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The minimal geodesic models based on the Eikonal equations are capable of finding suitable solutions in various image segmentation scenarios. Existing geodesic-based segmentation approaches usually exploit image features in conjunction with…

In this paper, we consider enumeration of geodesics on a polyhedron, where a geodesic means locally-shortest path between two points. Particularly, we consider the following preprocessing problem: given a point $s$ on a polyhedral surface…

We propose PROPAGATE, a fast approximation framework to estimate distance-based metrics on very large graphs such as the (effective) diameter, the (effective) radius, or the average distance within a small error. The framework assigns seeds…

Mesh offsetting plays an important role in discrete geometric processing. In this paper, we propose a parallel feature-preserving mesh offsetting framework with variable distance. Different from the traditional method based on distance and…

Leveraging geodesic distances and the geometrical information they convey is key for many data-oriented applications in imaging. Geodesic distance computation has been used for long for image segmentation using Image based metrics. We…

A central part of geometric statistics is to compute the Fr\'echet mean. This is a well-known intrinsic mean on a Riemannian manifold that minimizes the sum of squared Riemannian distances from the mean point to all other data points. The…

This paper presents a new curved layer volume decomposition method for multi-axis support-free printing of freeform solid parts. Given a solid model to be printed that is represented as a tetrahedral mesh, we first establish a geodesic…

We unveil an alluring alternative to parametric search that applies to both the non-geodesic and geodesic Fr\'echet optimization problems. This randomized approach is based on a variant of red-blue intersections and is appealing due to its…

Geodesic paths and distances are among the most popular intrinsic properties of 3D surfaces. Traditionally, geodesic paths on discrete polygon surfaces were computed using shortest path algorithms, such as Dijkstra. However, such algorithms…

Generalized winding numbers provide a robust measure of point insidedness for 3D surfaces - whether open, self-intersecting, or non-manifold - and are central to numerous geometry processing tasks. However, existing methods trade off…

The FastGeodis package provides an efficient implementation for computing Geodesic and Euclidean distance transforms (or a mixture of both), targeting efficient utilisation of CPU and GPU hardware. In particular, it implements the…

A suitable measure for the similarity of shapes represented by parameterized curves or surfaces is the Fr\'echet distance. Whereas efficient algorithms are known for computing the Fr\'echet distance of polygonal curves, the same problem for…

Gaussian processes (GP) are Bayesian non-parametric models that are widely used for probabilistic regression. Unfortunately, it cannot scale well with large data nor perform real-time predictions due to its cubic time cost in the data size.…

Gaussian processes (GP) are Bayesian non-parametric models that are widely used for probabilistic regression. Unfortunately, it cannot scale well with large data nor perform real-time predictions due to its cubic time cost in the data size.…

In simulation-based engineering design with time-consuming simulators, Gaussian process (GP) models are widely used as fast emulators to speed up the design optimization process. In its most commonly used form, the input of GP is a simple…

In this work, we present a general, efficient, and provably robust representation for intrinsic triangulations. These triangulations have emerged as a powerful tool for robust geometry processing of surface meshes, taking a low-quality mesh…

Let $P$ be a simple polygon with $n$ vertices. For any two points in $P$, the geodesic distance between them is the length of the shortest path that connects them among all paths contained in $P$. Given a set $S$ of $m$ sites being a subset…

Based on a local approximation of the Riemannian distance on a manifold by a computationally cheap dissimilarity measure, a time discrete geodesic calculus is developed, and applications to shape space are explored. The dissimilarity…

Mesh partitioning is an indispensable tool for efficient parallel numerical simulations. Its goal is to minimize communication between the processes of a simulation while achieving load balance. Established graph-based partitioning tools…

Voronoi diagrams, and their more general weighted counterpart, power diagrams, are fundamental geometric constructs with wide-ranging applications. Recently, they have gained renewed attention in mesh-based neural rendering. Despite being…