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Parametrizations of data manifolds in shape spaces can be computed using the rich toolbox of Riemannian geometry. This, however, often comes with high computational costs, which raises the question if one can learn an efficient neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Josua Sassen , Klaus Hildebrandt , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

Implicit neural representations are powerful for geometric modeling, but their practical use is often limited by the high computational cost of network evaluations. We observe that implicit representations require progressively lower…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Chuanxiang Yang , Junhui Hou , Yuan Liu , Siyu Ren , Guangshun Wei , Taku Komura , Yuanfeng Zhou , Wenping Wang

The generation of triangle meshes from point clouds, i.e. meshing, is a core task in computer graphics and computer vision. Traditional techniques directly construct a surface mesh using local decision heuristics, while some recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Mathias Vetsch , Sandro Lombardi , Marc Pollefeys , Martin R. Oswald

In visual computing, 3D geometry is represented in many different forms including meshes, point clouds, voxel grids, level sets, and depth images. Each representation is suited for different tasks thus making the transformation of one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Trevor Houchens , Cheng-You Lu , Shivam Duggal , Rao Fu , Srinath Sridhar

In this work we target a learnable output representation that allows continuous, high resolution outputs of arbitrary shape. Recent works represent 3D surfaces implicitly with a Neural Network, thereby breaking previous barriers in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Julian Chibane , Aymen Mir , Gerard Pons-Moll

Neural fields have emerged as a powerful representation for 3D geometry, enabling compact and continuous modeling of complex shapes. Despite their expressive power, manipulating neural fields in a controlled and accurate manner --…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Daniele Baieri , Filippo Maggioli , Emanuele Rodolà , Simone Melzi , Zorah Lähner

Implicit neural representations map a shape-specific latent code and a 3D coordinate to its corresponding signed distance (SDF) value. However, this approach only offers a single level of detail. Emulating low levels of detail can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Benoit Guillard , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt , Pascal Fua

Maps are arguably one of the most fundamental concepts used to define and operate on manifold surfaces in differentiable geometry. Accordingly, in geometry processing, maps are ubiquitous and are used in many core applications, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Luca Morreale , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir Kim , Niloy J. Mitra

Neural fields have gained significant attention in the computer vision community due to their excellent performance in novel view synthesis, geometry reconstruction, and generative modeling. Some of their advantages are a sound theoretic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Lukas Koestler , Daniel Grittner , Michael Moeller , Daniel Cremers , Zorah Lähner

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) can capture the geometric properties of neural representations in EEG data. Here we utilise those to study how reinforcement-based motor learning affects neural activity patterns during motor planning, leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Federico Nardi , Jinpei Han , Shlomi Haar , A. Aldo Faisal

Implicit neural representations have emerged as a powerful tool in learning 3D geometry, offering unparalleled advantages over conventional representations like mesh-based methods. A common type of INR implicitly encodes a shape's boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Shen Fan , Przemyslaw Musialski

Coordinate-based Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) networks, despite being capable of learning neural implicit representations, are not performant for internal image synthesis applications. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are typically used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mikolaj Czerkawski , Javier Cardona , Robert Atkinson , Craig Michie , Ivan Andonovic , Carmine Clemente , Christos Tachtatzis

We introduce CAPRI-Net, a neural network for learning compact and interpretable implicit representations of 3D computer-aided design (CAD) models, in the form of adaptive primitive assemblies. Our network takes an input 3D shape that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Fenggen Yu , Zhiqin Chen , Manyi Li , Aditya Sanghi , Hooman Shayani , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Hao Zhang

Learning to autonomously assemble shapes is a crucial skill for many robotic applications. While the majority of existing part assembly methods focus on correctly posing semantic parts to recreate a whole object, we interpret assembly more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yun-Chun Chen , Haoda Li , Dylan Turpin , Alec Jacobson , Animesh Garg

Neural implicit representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for 3D reconstruction. However, despite their success, existing methods fail to capture fine geometric details and thin structures, especially in scenarios where only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Aarya Patel , Hamid Laga , Ojaswa Sharma

Although polygon meshes have been a standard representation in geometry processing, their irregular and combinatorial nature hinders their suitability for learning-based applications. In this work, we introduce a novel learnable mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Nissim Maruani , Maks Ovsjanikov , Pierre Alliez , Mathieu Desbrun

Geometric graphs are a special kind of graph with geometric features, which are vital to model many scientific problems. Unlike generic graphs, geometric graphs often exhibit physical symmetries of translations, rotations, and reflections,…

Neural implicit representations have become a popular choice for modeling surfaces due to their adaptability in resolution and support for complex topology. While previous works have achieved impressive reconstruction quality by training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Lu Sang , Abhishek Saroha , Maolin Gao , Daniel Cremers

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

We propose a novel, end-to-end trainable, deep network called ParSeNet that decomposes a 3D point cloud into parametric surface patches, including B-spline patches as well as basic geometric primitives. ParSeNet is trained on a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Gopal Sharma , Difan Liu , Subhransu Maji , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Radomír Měch