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Single-view 3D object reconstruction is a challenging fundamental problem in computer vision, largely due to the morphological diversity of objects in the natural world. In particular, high curvature regions are not always captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ziyun Wang , Eric A. Mitchell , Volkan Isler , Daniel D. Lee

Despite increasingly realistic image quality, recent 3D image generative models often operate on 3D volumes of fixed extent with limited camera motions. We investigate the task of unconditionally synthesizing unbounded nature scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Lucy Chai , Richard Tucker , Zhengqi Li , Phillip Isola , Noah Snavely

For stationary first passage percolation in two dimensions, the existence and uniqueness of semi-infinite geodesics directed in particular directions or sectors has been considered by Damron and Hanson (Commun. Math. Phys., 2014), Ahlberg…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Kenneth S. Alexander , Quentin Berger

The question whether a Riemannian manifold is geodesically connected can be studied from geometrical as well as variational methods, and accurate results can be obtained by using the associated distance and related properties of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Miguel Sanchez

We study Busemann functions, semi-infinite geodesics, and competition interfaces in the exactly solvable last-passage percolation with inhomogeneous exponential weights. New phenomena concerning geodesics arise due to inhomogeneity. These…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Elnur Emrah , Christopher Janjigian , Timo Seppäläinen

New perspective form of equations for geodesic lines in Riemann Geometry was found. This method is based on the use of differential forms in differential equations as arguments of differentiation. At that, these forms do not have a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Victor I. Pogorelov

We tackle the challenging problem of creating full and accurate three dimensional reconstructions of botanical trees with the topological and geometric accuracy required for subsequent physical simulation, e.g. in response to wind forces.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Ed Quigley , Winnie Lin , Yilin Zhu , Ronald Fedkiw

We show how to reconstruct a finite directed graph E from its Toeplitz algebra, its gauge action, and the canonical finite-dimensional abelian subalgebra generated by the vertex projections. We also show that if E has no sinks, then we can…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Nathan Brownlowe , Marcelo Laca , David Robertson , Aidan Sims

We present a method to reconstruct indoor and outdoor static scene geometry and appearance from an omnidirectional video moving in a small circular sweep. This setting is challenging because of the small baseline and large depth ranges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hakyeong Kim , Andreas Meuleman , Hyeonjoong Jang , James Tompkin , Min H. Kim

Recovering the 3D shape of transparent objects using a small number of unconstrained natural images is an ill-posed problem. Complex light paths induced by refraction and reflection have prevented both traditional and deep multiview stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Zhengqin Li , Yu-Ying Yeh , Manmohan Chandraker

Many machine learning methods operate by inverting a neural network at inference time, which has become a popular technique for solving inverse problems in computer vision, robotics, and graphics. However, these methods often involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruoshi Liu , Chengzhi Mao , Purva Tendulkar , Hao Wang , Carl Vondrick

Unsigned distance functions offer a powerful and flexible implicit surface representation that, unlike their signed counterparts, allow for surfaces that are open, non-orientable, or non-manifold. We consider the problem of reconstructing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ningna Wang , Xiana Carrera , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein , Silvia Sellán

Describing the complex landscape of infinite-dimensional free energy is generally a challenging problem. This difficulty arises from the existence of numerous minimizers and, consequently, a vast number of saddle points. These factors make…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-15 Keiichiro Kagawa , Takeshi Watanabe , Yasumasa Nishiura

We show that a wide class of geometrically defined overdetermined semilinear partial differential equations may be explicitly prolonged to obtain closed systems. As a consequence, in the case of linear equations we extract sharp bounds on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Thomas Branson , Andreas Cap , Michael Eastwood , Rod Gover

Solving the so-called geodesic endpoint problem, i.e., finding a geodesic that connects two given points on a manifold, is at the basis of virtually all data processing operations, including averaging, clustering, interpolation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Thomas Bendokat , Ralf Zimmermann

We derive a general system of ODEs and associated explicit solutions in a special case for geodesics between full rank matrices in the deep linear network geometry. In the process, we find horizontal straight lines in the invariant balanced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Alan Chen

We analyse the solutions of networked heterogeneous nonlinear systems. We assume that the closed-loop interconnected systems form a network with an underlying connected directed graph that contains a directed spanning tree. For these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Anes Lazri , Mohamed Maghenem , Elena Panteley , Antonio Loria

Solving inverse problems in physics is central to understanding complex systems and advancing technologies in various fields. Iterative optimization algorithms, commonly used to solve these problems, often encounter local minima, chaos, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Girnar Goyal , Philipp Holl , Sweta Agrawal , Nils Thuerey

It is known that for a variety of choices of metrics, including the standard bottleneck distance, the space of persistence diagrams admits geodesics. Typically these existence results produce geodesics that have the form of a convex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Samir Chowdhury

We introduce bijections between families of rooted maps with unfixed genus and families of so-called blossoming trees endowed with an arbitrary forward matching of their leaves. We first focus on Eulerian maps with controlled vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Éric Fusy , Emmanuel Guitter