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This chapter aims at introducing and discussing the techniques for the generation of 3D Finite Element Meshes of human organs. The field of computer assisted surgery is more specifically addressed.

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-11-20 Claudio Lobos , Yohan Payan , Nancy Hitschfeld

Computational analysis with the finite element method requires geometrically accurate meshes. It is well known that high-order meshes can accurately capture curved surfaces with fewer degrees of freedom in comparison to low-order meshes.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketan Mittal , Veselin A. Dobrev , Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Franck Ledoux , Claire Roche , Vladimir Z. Tomov

We study the problem of shape generation in 3D mesh representation from a few color images with known camera poses. While many previous works learn to hallucinate the shape directly from priors, we resort to further improving the shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Chao Wen , Yinda Zhang , Zhuwen Li , Yanwei Fu

Meshes are ubiquitous in visual computing and simulation, yet most existing machine learning techniques represent meshes only indirectly, e.g. as the level set of a scalar field or deformation of a template, or as a disordered triangle soup…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Tianchang Shen , Zhaoshuo Li , Marc Law , Matan Atzmon , Sanja Fidler , James Lucas , Jun Gao , Nicholas Sharp

Scaling artist-designed meshes to high triangle numbers remains challenging for autoregressive generative models. Existing transformer-based methods suffer from long-sequence bottlenecks and limited quantization resolution, primarily due to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Rui Xu , Tianyang Xue , Qiujie Dong , Le Wan , Zhe Zhu , Peng Li , Zhiyang Dou , Cheng Lin , Shiqing Xin , Yuan Liu , Wenping Wang , Taku Komura

Recent probabilistic methods for 3D triangular meshes capture diverse shapes by differentiable mesh connectivity, but face high computational costs with increased shape details. We introduce a new differentiable mesh processing method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sanghyun Son , Matheus Gadelha , Yang Zhou , Matthew Fisher , Zexiang Xu , Yi-Ling Qiao , Ming C. Lin , Yi Zhou

We define and examine flip operations for quadrilateral and hexahedral meshes, similar to the flipping transformations previously used in triangular and tetrahedral mesh generation.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-01-21 Marshall Bern , David Eppstein , Jeff Erickson

3D meshes are a fundamental representation widely used in computer science and engineering. In robotics, they are particularly valuable because they capture objects in a form that aligns directly with how robots interact with the physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Qian Wang , Omar Abdellall , Tony Gao , Xiatao Sun , Daniel Rakita

Hexahedral (hex) meshing is a long studied topic in geometry processing with many fascinating and challenging associated problems. Hex meshes vary in complexity from structured to unstructured depending on application or domain of interest.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Paul Zhang , Judy Hsin-Hui Chiang , Xinyi , Fan , Klara Mundilova

This paper deals with a simple and straightforward procedure for automatic generation of finite-element or finite-volume meshes of spheroidal domains, consisting of tetrahedra. Besides the equation of the boundary, the generated meshes…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Vitoriano Ruas

We present a differentiable representation, DMesh, for general 3D triangular meshes. DMesh considers both the geometry and connectivity information of a mesh. In our design, we first get a set of convex tetrahedra that compactly tessellates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sanghyun Son , Matheus Gadelha , Yang Zhou , Zexiang Xu , Ming C. Lin , Yi Zhou

We present an approach for robust high-order mesh generation specially tailored to streamlined bodies. The method is based on a semi-sructured approach which combines the high quality of structured meshes in the near-field with the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Julian Marcon , Joaquim Peiró , David Moxey , Nico Bergemann , Henry Bucklow , Mark Gammon

The visual inspection of a hexahedral mesh with respect to element quality is difficult due to clutter and occlusions that are produced when rendering all element faces or their edges simultaneously. Current approaches overcome this problem…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Christoph Neuhauser , Junpeng Wang , Rüdiger Westermann

Human Mesh Recovery (HMR) from a single RGB image is a highly ambiguous problem, as an infinite set of 3D interpretations can explain the 2D observation equally well. Nevertheless, most HMR methods overlook this issue and make a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Guénolé Fiche , Simon Leglaive , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

We introduce per-halfedge texturing (Htex) a GPU-friendly method for texturing arbitrary polygon-meshes without an explicit parameterization. Htex builds upon the insight that halfedges encode an intrinsic triangulation for polygon meshes,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Wilhem Barbier , Jonathan Dupuy

The generation of triangle meshes from point clouds, i.e. meshing, is a core task in computer graphics and computer vision. Traditional techniques directly construct a surface mesh using local decision heuristics, while some recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Mathias Vetsch , Sandro Lombardi , Marc Pollefeys , Martin R. Oswald

Image and video synthesis has become a blooming topic in computer vision and machine learning communities along with the developments of deep generative models, due to its great academic and application value. Many researchers have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Zhen Jia , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

High-order quadrilateral meshes offer superior accuracy and computational efficiency in numerical simulations. However, existing methods struggle to simultaneously preserve boundary/interface features, ensure high quality, and achieve…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yongjia Weng , Lufeng Liu , Zhonggui Chen , Xuan Zhou , Juan Cao

In this paper, we present a novel algorithm that integrates deep learning with the polycube method (DL-Polycube) to generate high-quality hexahedral (hex) meshes, which are then used to construct volumetric splines for isogeometric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Yuxuan Yu , Yuzhuo Fang , Hua Tong , Yongjie Jessica Zhang

Meshes are widely used in 3D computer vision and graphics, but their irregular topology poses challenges in applying them to existing neural network architectures. Recent advances in mesh neural networks turn to remeshing and push the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Shengchao Yuan , Yishun Dou , Rui Shi , Bingbing Ni , Zhong Zheng