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Triangle meshes remain the most popular data representation for surface geometry. This ubiquitous representation is essentially a hybrid one that decouples continuous vertex locations from the discrete topological triangulation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Noam Aigerman , Niloy Mitra , Maks Ovsjanikov , Paul Guerrero

Accurate and compact representation of signed distance functions (SDFs) of implicit surfaces is crucial for efficient storage, computation, and downstream processing of 3D geometry. In this work, we propose a general learning method for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bobo Lian , Zidong Wang , Dandan Wang , Chenjian Wu , Minxin Chen

Unsigned distance fields (UDFs) are widely used in 3D deep learning due to their ability to represent shapes with arbitrary topology. While prior work has largely focused on learning UDFs from point clouds or multi-view images, extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Xuhui Chen , Fei Hou , Wencheng Wang , Hong Qin , Ying He

Phase-Stretch Adaptive Gradient-Field Extractor (PAGE) is an edge detection algorithm that is inspired by physics of electromagnetic diffraction and dispersion. A computational imaging algorithm, it identifies edges, their orientations and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Callen MacPhee , Madhuri Suthar , Bahram Jalali

We introduce a novel method to obtain high-quality 3D reconstructions from consumer RGB-D sensors. Our core idea is to simultaneously optimize for geometry encoded in a signed distance field (SDF), textures from automatically-selected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Robert Maier , Kihwan Kim , Daniel Cremers , Jan Kautz , Matthias Nießner

Neural networks that map 3D coordinates to signed distance function (SDF) or occupancy values have enabled high-fidelity implicit representations of object shape. This paper develops a new shape model that allows synthesizing novel distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Ehsan Zobeidi , Nikolay Atanasov

In the field of computer vision, the numerical encoding of 3D surfaces is crucial. It is classical to represent surfaces with their Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) or Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs). For tasks like representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Virgile Foy , Fabrice Gamboa , Reda Chhaibi

Object completion networks typically produce static Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) that faithfully reconstruct geometry but cannot be rescaled or deformed without introducing structural distortions. This limitation restricts their use in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jelle Vermandere , Maarten Bassier , Maarten Vergauwen

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have been successfully used to compress a variety of 3D surface representations such as Signed Distance Functions (SDFs), voxel grids, and also other forms of structured data such as images, videos,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sai Karthikey Pentapati , Gregoire Phillips , Alan C. Bovik

Partitioning a polygonal mesh into meaningful parts can be challenging. Many applications require decomposing such structures for further processing in computer graphics. In the last decade, several methods were proposed to tackle this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Bruno Roy

Shape manipulation is a central research topic in computer graphics. Topology editing, such as breaking apart connections, joining disconnected ends, and filling/opening a topological hole, is generally more challenging than geometry…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yunxiao Zhang , Zixiong Wang , Zihan Zhao , Rui Xu , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Wenping Wang , Changhe Tu

Generative AI has emerged as a transformative paradigm in engineering design, enabling automated synthesis and reconstruction of complex 3D geometries while preserving feasibility and performance relevance. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ashish S. Nair , Sandipp Krishnan Ravi , Itzel Salgado , Changjie Sun , Sayan Ghosh , Liping Wang

The latest sheet stamping processes enable efficient manufacturing of complex shape structural components that have high stiffness to weight ratios, but these processes can introduce defects. To assist component design for stamping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Hamid Reza Attar , Alistair Foster , Nan Li

Many edge and contour detection algorithms give a soft-value as an output and the final binary map is commonly obtained by applying an optimal threshold. In this paper, we propose a novel method to detect image contours from the extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Zahra Mousavi Kouzehkanan , Reshad Hosseini , Babak Nadjar Araabi

Infinitesimal electric and magnetic dipoles are widely used as an equivalent radiating source model. In this paper, an improved method for dipole extraction from magnitude-only electromagnetic-field data based on genetic algorithm and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-23 Chunyu Wu , Ze Sun , Xu Wang , Yansheng Wang , Ben Kim , Jun Fan

As constituent parts of image objects, superpixels can improve several higher-level operations. However, image segmentation methods might have their accuracy seriously compromised for reduced numbers of superpixels. We have investigated a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 F. C. Belem , S. J. F. Guimaraes , A. X. Falcao

We introduce a continuous domain framework for the recovery of points on a surface in high dimensional space, represented as the zero-level set of a bandlimited function. We show that the exponential maps of the points on the surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Sunrita Poddar , Mathews Jacob

Implicit shape representation, such as SDFs, is a popular approach to recover the surface of a 3D shape as the level sets of a scalar field. Several methods approximate SDFs using machine learning strategies that exploit the knowledge that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Diego Patiño , Knut Peterson , Kostas Daniilidis , David K. Han

Building footprint extraction from high-resolution aerial images is always an essential part of urban dynamic monitoring, planning and management. It has also been a challenging task in remote sensing research. In recent years, deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Jingbo Lin , Weipeng Jing , Houbing Song , Guangsheng Chen

We describe in this short note a technique to convert an implicit surface into a Signed Distance Function (SDF) while exactly preserving the zero level-set of the implicit. The proposed approach relies on embedding the input implicit in the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Pierre-Alain Fayolle