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Reconstructing models from unorganized point clouds presents a significant challenge, especially when the models consist of multiple components represented by their surface point clouds. Such models often involve point clouds with noise…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yu Chen , Hongwei Lin

This paper explores the challenge of teaching a machine how to reverse-engineer the grid-marked surfaces used to represent data in 3D surface plots of two-variable functions. These are common in scientific and economic publications; and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Laura E. Brandt , William T. Freeman

Reconstruction of geometry based on different input modes, such as images or point clouds, has been instrumental in the development of computer aided design and computer graphics. Optimal implementations of these applications have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Jun Gao , Chengcheng Tang , Vignesh Ganapathi-Subramanian , Jiahui Huang , Hao Su , Leonidas J. Guibas

We introduce a method for learning to generate the surface of 3D shapes. Our approach represents a 3D shape as a collection of parametric surface elements and, in contrast to methods generating voxel grids or point clouds, naturally infers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Thibault Groueix , Matthew Fisher , Vladimir G. Kim , Bryan C. Russell , Mathieu Aubry

Recovering high-quality surfaces from irregular point cloud is ill-posed unless strong geometric priors are available. We introduce an implicit self-prior approach that distills a shape-specific prior directly from the input point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kyle Fogarty , Chenyue Cai , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Cengiz Öztireli

In this paper, a novel learning-based network, named DeepDT, is proposed to reconstruct the surface from Delaunay triangulation of point cloud. DeepDT learns to predict inside/outside labels of Delaunay tetrahedrons directly from a point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yiming Luo , Zhenxing Mi , Wenbing Tao

Implicit function based surface reconstruction has been studied for a long time to recover 3D shapes from point clouds sampled from surfaces. Recently, Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) and Occupany Functions are adopted in learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Meng Jia , Matthew Kyan

We are interested in reconstructing the mesh representation of object surfaces from point clouds. Surface reconstruction is a prerequisite for downstream applications such as rendering, collision avoidance for planning, animation, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Minghua Liu , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Hao Su

Reorienting objects by using supports is a practical yet challenging manipulation task. Owing to the intricate geometry of objects and the constrained feasible motions of the robot, multiple manipulation steps are required for object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Peng Xu , Hu Cheng , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

We propose a level set method to reconstruct unknown surfaces from point clouds, without assuming that the connections between points are known. We consider a variational formulation with a curvature constraint that minimizes the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Silvia Preda , Matteo Semplice

We present a learning-based method, namely GeoUDF,to tackle the long-standing and challenging problem of reconstructing a discrete surface from a sparse point cloud.To be specific, we propose a geometry-guided learning method for UDF and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Siyu Ren , Junhui Hou , Xiaodong Chen , Ying He , Wenping Wang

This paper addresses the problem of reconstructing the surface shape of transparent objects. The difficulty of this problem originates from the viewpoint dependent appearance of a transparent object, which quickly makes reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-24 Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Miaomiao Liu

In this work, we propose a novel framework shape back-projection for computationally efficient point cloud processing in a probabilistic manner. The primary component of the technique is shape histogram and a back-projection procedure. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ashish Kumar , L. Behera

In the process of projecting the surface of a three-dimensional object onto a two-dimensional surface, due to the perspective distortion, the image on the surface of the object will have different degrees of distortion according to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Yuhan Xu , Renqing Luo

The aim of this paper is the reconstruction of a smooth surface from an unorganized point cloud sampled by a closed surface, with the preservation of geometric shapes, without any further information other than the point cloud. Implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yesom Park , Taekyung Lee , Jooyoung Hahn , Myungjoo Kang

Folding is emerging as a promising manufacturing process to transform flat materials into functional structures, offering efficiency by reducing the need for welding, gluing, and molding, while minimizing waste and enabling automation.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-20 João C. Neves , Bernardo R. Marques , Cristóvão S. Dias , Nuno A. M. Araújo

In this paper, we introduce Point2Mesh, a technique for reconstructing a surface mesh from an input point cloud. Instead of explicitly specifying a prior that encodes the expected shape properties, the prior is defined automatically using…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Rana Hanocka , Gal Metzer , Raja Giryes , Daniel Cohen-Or

Rotational symmetry plays a central role in physics, providing an elegant framework to describe how the properties of 3D objects -- from atoms to the macroscopic scale -- transform under the action of rigid rotations. Equivariant models of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Michelangelo Domina , Filippo Bigi , Paolo Pegolo , Michele Ceriotti

Computer-Aided Design is ubiquitous in todays world, as almost every manufactured object begins as a digital model across industries. At the same time, advances in 3D sensing have made point clouds a dominant form of raw 3D data. Recovering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Said Harb , Mehdi Maboudi , Markus Gerke

Point clouds and polygonal meshes are widely used when modeling real-world scenarios. Here, point clouds arise, for instance, from acquisition processes applied in various surroundings, such as reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, or…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Henriette Lipschütz , Ulrich Reitebuch , Konrad Polthier , Martin Skrodzki