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Games have always been a popular test bed for artificial intelligence techniques. Game developers are always in constant search for techniques that can automatically create computer games minimizing the developer's task. In this work we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Zahid Halim

In order to generate novel 3D shapes with machine learning, one must allow for interpolation. The typical approach for incorporating this creative process is to interpolate in a learned latent space so as to avoid the problem of generating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Austin Dill , Songwei Ge , Eunsu Kang , Chun-Liang Li , Barnabas Poczos

This work concerns a structural topology optimisation problem for 4D printing based on the phase field approach. The concept of 4D printing as a targeted evolution of 3D printed structures can be realised in a two-step process. One first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Robert Nürnberg , Andrea Signori

Illumination of scenes is usually generated in computer graphics using polygonal meshes. In this paper, we present a geometric method using projections. Starting from an implicit polynomial equation of a surface in 3-D or a curve in 2-D, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Michal Zamboj , Jakub Řada

While surface-based view synthesis algorithms are appealing due to their low computational requirements, they often struggle to reproduce thin structures. In contrast, more expensive methods that model the scene's geometry as a volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Christian Reiser , Stephan Garbin , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Dor Verbin , Richard Szeliski , Ben Mildenhall , Jonathan T. Barron , Peter Hedman , Andreas Geiger

Digital terrain models (DTMs) are pivotal in remote sensing, cartography, and landscape management, requiring accurate surface representation and topological information restoration. While topology analysis traditionally relies on smooth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Haoan Feng , Xin Xu , Leila De Floriani

Recent point-based differentiable rendering techniques have achieved significant success in high-fidelity reconstruction and fast rendering. However, due to the unstructured nature of point-based representations, they are difficult to apply…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kaiwen Song , Jinkai Cui , Zherui Qiu , Juyong Zhang

Recent advancements in procedural content generation via machine learning enable the generation of video-game levels that are aesthetically similar to human-authored examples. However, the generated levels are often unplayable without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Hejia Zhang , Matthew C. Fontaine , Amy K. Hoover , Julian Togelius , Bistra Dilkina , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Robotic grasping of house-hold objects has made remarkable progress in recent years. Yet, human grasps are still difficult to synthesize realistically. There are several key reasons: (1) the human hand has many degrees of freedom (more than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Korrawe Karunratanakul , Jinlong Yang , Yan Zhang , Michael Black , Krikamol Muandet , Siyu Tang

Recent advancements in AI-driven 3D model generation have leveraged cross modality, yet generating models with smooth surfaces and minimizing storage overhead remain challenges. This paper introduces a novel multi-stage framework for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yiming Liang , Huan Yu , Zili Wang , Shuyou Zhang , Guodong Yi , Jin Wang , Jianrong Tan

When walking on loose terrains, possibly covered with vegetation, the ground and grass should deform, but the character's gait should also change accordingly. We propose a method for modeling such two-ways interactions in real-time. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Chloé Paliard , Eduardo Alvarado , Damien Rohmer , Marie-Paule Cani

Given a set of basic areas, the territory design problem asks to create a predefined number of territories, each containing at least one basic area, such that an objective function is optimized. Desired properties of territories often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-06 Nitin Ahuja , Matthias Bender , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz , Andreas Wagner

Procedurally generating cohesive and interesting game environments is challenging and time-consuming. In order for the relationships between the game elements to be natural, common-sense has to be encoded into arrangement of the elements.…

Petri games are a multi-player game model for the synthesis problem in distributed systems, i.e., the automatic generation of local controllers. The model represents causal memory of the players, which are tokens on a Petri net and divided…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Manuel Gieseking , Nick Würdemann

Many biological and physical systems exhibit behaviour at multiple spatial, temporal or population scales. Multiscale processes provide challenges when they are to be simulated using numerical techniques. While coarser methods such as…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-12 Cameron A. Smith , Christian A. Yates

Texturing is a fundamental process in computer graphics. Texture is leveraged to enhance the visualization outcome for a 3D scene. In many cases a texture image cannot cover a large 3D model surface because of its small resolution.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Vasilis Toulatzis , Ioannis Fudos

Techniques for procedural content generation via machine learning (PCGML) have been shown to be useful for generating novel game content. While used primarily for producing new content in the style of the game domain used for training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Anurag Sarkar , Adam Summerville , Sam Snodgrass , Gerard Bentley , Joseph Osborn

Text-to-3D generation is to craft a 3D object according to a natural language description. This can significantly reduce the workload for manually designing 3D models and provide a more natural way of interaction for users. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Han Yi , Zhedong Zheng , Xiangyu Xu , Tat-seng Chua

Procedural city generation that focuses on believability and adaptability to random terrain is a difficult challenge in the field of Procedural Content Generation (PCG). Dozens of researchers compete for a realistic approach in challenges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Arthur van der Staaij , Jelmer Prins , Vincent L. Prins , Julian Poelsma , Thera Smit , Matthias Müller-Brockhausen , Mike Preuss

Recently, the emergence of large language models (LLMs) has unlocked new opportunities for procedural content generation. However, recent attempts mainly focus on level generation for specific games with defined game rules such as Super…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Chengpeng Hu , Yunlong Zhao , Jialin Liu