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Neural fields, coordinate-based neural networks, have recently gained popularity for implicitly representing a scene. In contrast to classical methods that are based on explicit representations such as point clouds, neural fields provide a…

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Simulating complex dynamics like fluids with traditional simulators is computationally challenging. Deep learning models have been proposed as an efficient alternative, extending or replacing parts of traditional simulators. We investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jonathan Klimesch , Philipp Holl , Nils Thuerey

Generative models that produce point clouds have emerged as a powerful tool to represent 3D surfaces, and the best current ones rely on learning an ensemble of parametric representations. Unfortunately, they offer no control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Jan Bednarik , Shaifali Parashar , Erhan Gundogdu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Is a deep learning model capable of understanding systems governed by certain first principle laws by only observing the system's output? Can deep learning learn the underlying physics and honor the physics when making predictions? The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Rohan Thavarajah , Xiang Zhai , Zheren Ma , David Castineira

The rapidly advancing field of Fluid Mechanics has recently employed Deep Learning to solve various problems within that field. In that same spirit we try to perform Direct Numerical Simulation(DNS) which is one of the tasks in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Mritunjay Musale , Vaibhav Vasani

Template 3D shapes are useful for many tasks in graphics and vision, including fitting observation data, analyzing shape collections, and transferring shape attributes. Because of the variety of geometry and topology of real-world shapes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Kyle Genova , Forrester Cole , Daniel Vlasic , Aaron Sarna , William T. Freeman , Thomas Funkhouser

We introduce a novel, data-driven approach for reconstructing temporally coherent 3D motion from unstructured and potentially partial observations of non-rigidly deforming shapes. Our goal is to achieve high-fidelity motion reconstructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Aymen Merrouche , Stefanie Wuhrer , Edmond Boyer

Interrupted X-ray computed tomography (X-CT) has been the common way to observe the deformation of materials during an experiment. While this approach is effective for quasi-static experiments, it has never been possible to reconstruct a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-29 Ivan Grega , William F. Whitney , Vikram S. Deshpande

Modeling and rendering of dynamic scenes is challenging, as natural scenes often contain complex phenomena such as thin structures, evolving topology, translucency, scattering, occlusion, and biological motion. Mesh-based reconstruction and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Stephen Lombardi , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Gabriel Schwartz , Andreas Lehrmann , Yaser Sheikh

We introduce a theoretical framework for differentiable surface evolution that allows discrete topology changes through the use of topological derivatives for variational optimization of image functionals. While prior methods for inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ishit Mehta , Manmohan Chandraker , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Neural implicit representations, which encode a surface as the level set of a neural network applied to spatial coordinates, have proven to be remarkably effective for optimizing, compressing, and generating 3D geometry. Although these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nicholas Sharp , Alec Jacobson

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) drives progress in numerous scientific and engineering fields, yet high-fidelity simulations remain computationally prohibitive. While machine learning approaches offer computing acceleration, they…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-12 Rui Zhang , Qi Meng , Han Wan , Yang Liu , Zhi-Ming Ma , Hao Sun

We present Gradient-SDF, a novel representation for 3D geometry that combines the advantages of implict and explicit representations. By storing at every voxel both the signed distance field as well as its gradient vector field, we enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Christiane Sommer , Lu Sang , David Schubert , Daniel Cremers

Neural implicit surfaces have become an important technique for multi-view 3D reconstruction but their accuracy remains limited. In this paper, we argue that this comes from the difficulty to learn and render high frequency textures with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 François Darmon , Bénédicte Bascle , Jean-Clément Devaux , Pascal Monasse , Mathieu Aubry

We propose a novel framework for the statistical analysis of genus-zero 4D surfaces, i.e., 3D surfaces that deform and evolve over time. This problem is particularly challenging due to the arbitrary parameterizations of these surfaces and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Awais Nizamani , Hamid Laga , Guanjin Wang , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun , Anuj Srivastava

This paper studies implicit surface reconstruction leveraging differentiable ray casting. Previous works such as IDR and NeuS overlook the spatial context in 3D space when predicting and rendering the surface, thereby may fail to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bowen Cai , Jinchi Huang , Rongfei Jia , Chengfei Lv , Huan Fu

Dense reconstruction and differentiable rendering are fundamental tightly connected operations in 3D vision and computer graphics. Recent neural implicit representations demonstrate compelling advantages in reconstruction fidelity and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhirui Dai , Hojoon Shin , Yulun Tian , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov

We introduce latent intuitive physics, a transfer learning framework for physics simulation that can infer hidden properties of fluids from a single 3D video and simulate the observed fluid in novel scenes. Our key insight is to use latent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangming Zhu , Huayu Deng , Haochen Yuan , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

We propose a learning-based method to reconstruct the local terrain for locomotion with a mobile robot traversing urban environments. Using a stream of depth measurements from the onboard cameras and the robot's trajectory, the algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-17 David Hoeller , Nikita Rudin , Christopher Choy , Animashree Anandkumar , Marco Hutter

Deep learning provides a versatile suite of methods for extracting structured information from complex datasets, enabling deeper understanding of underlying fluid dynamic phenomena. The field of turbulence modeling, in particular, benefits…

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