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Construction of spline surfaces from given boundary curves is one of the classical problems in computer aided geometric design, which regains much attention in isogeometric analysis in recent years and is called domain parameterization.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Maodong Pan , Falai Chen

The notions of discrete conformality on triangle meshes have rich mathematical theories and wide applications. The related notions of discrete uniformizations on triangle meshes, suggest efficient methods for computing the uniformizations…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Tianqi Wu , Xiaoping Zhu

Reliable estimation and approximation of probability density functions is fundamental for their further processing. However, their specific properties, i.e. scale invariance and relative scale, prevent the use of standard methods of spline…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-21 Stanislav Škorňa , Jitka Machalová , Jana Burkotová , Karel Hron , Sonja Greven

Many standard structural quantities, such as order parameters and correlation functions, exist for common condensed matter systems, such as spherical and rod-like particles. However, these structural quantities are often insufficient for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-18 Aaron S. Keys , Christopher R. Iacovella , Sharon C. Glotzer

Mapping a shape to some parametric domain is a fundamental tool in graphics and scientific computing. In practice, a map between two shapes is commonly represented by two meshes with same connectivity and different embedding. The standard…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Marco Livesu

Photometric variation of a directly imaged planet contains information on both the geography and spectra of the planetary surface. We propose a novel technique that disentangles the spatial and spectral information from the multi-band…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Hajime Kawahara

We investigate the quasisymmetric uniformization of a special class of metric surfaces known as paper surfaces, constructed as quotients of planar multipolygons via segment pairings, including infinite Type W identifications. These spaces,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Luciana Menezes Vasconcelos

We propose DeMapGS, a structured Gaussian Splatting framework that jointly optimizes deformable surfaces and surface-attached 2D Gaussian splats. By anchoring splats to a deformable template mesh, our method overcomes topological…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Shuyi Zhou , Shengze Zhong , Kenshi Takayama , Takafumi Taketomi , Takeshi Oishi

We propose a new effective method called spherical authalic energy minimization (SAEM) for computing spherical area-preserving parameterizations of genus-zero surfaces. The proposed SAEM has solid theoretical support and guaranteed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Shu-Yung Liu , Mei-Heng Yueh

Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (SNE) methods minimize the divergence between the similarity matrix of a high-dimensional data set and its counterpart from a low-dimensional embedding, leading to widely applied tools for data visualization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Yao Lu , Jukka Corander , Zhirong Yang

In this paper, we first derive a theoretical basis for spherical conformal parameterizations between a simply connected closed surface $\mathcal{S}$ and a unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$ by minimizing the Dirichlet energy on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Wei-Hung Liao , Tsung-Ming Huang , Wen-Wei Lin , Mei-Heng Yueh

Signed distance fields (SDFs) are a widely used implicit surface representation, with broad applications in computer graphics, computer vision, and applied mathematics. To reconstruct an explicit triangle mesh surface corresponding to an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Silvia Sellán , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein

This paper provides a normalized field product approach for topology optimization to achieve close-to-binary optimal designs. The method employs a parameter-free density measure that implicitly enforces a minimum length scale on the solid…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Nikhil Singh , Prabhat Kumar , Anupam Saxena

Existing depth completion methods are often targeted at a specific sparse depth type and generalize poorly across task domains. We present a method to complete sparse/semi-dense, noisy, and potentially low-resolution depth maps obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Guangkai Xu , Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Simon Chen , Jia-Wang Bian

Spatial scientometrics has attracted a lot of attention in the very recent past. The visualization methods (density maps) presented in this paper allow for an analysis revealing regions of excellence around the world using computer programs…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2011-04-13 Lutz Bornmann , Ludo Waltman

The rapidly evolving field of engineering design of functional surfaces necessitates sophisticated tools to manage the inherent complexity of high-dimensional design spaces. This survey paper offers a scoping review, i.e., a literature…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Andrea Serani , Matteo Diez

This paper presents a method to obtain geometric registrations between high-genus ($g\geq 1$) surfaces. Surface registration between simple surfaces, such as simply-connected open surfaces, has been well studied. However, very few works…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Chengfeng Wen , Lok Ming Lui

Graph coarsening is a widely used dimensionality reduction technique for approaching large-scale graph machine learning problems. Given a large graph, graph coarsening aims to learn a smaller-tractable graph while preserving the properties…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-04 Manoj Kumar , Anurag Sharma , Sandeep Kumar

Environment maps with high dynamic range lighting, such as daylight sky maps, require importance sampling to keep the balance between noise and number of samples per pixel manageable. Typically, importance sampling schemes for environment…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Martin Lambers

Intensity mapping is a promising technique for surveying the large scale structure of our Universe from $z=0$ to $z \sim 150$, using the brightness temperature field of spectral lines to directly observe previously unexplored portions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Adrian Liu , Yunfan Zhang , Aaron R. Parsons