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3D meshes are widely used in computer vision and graphics for their efficiency in animation and minimal memory use, playing a crucial role in movies, games, AR, and VR. However, creating temporally consistent and realistic textures for mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Jingzhi Bao , Xueting Li , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We aim to generate fine-grained 3D geometry from large-scale sparse LiDAR scans, abundantly captured by autonomous vehicles (AV). Contrary to prior work on AV scene completion, we aim to extrapolate fine geometry from unlabeled and beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Dongsu Zhang , Francis Williams , Zan Gojcic , Karsten Kreis , Sanja Fidler , Young Min Kim , Amlan Kar

We present TexFusion (Texture Diffusion), a new method to synthesize textures for given 3D geometries, using large-scale text-guided image diffusion models. In contrast to recent works that leverage 2D text-to-image diffusion models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Tianshi Cao , Karsten Kreis , Sanja Fidler , Nicholas Sharp , Kangxue Yin

In this paper, we present a novel method for learning to synthesize 3D mesh animation sequences with long short-term memory (LSTM) blocks and mesh-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Synthesizing realistic 3D mesh animation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Yi-Ling Qiao , Lin Gao , Yu-Kun Lai , Shihong Xia

Fast and light-weight methods for animating 3D characters are desirable in various applications such as computer games. We present a learning-based approach to enhance skinning-based animations of 3D characters with vivid secondary motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mianlun Zheng , Yi Zhou , Duygu Ceylan , Jernej Barbič

Mesh saliency enhances the adaptability of 3D vision by identifying and emphasizing regions that naturally attract visual attention. To investigate the interaction between geometric structure and texture in shaping visual attention, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Kaiwei Zhang , Dandan Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Rapid advancements in deep learning over the past decade have fueled an insatiable demand for efficient and scalable hardware. Photonics offers a promising solution by leveraging the unique properties of light. However, conventional neural…

In this work, we focus on synthesizing high-quality textures on 3D meshes. We present Point-UV diffusion, a coarse-to-fine pipeline that marries the denoising diffusion model with UV mapping to generate 3D consistent and high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xin Yu , Peng Dai , Wenbo Li , Lan Ma , Zhengzhe Liu , Xiaojuan Qi

Efficiently digitizing high-fidelity animatable human avatars from videos is a challenging and active research topic. Recent volume rendering-based neural representations open a new way for human digitization with their friendly usability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xiaoke Huang , Yiji Cheng , Yansong Tang , Xiu Li , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

While recent generative models for 2D images achieve impressive visual results, they clearly lack the ability to perform 3D reasoning. This heavily restricts the degree of control over generated objects as well as the possible applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Dario Pavllo , Graham Spinks , Thomas Hofmann , Marie-Francine Moens , Aurelien Lucchi

With the development of computational fluid dynamics, the requirements for the fluid simulation accuracy in industrial applications have also increased. The quality of the generated mesh directly affects the simulation accuracy. However,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haoxuan Zhang , Haisheng Li , Nan Li , Xiaochuan Wang

Existing physical cloth simulators suffer from expensive computation and difficulties in tuning mechanical parameters to get desired wrinkling behaviors. Data-driven methods provide an alternative solution. It typically synthesizes cloth…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Lan Chen , Juntao Ye , Xiaopeng Zhang

Seams, distortions, wasted UV space, vertex-duplication, and varying resolution over the surface are the most prominent issues of the standard UV-based texturing of meshes. These issues are particularly acute when automatic UV-unwrapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Simone Foti , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Tolga Birdal

As several industries are moving towards modeling massive 3D virtual worlds, the need for content creation tools that can scale in terms of the quantity, quality, and diversity of 3D content is becoming evident. In our work, we aim to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jun Gao , Tianchang Shen , Zian Wang , Wenzheng Chen , Kangxue Yin , Daiqing Li , Or Litany , Zan Gojcic , Sanja Fidler

Access to the proper infrastructure is critical when performing medical image segmentation with Deep Learning. This requirement makes it difficult to run state-of-the-art segmentation models in resource-constrained scenarios like primary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 John Kalkhof , Camila González , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

Recent advances in generative modeling have driven significant progress in text-guided texture synthesis. However, current methods focus on synthesizing texture for single static 3D object, and struggle to handle entire families of shapes,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ruiqi Xu , Zihan Zhu , Ben Ahlbrand , Srinath Sridhar , Daniel Ritchie

Vessel dynamics simulation is vital in studying the relationship between geometry and vascular disease progression. Reliable dynamics simulation relies on high-quality vascular meshes. Most of the existing mesh generation methods highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Dengqiang Jia , Xinnian Yang , Xiaosong Xiong , Shijie Huang , Feiyu Hou , Li Qin , Kaicong Sun , Kannie Wai Yan Chan , Dinggang Shen

Mesh is an important and powerful type of data for 3D shapes and widely studied in the field of computer vision and computer graphics. Regarding the task of 3D shape representation, there have been extensive research efforts concentrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Yutong Feng , Yifan Feng , Haoxuan You , Xibin Zhao , Yue Gao

We present a data-driven inference method that can synthesize a photorealistic texture map of a complete 3D face model given a partial 2D view of a person in the wild. After an initial estimation of shape and low-frequency albedo, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Shunsuke Saito , Lingyu Wei , Liwen Hu , Koki Nagano , Hao Li

Most of the Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) defined in the literature have a common theme: they are based on regular grids with a Moore neighborhood (one-hop neighbour). They do not take into account long-range connections and more complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Léo Pio-Lopez , Benedikt Hartl , Michael Levin