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A conformal metric $g$ with constant curvature one and finite conical singularities on a compact Riemann surface $\Sigma$ can be thought of as the pullback of the standard metric on the 2-sphere by a multi-valued locally univalent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Qing Chen , Wei Wang , Yingyi Wu , Bin Xu

Face morphing is a problem in computer graphics with numerous artistic and forensic applications. It is challenging due to variations in pose, lighting, gender, and ethnicity. This task consists of a warping for feature alignment and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Guilherme Schardong , Tiago Novello , Hallison Paz , Iurii Medvedev , Vinícius da Silva , Luiz Velho , Nuno Gonçalves

Developable surfaces are commonly observed in various applications such as architecture, product design, manufacturing, mechanical materials, and data physicalization as well as in the development of tangible interaction and deformable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Chao Yuan , Nan Cao , Yang Shi

The aim of this article is to introduce a new methodology for constructing morphings between shapes that have identical topology. The morphings are obtained by deforming a reference shape, through the resolution of a sequence of linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Abbas Kabalan , Fabien Casenave , Felipe Bordeu , Virginie Ehrlacher , Alexandre Ern

We propose a novel framework for comparing 3D human shapes under the change of shape and pose. This problem is challenging since 3D human shapes vary significantly across subjects and body postures. We solve this problem by using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Emery Pierson , Mohamed Daoudi , Alice-Barbara Tumpach

This paper introduces a generative model for 3D surfaces based on a representation of shapes with mean curvature and metric, which are invariant under rigid transformation. Hence, compared with existing 3D machine learning frameworks, our…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Zi Ye , Nobuyuki Umetani , Takeo Igarashi , Tim Hoffmann

In the process of projecting the surface of a three-dimensional object onto a two-dimensional surface, due to the perspective distortion, the image on the surface of the object will have different degrees of distortion according to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Yuhan Xu , Renqing Luo

In this paper, we introduce a definition of discrete conformality for triangulated surfaces with flat cone metrics and describe an algorithm for solving the problem of prescribing curvature, that is to deform the metric discrete conformally…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Jian Sun , Tianqi Wu , Xianfeng Gu , Feng Luo

This paper proposes a novel model fitting algorithm for 3D facial expression reconstruction from a single image. Face expression reconstruction from a single image is a challenging task in computer vision. Most state-of-the-art methods fit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Fanzi Wu , Songnan Li , Tianhao Zhao , King Ngi Ngan , Lv Sheng

In this paper we study Moebius applicable surfaces, i.e., conformally immersed surfaces in Moebius 3-space which admit deformations preserving the Moebius metric. We show new characterizations of Willmore surfaces, Bonnet surfaces and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Atsushi Fujioka , Jun-ichi Inoguchi

Shape matching represents a challenging problem in both information engineering and computer science, exhibiting not only a wide spectrum of multimedia applications, but also a deep relation with conformal geometry. After reviewing the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-27 Claudio Fontanari , Letizia Pernigotti

In this article we introduce conformal Riemannian morphisms. The idea of conformal Riemannian morphism generalizes the notions of an isometric immersion, a Riemannian submersion, an isometry, a Riemannian map and a conformal Riemannian map.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-12 RB Yadav , Srikanth KV

Using (casual) images to texture 3D models is a common way to create realistic 3D models, which is a very important task in computer graphics. However, if the shape of the casual image does not look like the target model or the target…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-09-11 I-Chao Shen , Yi-Hau Wang , Yu-Mei Chen , Bing-Yu Chen

Morphable Models (3DMMs) are a type of morphable model that takes 2D images as inputs and recreates the structure and physical appearance of 3D objects, especially human faces and bodies. 3DMM combines identity and expression blendshapes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Gulraiz Khan , Kenneth Y. Wertheim , Kevin Pimbblet , Waqas Ahmed

Deformable image registration is one of the fundamental tasks in medical imaging. Classical registration algorithms usually require a high computational cost for iterative optimizations. Although deep-learning-based methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Boah Kim , Inhwa Han , Jong Chul Ye

In this paper we prove that every Riemannian metric on a locally conformally flat manifold with umbilic boundary can be conformally deformed to a scalar flat metric having constant mean curvature. This result can be seen as a generalization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mohameden Ould Ahmedou

In this paper, we investigate the use of 3D surface geometry for face recognition and compare it to one based on color map information. The 3D surface and color map data are from the CAESAR anthropometric database. We find that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-05-16 Afzal Godil , Sandy Ressler , Patrick Grother

Colorization of gray-scale images relies on prior color information. Examplar-based methods use a color image as source of such information. Then the colors of the source image are transferred to the gray-scale image. In the literature,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Johannes Persch , Fabien Pierre , Gabriele Steidl

A face model is a mathematical representation of the distinct features of a human face. Traditionally, face models were built using a set of fiducial points or landmarks, each point ideally located on a facial feature, i.e., corner of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jagmohan Meher , Hector Allende-Cid , Torbjörn E. M. Nordling

Roughly, a conformal tiling of a Riemann surface is a tiling where each tile is a suitable conformal image of a Euclidean regular polygon. In 1997, Bowers and Stephenson constructed an edge-to-edge conformal tiling of the complex plane…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Mohith Raju Nagaraju