English
Related papers

Related papers: Robust Watertight Manifold Surface Generation Meth…

200 papers

This paper presents a method for computing two-dimensional constant mean curvature surfaces. The method in question uses the variational aspect of the problem to implement an efficient algorithm. In principle it is a flow like method in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Metzger

The paper presents a new method for shape and topology optimization based on an efficient and scalable boundary integral formulation for elasticity. To optimize topology, our approach uses iterative extraction of isosurfaces of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Igor Ostanin , Ivan Tsybulin , Mikhail Litsarev , Ivan Oseledets , Denis Zorin

Geometric Deep Learning has recently made striking progress with the advent of continuous deep implicit fields. They allow for detailed modeling of watertight surfaces of arbitrary topology while not relying on a 3D Euclidean grid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Benoit Guillard , Edoardo Remelli , Artem Lukoianov , Stephan R. Richter , Timur Bagautdinov , Pierre Baque , Pascal Fua

Mathematically representing the shape of an object is a key ingredient for solving inverse rendering problems. Explicit representations like meshes are efficient to render in a differentiable fashion but have difficulties handling topology…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Guangyan Cai , Kai Yan , Zhao Dong , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Shuang Zhao

When obtaining interior 3D voxel data from triangular meshes, most existing methods fail to handle low quality meshes which happens to take up a big portion on the internet. In this work we present a robust voxelization method that is based…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Joseph Chen , Ko-Wei Tai , Wen-Chin Chen , Ming Ouhyoung

This study presents the development of a domain-responsive edge-aware multiscale Graph Neural Network for predicting steady, turbulent flow and thermal behavior in a two-dimensional channel containing arbitrarily shaped complex pin-fin…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 Riddhiman Raut , Evan M. Mihalko , Amrita Basak

This paper presents a fast an robust mesh generation procedure that is able to generate meshes of the earth system (ocean and continent) in matters of seconds. Our algorithm takes as input a standard shape-file i.e. geospatial vector data…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Jean-François Remacle , Jonathan Lambrechts

Deep generative models such as flow and diffusion models have proven to be effective in modeling high-dimensional and complex data types such as videos or proteins, and this has motivated their use in different data modalities, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ege Erdogan

Grasping objects with limited or no prior knowledge about them is a highly relevant skill in assistive robotics. Still, in this general setting, it has remained an open problem, especially when it comes to only partial observability and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthias Humt , Dominik Winkelbauer , Ulrich Hillenbrand , Berthold Bäuml

The synthesis of a metasurface exhibiting a specific set of desired scattering properties is a time-consuming and resource-demanding process, which conventionally relies on many cycles of full-wave simulations. It requires an experienced…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Parinaz Naseri , Sean V. Hum

3D rendering of dynamic face captures is a challenging problem, and it demands improvements on several fronts$\unicode{x2014}$photorealism, efficiency, compatibility, and configurability. We present a novel representation that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Safa C. Medin , Gengyan Li , Ruofei Du , Stephan Garbin , Philip Davidson , Gregory W. Wornell , Thabo Beeler , Abhimitra Meka

We propose an end-to-end deep learning architecture that produces a 3D shape in triangular mesh from a single color image. Limited by the nature of deep neural network, previous methods usually represent a 3D shape in volume or point cloud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Nanyang Wang , Yinda Zhang , Zhuwen Li , Yanwei Fu , Wei Liu , Yu-Gang Jiang

This paper presents an efficient implementation of the Wavenet generation process called Fast Wavenet. Compared to a naive implementation that has complexity O(2^L) (L denotes the number of layers in the network), our proposed approach…

We propose a method that morphs high-orger meshes such that their boundaries and interfaces coincide/align with implicitly defined geometries. Our focus is particularly on the case when the target surface is prescribed as the zero…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Jorge-Luis Barrera , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal , Vladimir Tomov

Designs generated by density-based topology optimization (TO) exhibit jagged and/or smeared boundaries, which forms an obstacle to their integration with existing CAD tools. Addressing this problem by smoothing or manual design adjustments…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Marco K. Swierstra , Deepak K. Gupta , Matthijs Langelaar

We propose a robust and scalable procedure for general optimization and inference problems on manifolds leveraging the classical idea of `median-of-means' estimation. This is motivated by ubiquitous examples and applications in modern data…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-16 Lizhen Lin , Drew Lazar , Bayan Sarpabayeva , David B. Dunson

This report presents a comprehensive framework for generating high-quality 3D shapes and textures from diverse input prompts, including single images, multi-view images, and text descriptions. The framework consists of 3D shape generation…

Neural implicit representations are widely used for 3D shape modeling due to their smoothness and compactness, but traditional MLP-based methods struggle with sharp features, such as edges and corners in CAD models, and require long…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guying Lin , Lei Yang , Congyi Zhang , Hao Pan , Yuhan Ping , Guodong Wei , Taku Komura , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

We combine two important recent advancements of MCMC algorithms: first, methods utilizing the intrinsic manifold structure of the parameter space; then, algorithms effective for targets in infinite-dimensions with the critical property that…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-04-01 Alexandros Beskos

Flow-based generative models are composed of invertible transformations between two random variables of the same dimension. Therefore, flow-based models cannot be adequately trained if the dimension of the data distribution does not match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Hyeongju Kim , Hyeonseung Lee , Woo Hyun Kang , Joun Yeop Lee , Nam Soo Kim