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Shape priors have long been known to be effective when reconstructing 3D shapes from noisy or incomplete data. When using a deep-learning based shape representation, this often involves learning a latent representation, which can be either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Patrick M. Jensen , Udaranga Wickramasinghe , Anders B. Dahl , Pascal Fua , Vedrana A. Dahl

We explore the interpretability of 3D geometric deep learning models in the context of Computer-Aided Design (CAD). The field of parametric CAD can be limited by the difficulty of expressing high-level design concepts in terms of a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Stefan Druc , Aditya Balu , Peter Wooldridge , Adarsh Krishnamurthy , Soumik Sarkar

Airfoil shape optimization plays a critical role in the design of high-performance aircraft. However, the high-dimensional nature of airfoil representation causes the challenging problem known as the "curse of dimensionality". To overcome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yu-Eop Kang , Dawoon Lee , Kwanjung Yee

Grasp synthesis is a fundamental task in robotic manipulation which usually has multiple feasible solutions. Multimodal grasp synthesis seeks to generate diverse sets of stable grasps conditioned on object geometry, making the robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 S. Talha Bukhari , Kaivalya Agrawal , Zachary Kingston , Aniket Bera

Designing generative models for 3D structural brain MRI that synthesize morphologically-plausible and attribute-specific (e.g., age, sex, disease state) samples is an active area of research. Existing approaches based on frameworks like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Alan Q. Wang , Fangrui Huang , Bailey Trang , Wei Peng , Mohammad Abbasi , Kilian Pohl , Mert Sabuncu , Ehsan Adeli

Data-driven generative modeling has made remarkable progress by leveraging the power of deep neural networks. A reoccurring challenge is how to enable a model to generate a rich variety of samples from the entire target distribution, rather…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Nadav Schor , Oren Katzir , Hao Zhang , Daniel Cohen-Or

Shape-based virtual screening is widely employed in ligand-based drug design to search chemical libraries for molecules with similar 3D shapes yet novel 2D chemical structures compared to known ligands. 3D deep generative models have the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Keir Adams , Connor W. Coley

Generating 3D shapes from single RGB images is essential in various applications such as robotics. Current approaches typically target images containing clear and complete visual descriptions of the object, without considering common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yiheng Xiong , Angela Dai

We introduce ProcGen3D, a new approach for 3D content creation by generating procedural graph abstractions of 3D objects, which can then be decoded into rich, complex 3D assets. Inspired by the prevalent use of procedural generators in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xinyi Zhang , Daoyi Gao , Naiqi Li , Angela Dai

Autoregressive (AR) models have achieved remarkable success in natural language and image generation, but their application to 3D shape modeling remains largely unexplored. Unlike diffusion models, AR models enable more efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Tejaswini Medi , Arianna Rampini , Pradyumna Reddy , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Margret Keuper

Anatomy shape modeling is a fundamental problem in medical data analysis. However, the geometric complexity and topological variability of anatomical structures pose significant challenges to accurate anatomical shape generation. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Guoqing Zhang , Jingyun Yang , Siqi Chen , Anping Zhang , Yang Li

While generative models have become powerful tools for image synthesis, they are typically optimized for executing carefully crafted textual prompts, offering limited support for the open-ended visual exploration that often precedes idea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kfir Goldberg , Elad Richardson , Yael Vinker

Recent advances in Gaussian Splatting have enabled fast, high-fidelity 3D scene generation, yet these methods remain purely visual and lack an understanding of how shapes behave in the physical world. We introduce Physics-Guided 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zachary Lee , Maxwell Jacobson , Yexiang Xue

As pretrained text-to-image diffusion models become increasingly powerful, recent efforts have been made to distill knowledge from these text-to-image pretrained models for optimizing a text-guided 3D model. Most of the existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Gege Gao , Weiyang Liu , Anpei Chen , Andreas Geiger , Bernhard Schölkopf

Recently deep generative models have achieved impressive progress in modeling the distribution of training data. In this work, we present for the first time a generative model for 4D light field patches using variational autoencoders to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Paramanand Chandramouli , Kanchana Vaishnavi Gandikota , Andreas Goerlitz , Andreas Kolb , Michael Moeller

Creating 3D head avatars is a significant yet challenging task for many applicated scenarios. Previous studies have set out to learn 3D human head generative models using massive 2D image data. Although these models are highly generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yiyu Zhuang , Yuxiao He , Jiawei Zhang , Yanwen Wang , Jiahe Zhu , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

Three-dimensional geometric data offer an excellent domain for studying representation learning and generative modeling. In this paper, we look at geometric data represented as point clouds. We introduce a deep AutoEncoder (AE) network with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Panos Achlioptas , Olga Diamanti , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Leonidas Guibas

We study the problem of 3D object generation. We propose a novel framework, namely 3D Generative Adversarial Network (3D-GAN), which generates 3D objects from a probabilistic space by leveraging recent advances in volumetric convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Jiajun Wu , Chengkai Zhang , Tianfan Xue , William T. Freeman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Autoregressive models have proven to be very powerful in NLP text generation tasks and lately have gained popularity for image generation as well. However, they have seen limited use for the synthesis of 3D shapes so far. This is mainly due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Moritz Ibing , Gregor Kobsik , Leif Kobbelt

By sampling from the latent space of an autoencoder and decoding the latent space samples to the original data space, any autoencoder can simply be turned into a generative model. For this to work, it is necessary to model the autoencoder's…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-19 Maximilian Coblenz , Oliver Grothe , Fabian Kächele