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We propose and test the first Reduced Radial Basis Function Method (R$^2$BFM) for solving parametric partial differential equations on irregular domains. The two major ingredients are a stable Radial Basis Function (RBF) solver that has an…

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Mesh reconstruction from Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is widely used in 3D reconstruction and has been applied across numerous domains. However, existing methods typically rely solely on the given training set images, which restricts…

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This paper introduces a novel method for human face detection with its orientation by using wavelet, principle component analysis (PCA) and redial basis networks. The input image is analyzed by two-dimensional wavelet and a two-dimensional…

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We present a novel approach named TBase for smoothing planar and surface quadrilateral meshes. Our motivation is that the best shape of quadrilateral element (square) can be virtually divided into a pair of equilateral right triangles by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Gang Mei , John C. Tipper , Nengxiong Xu

Mesh reconstruction from multi-view images is a fundamental problem in computer vision, but its performance degrades significantly under sparse-view conditions, especially in unseen regions where no ground-truth observations are available.…

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Accurate representations of 3D faces are of paramount importance in various computer vision and graphics applications. However, the challenges persist due to the limitations imposed by data discretization and model linearity, which hinder…

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We present a method for generating orthogonal quadrilateral meshes subject to user-defined feature alignment and sizing constraints. The approach relies on computing integrable orthogonal frame fields, whose symmetries are implicitly…

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We study the numerical evaluation of the integral fractional Laplacian and its application in solving fractional diffusion equations. We derive a pseudo-spectral formula for the integral fractional Laplacian operator based on fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Zhaopeng Hao , Zhiqiang Cai , Zhongqiang Zhang

Hybrid methods for simulating rarefied gas flows reduce computational cost by coupling a particle-based model, typically the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, to a continuum-based solver, i.e. a computational fluid dynamics (CFD)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Arshad Kamal , Arun K. Chinnappan , James R. Kermode , Duncan A. Lockerby

Multi-view mesh reconstruction remains a core challenge in computer graphics and vision, especially for recovering high-frequency geometry from sparse observations. Recent methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance…

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We present a novel algorithm to compute multi-scale curvature fields on triangle meshes. Our algorithm is based on finding robust mean curvatures using the ball neighborhood, where the radius of a ball corresponds to the scale of the…

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Industrial 3D face assets creation typically reconstructs topology-consistent face meshes from multi-view images for downstream production. However, high-quality reconstruction usually requires manual processing or specific capture…

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Meshless solution to differential equations using radial basis functions (RBF) is an alternative to grid based methods commonly used. Since the meshless method does not need an underlying connectivity in the form of control volumes or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Shantanu Shahane , Anand Radhakrishnan , Surya Pratap Vanka

Spline interpolation is a widely used class of methods for solving interpolation problems by constructing smooth interpolants that minimize a regularized energy functional involving the Laplacian operator. While many existing approaches…

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Diffusion models have achieved remarkable image generation quality surpassing previous generative models. However, a notable limitation of diffusion models, in comparison to GANs, is their difficulty in smoothly interpolating between two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Kaiwen Zhang , Yifan Zhou , Xudong Xu , Xingang Pan , Bo Dai

Exploiting the variational interpretation of kernel interpolation we exhibit a direct connection between interpolation and regression, where interpolation appears as a limiting case of regression. By applying this framework to point clouds…

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This paper addresses the problem of generating textures for 3D mesh assets. Existing approaches often rely on image diffusion models to generate multi-view image observations, which are then transformed onto the mesh surface to produce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xuyang Wang , Ziang Cheng , Zhenyu Li , Jiayu Yang , Haorui Ji , Pan Ji , Mehrtash Harandi , Richard Hartley , Hongdong Li

Many machine learning models operate on images, but ignore the fact that images are 2D projections formed by 3D geometry interacting with light, in a process called rendering. Enabling ML models to understand image formation might be key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Wenzheng Chen , Jun Gao , Huan Ling , Edward J. Smith , Jaakko Lehtinen , Alec Jacobson , Sanja Fidler

Visualization of implicit surfaces is an actively researched topic. While raytracing can produce high quality images, it is not well suited for creating a quick preview of the surface. Indirect algorithms (e.g. Marching Cubes) create an…

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