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Computer-aided design (CAD) tools empower designers to design and modify 3D models through a series of CAD operations, commonly referred to as a CAD sequence. In scenarios where digital CAD files are not accessible, reverse engineering (RE)…

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We introduce a novel representation for learning and generating Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models in the form of $\textit{boundary representations}$ (B-Reps). Our representation unifies the continuous geometric properties of B-Rep…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yilin Liu , Duoteng Xu , Xingyao Yu , Xiang Xu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

In computer-aided design (CAD), the ability to "reverse engineer" the modeling steps used to create 3D shapes is a long-sought-after goal. This process can be decomposed into two sub-problems: converting an input mesh or point cloud into a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Xianghao Xu , Wenzhe Peng , Chin-Yi Cheng , Karl D. D. Willis , Daniel Ritchie

This paper presents a novel geometric representation for CAD Boundary Representation (B-Rep) based on volumetric distance functions, dubbed B-Rep Distance Functions (BR-DF). BR-DF encodes the surface mesh geometry of a CAD model as signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Fuyang Zhang , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Xiang Xu , Yasutaka Furukawa

In machining process, 3D reverse engineering of the mechanical system is an integral, highly important, and yet time consuming step to obtain parametric CAD models from 3D scans. Therefore, deep learning-based Scan-to-CAD modeling can offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Sk Aziz Ali , Mohammad Sadil Khan , Didier Stricker

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

Learning directly from boundary representations (B-reps) has significantly advanced 3D CAD analysis. However, state-of-the-art B-rep learning methods rely on absolute coordinates and normals to encode global context, making them highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Matteo Ballegeer , Dries F. Benoit

3D reverse engineering is a long sought-after, yet not completely achieved goal in the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) industry. The objective is to recover the construction history of a CAD model. Starting from a Boundary Representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Elona Dupont , Kseniya Cherenkova , Anis Kacem , Sk Aziz Ali , Ilya Arzhannikov , Gleb Gusev , Djamila Aouada

High-quality quadrilateral mesh generation is a fundamental challenge in computer graphics. Traditional optimization-based methods are often constrained by the topological quality of input meshes and suffer from severe efficiency…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yuguang Chen , Xinhai Liu , Xiangyu Zhu , Yiling Zhu , Zhuo Chen , Dongyu Zhang , Chunchao Guo

Recent advances in deep generative models have led to immense progress in 3D shape synthesis. While existing models are able to synthesize shapes represented as voxels, point-clouds, or implicit functions, these methods only indirectly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Andrew Luo , Tianqin Li , Wen-Hao Zhang , Tai Sing Lee

Autoregressive image modeling relies on visual tokenizers to compress images into compact latent representations. We design an end-to-end training pipeline that jointly optimizes reconstruction and generation, enabling direct supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Wenda Chu , Bingliang Zhang , Jiaqi Han , Yizhuo Li , Linjie Yang , Yisong Yue , Qiushan Guo

Many CAD learning pipelines discretize Boundary Representations (B-Reps) into triangle meshes, discarding analytic surface structure and topological adjacency and thereby weakening consistent instance-level analysis. We present STEP-Parts,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shen Fan , Mikołaj Kida , Przemyslaw Musialski

Boundary Representation (BRep) is the standard format for Computer-Aided Design (CAD), yet reconstructing high-quality BReps from single-view images remains challenging due to the complexity of topological constraints and operation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Shiyu Tan , Zixuan Zhao , Hao Gao , Zhiheng Chen , Xiaolong Yin , Enya Shen

Generating editable 3D CAD models from natural language remains challenging, as existing text-to-CAD systems either produce meshes or rely on scarce design-history data. We present NURBGen, the first framework to generate high-fidelity 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Muhammad Usama , Mohammad Sadil Khan , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

We present a novel implicit representation -- neural halfspace representation (NH-Rep), to convert manifold B-Rep solids to implicit representations. NH-Rep is a Boolean tree built on a set of implicit functions represented by the neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Hao-Xiang Guo , Yang Liu , Hao Pan , Baining Guo

We introduce a novel self-supervised learning framework that automatically learns representations from input computer-aided design (CAD) models for downstream tasks, including part classification, modeling segmentation, and machining…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yifei Li , Kang Wu , Wenming Wu , Xiao-Ming Fu

Closed-loop simulation and scalable pre-training for autonomous driving require synthesizing free-viewpoint driving scenes. However, existing datasets and generative pipelines rarely provide consistent off-trajectory observations, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Shijie Chen , Peixi Peng

Reverse engineering CAD models from raw geometry is a classic but strenuous research problem. Previous learning-based methods rely heavily on labels due to the supervised design patterns or reconstruct CAD shapes that are not easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Pu Li , Jianwei Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Dong-ming Yan

The field of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) generation has made significant progress in recent years. Existing methods typically fall into two separate categories: parametric CAD modeling and direct boundary representation (B-Rep) synthesis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiahao Li , Qingwang Zhang , Qiuyu Chen , Guozhan Qiu , Yunzhong Lou , Xiangdong Zhou

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved text-to-face generation, but achieving fine-grained control over facial features remains a challenge. Existing methods often require training additional modules to handle…

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