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Neural surface reconstruction faces persistent challenges in reconciling geometric fidelity with photometric consistency under complex scene conditions. We present HiNeuS, a unified framework that holistically addresses three core…

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Automated surface segmentation is important and challenging in many medical image analysis applications. Recent deep learning based methods have been developed for various object segmentation tasks. Most of them are a classification based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Leixin Zhou , Xiaodong Wu

In this technical report, we investigate efficient representations of articulated objects (e.g. human bodies), which is an important problem in computer vision and graphics. To deform articulated geometry, existing approaches represent…

The approximation of data is a fundamental challenge encountered in various fields, including computer-aided geometric design, the numerical solution of partial differential equations, or the design of curves and surfaces. Numerous methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Inmaculada Garcés , José M. Ramón , Juan Ruiz-Álvarez , Dionisio F. Yáñez

We study the non-embddability property for a class of real hypersurfaces, called real hypersurfaces of involution type, into the sphere in the low codimensional case, by making use of property of a naturally related Gauss curvature. We also…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-10-16 Xiaojun Huang , Shanyu Ji , Brandon Lee

In this work, we present a novel non-rigid shape matching framework based on multi-resolution functional maps with spectral attention. Existing functional map learning methods all rely on the critical choice of the spectral resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Lei Li , Nicolas Donati , Maks Ovsjanikov

Traditional methods for high-dimensional diffeomorphic mapping often struggle with the curse of dimensionality. We propose a mesh-free learning framework designed for $n$-dimensional mapping problems, seamlessly combining variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Zhiwen Li , Cheuk Hin Ho , Lok Ming Lui

In many imaging applications where segmented features (e.g. blood vessels) are further used for other numerical simulations (e.g. finite element analysis), the obtained surfaces do not have fine resolutions suitable for the task. Increasing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Yiyao Zhang , Ke Chen , Shang-Hua Yang

We introduce Neural Deformation Graphs for globally-consistent deformation tracking and 3D reconstruction of non-rigid objects. Specifically, we implicitly model a deformation graph via a deep neural network. This neural deformation graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Aljaž Božič , Pablo Palafox , Michael Zollhöfer , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Robust optimization is concerned with constructing solutions that remain feasible also when a limited number of resources is removed from the solution. Most studies of robust combinatorial optimization to date made the assumption that every…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-21 David Adjiashvili

The notion of discrete conformality proposed by Luo and Bobenko-Pinkall-Springborn on triangle meshes has rich mathematical theories and wide applications. Gu et al. proved that the discrete uniformizations approximate the continuous…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-18 Yanwen Luo , Tianqi Wu , Xiaoping Zhu

Variational inequalities play a pivotal role in a wide array of scientific and engineering applications. This project presents two techniques for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) in the context of variational inequalities, with a specific…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Giuliano Stefano Fochesatto

Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity is an important invariant of projective algebraic varieties. A well known conjecture due to Eisenbud and Goto gives a bound for regularity in terms of the codimension and degree,i.e., Castelnuovo-Mumford…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sijong Kwak

Tube-like surfaces are widely encountered in geometry processing, engineering structures, and medical anatomy, yet their intrinsic longitudinal and circumferential topology is not well preserved by conventional planar annular or rectangular…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shunyu Yao , Gary P. T. Choi

This paper introduces a new linear parameterization to the problem of visual inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (VI-SLAM) -- without any approximation -- for the case only using information from a single monocular camera and an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-23 Bowen Yi , Chi Jin , Lei Wang , Guodong Shi , Viorela Ila , Ian R. Manchester

The present work investigates the segmentation of textures by formulating it as a strongly convex optimization problem, aiming to favor piecewise constancy of fractal features (local variance and local regularity) widely used to model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Barbara Pascal , Nelly Pustelnik , Patrice Abry

Surface reconstruction from sparse views aims to reconstruct a 3D shape or scene from few RGB images. The latest methods are either generalization-based or overfitting-based. However, the generalization-based methods do not generalize well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Liang Han , Xu Zhang , Haichuan Song , Kanle Shi , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Contrastive learning has proven to be highly efficient and adaptable in shaping representation spaces across diverse modalities by pulling similar samples together and pushing dissimilar ones apart. However, two key limitations persist: (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ziwen Wang , Jiajun Fan , Thao Nguyen , Heng Ji , Ge Liu

This paper discusses an important issue about the virtual fields method when it is used to identify nonhomogeneous shear moduli of nearly incompressible solids. From simulated examples, we observed that conventional virtual fields, which…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-12-13 Yue Mei , Stéphane Avril

In multidisciplinary optimization the designer needs to find solution to optimization problems which include a number of usually contradicting criteria. Such a problem is mathematically related to the field of nonlinear vector optimization…

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