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Remarkable advances have been achieved recently in learning neural representations that characterize object geometry, while generating textured objects suitable for downstream applications and 3D rendering remains at an early stage. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Alexey Bokhovkin , Shubham Tulsiani , Angela Dai

This paper addresses the problem of interpolating visual textures. We formulate this problem by requiring (1) by-example controllability and (2) realistic and smooth interpolation among an arbitrary number of texture samples. To solve it we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Ning Yu , Connelly Barnes , Eli Shechtman , Sohrab Amirghodsi , Michal Lukac

Here we introduce a new model of natural textures based on the feature spaces of convolutional neural networks optimised for object recognition. Samples from the model are of high perceptual quality demonstrating the generative power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Leon A. Gatys , Alexander S. Ecker , Matthias Bethge

Articulated 3D object generation is fundamental for creating realistic, functional, and interactable virtual assets which are not simply static. We introduce MeshArt, a hierarchical transformer-based approach to generate articulated 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Daoyi Gao , Yawar Siddiqui , Lei Li , Angela Dai

Recently, deep generative adversarial networks for image generation have advanced rapidly; yet, only a small amount of research has focused on generative models for irregular structures, particularly meshes. Nonetheless, mesh generation and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Amir Hertz , Rana Hanocka , Raja Giryes , Daniel Cohen-Or

Despite recent advances in geometric modeling, 3D mesh modeling still involves a considerable amount of manual labor by experts. In this paper, we introduce Mesh Draping: a neural method for transferring existing mesh structure from one…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Amir Hertz , Or Perel , Raja Giryes , Olga Sorkine-Hornung , Daniel Cohen-Or

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) represent a powerful framework for modeling biological self-organization, extending classical rule-based systems with trainable, differentiable (or evolvable) update rules that capture the adaptive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Benedikt Hartl , Michael Levin , Léo Pio-Lopez

Training native 3D texture generative models remains a fundamental yet challenging problem, largely due to the limited availability of large-scale, high-quality 3D texture datasets. This scarcity hinders generalization to real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ze Yuan , Xin Yu , Yangtian Sun , Yuan-Chen Guo , Yan-Pei Cao , Ding Liang , Xiaojuan Qi

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a valuable tool for personalised, non-invasive evaluation of hemodynamics in arteries, but its complexity and time-consuming nature prohibit large-scale use in practice. Recently, the use of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Julian Suk , Pim de Haan , Phillip Lippe , Christoph Brune , Jelmer M. Wolterink

Analysis of the 3D Texture is indispensable for various tasks, such as retrieval, segmentation, classification, and inspection of sculptures, knitted fabrics, and biological tissues. A 3D texture is a locally repeated surface variation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Iyyakutti Iyappan Ganapathi , Fayaz Ali , Sajid Javed , Syed Sadaf Ali , Naoufel Werghi

We present Text2Tex, a novel method for generating high-quality textures for 3D meshes from the given text prompts. Our method incorporates inpainting into a pre-trained depth-aware image diffusion model to progressively synthesize high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Dave Zhenyu Chen , Yawar Siddiqui , Hsin-Ying Lee , Sergey Tulyakov , Matthias Nießner

In this work, we develop intuitive controls for editing the style of 3D objects. Our framework, Text2Mesh, stylizes a 3D mesh by predicting color and local geometric details which conform to a target text prompt. We consider a disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Oscar Michel , Roi Bar-On , Richard Liu , Sagie Benaim , Rana Hanocka

In contrast to deep reinforcement learning agents, biological neural networks are grown through a self-organized developmental process. Here we propose a new hypernetwork approach to grow artificial neural networks based on neural cellular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Elias Najarro , Shyam Sudhakaran , Claire Glanois , Sebastian Risi

The recent availability and adaptability of text-to-image models has sparked a new era in many related domains that benefit from the learned text priors as well as high-quality and fast generation capabilities, one of which is texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Raphael Bensadoun , Yanir Kleiman , Idan Azuri , Omri Harosh , Andrea Vedaldi , Natalia Neverova , Oran Gafni

Mesh seams play a pivotal role in partitioning 3D surfaces for UV parametrization and texture mapping. Poorly placed seams often result in severe UV distortion or excessive fragmentation, thereby hindering texture synthesis and disrupting…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Duoteng Xu , Yuguang Chen , Jing Li , Xinhai Liu , Xueqi Ma , Zhuo Chen , Dongyu Zhang , Chunchao Guo

Deep learning techniques have recently demonstrated broad success in predicting complex dynamical systems ranging from turbulence to human speech, motivating broader questions about how neural networks encode and represent dynamical rules.…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2020-01-20 William Gilpin

Given a 3D mesh, we aim to synthesize 3D textures that correspond to arbitrary textual descriptions. Current methods for generating and assembling textures from sampled views often result in prominent seams or excessive smoothing. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Dong Huo , Zixin Guo , Xinxin Zuo , Zhihao Shi , Juwei Lu , Peng Dai , Songcen Xu , Li Cheng , Yee-Hong Yang

In this paper, we address the problem of texture representation for 3D shapes for the challenging and underexplored tasks of texture transfer and synthesis. Previous works either apply spherical texture maps which may lead to large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Zhiqin Chen , Kangxue Yin , Sanja Fidler

Computationally weak systems and demanding graphical applications are still mostly dependent on linear blendshapes for facial animations. The accompanying artifacts such as self-intersections, loss of volume, or missing soft tissue…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Nicolas Wagner , Ulrich Schwanecke , Mario Botsch

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) are a powerful combination of machine learning and mechanistic modelling. We train NCA to learn complex dynamics from time series of images and PDE trajectories. Our method is designed to identify underlying…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-04-23 Alex D. Richardson , Tibor Antal , Richard A. Blythe , Linus J. Schumacher