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The automatic design of a 3D tooth model plays a crucial role in dental digitization. However, current approaches face challenges in compositional 3D tooth generation because both the layouts and shapes of missing teeth need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yan Tian , Pengcheng Xue , Weiping Ding , Mahmoud Hassaballah , Karen Egiazarian , Aura Conci , Abdulkadir Sengur , Leszek Rutkowski

The increasing availability of intraoral scanning devices has heightened their importance in modern clinical orthodontics. Clinicians utilize advanced Computer-Aided Design techniques to create patient-specific treatment plans that include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Tibor Kubík , Oldřich Kodym , Petr Šilling , Kateřina Trávníčková , Tomáš Mojžiš , Jan Matula

Mesh generation is of great value in various applications involving computer graphics and virtual content, yet designing generative models for meshes is challenging due to their irregular data structure and inconsistent topology of meshes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Zhaoyang Lyu , Jinyi Wang , Yuwei An , Ya Zhang , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

We propose a new neural network, called isomorphic mesh generator (iMG), which generates isomorphic meshes from point clouds containing noise and missing parts. Isomorphic meshes of arbitrary objects have a unified mesh structure even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Shoko Miyauchi , Ken'ichi Morooka , Ryo Kurazume

Mechanical metamaterials enable precise control over structural properties, but their design method remains challenging due to their complex structure. Although additive manufacturing has expanded geometric freedom, navigating this vast and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-18 Kijung Kim , Seungwook Hong , Wonjun Jung , Wooseok Kim , Namjung Kim , Howon Lee

Iterative methods such as iterative closest point (ICP) for point cloud registration often suffer from bad local optimality (e.g. saddle points), due to the nature of nonconvex optimization. To address this fundamental challenge, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ziming Zhang , Yuping Shao , Yiqing Zhang , Fangzhou Lin , Haichong Zhang , Elke Rundensteiner

How to extract significant point cloud features and estimate the pose between them remains a challenging question, due to the inherent lack of structure and ambiguous order permutation of point clouds. Despite significant improvements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zhu Xu , Zhengyao Bai , Huijie Liu , Qianjie Lu , Shenglan Fan

Point cloud completion is the task of predicting complete geometry from partial observations using a point set representation for a 3D shape. Previous approaches propose neural networks to directly estimate the whole point cloud through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Alexis Mendoza , Alexander Apaza , Ivan Sipiran , Cristian Lopez

We propose a novel approach for 3D shape completion by synthesizing multi-view depth maps. While previous work for shape completion relies on volumetric representations, meshes, or point clouds, we propose to use multi-view depth maps from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Tao Hu , Zhizhong Han , Abhinav Shrivastava , Matthias Zwicker

A generative model for high-fidelity point clouds is of great importance in synthesizing 3d environments for applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Despite the recent success of deep generative models for 2d images, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Cheng Wen , Baosheng Yu , Rao Fu , Dacheng Tao

Manual tooth segmentation of 3D tooth meshes is tedious and there is variations among dentists. %Manual tooth annotation of 3D tooth meshes is a tedious task. Several deep learning based methods have been proposed to perform automatic tooth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Ananya Jana , Hrebesh Molly Subhash , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities across various low-level vision tasks. However, their potential for point cloud completion remains underexplored due to the unstructured and irregular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zijun Li , Hongyu Yan , Shijie Li , Kunming Luo , Li Lu , Xulei Yang , Weisi Lin

Point cloud processing is very challenging, as the diverse shapes formed by irregular points are often indistinguishable. A thorough grasp of the elusive shape requires sufficiently contextual semantic information, yet few works devote to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yongcheng Liu , Bin Fan , Gaofeng Meng , Jiwen Lu , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Point clouds are often sparse and incomplete. Existing shape completion methods are incapable of generating details of objects or learning the complex point distributions. To this end, we propose a cascaded refinement network together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Xiaogang Wang , Marcelo H Ang , Gim Hee Lee

Point cloud completion is essential for robust 3D perception in safety-critical applications such as robotics and augmented reality. However, existing models perform static inference and rely heavily on inductive biases learned during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Linlian Jiang , Rui Ma , Li Gu , Ziqiang Wang , Xinxin Zuo , Yang Wang

Automatic mesh-based shape generation is of great interest across a wide range of disciplines, from industrial design to gaming, computer graphics and various other forms of digital art. While most traditional methods focus on primitive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Philip Marcus

We present a method for reconstructing triangle meshes from point clouds. Existing learning-based methods for mesh reconstruction mostly generate triangles individually, making it hard to create manifold meshes. We leverage the properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Paul Guerrero , Noam Aigerman , Niloy Mitra , Maks Ovsjanikov

Point cloud completion aims to recover the completed 3D shape of an object from its partial observation caused by occlusion, sensor's limitation, noise, etc. When some key semantic information is lost in the incomplete point cloud, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Zhanpeng Luo , Linna Wang , Guangwu Qian , Li Lu

In recent years, the demand for dental implants has surged, driven by their high success rates and esthetic advantages. However, accurate prediction of missing teeth for precise digital implant planning remains a challenge due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Lei Ma , Peng Xue , Yuning Gu , Yue Zhao , Min Zhu , Zhongxiang Ding , Dinggang Shen

Open-set semantic mapping enables language-driven robotic perception, but current instance-centric approaches are bottlenecked by context-depriving and computationally expensive crop-based feature extraction. To overcome this fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Felix Igelbrink , Lennart Niecksch , Martin Atzmueller , Joachim Hertzberg