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In this paper we propose a new approach to incrementally initialize a manifold surface for automatic 3D reconstruction from images. More precisely we focus on the automatic initialization of a 3D mesh as close as possible to the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Andrea Romanoni , Amaël Delaunoy , Marc Pollefeys , Matteo Matteucci

Probabilistic Manifold Decomposition (PMD)\cite{doi:10.1137/25M1738863}, developed in our earlier work, provides a nonlinear model reduction by embedding high-dimensional dynamics onto low-dimensional probabilistic manifolds. The PMD has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Jiaming Guo , Dunhui Xiao

This paper introduces a smoothed proximal Lagrangian method for minimizing a nonconvex smooth function over a convex domain with additional explicit convex nonlinear constraints. Two key features are 1) the proposed method is single-looped,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Wenqiang Pu , Kaizhao Sun , Jiawei Zhang

While recent advances in Gaussian Splatting have enabled fast reconstruction of high-quality 3D scenes from images, extracting accurate surface meshes remains a challenge. Current approaches extract the surface through costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Antoine Guédon , Diego Gomez , Nissim Maruani , Bingchen Gong , George Drettakis , Maks Ovsjanikov

Elastic metasurfaces offer precise control over elastic waves for applications such as vibration isolation, sensing, and imaging. However, achieving high-efficiency and scattering-free performance with complex functionalities remains a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Chun Min Li , Wenjing Ye

We present a new iterative technique based on radial basis function (RBF) interpolation and smoothing for the generation and smoothing of curvilinear meshes from straight-sided or other curvilinear meshes. Our technique approximates the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Vidhi Zala , Varun Shankar , Shankar P. Sastry , Robert M. Kirby

Probabilistic smoothing is a standard tool for global optimization, but existing methods rely on Gaussian kernels and specific transforms, often resulting in strong hyperparameter sensitivity and limited robustness. We propose a general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kukyoung Jang , Taehyun Cho , Junrui Zhang , Ping Xu , Kyungjae Lee

In this work, we propose an innovative iterative direct sampling method to solve nonlinear elliptic inverse problems from a limited number of pairs of Cauchy data. It extends the original direct sampling method (DSM) by incorporating an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Kazufumi Ito , Bangti Jin , Fengru Wang , Jun Zou

We propose DiMeR, a novel geometry-texture disentangled feed-forward model with 3D supervision for sparse-view mesh reconstruction. Existing methods confront two persistent obstacles: (i) textures can conceal geometric errors, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Lutao Jiang , Jiantao Lin , Kanghao Chen , Wenhang Ge , Xin Yang , Yifan Jiang , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Xu Zheng , Yinchuan Li , Yingcong Chen

In many practical applications of numerical methods a substantial increase in efficiency can be obtained by using local grid refinement, since the solution is generally smooth in large parts of the domain and large gradients occur only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-21 E. H. van Brummelen , C. H. Venner

Smoothness is a key inductive bias in machine learning and is closely related to generalization. Existing smoothness-inducing methods typically rely either on explicit gradient regularization, which often incurs substantial computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Parsa Moradi , Tayyebeh Jahaninezhad , Hanzaleh Akbarinodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

This paper investigates two accelerated primal-dual mirror dynamical approaches for smooth and nonsmooth convex optimization problems with affine and closed, convex set constraints. In the smooth case, an accelerated primal-dual mirror…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-15 You Zhao , Xiaofeng Liao , Xing He , Chaojie Li

The direct sampling method (DSM) has been introduced for non-iterative imaging of small inhomogeneities and is known to be fast, robust, and effective for inverse scattering problems. However, to the best of our knowledge, a full analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Sangwoo Kang , Marc Lambert , Won-Kwang Park

We present a three-dimensional (3D) common-refinement method for non-matching meshes between discrete non-overlapping subdomains of incompressible fluid and nonlinear hyperelastic structure. To begin, we first investigate the accuracy of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Yulong Li , Yun Zhi Law , Vaibhav Joshi , Rajeev Kumar Jaiman

We consider the computational efficiency of Monte Carlo (MC) and Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods applied to partial differential equations with random coefficients. These arise, for example, in groundwater flow modelling, where a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Anastasia Istratuca , Aretha Teckentrup

Numerical simulation of the complex plasma dynamics associated with high power, high frequency microwave breakdown at high pressures, leading to the formation of filamentary plasma structures such as self-organized plasma arrays, is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Pratik Ghosh , Bhaskar Chaudhury

This paper presents an end-to-end design method for the synthesis of dielectric metasurfaces with modulated thickness that are able to realize desired radiation patterns in the far-field with high precision. The method relies on integral…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Vasileios G. Ataloglou , George V. Eleftheriades

We propose and analyze a fully discrete parametric finite element method with minimal deformation rate (MDR) for simulating the mean curvature flow of general closed surfaces in three dimensions. The method is formulated from a coupled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Tiantian Huang , Buyang Li , Rong Tang

Meshless methods inherently do not require mesh topologies and are practically used for solving continuum equations. However, these methods generally tend to have a higher computational load than conventional mesh-based methods because…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-29 Takeharu Matsuda , Kohsuke Tsukui , Satoshi Ii

The discrete fracture model (DFM) has been widely used in the simulation of fluid flow in fractured porous media. Traditional DFM uses the so-called hybrid-dimensional approach to treat fractures explicitly as low-dimensional entries (e.g.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Ziyao Xu , Yang Yang