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Geometric deep learning has sparked a rising interest in computer graphics to perform shape understanding tasks, such as shape classification and semantic segmentation. When the input is a polygonal surface, one has to suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Qiujie Dong , Zixiong Wang , Manyi Li , Junjie Gao , Shuangmin Chen , Zhenyu Shu , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

The use of Laplacian eigenfunctions is ubiquitous in a wide range of computer graphics and geometry processing applications. In particular, Laplacian eigenbases allow generalizing the classical Fourier analysis to manifolds. A key drawback…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Simone Melzi , Emanuele Rodolà , Umberto Castellani , Michael M. Bronstein

Choosing the right representation for geometry is crucial for making 3D models compatible with existing applications. Focusing on piecewise-smooth man-made shapes, we propose a new representation that is usable in conventional CAD modeling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Dmitriy Smirnov , Mikhail Bessmeltsev , Justin Solomon

Exploiting internal spatial geometric constraints of sparse LiDARs is beneficial to depth completion, however, has been not explored well. This paper proposes an efficient method to learn geometry-aware embedding, which encodes the local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Hongyu Yang , Yi Zhang

Learning a graph with a specific structure is essential for interpretability and identification of the relationships among data. It is well known that structured graph learning from observed samples is an NP-hard combinatorial problem. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-26 Sandeep Kumar , Jiaxi Ying , Jos'e Vin'icius de M. Cardoso , Daniel P. Palomar

Feature learning in the presence of a mixed type of variables, numerical and categorical types, is an important issue for related modeling problems. For simple neighborhood queries under mixed data space, standard practice is to consider…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-07 Saswata Sahoo , Souradip Chakraborty

We propose a novel technique for producing high-quality 3D models that match a given target object image or scan. Our method is based on retrieving an existing shape from a database of 3D models and then deforming its parts to match the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mikaela Angelina Uy , Vladimir G. Kim , Minhyuk Sung , Noam Aigerman , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Leonidas Guibas

We propose a novel meshless method to compute harmonic maps and conformal maps for surfaces embedded in the Euclidean 3-space, using point cloud data only. Given a surface, or a point cloud approximation, we simply use the standard cubic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Tianqi Wu , Shing-Tung Yau

This paper introduces a set of numerical methods for Riemannian shape analysis of 3D surfaces within the setting of invariant (elastic) second-order Sobolev metrics. More specifically, we address the computation of geodesics and geodesic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Emmanuel Hartman , Yashil Sukurdeep , Eric Klassen , Nicolas Charon , Martin Bauer

Non-isometric shape correspondence remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Traditional methods using Laplace-Beltrami operator (LBO) eigenmodes face limitations in characterizing high-frequency extrinsic shape changes like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Lennart Bastian , Yizheng Xie , Nassir Navab , Zorah Lähner

We present a systematic collection of spectral surgery principles for the Laplacian on a metric graph with any of the usual vertex conditions (natural, Dirichlet or $\delta$-type), which show how various types of changes of a local or…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Gregory Berkolaiko , James B. Kennedy , Pavel Kurasov , Delio Mugnolo

This paper proposes an approach to learn generic multi-modal mesh surface representations using a novel scheme for fusing texture and geometric data. Our approach defines an inverse mapping between different geometric descriptors computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Bilal Taha , Munawar Hayat , Stefano Berretti , Naoufel Werghi

Spectral embedding uses eigenfunctions of the discrete Laplacian on a weighted graph to obtain coordinates for an embedding of an abstract data set into Euclidean space. We propose a new pre-processing step of first using the eigenfunctions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-18 Alexander Cloninger , Stefan Steinerberger

Robust 3D representation learning forms the perceptual foundation of spatial intelligence, enabling downstream tasks in scene understanding and embodied AI. However, learning such representations directly from unposed multi-view images…

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We present a new deep learning approach for matching deformable shapes by introducing {\it Shape Deformation Networks} which jointly encode 3D shapes and correspondences. This is achieved by factoring the surface representation into (i) a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Thibault Groueix , Matthew Fisher , Vladimir G. Kim , Bryan C. Russell , Mathieu Aubry

Alignment between non-rigid stretchable structures is one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision, as the invariant properties are hard to define, and there is no labeled data for real datasets. We present unsupervised neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Idan Pazi , Dvir Ginzburg , Dan Raviv

An efficient spatial regularization method using superpixel segmentation and graph Laplacian regularization is proposed for sparse hyperspectral unmixing method. Since it is likely to find spectrally similar pixels in a homogeneous region,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Taner Ince

Computing volumetric correspondences between 3D shapes is a prominent tool for medical and industrial applications. In this work, we pave the way for spectral volume mapping, extending for the first time the surface-based functional maps…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Filippo Maggioli , Simone Melzi , Marco Livesu

Implicit 3D surface reconstruction of an object from its partial and noisy 3D point cloud scan is the classical geometry processing and 3D computer vision problem. In the literature, various 3D shape representations have been developed,…

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