English
Related papers

Related papers: Constructing High-Order Signed Distance Maps from …

200 papers

We consider the problem of approximating a two-dimensional shape contour (or curve segment) using discrete assembly systems, which allow to build geometric structures based on limited sets of node and edge types subject to edge length and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Andreas M. Tillmann , Leif Kobbelt

DeepAngle is a machine learning-based method to determine the contact angles of different phases in the tomography images of porous materials. Measurement of angles in 3--D needs to be done within the surface perpendicular to the angle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Arash Rabbani , Chenhao Sun , Masoud Babaei , Vahid J. Niasar , Ryan T. Armstrong , Peyman Mostaghimi

In situ synchrotron X-ray computed tomography enables dynamic material studies. However, automated segmentation remains challenging due to complex imaging artefacts - like ring and cupping effects - and limited training data. We present a…

We introduce a novel approach for the reconstruction of tubular shapes from skeletal representations. Our method processes all skeletal points as a whole, eliminating the need for splitting input structure into multiple segments. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Guoqing Zhang , Yang Li

Signed distance fields (SDFs) are a widely used implicit surface representation, with broad applications in computer graphics, computer vision, and applied mathematics. To reconstruct an explicit triangle mesh surface corresponding to an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Silvia Sellán , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein

The direct computation of the third-order normal form for a geometrically nonlinear structure discretised with the finite element (FE) method, is detailed. The procedure allows to define a nonlinear mapping in order to derive accurate…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Alessandra Vizzaccaro , Yichang Shen , Loïc Salles , Jiří Blahoš , Cyril Touzé

Neural Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) excel at reconstructing watertight manifolds but fail on thin structures and open boundaries due to strict inside--outside constraints. Conversely, Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) accommodate general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiayi Kong , Xuhui Chen , Chen Zong , Fei Hou , Junhui Hou , Wenping Wang , Ying He

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to implicitly encode precise robot morphology using forward kinematics based on a configuration space signed distance function. Our proposed Robot Neural Distance Function (RNDF) optimizes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yiting Chen , Xiao Gao , Kunpeng Yao , Loïc Niederhauser , Yasemin Bekiroglu , Aude Billard

Interactive exploration of large, multidimensional datasets plays a very important role in various scientific fields. It makes it possible not only to identify important structural features and forms, such as clusters of vertices and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Bartosz Minch

Picking manipulators are task specific robots, with fewer degrees of freedom compared to general-purpose manipulators, and are heavily used in industry. The efficiency of the picking robots is highly dependent on the path planning solution,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Bernhard Wullt , Mikael Norrlöf , Per Mattsson , Thomas B. Schön

We show that large subsets of vector spaces over finite fields determine certain point configurations with prescribed distance structure. More specifically, we consider the complete graph with vertices as the points of $A \subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Alex Iosevich , Hans Parshall

Supervised machine learning algorithms, especially in the medical domain, are affected by considerable ambiguity in expert markings. In this study we address the case where the experts' opinion is obtained as a distribution over the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Eytan Kats , Jacob Goldberger , Hayit Greenspan

Numerical simulations including magnetic fields have become important in many fields of astrophysics. Evolution of magnetic fields by the constrained transport algorithm preserves magnetic divergence to machine precision, and thus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jason Maron , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Jeffrey Oishi

Learning the distance metric between pairs of examples is of great importance for learning and visual recognition. With the remarkable success from the state of the art convolutional neural networks, recent works have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Hyun Oh Song , Yu Xiang , Stefanie Jegelka , Silvio Savarese

We present network embedding algorithms that capture information about a node from the local distribution over node attributes around it, as observed over random walks following an approach similar to Skip-gram. Observations from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Benedek Rozemberczki , Carl Allen , Rik Sarkar

We propose a flexible and multi-scale method for organizing, visualizing, and understanding datasets sampled from or near stratified spaces. The first part of the algorithm produces a cover tree using adaptive thresholds based on a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Paul Bendich , Ellen Gasparovic , Christopher J. Tralie , John Harer

Deep neural representations of 3D shapes as implicit functions have been shown to produce high fidelity models surpassing the resolution-memory trade-off faced by the explicit representations using meshes and point clouds. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Rahul Venkatesh , Tejan Karmali , Sarthak Sharma , Aurobrata Ghosh , R. Venkatesh Babu , László A. Jeni , Maneesh Singh

Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) is a widely used technique for the construction of low-dimensional approximation spaces from high-dimensional input data. For large-scale applications and an increasing amount of input data vectors,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Christian Himpe , Tobias Leibner , Stephan Rave

To increase the flexibility and scalability of deep neural networks for image reconstruction, a framework is proposed based on bandpass filtering. For many applications, sensing measurements are performed indirectly. For example, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Joseph Y. Cheng , Feiyu Chen , Marcus T. Alley , John M. Pauly , Shreyas S. Vasanawala

We present a novel approach for high-order accurate numerical differentiation on unstructured meshes of quadrilateral elements. To differentiate a given function, an auxiliary function with greater smoothness properties is defined which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Yulong Pan , Per-Olof Persson