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Recent advances in meta-optics have enabled diverse functionalities in compact optical devices; however, conventional forward design approaches become inadequate as device complexity and scale grow. Inverse design offers a powerful…

A discrete conformality for polyhedral metrics on surfaces is introduced in this paper which generalizes earlier work on the subject. It is shown that each polyhedral metric on a surface is discrete conformal to a constant curvature…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-18 Xianfeng Gu , Feng Luo , Jian Sun , Tianqi Wu

We study a higher-order surface finite element (SFEM) penalty-based discretization of the tangential surface Stokes problem. Several discrete formulations are investigated which are equivalent in the continuous setting. The impact of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Hanne Hardering , Simon Praetorius

Machine learning has been progressively generalised to operate within non-Euclidean domains, but geometrically accurate methods for learning on surfaces are still falling behind. The lack of closed-form Riemannian operators, the…

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Advanced machine learning methods, and more prominently neural networks, have become standard to solve inverse problems over the last years. However, the theoretical recovery guarantees of such methods are still scarce and difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Nathan Buskulic , Jalal Fadili , Yvain Quéau

Stiffness degradation and progressive failure of composite laminates are complex processes involving evolution and multi-mode interactions among fiber fractures, intra-ply matrix cracks and inter-ply delaminations. This paper presents a…

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We introduce a new class of discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary, which have nice interpolations in 3-dimensional hyperbolic geometry. Then we prove the global rigidity of the new discrete conformal structures using…

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In the process of projecting the surface of a three-dimensional object onto a two-dimensional surface, due to the perspective distortion, the image on the surface of the object will have different degrees of distortion according to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Yuhan Xu , Renqing Luo

We present Cortex Synth, a novel end-to-end differentiable framework for joint 3D skeleton geometry and topology synthesis from single 2D images. Our architecture introduces three key innovations: (1) A hierarchical graph attention…

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The ``differentiability gap'' presents a primary bottleneck in Earth system deep learning: since models cannot be trained directly on non-differentiable scientific metrics and must rely on smooth proxies (e.g., MSE), they often fail to…

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In this paper we introduce flat grafting as a deformation of quadratic differentials on a surface of finite type that is analogous to the grafting map on hyperbolic surfaces. Flat grafting maps are generic in the strata structure and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Ser-Wei Fu

Neural implicit surfaces can be used to recover accurate 3D geometry from imperfect point clouds. In this work, we show that state-of-the-art techniques work by minimizing an approximation of a one-sided Chamfer distance. This shape metric…

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We present a simple, accurate method for computing singular or nearly singular integrals on a smooth, closed surface, such as layer potentials for harmonic functions evaluated at points on or near the surface. The integral is computed with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-10 J. Thomas Beale , Wenjun Ying , Jason R. Wilson

Unsigned distance functions offer a powerful and flexible implicit surface representation that, unlike their signed counterparts, allow for surfaces that are open, non-orientable, or non-manifold. We consider the problem of reconstructing…

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Spatially localized deformation components are very useful for shape analysis and synthesis in 3D geometry processing. Several methods have recently been developed, with an aim to extract intuitive and interpretable deformation components.…

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With the help of hyper-ideal circle pattern theory, we have developed a discrete version of the classical uniformization theorems for surfaces represented as finite branched covers over the Riemann sphere as well as compact polyhedral…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Alexander Bobenko , Nikolay Dimitrov , Stefan Sechelmann

Here is an English summary of the abstract: This research investigates a geometric dynamical mechanism within a specific class of domains that contain a fixed convex core. By using a radial structure that links the boundaries of the core…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Mohammed Barkatou , Mohamed El Morsalani

In this paper, a parameter-uniform fitted mesh finite difference scheme is constructed and analyzed for a class of singularly perturbed interior turning point problems. The solution of this class of turning point problem possess two outflow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Vikas Gupta , Sanjay K. Sahoo , Ritesh K. Dubey