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This paper introduces a novel method for reconstructing meshes from sparse point clouds by predicting edge connection. Existing implicit methods usually produce superior smooth and watertight meshes due to the isosurface extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Weimin Wang , Yingxu Deng , Zezeng Li , Yu Liu , Na Lei

The real-world effectiveness of deep neural networks often depends on their latency, thereby necessitating optimization techniques that can reduce a model's inference time while preserving its performance. One popular approach is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jakob Hartmann , Guoliang He , Eiko Yoneki

Rendering an accurate image of an isosurface in a volumetric field typically requires large numbers of data samples. Reducing the number of required samples lies at the core of research in volume rendering. With the advent of deep learning…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sebastian Weiss , Mengyu Chu , Nils Thuerey , Rüdiger Westermann

The equilibrium configuration of a plasma in an axially symmetric reactor is described mathematically by a free boundary problem associated with the celebrated Grad--Shafranov equation. The presence of uncertainty in the model parameters…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Howard C. Elman , Jiaxing Liang , Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet

We present a new effective way for performance capture of deforming meshes with fine-scale time-varying surface detail from multi-view video. Our method builds up on coarse 4D surface reconstructions, as obtained with commonly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Nadia Robertini , Edilson De Aguiar , Thomas Helten , Christian Theobalt

We describe a novel simulation method that eliminates the slowing-down problem in the Monte Carlo simulations of imaginary-time path integrals near the continuum limit. This method combines a stochastic blocking procedure with the multigrid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. H. Mak , Sergei Zakharov

Simulations of many rigid bodies colliding with each other sometimes yield particularly interesting results if the colliding objects differ significantly in size and are non-spherical. The most expensive part within such a simulation code…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Peter J. Noble , Tobias Weinzierl

We consider a popular family of constrained optimization problems arising in machine learning that involve optimizing a non-decomposable evaluation metric with a certain thresholded form, while constraining another metric of interest.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Abhishek Kumar , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Andrew Cotter

We introduce inference trees (ITs), a new class of inference methods that build on ideas from Monte Carlo tree search to perform adaptive sampling in a manner that balances exploration with exploitation, ensures consistency, and alleviates…

The reconstruction of a smooth field onto a fixed grid is a necessary step for direct comparisons to various real-world observations. Projecting SPH data onto a fixed grid becomes challenging in adaptive environments, where some particles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-14 Josh Borrow , Ashley J. Kelly

Neural implicit surface representations are currently receiving a lot of interest as a means to achieve high-fidelity surface reconstruction at a low memory cost, compared to traditional explicit representations.However, state-of-the-art…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Shuo Sun , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

Deep implicit surfaces excel at modeling generic shapes but do not always capture the regularities present in manufactured objects, which is something simple geometric primitives are particularly good at. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Subeesh Vasu , Nicolas Talabot , Artem Lukoianov , Pierre Baqué , Jonathan Donier , Pascal Fua

While three-dimensional (3D) building models play an increasingly pivotal role in many real-world applications, obtaining a compact representation of buildings remains an open problem. In this paper, we present a novel framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhaiyu Chen , Hugo Ledoux , Seyran Khademi , Liangliang Nan

In applications like computer aided design, geometric models are often represented numerically as polynomial splines or NURBS, even when they originate from primitive geometry. For purposes such as redesign and isogeometric analysis, it is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Andrea Raffo , Oliver J. D. Barrowclough , Georg Muntingh

It has become increasingly easy nowadays to collect approximate posterior samples via fast algorithms such as variational Bayes, but concerns exist about the estimation accuracy. It is tempting to build solutions that exploit approximate…

Computation · Statistics 2024-06-17 Leo L. Duan , Anirban Bhattacharya

Scale analysis based on coarse-graining has been proposed recently as an alternative to Fourier analysis. It is now broadly used to analyze energy spectra and energy transfers in eddy-resolving ocean simulations. However, for data from…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Kacper Nowak , Sergey Danilov , Vasco Müller , Caili Liu

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have been demonstrated to achieve state-of-the-art compression of a broad range of modalities such as images, videos, 3D surfaces, and audio. Most studies have focused on building neural counterparts…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sai Karthikey Pentapati , Gregoire Phillips , Alan Bovik

This paper presents a high-order accurate numerical quadrature algorithm for evaluating integrals over curved surfaces and regions defined implicitly via a level set of a given function restricted to a hyperrectangle. The domain is divided…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Zibo Zhao

Learning neural implicit fields of 3D shapes is a rapidly emerging field that enables shape representation at arbitrary resolutions. Due to the flexibility, neural implicit fields have succeeded in many research areas, including shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yifei Shi , Boyan Wan , Xin Xu , Kai Xu

Discontinuous visibility changes remain a major bottleneck when optimizing surfaces within a physically-based inverse renderer. Many previous works have proposed sophisticated algorithms and data structures to sample visibility silhouettes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Ziyi Zhang , Nicolas Roussel , Wenzel Jakob