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3D shape models are naturally parameterized using vertices and faces, \ie, composed of polygons forming a surface. However, current 3D learning paradigms for predictive and generative tasks using convolutional neural networks focus on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Ayan Sinha , Asim Unmesh , Qixing Huang , Karthik Ramani

In many practical applications, 3D point cloud analysis requires rotation invariance. In this paper, we present a learnable descriptor invariant under 3D rotations and reflections, i.e., the O(3) actions, utilizing the recently introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Pavlo Melnyk , Andreas Robinson , Michael Felsberg , Mårten Wadenbäck

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in various vision tasks, e.g. image classification, semantic segmentation, etc. Unfortunately, standard 2D CNNs are not well suited for spherical signals such as panorama images or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Yuqi Liu , Yin Wang , Haikuan Du , Shen Cai

Automated surface segmentation is important and challenging in many medical image analysis applications. Recent deep learning based methods have been developed for various object segmentation tasks. Most of them are a classification based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Leixin Zhou , Zisha Zhong , Abhay Shah , Bensheng Qiu , John Buatti , Xiaodong Wu

Due to the current lack of large-scale datasets at the million-scale level, tasks involving panoramic images predominantly rely on existing two-dimensional pre-trained image benchmark models as backbone networks. However, these networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jingguo Liu , Han Yu , Shigang Li , Jianfeng Li

Automated surface segmentation is important and challenging in many medical image analysis applications. Recent deep learning based methods have been developed for various object segmentation tasks. Most of them are a classification based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Leixin Zhou , Xiaodong Wu

For many fundamental problems in computational topology, such as unknot recognition and $3$-sphere recognition, the existence of a polynomial-time solution remains unknown. A major algorithmic tool behind some of the best known algorithms…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Benjamin A. Burton , Alexander He

Omnidirectional vision is becoming increasingly relevant as more efficient $360^o$ image acquisition is now possible. However, the lack of annotated $360^o$ datasets has hindered the application of deep learning techniques on spherical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Antonis Karakottas , Nikolaos Zioulis , Stamatis Samaras , Dimitrios Ataloglou , Vasileios Gkitsas , Dimitrios Zarpalas , Petros Daras

Surface partial differential equations arise in numerous scientific and engineering applications. Their numerical solution on static and evolving surfaces remains challenging due to geometric complexity and, for evolving geometries, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Jingbo Sun , Fei Wang

Neural implicit representations, which encode a surface as the level set of a neural network applied to spatial coordinates, have proven to be remarkably effective for optimizing, compressing, and generating 3D geometry. Although these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nicholas Sharp , Alec Jacobson

In a number of disciplines, the data (e.g., graphs, manifolds) to be analyzed are non-Euclidean in nature. Geometric deep learning corresponds to techniques that generalize deep neural network models to such non-Euclidean spaces. Several…

We present a unified treatment of the abstract problem of finding the best approximation between a cone and spheres in the image of affine transformations. Prominent instances of this problem are phase retrieval and source localization. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-26 D. Russell Luke , Shoham Sabach , Marc Teboulle

Until quite recently, the backbone of nearly every state-of-the-art computer vision model has been the 2D convolution. At its core, a 2D convolution simultaneously mixes information across both the spatial and channel dimensions of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 George Cazenavette , Joel Julin , Simon Lucey

Developing deep learning techniques for geometric data is an active and fruitful research area. This paper tackles the problem of sphere-type surface learning by developing a novel surface-to-image representation. Using this representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Niv Haim , Nimrod Segol , Heli Ben-Hamu , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

Controllable spherical panoramic image generation holds substantial applicative potential across a variety of domains.However, it remains a challenging task due to the inherent spherical distortion and geometry characteristics, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Tao Wu , Xuewei Li , Zhongang Qi , Di Hu , Xintao Wang , Ying Shan , Xi Li

Motivated by a wide variety of applications, ranging from stochastic optimization to dimension reduction through variable selection, the problem of estimating gradients accurately is of crucial importance in statistics and learning theory.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Guillaume Ausset , Stephan Clémençon , François Portier

Developing deep neural networks to generate 3D scenes is a fundamental problem in neural synthesis with immediate applications in architectural CAD, computer graphics, as well as in generating virtual robot training environments. This task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Haitao Yang , Zaiwei Zhang , Siming Yan , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Yi Zheng , Chandrajit Bajaj , Qixing Huang

Randomly initialized first-order optimization algorithms are the method of choice for solving many high-dimensional nonconvex problems in machine learning, yet general theoretical guarantees cannot rule out convergence to critical points of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Dar Gilboa , Sam Buchanan , John Wright

In this work, we consider constrained stochastic optimization problems under hidden convexity, i.e., those that admit a convex reformulation via non-linear (but invertible) map $c(\cdot)$. A number of non-convex problems ranging from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Ilyas Fatkhullin , Niao He , Yifan Hu

We consider joint optimization and learning problems arising in real-time decision systems. While most existing work focuses primarily on convex, revenue-based objectives, we extend this line of research to multi-objective formulations. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Zijun Li , Aswin Kannan