Complete Historical Review - 2015-2026
Foundational period of deep learning for 3D shapes using explicit discrete structures (voxels, point clouds, meshes).
Major shift to continuous implicit neural fields (SDFs and occupancy functions).
Techniques to train implicit representations from raw unlabeled data with major efficiency improvements and early meta-learning approaches.
Meta-learning and semi-supervised techniques for generalization to unseen object categories.
Large-scale generative models and foundation models for 3D.