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Computationally efficient and accurate simulations of the flow over axisymmetric bodies of revolution (ABR) has been an important desideratum for engineering design. In this article the flow field over an ABR is predicted using machine…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-16 J P Panda , H V Warrior

This paper describes a study based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and deep neural networks that focusing on predicting the flow field in differently distorted U-shaped pipes. The main motivation of this work was to get an insight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Gergely Hajgató , Bálint Gyires-Tóth , György Paál

We present a novel deep learning framework for flow field predictions in irregular domains when the solution is a function of the geometry of either the domain or objects inside the domain. Grid vertices in a computational fluid dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ali Kashefi , Davis Rempe , Leonidas J. Guibas

This works investigates the generalization capabilities of MeshGraphNets (MGN) [Pfaff et al. Learning Mesh-Based Simulation with Graph Networks. ICML 2021] to unseen geometries for fluid dynamics, e.g. predicting the flow around a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Robin Schmöcker , Alexander Henkes , Julian Roth , Thomas Wick

We present learning-based implicit shape representations designed for real-time avatar collision queries arising in the simulation of clothing. Signed distance functions (SDFs) have been used for such queries for many years due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Osman Akar , Yushan Han , Yizhou Chen , Weixian Lan , Benn Gallagher , Ronald Fedkiw , Joseph Teran

Dense reconstruction and differentiable rendering are fundamental tightly connected operations in 3D vision and computer graphics. Recent neural implicit representations demonstrate compelling advantages in reconstruction fidelity and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhirui Dai , Hojoon Shin , Yulun Tian , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov

We propose SDFDiff, a novel approach for image-based shape optimization using differentiable rendering of 3D shapes represented by signed distance functions (SDFs). Compared to other representations, SDFs have the advantage that they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yue Jiang , Dantong Ji , Zhizhong Han , Matthias Zwicker

We introduce a novel masked pre-training technique for graph neural networks (GNNs) applied to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problems. By randomly masking up to 40\% of input mesh nodes during pre-training, we force the model to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Paul Garnier , Vincent Lannelongue , Jonathan Viquerat , Elie Hachem

Recent efforts have extended the flow-matching framework to discrete generative modeling. One strand of models directly works with the continuous probabilities instead of discrete tokens, which we colloquially refer to as Continuous-State…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Chaoran Cheng , Jiahan Li , Jiajun Fan , Ge Liu

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

Machine learning techniques are essential tools to compute efficient, yet accurate, force fields for atomistic simulations. This approach has recently been extended to incorporate quantum computational methods, making use of variational…

Neural Surface Reconstruction has become a standard methodology for indoor 3D reconstruction, with Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) proving particularly effective for representing scene geometry. A variety of applications require a detailed…

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This work proposes an optimization-based manipulation planning framework where the objectives are learned functionals of signed-distance fields that represent objects in the scene. Most manipulation planning approaches rely on analytical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Danny Driess , Jung-Su Ha , Marc Toussaint , Russ Tedrake

Accurately, efficiently, and stably computing complex fluid flows and their evolution near solid boundaries over long horizons remains challenging. Conventional numerical solvers require fine grids and small time steps to resolve near-wall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chenglin Li , Hang Xu , Jianting Chen , Yanfei Zhang

We introduce Neural Flow Maps, a novel simulation method bridging the emerging paradigm of implicit neural representations with fluid simulation based on the theory of flow maps, to achieve state-of-the-art simulation of inviscid fluid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Yitong Deng , Hong-Xing Yu , Diyang Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Bo Zhu

Accurate segmentation of vascular networks from sparse CT scan slices remains a significant challenge in medical imaging, particularly due to the thin, branching nature of vessels and the inherent sparsity between imaging planes. Existing…

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Unraveling the connections between microscopic structure, emergent physical properties, and slow dynamics has long been a challenge when studying the glass transition. The absence of clear visible structural order in amorphous…

Recent works on implicit neural representations have shown promising results for multi-view surface reconstruction. However, most approaches are limited to relatively simple geometries and usually require clean object masks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jingyang Zhang , Yao Yao , Long Quan

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have shown remarkable capability in representing geometry with details. However, without signed distance supervision, it is still a challenge to infer SDFs from point clouds or multi-view images using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Baorui Ma , Junsheng Zhou , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We present a simple algorithm for differentiable rendering of surfaces represented by Signed Distance Fields (SDF), which makes it easy to integrate rendering into gradient-based optimization pipelines. To tackle visibility-related…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zichen Wang , Xi Deng , Ziyi Zhang , Wenzel Jakob , Steve Marschner