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Recent generative models can create visually plausible 3D representations of objects. However, the generation process often allows for implicit control signals, such as contextual descriptions, and rarely supports bold geometric distortions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Changwoon Choi , Hyunsoo Lee , Clément Jambon , Yael Vinker , Young Min Kim

Three-dimensional Morphable Models (3DMMs) are powerful statistical tools for representing the 3D surfaces of an object class. In this context, we identify an interesting question that has previously not received research attention: is it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Stylianos Ploumpis , Haoyang Wang , Nick Pears , William A. P. Smith , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Generative models aim to learn the distribution of observed data by generating new instances. With the advent of neural networks, deep generative models, including variational autoencoders (VAEs), generative adversarial networks (GANs), and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zifan Shi , Sida Peng , Yinghao Xu , Andreas Geiger , Yiyi Liao , Yujun Shen

Impossible objects, geometric constructions that humans can perceive but that cannot exist in real life, have been a topic of intrigue in visual arts, perception, and graphics, yet no satisfying computer representation of such objects…

We present TetGAN, a convolutional neural network designed to generate tetrahedral meshes. We represent shapes using an irregular tetrahedral grid which encodes an occupancy and displacement field. Our formulation enables defining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 William Gao , April Wang , Gal Metzer , Raymond A. Yeh , Rana Hanocka

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made great breakthroughs in 2D computer vision. However, their irregular structure makes it hard to harness the potential of CNNs directly on meshes. A subdivision surface provides a hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Shi-Min Hu , Zheng-Ning Liu , Meng-Hao Guo , Jun-Xiong Cai , Jiahui Huang , Tai-Jiang Mu , Ralph R. Martin

In modern computer vision, the optimal representation of 3D shape continues to be task-dependent. One fundamental operation applied to such representations is differentiable rendering, as it enables inverse graphics approaches in learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

While recent learning based methods have been observed to be superior for several vision-related applications, their potential in generating artistic effects has not been explored much. One such interesting application is Shadow Art - a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Kaustubh Sadekar , Ashish Tiwari , Shanmuganathan Raman

Utilizing patch-based transformers for unstructured geometric data such as polygon meshes presents significant challenges, primarily due to the absence of a canonical ordering and variations in input sizes. Prior approaches to handling 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Mohammad Farazi , Yalin Wang

3D meshes are a fundamental representation widely used in computer science and engineering. In robotics, they are particularly valuable because they capture objects in a form that aligns directly with how robots interact with the physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Qian Wang , Omar Abdellall , Tony Gao , Xiatao Sun , Daniel Rakita

In this note we shall introduce a simple, effective numerical method for solving partial differential equations for scalar and vector-valued data defined on surfaces. Even though we shall follow the traditional way to approximate the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-07-13 Sheng-Gwo Chen , Mei-Hsiu Chi , Jyh-Yang Wu

Very recently neural implicit rendering techniques have been rapidly evolved and shown great advantages in novel view synthesis and 3D scene reconstruction. However, existing neural rendering methods for editing purposes offer limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Bangbang Yang , Chong Bao , Junyi Zeng , Hujun Bao , Yinda Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang

As several industries are moving towards modeling massive 3D virtual worlds, the need for content creation tools that can scale in terms of the quantity, quality, and diversity of 3D content is becoming evident. In our work, we aim to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jun Gao , Tianchang Shen , Zian Wang , Wenzheng Chen , Kangxue Yin , Daiqing Li , Or Litany , Zan Gojcic , Sanja Fidler

We introduce a new technique to create a mesh of convex polyhedra representing the interior volume of a triangulated input surface. Our approach is particularly tolerant to defects in the input, which is allowed to self-intersect, to be…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Lorenzo Diazzi , Marco Attene

This paper presents a simple yet powerful method for 3D human mesh reconstruction from a single RGB image. Most recently, the non-local interactions of the whole mesh vertices have been effectively estimated in the transformer while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Jeonghwan Kim , Mi-Gyeong Gwon , Hyunwoo Park , Hyukmin Kwon , Gi-Mun Um , Wonjun Kim

In this paper we propose a new approach to incrementally initialize a manifold surface for automatic 3D reconstruction from images. More precisely we focus on the automatic initialization of a 3D mesh as close as possible to the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Andrea Romanoni , Amaël Delaunoy , Marc Pollefeys , Matteo Matteucci

Converting a three-dimensional medical image into a 3D mesh that satisfies both the quality and fidelity constraints of predictive simulations and image-guided surgical procedures remains a critical problem. Presented is an image-to-mesh…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Fotis Drakopoulos , Kevin Garner , Christopher Rector , Nikos Chrisochoides

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

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

We introduce a novel learning-based method for encoding and manipulating 3D surface meshes. Our method is specifically designed to create an interpretable embedding space for deformable shape collections. Unlike previous 3D mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Sara Hahner , Souhaib Attaiki , Jochen Garcke , Maks Ovsjanikov