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We present a variational autoencoder framework for learning and generating configurations of structured polymer globules from distance matrices. We used coarse-grained molecular dynamics to sample polyethylene structures, which we used as…

Manually authoring 3D shapes is difficult and time consuming; generative models of 3D shapes offer compelling alternatives. Procedural representations are one such possibility: they offer high-quality and editable results but are difficult…

We present an autoencoder that leverages learned representations to better measure similarities in data space. By combining a variational autoencoder with a generative adversarial network we can use learned feature representations in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen , Søren Kaae Sønderby , Hugo Larochelle , Ole Winther

Recent years have seen an explosion of work and interest in text-to-3D shape generation. Much of the progress is driven by advances in 3D representations, large-scale pretraining and representation learning for text and image data enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Han-Hung Lee , Manolis Savva , Angel X. Chang

3D shape modeling is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and requires years of expertise. To facilitate 3D shape modeling, we propose a 3D shape generation network that takes a 3D VR sketch as a condition. We assume that sketches are created…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Ling Luo , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song , Yulia Gryaditskaya

Inspired by generative paradigms in image and video, 3D shape generation has made notable progress, enabling the rapid synthesis of high-fidelity 3D assets from a single image. However, current methods still face challenges, including the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yangguang Li , Xianglong He , Zi-Xin Zou , Zexiang Liu , Wanli Ouyang , Ding Liang , Yan-Pei Cao

This paper proposes a 3D shape descriptor network, which is a deep convolutional energy-based model, for modeling volumetric shape patterns. The maximum likelihood training of the model follows an "analysis by synthesis" scheme and can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Jianwen Xie , Zilong Zheng , Ruiqi Gao , Wenguan Wang , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

Recent advancements in 3D generative modeling have significantly improved the generation realism, yet the field is still hampered by existing representations, which struggle to capture assets with complex topologies and detailed appearance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jianfeng Xiang , Xiaoxue Chen , Sicheng Xu , Ruicheng Wang , Zelong Lv , Yu Deng , Hongyuan Zhu , Yue Dong , Hao Zhao , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Jiaolong Yang

One of the challenges of using machine learning techniques with medical data is the frequent dearth of source image data on which to train. A representative example is automated lung cancer diagnosis, where nodule images need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Steve Kommrusch , Louis-Noël Pouchet

Semantic-driven 3D shape generation aims to generate 3D objects conditioned on text. Previous works face problems with single-category generation, low-frequency 3D details, and requiring a large number of paired datasets for training. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Bo Han , Yitong Fu , Yixuan Shen

Breakthroughs in aerodynamic optimization have made it possible to develop efficient modes of transport with lesser exploitation of valuable resources. This makes it crucial for technical professionals such as engineers and scientists to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-09 Paras Singh , Harshit Gupta , Ojas Vinayak , Aryan Tyagi

Generative systems are becoming a crucial part of current design practice. There exist gaps however, between the digital processes, field data and designer's input. To solve this problem, multiple processes were developed in order to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Demircan Tas , Osman Sumer

Generative AI has made rapid progress in text, image, and video synthesis, yet text-to-3D modeling for scientific design remains particularly challenging due to limited controllability and high computational cost. Most existing 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Rachel K. Luu , Markus J. Buehler

Powerful priors allow us to perform inference with insufficient information. In this paper, we propose an autoregressive prior for 3D shapes to solve multimodal 3D tasks such as shape completion, reconstruction, and generation. We model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Paritosh Mittal , Yen-Chi Cheng , Maneesh Singh , Shubham Tulsiani

The success of various applications including robotics, digital content creation, and visualization demand a structured and abstract representation of the 3D world from limited sensor data. Inspired by the nature of human perception of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Chuhang Zou , Ersin Yumer , Jimei Yang , Duygu Ceylan , Derek Hoiem

Generative models have achieved success in producing semantically plausible 2D images, but it remains challenging in 3D generation due to the absence of spatial geometry constraints. Typically, existing methods utilize geometric features as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haonan Wang , Hanyu Zhou , Haoyue Liu , Tao Gu , Luxin Yan

3D shape reconstruction from a single image is a highly ill-posed problem. Modern deep learning based systems try to solve this problem by learning an end-to-end mapping from image to shape via a deep network. In this paper, we aim to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Kejie Li , Ravi Garg , Ming Cai , Ian Reid

Existing 3D semantic segmentation methods rely on point-wise or voxel-wise feature descriptors to output segmentation predictions. However, these descriptors are often supervised at point or voxel level, leading to segmentation models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Bo Sun , Qixing Huang , Xiangru Huang

Foundation models for 3D shape generation have recently shown a remarkable capacity to encode rich geometric priors across both global and local dimensions. However, leveraging these priors for downstream tasks can be challenging as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Maximilian Plattner , Arturs Berzins , Johannes Brandstetter

We introduce a latent 3D representation that models 3D surfaces as probability density functions in 3D, i.e., p(x,y,z), with flow-matching. Our representation is specifically designed for consumption by machine learning models, offering…

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