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Parametric 3D models have enabled a wide variety of tasks in computer graphics and vision, such as modeling human bodies, faces, and hands. However, the construction of these parametric models is often tedious, as it requires heavy manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Pablo Palafox , Aljaž Božič , Justus Thies , Matthias Nießner , Angela Dai

Implicit neural representations have emerged as a powerful tool in learning 3D geometry, offering unparalleled advantages over conventional representations like mesh-based methods. A common type of INR implicitly encodes a shape's boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Shen Fan , Przemyslaw Musialski

One challenge that remains open in 3D deep learning is how to efficiently represent 3D data to feed deep networks. Recent works have relied on volumetric or point cloud representations, but such approaches suffer from a number of issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Jhony K. Pontes , Chen Kong , Sridha Sridharan , Simon Lucey , Anders Eriksson , Clinton Fookes

Learning expressive molecular representations is crucial to facilitate the accurate prediction of molecular properties. Despite the significant advancement of graph neural networks (GNNs) in molecular representation learning, they generally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Hossein Hajiabolhassan , Zahra Taheri , Ali Hojatnia , Yavar Taheri Yeganeh

With the recent advances in hardware and rendering techniques, 3D models have emerged everywhere in our life. Yet creating 3D shapes is arduous and requires significant professional knowledge. Meanwhile, Deep learning has enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zhiqin Chen

Developing deep learning techniques for geometric data is an active and fruitful research area. This paper tackles the problem of sphere-type surface learning by developing a novel surface-to-image representation. Using this representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Niv Haim , Nimrod Segol , Heli Ben-Hamu , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

The recent proliferation of 3D content that can be consumed on hand-held devices necessitates efficient tools for transmitting large geometric data, e.g., 3D meshes, over the Internet. Detailed high-resolution assets can pose a challenge to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Yun-Chun Chen , Vladimir G. Kim , Noam Aigerman , Alec Jacobson

Mesh denoising, aimed at removing noise from input meshes while preserving their feature structures, is a practical yet challenging task. Despite the remarkable progress in learning-based mesh denoising methodologies in recent years, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Wenbo Zhao , Xianming Liu , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

We investigate the problem of learning to generate 3D parametric surface representations for novel object instances, as seen from one or more views. Previous work on learning shape reconstruction from multiple views uses discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Jiahui Lei , Srinath Sridhar , Paul Guerrero , Minhyuk Sung , Niloy Mitra , Leonidas J. Guibas

The rapid growth of 3D content from modern reconstruction and generative pipelines, such as neural rendering and large-scale 3D asset generation, has led to an abundance of dense, noisy, and often non-manifold meshes. While these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kunal Bhosikar , Preet Savalia , Lokender Tiwari , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

This paper describes a method for fast simplification of surface meshes. Whereas past methods focus on visual appearance, our goal is to solve equations on the surface. Hence, rather than approximate the extrinsic geometry, we construct a…

In stark contrast to the case of images, finding a concise, learnable discrete representation of 3D surfaces remains a challenge. In particular, while polygon meshes are arguably the most common surface representation used in geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nissim Maruani , Roman Klokov , Maks Ovsjanikov , Pierre Alliez , Mathieu Desbrun

We introduce the novel method for estimation of mean and Gaussian curvature and several related quantities for polygonal meshes. The algebraic quadric fitting curvature (AQFC) is based on local approximation of the mesh vertices and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Marcel Makovník , Pavel Chalmoviansky

Neural representations of 3D data have been widely adopted across various applications, particularly in recent work leveraging coordinate-based networks to model scalar or vector fields. However, these approaches face inherent challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Biao Zhang , Jing Ren , Peter Wonka

Our world is full of asymmetries. Gravity and wind can make reaching a place easier than coming back. Social artifacts such as genealogy charts and citation graphs are inherently directed. In reinforcement learning and control, optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Tongzhou Wang , Phillip Isola

Accurate surface geometry representation is crucial in 3D visual computing. Explicit representations, such as polygonal meshes, and implicit representations, like signed distance functions, each have distinct advantages, making efficient…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Christian Stippel , Felix Mujkanovic , Thomas Leimkühler , Pedro Hermosilla

Quad meshes are essential in geometric modeling and computational mechanics. Although learning-based methods for triangle mesh demonstrate considerable advancements, quad mesh generation remains less explored due to the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zezeng Li , Zhihui Qi , Weimin Wang , Ziliang Wang , Junyi Duan , Na Lei

Most attempts to represent 3D shapes for deep learning have focused on volumetric grids, multi-view images and point clouds. In this paper we look at the most popular representation of 3D shapes in computer graphics - a triangular mesh -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Alon Lahav , Ayellet Tal

Recently, deep learning methods have been proposed for quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) data processing: background field removal, field-to-source inversion, and single-step QSM reconstruction. However, the conventional padding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Juan Liu

3D shape representations that accommodate learning-based 3D reconstruction are an open problem in machine learning and computer graphics. Previous work on neural 3D reconstruction demonstrated benefits, but also limitations, of point cloud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Jun Gao , Wenzheng Chen , Tommy Xiang , Clement Fuji Tsang , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler