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We propose a new approach to constructing semistable integral models of hypersurfaces over a discretely valued complete field K. For each stable hypersurface X over K we define a continuous stability function on the Bruhat-Tits building of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Kletus Stern , Stefan Wewers

We present a computational scheme that derives a global polynomial level set parametrisation for smooth closed surfaces from a regular surface-point set and prove its uniqueness. This enables us to approximate a broad class of smooth…

In this paper, we present a generalizable method for 3D surface reconstruction from raw point clouds or pre-estimated 3D Gaussians by 3DGS from RGB images. Unlike existing coordinate-based methods which are often computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shenxing Wei , Jinxi Li , Yafei Yang , Siyuan Zhou , Bo Yang

A high-order quadrature scheme is constructed for the evaluation of Laplace single and double layer potentials and their normal derivatives on smooth surfaces in three dimensions. The construction begins with a harmonic approximation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Shidong Jiang , Hai Zhu

Implicit function based surface reconstruction has been studied for a long time to recover 3D shapes from point clouds sampled from surfaces. Recently, Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) and Occupany Functions are adopted in learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Meng Jia , Matthew Kyan

3D point clouds are increasingly vital for applications like autonomous driving and robotics, yet the raw data captured by sensors often suffer from noise and sparsity, creating challenges for downstream tasks. Consequently, point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Donghyun Kim , Hyeonkyeong Kwon , Yumin Kim , Seong Jae Hwang

Accurate reconstruction of leaf surfaces from 3D point cloud is essential for agricultural applications such as phenotyping. However, real-world plant data (i.e., irregular 3D point cloud) are often complex to reconstruct plant parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Arif Ahmed , Parikshit Maini

Neural surface reconstruction has been dominated by implicit representations with marching cubes for explicit surface extraction. However, those methods typically require high-quality normals for accurate reconstruction. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Huan Lei

Surface parametrization is a crucial part in various fields, having applications in computer graphic, medical imaging, scientific computing and computational engineering. The majority of surface parametrization approaches are performed on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ka Ho Lai , Lok Ming Lui

We propose the use of a Transformer to accurately predict normals from point clouds with noise and density variations. Previous learning-based methods utilize PointNet variants to explicitly extract multi-scale features at different input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Barry Shichen Hu , Siyun Liang , Johannes Paetzold , Huy H. Nguyen , Isao Echizen , Jiapeng Tang

We propose a method for unsupervised reconstruction of a temporally-consistent sequence of surfaces from a sequence of time-evolving point clouds. It yields dense and semantically meaningful correspondences between frames. We represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Jan Bednarik , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir G. Kim , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Shaifali Parashar , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Point clouds collected by real-world sensors are always unaligned and sparse, which makes it hard to reconstruct the complete shape of object from a single frame of data. In this work, we manage to provide complete point clouds from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jieqi Shi , Lingyun Xu , Peiliang Li , Xiaozhi Chen , Shaojie Shen

Exploiting the variational interpretation of kernel interpolation we exhibit a direct connection between interpolation and regression, where interpolation appears as a limiting case of regression. By applying this framework to point clouds…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Patrick Guidotti

We describe a two-level method for computing a function whose zero-level set is the surface reconstructed from given points scattered over the surface and associated with surface normal vectors. The function is defined as a linear…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Rongjiang Pan , Vaclav Skala

Recovering point clouds involves the sequential process of sampling and restoration, yet existing methods struggle to effectively leverage both topological and geometric attributes. To address this, we propose an end-to-end architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaiyue Zhou , Zelong Tan , Hongxiao Wang , Ya-Li Li , Shengjin Wang

Unoriented surface reconstruction is an important task in computer graphics and has extensive applications. Based on the compact support of wavelet and orthogonality properties, classic wavelet surface reconstruction achieves good and fast…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yueji Ma , Yanzun Meng , Dong Xiao , Zuoqiang Shi , Bin Wang

Accurate and consistent construction of point clouds from LiDAR scanning data is fundamental for 3D modeling applications. Current solutions, such as multiview point cloud registration and LiDAR bundle adjustment, predominantly depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jianping Li , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a crucial task in the fields of computer vision and computer graphics. SDF-based methods excel at reconstructing smooth meshes with minimal error and artefacts but struggle with representing open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Hui Tian , Kai Xu

Controlling the shapes of surfaces provides a novel way to direct self-assembly of colloidal particles on those surfaces and may be useful for material design. This motivates the investigation of an optimal control problem for surface shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-10 Harbir Antil , Shawn W. Walker

Point clouds are a fundamental 3D representation in computer vision, enabling a wide range of perception tasks. However, real-world point clouds often suffer from degradations such as incompleteness, noise, outliers, and irregular density,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Haoqing Wu , Alexa Nawotki , Jochen Garcke