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Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with discontinuous diffusion coefficients occur in application domains such as diffusions through porous media, electro-magnetic field propagation on heterogeneous media, and diffusion…

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Anisotropic Non-Linear Diffusion is a powerful image processing technique, which allows to simultaneously remove the noise and enhance sharp features in two or three dimensional images. Anisotropic Diffusion is understood here in the sense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Jérôme Fehrenbach , Laurent Risser , Shaza Tobji

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful stochastic frameworks for high-dimensional inference and generation. However, existing applications to partial differential equations (PDEs) predominantly rely on physics-informed training…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Yi Bing , Liu Jia , Fu Jinyang , Peng Xiang

The problem of inpainting involves reconstructing the missing areas of an image. Inpainting has many applications, such as reconstructing old damaged photographs or removing obfuscations from images. In this paper we present the directional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Jan Deriu , Rolf Jagerman , Kai-En Tsay

We propose algorithms for solving convective-diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs), which model surfactant concentration and heat transport on evolving surfaces, based on intrinsic kernel-based meshless collocation methods. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Meng Chen , Leevan Ling

We present a comprehensive theoretical and computational model that explores the behavior of a thin hydrated film bonded to a non-hydrated / impermeable soft substrate in the context of surface and bulk elasticity coupled with surface…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-07 Jaemin Kim , Keon Ho Kim , Nikolaos Bouklas

In this paper, we propose a new adaptation of the D-iteration algorithm to numerically solve the differential equations. This problem can be reinterpreted in 2D or 3D (or higher dimensions) as a limit of a diffusion process where the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-04-30 Dohy Hong

A fundamental challenge in text-to-3D face generation is achieving high-quality geometry. The core difficulty lies in the arbitrary and intricate distribution of vertices in 3D space, making it challenging for existing models to establish…

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We present a general purpose method for solving partial differential equations on a closed surface, based on a technique for discretizing the surface introduced by Wenjun Ying and Wei-Cheng Wang [J. Comput. Phys. 252 (2013), pp. 606-624]…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-21 J. Thomas Beale

We present Surf-D, a novel method for generating high-quality 3D shapes as Surfaces with arbitrary topologies using Diffusion models. Previous methods explored shape generation with different representations and they suffer from limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Zhengming Yu , Zhiyang Dou , Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Zekun Li , Yuan Liu , Norman Müller , Taku Komura , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt , Xin Li , Wenping Wang

We introduce PolyDiff, the first diffusion-based approach capable of directly generating realistic and diverse 3D polygonal meshes. In contrast to methods that use alternate 3D shape representations (e.g. implicit representations), our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Antonio Alliegro , Yawar Siddiqui , Tatiana Tommasi , Matthias Nießner

This study introduces a novel point-wise diffusion model that processes spatio-temporal points independently to efficiently predict complex physical systems with shape variations. This methodological contribution lies in applying forward…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Jiyong Kim , Sunwoong Yang , Namwoo Kang

Point discretization of curved surfaces is required in many applications ranging from object rendering to the solution of surface partial differential equations (PDEs). These applications often impose that surfaces are sampled with local…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lennart J. Schulze , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

This paper deals with the case of using nonlinear diffusion filters to obtain piecewise constant images as a previous process for segmentation techniques. We first show an intrinsic formulation for the nonlinear diffusion equation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Javier Sanguino , Carlos Platero , Olga Velasco

The paper studies a finite element method for computing transport and diffusion along evolving surfaces. The method does not require a parametrization of a surface or an extension of a PDE from a surface into a bulk outer domain. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Joerg Grande , Maxim Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

We propose a structure-preserving parametric finite element method (SP-PFEM) for discretizing the surface diffusion of a closed curve in two dimensions (2D) or surface in three dimensions (3D). Here the "structure-preserving" refers to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Weizhu Bao , Quan Zhao

We present multiscale graph-based reduction algorithms for upscaling heterogeneous and anisotropic diffusion problems. The proposed coarsening approaches begin by constructing a partitioning of the computational domain into a set of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Maria Vasilyeva , James Brannick , Ben S. Southworth

Many geometry processing techniques require the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds embedded in $\mathbb{R}^2$ or $\mathbb{R}^3$, such as curves or surfaces. Such manifold PDEs often involve boundary conditions…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Nathan King , Haozhe Su , Mridul Aanjaneya , Steven Ruuth , Christopher Batty

While diffusion models have shown great success in image generation, their noise-inverting generative process does not explicitly consider the structure of images, such as their inherent multi-scale nature. Inspired by diffusion models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Severi Rissanen , Markus Heinonen , Arno Solin

In this note we shall introduce a simple, effective numerical method for solving partial differential equations for scalar and vector-valued data defined on surfaces. Even though we shall follow the traditional way to approximate the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-07-13 Sheng-Gwo Chen , Mei-Hsiu Chi , Jyh-Yang Wu