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3D shape analysis has been largely focused on traditional 3D representations of point clouds and meshes, but the discrete nature of these data makes the analysis susceptible to variations in input resolutions. Recent development of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Huan Lei , Hongdong Li , Andreas Geiger , Anthony Dick

Depth imaging is vital for many emerging technologies with applications in augmented reality, robotics, gesture detection, and facial recognition. These applications, however, demand compact and low-power systems beyond the capabilities of…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-29 Shane Colburn , Arka Majumdar

Many types of neutron spectrometer use a conventional primary spectrometer consisting of some collimator, a crystal monochromator and a second collimator. Conventional resolution descriptions use instrument parameter values to deduce the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-21 Leo D. Cussen

The structure of single atoms in real space is investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy. Very high resolution is possible by a dramatic reduction of the tip-sample distance. The instabilities which are normally encountered when using…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Herz , F. J. Giessibl , J. Mannhart

This paper introduces a set of numerical methods for Riemannian shape analysis of 3D surfaces within the setting of invariant (elastic) second-order Sobolev metrics. More specifically, we address the computation of geodesics and geodesic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Emmanuel Hartman , Yashil Sukurdeep , Eric Klassen , Nicolas Charon , Martin Bauer

We introduce "microdeflectometry", a novel technique for measuring the microtopography of specular surfaces. The primary data is the local slope of the surface under test. Measuring the slope instead of the height implies high information…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gerd Häusler , Claus Richter , Karl-Heinz Leitz , Markus C. Knauer

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is a powerful technique for mapping nanoscale surface properties through tip-sample interactions. Thermal scanning-probe lithography (tSPL) is an advanced SPM variant that uses a silicon tip on a heated…

Atom probe tomography (APT) is often quoted to provide "atomic-scale" analysis of materials in three dimensions. Despite efforts to quantify APT's spatial resolution, misunderstanding remain regarding its true spatial performance. If the…

A prerequisite for many biomechanical simulation techniques is discretizing a bounded volume into a tetrahedral mesh. In certain contexts, such as cortical surface simulations, preserving input surface connectivity is critical. However,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Besm Osman , Ruben Vink , Andrei Jalba , Maxime Chamberland

Curved-spacetime geometric-optics maps derived from a deep photometric survey should contain information about the three-dimensional matter distribution and thus about cosmic voids in the survey, despite projection effects. We explore to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Marius Peper , Boudewijn F. Roukema , Krzysztof Bolejko

Neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) observations are fundamental to understand the dynamics of galaxies, their assembly, the fuelling of their star formation and environmental interactions. HI studies have so far been limited by the capabilities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-16 F. M. Maccagni , W. J. G. de Blok

Ground-penetrating radar on planes and satellites now makes it practical to collect 3D observations of the subsurface structure of the polar ice sheets, providing crucial data for understanding and tracking global climate change. But…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Mingze Xu , David J Crandall , Geoffrey C Fox , John D Paden

Topological photonic crystals have received considerable attention for their ability to manipulate and guide light in unique ways. They are typically designed by hand based on careful analysis of their bands and mode profiles, but recent…

We consider the problem of localizing relevant subsets of non-rigid geometric shapes given only a partial 3D query as the input. Such problems arise in several challenging tasks in 3D vision and graphics, including partial shape similarity,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Arianna Rampini , Irene Tallini , Maks Ovsjanikov , Alex M. Bronstein , Emanuele Rodolà

Head pose estimation plays a vital role in various applications, e.g., driverassistance systems, human-computer interaction, virtual reality technology, and so on. We propose a novel geometry based algorithm for accurately estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Hui Yuan , Mengyu Li , Junhui Hou , Jimin Xiao

Particle-based shape modeling (PSM) is a family of approaches that automatically quantifies shape variability across anatomical cohorts by positioning particles (pseudo landmarks) on shape surfaces in a consistent configuration. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Hong Xu , Shireen Y. Elhabian

In this work, we present the computational simulations of holographic metasurfaces to generation of the optical non-diffracting beams. The metasurfaces are designed by the holographic technique and the computer-generated holograms (CGHs) of…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-22 Santiago R. C. Fernandez , Marcos R. R. Gesualdi

Nanoscale surface analysis of 1 micrometer thick high entropy alloys (HEAs) was carried out using nano-IR for hyperspectral imaging and single point spectroscopy in the 700-1700 1/cm spectral range. Nano-IR is based on the detection of…

Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM) is a scanning probe technique aimed at quantitative characterization of local thermal properties at the length scale down to tens of nanometers. With many probe designs and approaches to interpretation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-12 Alexander Tselev

3D generation and reconstruction techniques have been widely used in computer games, film, and other content creation areas. As the application grows, there is a growing demand for 3D shapes that look truly realistic. Traditional evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Sheng Liu , Tianyu Luan , Phani Nuney , Xuelu Feng , Junsong Yuan