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City-scale 3D surface reconstruction from multiview images for downstream 3D simulation, poses highly challenging problems due to the scale and complexity of urban scenes. Existing city-scale 3D reconstruction methods based on NeRF,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Sayan Paul , Sourav Ghosh , Siddharth Katageri , Soumyadip Maity , Sanjana Sinha , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Deformable surface tracking from monocular images is well-known to be under-constrained. Occlusions often make the task even more challenging, and can result in failure if the surface is not sufficiently textured. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Dat Tien Ngo , Sanghuyk Park , Anne Jorstad , Alberto Crivellaro , Chang Yoo , Pascal Fua

The notions of discrete conformality on triangle meshes have rich mathematical theories and wide applications. The related notions of discrete uniformizations on triangle meshes, suggest efficient methods for computing the uniformizations…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Tianqi Wu , Xiaoping Zhu

Diffusion models indirectly estimate the probability density over a data space, which can be used to study its structure. In this work, we show that geodesics can be computed in diffusion latent space, where the norm induced by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Qingtao Yu , Jaskirat Singh , Zhaoyuan Yang , Peter Henry Tu , Jing Zhang , Hongdong Li , Richard Hartley , Dylan Campbell

An investigation of the effect of surface diffusion in random deposition model is made by analytical methods and reasoning. For any given site, the extent to which a particle can diffuse is decided by the morphology in the immediate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-12-14 Baisakhi Mal , Subhankar Ray , J. Shamanna

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

This article provides the first mathematical analysis of the Density Matrix Embedding Theory (DMET) method. We prove that, under certain assumptions, (i) the exact ground-state density matrix is a fixed-point of the DMET map for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Eric Cancès , Fabian M. Faulstich , Alfred Kirsch , Eloïse Letournel , Antoine Levitt

With the recent development of high-end LiDARs, more and more systems are able to continuously map the environment while moving and producing spatially redundant information. However, none of the previous approaches were able to effectively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Chanoh Park , Soohwan Kim , Peyman Moghadam , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

We present an amelioration of current known algorithms for optimal spectral partitioning problems. The idea is to use the advantage of a representation using density functions while decreasing the computational time. This is done by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-25 Beniamin Bogosel

With the development of 3D sensing technologies, point clouds have attracted increasing attention in a variety of applications for 3D object representation, such as autonomous driving, 3D immersive tele-presence and heritage reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Junkun Qi , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

We investigate the flat flow solution for the surface diffusion equation via the discrete minimizing movements scheme proposed by Cahn and Taylor. We prove that in dimension three the scheme converges to the unique smooth solution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Marco Cicalese , Nicola Fusco , Vesa Julin , Andrea Kubin

The efficient design of continuous freeform surfaces, which transform a given source into an arbitrary target intensity, remains a challenging problem. A popular approach are ray-mapping methods, where first a ray mapping between the…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-29 Christoph Bösel , Herbert Gross

The intersection graph induced by a set $\Disks$ of $n$ disks can be dense. It is thus natural to try and sparsify it, while preserving connectivity. Unfortunately, sparse graphs can always be made disconnected by removing a small number of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Sariel Har-Peled , Eliot Wong Robson

In this paper we present a practical approach for generating an occlusion-free textured 3D map of urban facades by the synergistic use of terrestrial images, 3D point clouds and area-based information. Particularly in dense urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Karim Hammoudi , Fadi Dornaika , Bahman Soheilian , Bruno Vallet , John McDonald , Nicolas Paparoditis

We study the recently introduced problem of finding dense common subgraphs: Given a sequence of graphs that share the same vertex set, the goal is to find a subset of vertices $S$ that maximizes some aggregate measure of the density of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Moses Charikar , Yonatan Naamad , Jimmy Wu

The goal of this paper is to achieve a computational model and corresponding efficient algorithm for obtaining a sparse representation of the fitting surface to the given scattered data. The basic idea of the model is to utilize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Yong-Xia Hao , Chong-Jun Li , Ren-Hong Wang

We present a constructive approach for approximating the conformal map (uniformization) of a polyhedral surface to a canonical domain in the plane. The main tool is a characterization of convex spaces of quasiconformal simplicial maps and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Yaron Lipman

Maps are arguably one of the most fundamental concepts used to define and operate on manifold surfaces in differentiable geometry. Accordingly, in geometry processing, maps are ubiquitous and are used in many core applications, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Luca Morreale , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir Kim , Niloy J. Mitra

Diffusion models have been used in cosmological applications as a generative model for fast simulations and to reconstruct underlying cosmological fields or astrophysical images from noisy data. These two tasks are often treated as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-07 Supranta S. Boruah , Michael Jacob , Bhuvnesh Jain

In this paper we investigate the distribution of the set of values of a linear map at integer points on a quadratic surface. In particular we show that this set is dense in the range of the linear map subject to certain algebraic conditions…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-30 Oliver Sargent