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Recently introduced implicit field representations offer an effective way of generating 3D object shapes. They leverage implicit decoder trained to take a 3D point coordinate concatenated with a shape encoding and to output a value which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Magdalena Proszewska , Marcin Mazur , Tomasz Trzciński , Przemysław Spurek

The field of 3D representation has experienced significant advancements, driven by the increasing demand for high-fidelity 3D models in various applications such as computer graphics, virtual reality, and autonomous systems. This review…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhengren Wang

Polygon meshes are an efficient representation of 3D geometry, and are of central importance in computer graphics, robotics and games development. Existing learning-based approaches have avoided the challenges of working with 3D meshes,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Charlie Nash , Yaroslav Ganin , S. M. Ali Eslami , Peter W. Battaglia

This work presents a generative adversarial architecture for generating three-dimensional shapes based on signed distance representations. While the deep generation of shapes has been mostly tackled by voxel and surface point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Marian Kleineberg , Matthias Fey , Frank Weichert

One of the main concerns in design and process planning for multi-axis additive and subtractive manufacturing is collision avoidance between moving objects (e.g., tool assemblies) and stationary objects (e.g., a part unified with fixtures).…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-06 George P. Harabin , Amir Mirzendehdel , Morad Behandish

Rasterization based methods have recently enabled high-quality novel view synthesis at real-time rates, but their underlying volumetric primitives do not expose a direct, globally consistent surface representation, leaving sur face…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinkai Cui , Kaiwen Song , Chumeng Niu , Juyong Zhang

Differentiable rendering is an essential operation in modern vision, allowing inverse graphics approaches to 3D understanding to be utilized in modern machine learning frameworks. Explicit shape representations (voxels, point clouds, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

Recent progress in neural implicit functions has set new state-of-the-art in reconstructing high-fidelity 3D shapes from a collection of images. However, these approaches are limited to closed surfaces as they require the surface to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xiaoxu Meng , Weikai Chen , Bo Yang

Implicit generative models have been widely employed to model 3D data and have recently proven to be successful in encoding and generating high-quality 3D shapes. This work builds upon these models and alleviates current limitations by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Tejaswini Medi , Jawad Tayyub , Muhammad Sarmad , Frank Lindseth , Margret Keuper

We propose a novel neural architecture for representing 3D surfaces, which harnesses two complementary shape representations: (i) an explicit representation via an atlas, i.e., embeddings of 2D domains into 3D; (ii) an implicit-function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Matthew Fisher , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir G. Kim

When obtaining interior 3D voxel data from triangular meshes, most existing methods fail to handle low quality meshes which happens to take up a big portion on the internet. In this work we present a robust voxelization method that is based…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Joseph Chen , Ko-Wei Tai , Wen-Chin Chen , Ming Ouhyoung

This paper presents a new approach for 3D shape generation, inversion, and manipulation, through a direct generative modeling on a continuous implicit representation in wavelet domain. Specifically, we propose a compact wavelet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Jingyu Hu , Ka-Hei Hui , Zhengzhe Liu , Ruihui Li , Chi-Wing Fu

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

Learning a dense 3D model with fine-scale details from a single facial image is highly challenging and ill-posed. To address this problem, many approaches fit smooth geometries through facial prior while learning details as additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Xingyu Ren , Alexandros Lattas , Baris Gecer , Jiankang Deng , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Diffusion models have shown great promise for image generation, beating GANs in terms of generation diversity, with comparable image quality. However, their application to 3D shapes has been limited to point or voxel representations that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Gimin Nam , Mariem Khlifi , Andrew Rodriguez , Alberto Tono , Linqi Zhou , Paul Guerrero

We present a generative model to synthesize 3D shapes as sets of handles -- lightweight proxies that approximate the original 3D shape -- for applications in interactive editing, shape parsing, and building compact 3D representations. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Matheus Gadelha , Giorgio Gori , Duygu Ceylan , Radomir Mech , Nathan Carr , Tamy Boubekeur , Rui Wang , Subhransu Maji

Generative AI has emerged as a transformative paradigm in engineering design, enabling automated synthesis and reconstruction of complex 3D geometries while preserving feasibility and performance relevance. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ashish S. Nair , Sandipp Krishnan Ravi , Itzel Salgado , Changjie Sun , Sayan Ghosh , Liping Wang

The dominant paradigm for high-fidelity 3D generation relies on a VAE-Diffusion pipeline, where the VAE's reconstruction capability sets a firm upper bound on generation quality. A fundamental challenge limiting existing VAEs is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Guan Luo , Xiu Li , Rui Chen , Xuanyu Yi , Jing Lin , Chia-Hao Chen , Jiahang Liu , Song-Hai Zhang , Jianfeng Zhang

Biomembranes adopt varying morphologies that are vital to cellular functions. Many studies use computational modeling to understand how various mechanochemical factors contribute to membrane shape transformations. Compared to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Cuncheng Zhu , Christopher T. Lee , Padmini Rangamani

This paper describes a novel approach for on demand volumetric texture synthesis based on a deep learning framework that allows for the generation of high quality 3D data at interactive rates. Based on a few example images of textures, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Jorge Gutierrez , Julien Rabin , Bruno Galerne , Thomas Hurtut