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Photo-realistic and controllable 3D avatars are crucial for various applications such as virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR), telepresence, gaming, and film production. Traditional methods for avatar creation often involve time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Keqiang Sun , Amin Jourabloo , Riddhish Bhalodia , Moustafa Meshry , Yu Rong , Zhengyu Yang , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Christian Haene , Jiu Xu , Sam Johnson , Hongsheng Li , Sofien Bouaziz

We present MeshTailor, the first mesh-native generative framework for synthesizing edge-aligned seams on 3D surfaces. Unlike prior optimization-based or extrinsic learning-based methods, MeshTailor operates directly on the mesh graph,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xueqi Ma , Xingguang Yan , Congyue Zhang , Hui Huang

Cellular automata (CA) are a class of computational models that exhibit rich dynamics emerging from the local interaction of cells arranged in a regular lattice. In this work we focus on a generalised version of typical CA, called graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Daniele Grattarola , Lorenzo Livi , Cesare Alippi

Recent 3D generative models produce high-quality textures for 3D mesh objects. However, they commonly rely on the heavy assumption that input 3D meshes are accompanied by manual mesh parameterization (UV mapping), a manual task that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 AmirHossein Zamani , Bruno Roy , Arianna Rampini

This paper proposes a new end-to-end neural rendering architecture to transfer appearance and reenact human actors. Our method leverages a carefully designed graph convolutional network (GCN) to model the human body manifold structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Thiago L. Gomes , Thiago M. Coutinho , Rafael Azevedo , Renato Martins , Erickson R. Nascimento

This study introduces EngramNCA, a neural cellular automaton (NCA) that integrates both publicly visible states and private, cell-internal memory channels, drawing inspiration from emerging biological evidence suggesting that memory storage…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Etienne Guichard , Felix Reimers , Mia Kvalsund , Mikkel Lepperød , Stefano Nichele

The goal of exemplar-based texture synthesis is to generate texture images that are visually similar to a given exemplar. Recently, promising results have been reported by methods relying on convolutional neural networks (ConvNets)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Zi-Ming Wang , Meng-Han Li , Gui-Song Xia

High-resolution texture maps are necessary for representing real-world objects accurately with 3D meshes. The large sizes of textures can bottleneck the real-time rendering of high-quality virtual 3D scenes on devices having low…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Sai Karthikey Pentapati , Anshul Rai , Arkady Ten , Chaitanya Atluru , Alan Bovik

Cellular automata have long been celebrated for their ability to generate complex behaviors from simple, local rules, with well-known discrete models like Conway's Game of Life proven capable of universal computation. Recent advancements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Gabriel Béna , Maxence Faldor , Dan F. M. Goodman , Antoine Cully

We present a probabilistic 3D generative model, named Generative Cellular Automata, which is able to produce diverse and high quality shapes. We formulate the shape generation process as sampling from the transition kernel of a Markov…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Dongsu Zhang , Changwoon Choi , Jeonghwan Kim , Young Min Kim

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained significant traction for simulating complex physical systems, with models like MeshGraphNet demonstrating strong performance on unstructured simulation meshes. However, these models face several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Mohammad Amin Nabian , Chang Liu , Rishikesh Ranade , Sanjay Choudhry

We present TextureDreamer, a novel image-guided texture synthesis method to transfer relightable textures from a small number of input images (3 to 5) to target 3D shapes across arbitrary categories. Texture creation is a pivotal challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Yu-Ying Yeh , Jia-Bin Huang , Changil Kim , Lei Xiao , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Numair Khan , Cheng Zhang , Manmohan Chandraker , Carl S Marshall , Zhao Dong , Zhengqin Li

Recent advances in differentiable rendering have sparked an interest in learning generative models of textured 3D meshes from image collections. These models natively disentangle pose and appearance, enable downstream applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Dario Pavllo , Jonas Kohler , Thomas Hofmann , Aurelien Lucchi

CNN-based volumetric methods that label individual voxels now dominate the field of biomedical segmentation. However, 3D surface representations are often required for proper analysis. They can be obtained by post-processing the labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Udaranga Wickramasinghe , Edoardo Remelli , Graham Knott , Pascal Fua

Mesh models have become increasingly accessible for numerous cities; however, the lack of realistic textures restricts their application in virtual urban navigation and autonomous driving. To address this, this paper proposes MeSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Xuyang Chen , Zhijun Zhai , Kaixuan Zhou , Zengmao Wang , Jianan He , Dong Wang , Yanfeng Zhang , mingwei Sun , Rüdiger Westermann , Konrad Schindler , Liqiu Meng

In this work we develop 3D Paintbrush, a technique for automatically texturing local semantic regions on meshes via text descriptions. Our method is designed to operate directly on meshes, producing texture maps which seamlessly integrate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Dale Decatur , Itai Lang , Kfir Aberman , Rana Hanocka

We present Text2Room, a method for generating room-scale textured 3D meshes from a given text prompt as input. To this end, we leverage pre-trained 2D text-to-image models to synthesize a sequence of images from different poses. In order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Lukas Höllein , Ang Cao , Andrew Owens , Justin Johnson , Matthias Nießner

Despite the promising results of multi-view reconstruction, the recent neural rendering-based methods, such as implicit surface rendering (IDR) and volume rendering (NeuS), not only incur a heavy computational burden on training but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yisu Zhang , Jianke Zhu , Lixiang Lin

In this paper, we present TexPro, a novel method for high-fidelity material generation for input 3D meshes given text prompts. Unlike existing text-conditioned texture generation methods that typically generate RGB textures with baked…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ziqiang Dang , Wenqi Dong , Zesong Yang , Bangbang Yang , Liang Li , Yuewen Ma , Zhaopeng Cui

We present a technique for zero-shot generation of a 3D model using only a target text prompt. Without any 3D supervision our method deforms the control shape of a limit subdivided surface along with its texture map and normal map to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Nasir Mohammad Khalid , Tianhao Xie , Eugene Belilovsky , Tiberiu Popa