D Garment Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, FNii-Shenzhen, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Future Networks of Intelligence +1

  12. 4DSurf: High-Fidelity Dynamic Scene Surface Reconstruction

    Mar 30, 2026Renjie Wu, Hongdong Li, Jose M. Alvarez +1Dynamic Scene Reconstruction4D Reconstruction

    Australian National University · Amazon · NVIDIA

  13. Mind the Shape Gap: A Benchmark and Baseline for Deformation-Aware 6D Pose Estimation of Agricultural Produce

    Mar 28, 2026Nikolas Chatzis, Angeliki Tsinouka, Katerina Papadimitriou +7Object Pose EstimationAgricultural Robotics

    Robotics Institute, Athena Research Center, Marousi, Greece · HERON - Hellenic Robotics Center of Excellence, Athens, Greece · School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NTUA, Greece +2

  14. DRoPS: Dynamic 3D Reconstruction of Pre-Scanned Objects

    Mar 25, 2026Narek Tumanyan, Samuel Rota Bulò, Denis Rozumny +5Dynamic Scene ReconstructionDeformable Shape Reconstruction

    Weizmann Institute of Science · Meta Reality Labs

  15. EndoVGGT: GNN-Enhanced Depth Estimation for Surgical 3D Reconstruction

    Mar 25, 2026Falong Fan, Yi Xie, Arnis Lektauers +2Endoscopic 3D Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

  16. Zero Shot Deformation Reconstruction for Soft Robots Using a Flexible Sensor Array and Cage Based 3D Gaussian Modeling

    Mar 20, 2026Linrui Shou, Zilang Chen, Wenjia Xu +2Deformable Shape ReconstructionSoft Robotics

    University of Notre Dame · University of Washington

  17. Model-Free Co-Optimization of Manufacturable Sensor Layouts and Deformation Proprioception

    Mar 9, 2026Yingjun Tian, Guoxin Fang, Aoran Lyu +5Deformable Shape ReconstructionWearable Sensing

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom · Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

  18. ACCURATE: Arbitrary-shaped Continuum Reconstruction Under Robust Adaptive Two-view Estimation

    Mar 8, 2026Yaozhi Zhang, Shun Yu, Yugang Zhang +13D ReconstructionContinuum Robot Shape Estimation

    Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  19. Proprioceptive Shape Estimation of Tensegrity Manipulators Using Energy Minimisation

    Mar 6, 2026Tufail Ahmad Bhat, Shuhei IkemotoTensegrity RoboticsRobotics

    Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

  20. MADCrowner: Margin Aware Dental Crown Design with Template Deformation and Refinement

    Mar 5, 2026Linda Wei, Chang Liu, Wenran Zhang +93D Mesh ReconstructionDeformable Shape Reconstruction

  21. The Dresden Dataset for 4D Reconstruction of Non-Rigid Abdominal Surgical Scenes

    Mar 3, 2026Reuben Docea, Rayan Younis, Yonghao Long +103D Reconstruction4D Reconstruction

    Department of Translational Surgical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), NCT/UCC Dresden, a partnership between DKFZ, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TUD Dresden University of Technology, and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany · Department of Translational Surgical Oncology, NCT/UCC Dresden, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany · Department for Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany +2

  22. Spatio-Temporal Garment Reconstruction Using Diffusion Mapping via Pattern Coordinates

    Feb 27, 2026Yingxuan You, Ren Li, Corentin Dumery +33D Garment Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    CVLab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates · Pinscreen and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates

  23. Performance and Experimental Analysis of Strain-based Models for Continuum Robots

    Feb 26, 2026Annika Delucchi, Vincenzo Di Paola, Andreas Müller +1Continuum Robot Shape EstimationRobotics

    Department of Mechanical, Energy, Management and Transportation Engineering (DIME), University of Genova, Italy · Institute of Robotics, Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz, Austria

  24. Neu-PiG: Neural Preconditioned Grids for Fast Dynamic Surface Reconstruction on Long Sequences

    Feb 25, 2026Julian Kaltheuner, Hannah Dröge, Markus Plack +2Dynamic Scene ReconstructionPoint Cloud Surface Reconstruction

    University of Bonn

  25. Monocular Endoscopic Tissue 3D Reconstruction with Multi-Level Geometry Regularization

    Feb 24, 2026Yangsen Chen, Hao WangEndoscopic 3D Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    HKUST(GZ)

  26. NeRFscopy: Neural Radiance Fields for in-vivo Time-Varying Tissues from Endoscopy

    Feb 17, 2026Laura Salort-Benejam, Antonio AgudoEndoscopic 3D Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    Institut de Rob`otica i Inform`atica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, Spain

  27. Highly Deformable Proprioceptive Membrane for Real-Time 3D Shape Reconstruction

    Jan 20, 2026Guanyu Xu, Jiaqi Wang, Dezhong Tong +1Tactile Sensing3D Reconstruction

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

  28. Online camera-pose-free stereo endoscopic tissue deformation recovery with tissue-invariant vision-biomechanics consistency

    Jun 24, 2025Jiahe Chen, Naoki Tomii, Ichiro Sakuma +1Endoscopy3D Reconstruction

    School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan