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What is the optimal way to deform a projective hypersurface into another one? In this paper we will answer this question adopting the point of view of measure theory, introducing the optimal transport problem between complex algebraic…

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We introduce a novel learning-based method for encoding and manipulating 3D surface meshes. Our method is specifically designed to create an interpretable embedding space for deformable shape collections. Unlike previous 3D mesh…

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Simplifying complex 3D meshes is a crucial step in robotics applications to enable efficient motion planning and physics simulation. Common methods, such as approximate convex decomposition, represent a mesh as a collection of simple parts,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Brandon Vu , Shameek Ganguly , Pushkar Joshi

Surfaces are typically represented as meshes, which can be extracted from volumetric fields via meshing or optimized directly as surface parameterizations. Volumetric representations occupy 3D space and have a large effective receptive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ruiqi Zhang , Jiacheng Wu , Jie Chen

Fully-supervised category-level pose estimation aims to determine the 6-DoF poses of unseen instances from known categories, requiring expensive mannual labeling costs. Recently, various self-supervised category-level pose estimation…

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Metric learning aims to construct an embedding where two extracted features corresponding to the same identity are likely to be closer than features from different identities. This paper presents a method for learning such a feature space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Nicolai Wojke , Alex Bewley

Motivated by the statistical and computational challenges of computing Wasserstein distances in high-dimensional contexts, machine learning researchers have defined modified Wasserstein distances based on computing distances between…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Jiaqi Xi , Jonathan Niles-Weed

Deep neural networks achieve superior performance in semantic segmentation, but are limited to a predefined set of classes, which leads to failures when they encounter unknown objects in open-world scenarios. Recognizing and segmenting…

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Deep learning based 3D shape generation methods generally utilize latent features extracted from color images to encode the semantics of objects and guide the shape generation process. These color image semantics only implicitly encode 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Rakesh Shrestha , Zhiwen Fan , Qingkun Su , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan

We present a novel learning framework for cloth deformation by embedding virtual cloth into a tetrahedral mesh that parametrizes the volumetric region of air surrounding the underlying body. In order to maintain this volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Jane Wu , Zhenglin Geng , Hui Zhou , Ronald Fedkiw

Neural implicit surfaces can be used to recover accurate 3D geometry from imperfect point clouds. In this work, we show that state-of-the-art techniques work by minimizing an approximation of a one-sided Chamfer distance. This shape metric…

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Representation learning constitutes a pivotal cornerstone in contemporary deep learning paradigms, offering a conduit to elucidate distinctive features within the latent space and interpret the deep models. Nevertheless, the inherent…

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This paper aims to efficiently compute transport maps between probability distributions arising from particle representation of bio-physical problems. We develop a bidirectional DeepParticle (BDP) method to learn and generate solutions…

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Deformable image registration, estimating the spatial transformation between different images, is an important task in medical imaging. Many previous studies have used learning-based methods for multi-stage registration to perform 3D image…

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We define a regularized size-shape distortion (quality) measure for curved high-order elements on a Riemannian space. To this end, we measure the deviation of a given element, straight-sided or curved, from the stretching, alignment, and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Guillermo Aparicio-Estrems , Abel Gargallo-Peiró , Xevi Roca

The complexity of a learning task is increased by transformations in the input space that preserve class identity. Visual object recognition for example is affected by changes in viewpoint, scale, illumination or planar transformations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Andrea Tacchetti , Stephen Voinea , Georgios Evangelopoulos

The recent performance of facial landmark detection has been significantly improved by using deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), especially the Heatmap Regression Models (HRMs). Although their performance on common benchmark datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yongzhe Yan , Stefan Duffner , Priyanka Phutane , Anthony Berthelier , Christophe Blanc , Christophe Garcia , Thierry Chateau

Reconstructing the 3D shape of a deformable environment from the information captured by a moving depth camera is highly relevant to surgery. The underlying challenge is the fact that simultaneously estimating camera motion and tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Guido Caccianiga , Julian Nubert , Cesar Cadena , Marco Hutter , Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Semantic segmentation is important for many real-world systems, e.g., autonomous vehicles, which predict the class of each pixel. Recently, deep networks achieved significant progress w.r.t. the mean Intersection-over Union (mIoU) with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Xiaofeng Liu , Yimeng Zhang , Xiongchang Liu , Song Bai , Site Li , Jane You

This paper presents a multiscale approach to efficiently compute approximate optimal transport plans between point sets. It is particularly well-suited for point sets that are in high-dimensions, but are close to being intrinsically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Samuel Gerber , Mauro Maggioni