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Origami has recently received significant interest from the scientific community as a building block for constructing metamaterials. However, the primary focus has been placed on their kinematic applications, such as deployable space…
In this survey paper, we review recent work on frameworks for the high-level, portable programming of heterogeneous multi-/manycore systems (especially, GPU-based systems) using high-level constructs such as annotated user-level software…
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We present SAGNet, a structure-aware generative model for 3D shapes. Given a set of segmented objects of a certain class, the geometry of their parts and the pairwise relationships between them (the structure) are jointly learned and…
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