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Boundary representation (B-rep) is the industry standard for computer-aided design (CAD). While deep learning shows promise in processing B-rep models, existing methods suffer from a representation gap: continuous approaches offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuanxu Sun , Yuezhou Ma , Haixu Wu , Guanyang Zeng , Muye Chen , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

We introduce a novel self-supervised learning framework that automatically learns representations from input computer-aided design (CAD) models for downstream tasks, including part classification, modeling segmentation, and machining…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yifei Li , Kang Wu , Wenming Wu , Xiao-Ming Fu

Recognizing geometric features on B-rep models is a cornerstone technique for multimedia content-based retrieval and has been widely applied in intelligent manufacturing. However, previous research often merely focused on Machining Feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Yongkang Dai , Xiaoshui Huang , Yunpeng Bai , Hao Guo , Hongping Gan , Ling Yang , Yilei Shi

The Boundary representation (B-rep) format is the de-facto shape representation in computer-aided design (CAD) to model solid and sheet objects. Recent approaches to generating CAD models have focused on learning sketch-and-extrude modeling…

The boundary representation (B-Rep) is the standard data structure used in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) for defining solid models. Despite recent progress, directly generating B-Reps end-to-end with precise geometry and watertight topology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xiang Xu , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Joseph G. Lambourne , Yilin Liu , Durvesh Malpure , Pete Meltzer

We introduce UV-Net, a novel neural network architecture and representation designed to operate directly on Boundary representation (B-rep) data from 3D CAD models. The B-rep format is widely used in the design, simulation and manufacturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Aditya Sanghi , Joseph G. Lambourne , Karl D. D. Willis , Thomas Davies , Hooman Shayani , Nigel Morris

The ability of deep neural networks to continually learn and adapt to a sequence of tasks has remained challenging due to catastrophic forgetting of previously learned tasks. Humans, on the other hand, have a remarkable ability to acquire,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Prashant Bhat , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Large Computer-Aided Design (CAD) projects usually require collaboration across many different CAD systems as well as applications that interoperate with them for manufacturing, visualization, or simulation. A fundamental barrier to such…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Benjamin Jones , James Noeckel , Milin Kodnongbua , Ilya Baran , Adriana Schulz

Time-series classification is one of the most frequently performed tasks in industrial data science, and one of the most widely used data representation in the industrial setting is tabular representation. In this work, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Sharath M Shankaranarayana , Davor Runje

Boundary representation (B-rep) models are the standard way 3D shapes are described in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) applications. They combine lightweight parametric curves and surfaces with topological information which connects the…

A fundamental challenge in deep metric learning is the generalization capability of the feature embedding network model since the embedding network learned on training classes need to be evaluated on new test classes. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shichao Kan , Yixiong Liang , Min Li , Yigang Cen , Jianxin Wang , Zhihai He

The design of man-made objects is dominated by computer aided design (CAD) tools. Assisting design with data-driven machine learning methods is hampered by lack of labeled data in CAD's native format; the parametric boundary representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Benjamin T. Jones , Michael Hu , Vladimir G. Kim , Adriana Schulz

While convolutional neural networks have shown a tremendous impact on various computer vision tasks, they generally demonstrate limitations in explicitly modeling long-range dependencies due to the intrinsic locality of the convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Guanglei Yang , Hao Tang , Mingli Ding , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

This paper presents a novel geometric representation for CAD Boundary Representation (B-Rep) based on volumetric distance functions, dubbed B-Rep Distance Functions (BR-DF). BR-DF encodes the surface mesh geometry of a CAD model as signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Fuyang Zhang , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Xiang Xu , Yasutaka Furukawa

Transformers achieve strong performance across diverse domains but implicitly assume Euclidean geometry in their attention mechanisms, limiting their effectiveness on data with non-Euclidean structure. While recent extensions to hyperbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Ryan Y. Lin , Siddhartha Ojha , Nicholas Bai

We create a reusable Transformer, BrainBERT, for intracranial recordings bringing modern representation learning approaches to neuroscience. Much like in NLP and speech recognition, this Transformer enables classifying complex concepts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Christopher Wang , Vighnesh Subramaniam , Adam Uri Yaari , Gabriel Kreiman , Boris Katz , Ignacio Cases , Andrei Barbu

A Transformer-based deep direct sampling method is proposed for electrical impedance tomography, a well-known severely ill-posed nonlinear boundary value inverse problem. A real-time reconstruction is achieved by evaluating the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ruchi Guo , Shuhao Cao , Long Chen

Unsupervised/self-supervised representation learning in time series is critical since labeled samples are usually scarce in real-world scenarios. Existing approaches mainly leverage the contrastive learning framework, which automatically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Wenrui Zhang , Ling Yang , Shijia Geng , Shenda Hong

Image Representation learning via input reconstruction is a common technique in machine learning for generating representations that can be effectively utilized by arbitrary downstream tasks. A well-established approach is using…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Raoof HojatJalali , Edmondo Trentin

Graph-based machine learning has emerged as a promising approach for manufacturability analysis by learning directly from CAD models represented as Boundary Representations (B-reps), exploiting both surface geometry and topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Matteo Ballegeer , Toon Van Camp , Willem Jaspers , Alp Bayar , Aung Nyein Soe , Martin Roelfs , Dries F. Benoit , Bieke Decraemer , Joost R. Duflou
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