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We propose a novel approach to extracting crack-free iso-surfaces from Structured AMR data that is more general than previous techniques, is trivially simple to implement, requires no information other than the list of AMR cells, and works,…

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The Marchenko method retrieves the responses to virtual sources in the subsurface, accounting for all orders of multiples. The method is based on two integral representations for focusing and Green's functions. In discretized form these…

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Surface topography refers to the geometric micro-structure of a surface and defines its tactile characteristics (typically in the sub-millimeter range). High-resolution 3D scanning techniques developed recently enable the 3D reconstruction…

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In this paper, we present an automatic 3D face recognition system. This system is based on the representation of human faces surfaces as collections of Iso-Geodesic Curves (IGC) using 3D Fast Marching algorithm. To compare two facial…

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Volumetric spline parameterization and computational efficiency are two main challenges in isogeometric analysis (IGA). To tackle this problem, we propose a framework of computation reuse in IGA on a set of three-dimensional models with…

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Sample based ray marching is an effective method for direct volume rendering of unstructured meshes. However, sampling such meshes remains expensive, and strategies to reduce the number of samples taken have received relatively little…

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The need for fast, effective and accurate surveys have become increasingly necessary. A major part of the research is supported by photographic surveys which are used for capturing expansive natural surfaces using a wide range of sensors --…

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The Marchenko method retrieves the responses to virtual sources in the Earth's subsurface from reflection data at the surface, accounting for all orders of multiple reflections. The method is based on two integral representations for…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Johno van IJsseldijk , Kees Wapenaar

Obtaining complete information about the shape of an object by looking at it from a single direction is impossible in general. In this paper, we theoretically study obtaining differential geometric information of an object from orthogonal…

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Marching Cube algorithm is currently one of the most popular 3D reconstruction surface rendering algorithms. It forms cube voxels through the input image, and then uses 15 basic topological configurations to extract the iso-surfaces in the…

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We propose a simple method for uniform sampling of points on the surface of a hypersphere in arbitrarily many dimensions. By avoiding the evaluation of computationally expensive functions like logarithms, sines, cosines, or higher order…

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Neural implicit functions have emerged as a powerful representation for surfaces in 3D. Such a function can encode a high quality surface with intricate details into the parameters of a deep neural network. However, optimizing for the…

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With systems for acquiring 3D surface data being evermore commonplace, it has become important to reliably extract specific shapes from the acquired data. In the presence of noise and occlusions, this can be done through the use of…

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We present a method for differentiable rendering of 3D surfaces that supports both explicit and implicit representations, provides derivatives at occlusion boundaries, and is fast and simple to implement. The method first samples the…

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Extracting high-fidelity mesh surfaces from Signed Distance Fields has become a fundamental operation in geometry processing. Despite significant progress over the past decades, key challenges remain namely, how to automatically capture the…

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Time-Varying meshes (TVMs), characterized by their varying connectivity and number of vertices, hold significant potential in immersive media and other various applications. However, their practical utilization is challenging due to their…

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X-ray computed tomography is a powerful tool for volumetric imaging, where three-dimensional (3D) images are generated from a large number of individual X-ray projection images. Collecting the required number of low noise projection images…

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