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Neural implicit surfaces can be used to recover accurate 3D geometry from imperfect point clouds. In this work, we show that state-of-the-art techniques work by minimizing an approximation of a one-sided Chamfer distance. This shape metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Linus Härenstam-Nielsen , Lu Sang , Abhishek Saroha , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers

Recently, many methods have been proposed for face reconstruction from multiple images, most of which involve fundamental principles of Shape from Shading and Structure from motion. However, a majority of the methods just generate discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Weilong Peng , Zhiyong Feng , Chao Xu

S-patches have been around for 30 years, but they are seldom used, and are considered more of a mathematical curiosity than a practical surface representation. In this article a method is presented for automatically creating S-patches of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Péter Salvi

We present a framework for solving partial different equations on evolving surfaces. Based on the grid-based particle method (GBPM) [18], the method can naturally resample the surface even under large deformation from the motion law. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Ningchen Ying , Shingyu Leung

Reconstructing accurate surfaces with radiance fields has progressed rapidly, yet two promising explicit representations, 3D Gaussian Splatting and sparse-voxel rasterization, exhibit complementary strengths and weaknesses. 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ting-Hsun Chi , Chu-Rong Chen , Chi-Tun Hsu , Hsuan-Ting Lin , Sheng-Yu Huang , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

We introduce Neural Marching Cubes (NMC), a data-driven approach for extracting a triangle mesh from a discretized implicit field. Classical MC is defined by coarse tessellation templates isolated to individual cubes. While more refined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zhiqin Chen , Hao Zhang

Transmissive scenes are ubiquitous in daily life, yet reconstructing and rendering them remains highly challenging due to the inherent entanglement between near-field reflections from the surrounding environment on the transmissive surface,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhenyu Liang , Xiao Zhang , Tianchao Li , Jack C. P. Cheng , Chi-Keung Tang

Implicit surfaces are known for their ability to represent smooth objects of arbitrary topology thanks to hierarchical combinations of primitives using a structure called a blobtree. We present a new tile-based rendering pipeline well…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Cédric Zanni

We present a semi-Lagrangian method for the numerical resolution of Vlasov-type equations on multi-patch meshes. Following N. Crouseilles et al. [A parallel Vlasov solver based on local cubic spline interpolation on patches. Journal of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Pauline Vidal , Emily Bourne , Virginie Grandgirard , Michel Mehrenberger , Eric Sonnendrücker

We fully generalize a previously-developed computational geometry tool [1] to perform large-scale simulations of arbitrary two-dimensional faceted surfaces $z = h(x,y)$. Our method uses a three-component facet/edge/junction storage model,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Scott A. Norris , Stephen J. Watson

We present a novel multi-view implicit surface reconstruction technique, termed StreetSurf, that is readily applicable to street view images in widely-used autonomous driving datasets, such as Waymo-perception sequences, without necessarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jianfei Guo , Nianchen Deng , Xinyang Li , Yeqi Bai , Botian Shi , Chiyu Wang , Chenjing Ding , Dongliang Wang , Yikang Li

We present a discrete theory for modeling developable surfaces as quadrilateral meshes satisfying simple angle constraints. The basis of our model is a lesser known characterization of developable surfaces as manifolds that can be…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Michael Rabinovich , Tim Hoffmann , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Isosurfaces are an important tool for analysis and visualization of univariate scalar fields. Earlier works have demonstrated the presence of interesting isosurfaces at isovalues close to critical values. This motivated the development of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Mohit Sharma , Vijay Natarajan

One key feature of isogeometric analysis is that it allows smooth shape functions. Indeed, when isogeometric spaces are constructed from $p$-degree splines (and extensions, such as NURBS), they enjoy up to $C^{p-1}$ continuity within each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Annabelle Collin , Giancarlo Sangalli , Thomas Takacs

Differentiable 3D Gaussian splatting has emerged as an efficient and flexible rendering technique for representing complex scenes from a collection of 2D views and enabling high-quality real-time novel-view synthesis. However, its reliance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Meenakshi Krishnan , Liam Fowl , Ramani Duraiswami

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

Geophysical inversion should ideally produce geologically realistic subsurface models that explain the available data. Multiple-point statistics is a geostatistical approach to construct subsurface models that are consistent with…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-01-09 T. Zahner , T. Lochbühler , G. Mariethoz , N. Linde

Representing complex objects with basic geometric primitives has long been a topic in computer vision. Primitive-based representations have the merits of compactness and computational efficiency in higher-level tasks such as physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Weixiao Liu , Yuwei Wu , Sipu Ruan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Subgraph isomorphism is a well-known NP-hard problem that is widely used in many applications, such as social network analysis and query over the knowledge graph. Due to the inherent hardness, its performance is often a bottleneck in…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Li Zeng , Lei Zou , M. Tamer Özsu , Lin Hu , Fan Zhang

We present a method for differentiable rendering of 3D surfaces that supports both explicit and implicit representations, provides derivatives at occlusion boundaries, and is fast and simple to implement. The method first samples the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Forrester Cole , Kyle Genova , Avneesh Sud , Daniel Vlasic , Zhoutong Zhang