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This paper solves the problem of computing conformal structures of general 2-manifolds represented as triangle meshes. We compute conformal structures in the following way: first compute homology bases from simplicial complex structures,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Xianfeng Gu , Shing-Tung Yau

We introduce a framework for the recovery of points on a smooth surface in high-dimensional space, with application to dynamic imaging. We assume the surface to be the zero-level set of a bandlimited function. We show that the exponential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Sunrita Poddar , Mathews Jacob

In this article, a new method for segmentation and restoration of images on two-dimensional surfaces is given. Active contour models for image segmentation are extended to images on surfaces. The evolving curves on the surfaces are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Heike Benninghoff , Harald Garcke

This paper addresses the problem of identifying the topology of an unknown, weighted, directed network running a consensus dynamics. We propose a methodology to reconstruct the network topology from the dynamic response when the system is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Shahin Shahrampour , Victor M. Preciado

We provide a data structure for maintaining an embedding of a graph on a surface (represented combinatorially by a permutation of edges around each vertex) and computing generators of the fundamental group of the surface, in amortized time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Eppstein

The three-dimensional reconstruction of scenes from multiple views has made impressive strides in recent years, chiefly by methods correlating isolated feature points, intensities, or curvilinear structure. In the general setting, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Anil Usumezbas , Ricardo Fabbri , Benjamin Kimia

The paper develops a method for recovering a one-dimensional rough surface profile from scattered wave field, using a single receiver and repeated measurements when the surface is moving with respect to source and receiver. This extends a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-26 Yuxuan Chen , Mark Spivack , Orsola Rath Spivack

Point cloud reconstruction from raw point cloud has been an important topic in computer graphics for decades, especially due to its high demand in modeling and rendering applications. An important way to solve this problem is establishing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Hui Tian , Kai Xu

Consider a graph drawn on a surface (for example, the plane minus a finite set of obstacle points), possibly with crossings. We provide an algorithm to decide whether such a drawing can be untangled, namely, if one can slide the vertices…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Éric Colin de Verdière , Vincent Despré , Loïc Dubois

The systems without symmetries, e.g. the spatial and chiral symmetries, are generally thought to be improper for topological study and no conventional integral topological invariant can be well defined. In this work, with multi-band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Yunlin Li , Jingguang Chen , Xingchao Qi , Langlang Xiong , Xianjun Wang , Yufu Liu , Fang Guan , Lei Shi , Xunya Jiang

Structured reconstruction is a non-trivial dense prediction problem, which extracts structural information (\eg, building corners and edges) from a raster image, then reconstructs it to a 2D planar graph accordingly. Compared with common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Hongbo Tian , Yulong Li , Linzhi Huang , Xu Ling , Yue Yang , Jiani Hu

We show how, given a sufficiently large point cloud sampled from an embedded 2-manifold in $\mathbb{R}^n$, we may obtain a global representation as a cell complex with vertices given by a representative subset of the point cloud. The vertex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Tyrus Berry , Steven Schluchter

We present a specially designed evolutionary algorithm for the prediction of surface reconstructions. This new technique allows one to automatically explore all the low-energy configurations with variable surface atoms and variable surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-05 Qiang Zhu , Li Li , Artem R. Oganov , Philip B. Allen

Point cloud data represents a crucial category of information for mathematical modeling, and surface reconstruction from such data is an important task across various disciplines. However, during the scanning process, the collected point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hao Liu

Reconstructing 2D curves from sample points has long been a critical challenge in computer graphics, finding essential applications in vector graphics. The design and editing of curves on surfaces has only recently begun to receive…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Diana Marin , Filippo Maggioli , Simone Melzi , Stefan Ohrhallinger , Michael Wimmer

The braid monodromy factorization of the branch curve of a surface of general type is known to be an invariant that completely determines the diffeomorphism type of the surface. Calculating this factorization is of high technical…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Friedman , Mina Teicher

We propose a Semi-Lagrangian scheme coupled with Radial Basis Function interpolation for approximating a curvature-related level set model, which has been proposed by Zhao et al. in \cite{ZOMK} to reconstruct unknown surfaces from sparse,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Elisabetta Carlini , Roberto Ferretti

In this article we show that the reconstructions of semiconductor surfaces can be determined using a genetic procedure. Coupled with highly optimized interatomic potentials, the present approach represents an efficient tool for finding and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 F. C. Chuang , C. V. Ciobanu , V. B. Shenoy , C. Z. Wang , K. M. Ho

Direct B-Rep generation is increasingly important in CAD workflows, eliminating costly modeling sequence data and supporting complex features. A key challenge is modeling joint distribution of the misaligned geometry and topology. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Weilin Lai , Tie Xu , Hu Wang

Man-made objects usually exhibit descriptive curved features (i.e., curve networks). The curve network of an object conveys its high-level geometric and topological structure. We present a framework for extracting feature curve networks…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Yuanhao Cao , Liangliang Nan , Peter Wonka