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In this paper, we consider holomorphic mappings between real hypersurfaces in different dimensional complex spaces. We give a number of conditions that imply that such mappings are transversal to the target hypersurface at most points.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. S. Baouendi , Peter Ebenfelt , Linda P. Rothschild

Intrinsic isometric shape matching has become the standard approach for pose invariant correspondence estimation among deformable shapes. Most existing approaches assume global consistency, i.e., the metric structure of the whole manifold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Alan Brunton , Michael Wand , Stefanie Wuhrer , Hans-Peter Seidel , Tino Weinkauf

Reconstructing surfaces from normals is a key component of photometric stereo. This work introduces an adaptive surface triangulation in the image domain and afterwards performs the normal integration on a triangle mesh. Our key insight is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Moritz Heep , Eduard Zell

In the classical context of robotic mapping and localization, map matching is typically defined as the task of finding a rigid transformation (i.e., 3DOF rotation/translation on the 2D moving plane) that aligns the query and reference maps…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Kanji Tanaka

We present a computational approach for unfolding 3D shapes isometrically into the plane as a single patch without overlapping triangles. This is a hard, sometimes impossible, problem, which existing methods are forced to soften by allowing…

Recently, deep generative adversarial networks for image generation have advanced rapidly; yet, only a small amount of research has focused on generative models for irregular structures, particularly meshes. Nonetheless, mesh generation and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Amir Hertz , Rana Hanocka , Raja Giryes , Daniel Cohen-Or

We propose a system for differentiating through solutions to geometry processing problems. Our system differentiates a broad class of geometric algorithms, exploiting existing fast problem-specific schemes common to geometry processing,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ana Dodik , Ahmed H. Mahmoud , Justin Solomon

Boundary conforming coordinates are commonly used in plasma physics to describe the geometry of toroidal domains, for example, in three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium solvers. The magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium configuration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Robert Babin , Florian Hindenlang , Omar Maj , Robert Köberl

Mesh processing pipelines are mature, but adapting them to newer non-mesh surface representations -- which enable fast rendering with compact file size -- requires costly meshing or transmitting bulky meshes, negating their core benefits…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuta Noma , Zhecheng Wang , Chenxi Liu , Karan Singh , Alec Jacobson

Recent advancements in Radiance Fields have significantly improved novel-view synthesis. However, in many real-world applications, the more advanced challenge lies in inverse rendering, which seeks to derive the physical properties of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Jiajie Yang

We introduce \emph{ReMatching}, a novel shape correspondence solution based on the functional maps framework. Our method, by exploiting a new and appropriate \emph{re}-meshing paradigm, can target shape-\emph{matching} tasks even on meshes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Filippo Maggioli , Daniele Baieri , Emanuele Rodolà , Simone Melzi

This paper solves the problem of computing conformal structures of general 2-manifolds represented as triangle meshes. We compute conformal structures in the following way: first compute homology bases from simplicial complex structures,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Xianfeng Gu , Shing-Tung Yau

The aim of this study is to analyze the properties of harmonic fields in the vicinity of rough boundaries where either a constant potential or a zero flux is imposed, while a constant field is prescribed at an infinite distance from this…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Damien Vandembroucq , Stephane Roux

Finding correspondences between shapes is a fundamental problem in computer vision and graphics, which is relevant for many applications, including 3D reconstruction, object tracking, and style transfer. The vast majority of correspondence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Maolin Gao , Zorah Lähner , Johan Thunberg , Daniel Cremers , Florian Bernard

Despite having achieved real-time performance in mesh construction, most of the current LiDAR odometry and meshing methods may struggle to deal with complex scenes due to relying on explicit meshing schemes. They are usually sensitive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yanjin Zhu , Xin Zheng , Jianke Zhu

We present a new method for performing Boolean operations on volumes represented as triangle meshes. In contrast to existing methods which treat meshes as 3D polyhedra and try to partition the faces at their exact intersection curves, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Ryan Schmidt , Tyson Brochu

Switching between different levels of resolution is essential for multiscale modeling, but restoring details at higher resolution remains challenging. In our previous study we have introduced deepBackmap: a deep neural-network-based…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Marc Stieffenhofer , Tristan Bereau , Michael Wand

We propose a method for efficiently computing orientation-preserving and approximately continuous correspondences between non-rigid shapes, using the functional maps framework. We first show how orientation preservation can be formulated…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Jing Ren , Adrien Poulenard , Peter Wonka , Maks Ovsjanikov

Recent advances in meta-optics have enabled diverse functionalities in compact optical devices; however, conventional forward design approaches become inadequate as device complexity and scale grow. Inverse design offers a powerful…

Moving mesh methods are designed to redistribute a mesh in a regular way. This applied problem can be considered to overlap with the problem of finding a diffeomorphic mapping between density measures. In applications, an off-the-shelf grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Axel G. R. Turnquist