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We propose SHARC, a novel framework that synthesizes arbitrary, genus-agnostic shapes by means of a collection of Spherical Harmonic (SH) representations of distance fields. These distance fields are anchored at optimally placed reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Panagiotis Sapoutzoglou , George Terzakis , Maria Pateraki

3D image processing constitutes nowadays a challenging topic in many scientific fields such as medicine, computational physics and informatics. Therefore, development of suitable tools that guaranty a best treatment is a necessity.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Malika Jallouli , Wafa Bel Hadj Khalifa , Anouar Ben Mabrouk , Mohamed Ali Mahjoub

While recent advances in 3D-aware Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have aided the development of near-frontal view human face synthesis, the challenge of comprehensively synthesizing a full 3D head viewable from all angles still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Heyuan Li , Ce Chen , Tianhao Shi , Yuda Qiu , Sizhe An , Guanying Chen , Xiaoguang Han

Recent microscopy imaging techniques allow to precisely analyze cell morphology in 3D image data. To process the vast amount of image data generated by current digitized imaging techniques, automated approaches are demanded more than ever.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Dennis Eschweiler , Malte Rethwisch , Simon Koppers , Johannes Stegmaier

Current vision-language models may grasp basic spatial cues and simple directions (e.g. left, right, front, back), but struggle with the multi-dimensional spatial reasoning necessary for human-like understanding and real-world applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Wenyu Zhang , Wei En Ng , Lixin Ma , Yuwen Wang , Junqi Zhao , Allison Koenecke , Boyang Li , Lu Wang

3D Morphable Models (3DMMs) are generative models for face shape and appearance. However, the shape parameters of traditional 3DMMs satisfy the multivariate Gaussian distribution while the identity embeddings satisfy the hypersphere…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Diqiong Jiang , Yiwei Jin , Fanglue Zhang , Zhe Zhu , Yun Zhang , Ruofeng Tong , Min Tang

In this paper, we propose SRIF, a novel Semantic shape Registration framework based on diffusion-based Image morphing and Flow estimation. More concretely, given a pair of extrinsically aligned shapes, we first render them from multi-views,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mingze Sun , Chen Guo , Puhua Jiang , Shiwei Mao , Yurun Chen , Ruqi Huang

In the context of computer assist surgical techniques, a new elastic registration method of 3D meshes is presented. In our applications, one mesh is a high density mesh (30000 vertexes), the second is a low density one (1000 vertexes).…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Maxime Berar , Michel Desvignes , Gérard Bailly , Yohan Payan

A primary challenge in developing synthetic spatial hearing systems, particularly underwater, is accurately modeling sound scattering. Biological organisms achieve 3D spatial hearing by exploiting sound scattering off their bodies to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siminfar Samakoush Galougah , Pranav Pulijala , Ramani Duraiswami

In this paper, we propose a transformer-based procedure for the efficient registration of non-rigid 3D point clouds. The proposed approach is data-driven and adopts for the first time the transformer architecture in the registration task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Giovanni Trappolini , Luca Cosmo , Luca Moschella , Riccardo Marin , Simone Melzi , Emanuele Rodolà

Currently, cortical surface registration techniques based on classical methods have been well developed. However, a key issue with classical methods is that for each pair of images to be registered, it is necessary to search for the optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ruoyu Zhang , Lihui Wang , Kun Tang , Jingwen Xu , Hongjiang Wei

Challenging to capture, and challenging to display on a cellphone screen, the panorama paradoxically remains both a staple and underused feature of modern mobile camera applications. In this work we address both of these challenges with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ilya Chugunov , Amogh Joshi , Kiran Murthy , Francois Bleibel , Felix Heide

This paper proposes a sketching strategy based on spherical designs, which is applied to the classical spherical basis function approach for massive spherical data fitting. We conduct theoretical analysis and numerical verifications to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Shao-Bo Lin , Di Wang , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Spherical image processing has been widely applied in many important fields, such as omnidirectional vision for autonomous cars, global climate modelling, and medical imaging. It is non-trivial to extend an algorithm developed for flat…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Jianfei Li , Chaoyan Huang , Raymond Chan , Han Feng , Micheal Ng , Tieyong Zeng

Animating realistic character interactions with the surrounding environment is important for autonomous agents in gaming, AR/VR, and robotics. However, current methods for human motion reconstruction struggle with accurately placing humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Joshua Li , Brendan Chharawala , Chang Shu , Xue Bin Peng , Pengcheng Xi

Reliable image correspondences form the foundation of vision-based spatial perception, enabling recovery of 3D structure and camera poses. However, unconstrained feature matching across domains such as aerial, indoor, and outdoor scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhimin Shao , Abhay Yadav , Rama Chellappa , Cheng Peng

We present Perm, a learned parametric representation of human 3D hair designed to facilitate various hair-related applications. Unlike previous work that jointly models the global hair structure and local curl patterns, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Chengan He , Xin Sun , Zhixin Shu , Fujun Luan , Sören Pirk , Jorge Alejandro Amador Herrera , Dominik L. Michels , Tuanfeng Y. Wang , Meng Zhang , Holly Rushmeier , Yi Zhou

Existing single-view 3D generative models typically adopt multiview diffusion priors to reconstruct object surfaces, yet they remain prone to inter-view inconsistencies and are unable to faithfully represent complex internal structure or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jingdong Zhang , Weikai Chen , Yuan Liu , Jionghao Wang , Zhengming Yu , Zhuowen Shen , Bo Yang , Wenping Wang , Xin Li

Semantic segmentation for spherical data is a challenging problem in machine learning since conventional planar approaches require projecting the spherical image to the Euclidean plane. Representing the signal on a fundamentally different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Thomas Walker , Varun Anand , Pavlos Andreadis

Image segmentation plays a crucial role in extracting objects of interest and identifying their boundaries within an image. However, accurate segmentation becomes challenging when dealing with occlusions, obscurities, or noise in corrupted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Daoping Zhang , Xue-Cheng Tai , Lok Ming Lui