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Mesh deformation is a fundamental tool in 3D content manipulation. Despite extensive prior research, existing approaches often suffer from low output quality, require significant manual tuning, or depend on data-intensive training. To…

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We extend the Locally-Subdivided Neural Intersection Function (LSNIF) to support parameterized deformable and animated geometry. Our approach introduces a rest-space and deformed-space formulation inspired by meshless rendering, allowing…

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Parametric 3D models have enabled a wide variety of tasks in computer graphics and vision, such as modeling human bodies, faces, and hands. However, the construction of these parametric models is often tedious, as it requires heavy manual…

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3D shape editing is widely used in a range of applications such as movie production, computer games and computer aided design. It is also a popular research topic in computer graphics and computer vision. In past decades, researchers have…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Yu-Jie Yuan , Yu-Kun Lai , Tong Wu , Lin Gao , Ligang Liu

Non-rigid shape deformations pose significant challenges, and most existing methods struggle to handle partial deformations effectively. We propose to learn deformations at the point level, which allows for localized control of 3D surface…

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Coordinate-based neural networks parameterizing implicit surfaces have emerged as efficient representations of geometry. They effectively act as parametric level sets with the zero-level set defining the surface of interest. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ishit Mehta , Manmohan Chandraker , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Surface reconstruction is very challenging when the input point clouds, particularly real scans, are noisy and lack normals. Observing that the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and the implicit moving least-square function (IMLS) provide a dual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Zixiong Wang , Pengfei Wang , Pengshuai Wang , Qiujie Dong , Junjie Gao , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

Spatially varying image deblurring remains a fundamentally ill-posed problem, especially when degradations arise from complex mixtures of motion and other forms of blur under significant noise. State-of-the-art learning-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hakki Motorcu , Mujdat Cetin

Manipulating three-dimensional (3D) deformable objects presents significant challenges for robotic systems due to their infinite-dimensional state space and complex deformable dynamics. This paper proposes a novel model-free approach for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ning Han , Gu Gong , Bin Zhang , Yuexuan Xu , Bohan Yang , Yunhui Liu , David Navarro-Alarcon

The recent surge of utilizing deep neural networks for geometric processing and shape modeling has opened up exciting avenues. However, there is a conspicuous lack of research efforts on using powerful neural representations to extend the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lei Yang , Yongqing Liang , Xin Li , Congyi Zhang , Guying Lin , Alla Sheffer , Scott Schaefer , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

We present ShapeFlow, a flow-based model for learning a deformation space for entire classes of 3D shapes with large intra-class variations. ShapeFlow allows learning a multi-template deformation space that is agnostic to shape topology,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Jingwei Huang , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Leonidas Guibas

Neural implicit representations, including Neural Distance Fields and Neural Radiance Fields, have demonstrated significant capabilities for reconstructing surfaces with complicated geometry and topology, and generating novel views of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Lin Gao , Jie Yang , Bo-Tao Zhang , Jia-Mu Sun , Yu-Jie Yuan , Hongbo Fu , Yu-Kun Lai

In recent years, implicit surface representations through neural networks that encode the signed distance have gained popularity and have achieved state-of-the-art results in various tasks (e.g. shape representation, shape reconstruction,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Petros Tzathas , Petros Maragos , Anastasios Roussos

We introduce a neural implicit framework that exploits the differentiable properties of neural networks and the discrete geometry of point-sampled surfaces to approximate them as the level sets of neural implicit functions. To train a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tiago Novello , Guilherme Schardong , Luiz Schirmer , Vinicius da Silva , Helio Lopes , Luiz Velho

The interaction of neural networks with physical equations offers a wide range of applications. We provide a method which enables a neural network to transform objects subject to given physical constraints. Therefore an U-Net architecture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Lukas Harsch , Johannes Burgbacher , Stefan Riedelbauch

Deep networks for image classification often rely more on texture information than object shape. While efforts have been made to make deep-models shape-aware, it is often difficult to make such models simple, interpretable, or rooted in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Rajhans Singh , Ankita Shukla , Pavan Turaga

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) effectively embed physical principles into machine learning, but often struggle with complex or alternating geometries. We propose a novel method for integrating geometric transformations within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Samuel Burbulla

The shape control of deformable linear objects (DLOs) is challenging, since it is difficult to obtain the deformation models. Previous studies often approximate the models in purely offline or online ways. In this paper, we propose a scheme…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Mingrui Yu , Hanzhong Zhong , Xiang Li

Deformable linear objects (DLOs), such as rods, cables, and ropes, play important roles in daily life. However, manipulation of DLOs is challenging as large geometrically nonlinear deformations may occur during the manipulation process.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Dezhong Tong , Andrew Choi , Longhui Qin , Weicheng Huang , Jungseock Joo , M. Khalid Jawed

This paper presents a correspondence-free, function-based sim-to-real learning method for controlling deformable freeform surfaces. Unlike traditional sim-to-real transfer methods that strongly rely on marker points with full…