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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

Boundary Representation (BRep) is the standard format for Computer-Aided Design (CAD), yet reconstructing high-quality BReps from single-view images remains challenging due to the complexity of topological constraints and operation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Shiyu Tan , Zixuan Zhao , Hao Gao , Zhiheng Chen , Xiaolong Yin , Enya Shen

Boundary Representation (B-Rep) is the de facto representation of 3D solids in Computer-Aided Design (CAD). B-Rep solids are defined with a set of NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) surfaces forming a closed volume. To represent a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jiajie Fan , Babak Gholami , Thomas Bäck , Hao Wang

Modern 3D Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) systems use mainly two types of geometric models. Classically, objects are defined by a Boundary Representation (B-Rep), where only the objects' surfaces with their corresponding edges and nodes are…

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Previous representation and generation approaches for the B-rep relied on graph-based representations that disentangle geometric and topological features through decoupled computational pipelines, thereby precluding the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiahao Li , Yunpeng Bai , Yongkang Dai , Hao Guo , Hongping Gan , Yilei Shi

Assembly modeling is a core task of computer aided design (CAD), comprising around one third of the work in a CAD workflow. Optimizing this process therefore represents a huge opportunity in the design of a CAD system, but current research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Benjamin Jones , Dalton Hildreth , Duowen Chen , Ilya Baran , Vladimir G. Kim , Adriana Schulz

We present a novel implicit representation -- neural halfspace representation (NH-Rep), to convert manifold B-Rep solids to implicit representations. NH-Rep is a Boolean tree built on a set of implicit functions represented by the neural…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Hao-Xiang Guo , Yang Liu , Hao Pan , Baining Guo

Computer-aided design (CAD) models play a crucial role in the design, manufacturing and maintenance of products. Therefore, the mesh-based finite element descriptions common in structural optimisation must be first translated into CAD…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Ge Yin , Xiao Xiao , Fehmi Cirak

Methods allowing the synthesis of realistic cell shapes could help generate training data sets to improve cell tracking and segmentation in biomedical images. Deep generative models for cell shape synthesis require a light-weight and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 David Wiesner , Julian Suk , Sven Dummer , David Svoboda , Jelmer M. Wolterink

3D reverse engineering is a long sought-after, yet not completely achieved goal in the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) industry. The objective is to recover the construction history of a CAD model. Starting from a Boundary Representation…

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Cutter-workpiece engagement (CWE) is the instantaneous contact geometry between the cutter and the in-process workpiece, playing a fundamental role in machining process simulation and directly affecting the prediction of cutting forces and…

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Beyond-planarity focuses on combinatorial properties of classes of non-planar graphs that allow for representations satisfying certain local geometric or topological constraints on their edge crossings. Beside the study of a specific graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Patrizio Angelini , Michael A. Bekos , Michael Kaufmann , Thomas Schneck

Constructing computer-aided design (CAD) models is labor-intensive but essential for engineering and manufacturing. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have inspired the LLM-based CAD generation by representing CAD as command…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Dacheng Qi , Chenyu Wang , Jingwei Xu , Tianzhe Chu , Zibo Zhao , Wen Liu , Wenrui Ding , Yi Ma , Shenghua Gao

Meshes serve as a primary representation for 3D assets. Autoregressive mesh generators serialize faces into sequences and train on truncated segments with sliding-window inference to cope with memory limits. However, this mismatch breaks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Junkai Lin , Hang Long , Huipeng Guo , Jielei Zhang , JiaYi Yang , Tianle Guo , Yang Yang , Jianwen Li , Wenxiao Zhang , Matthias Nießner , Wei Yang

The field of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) generation has made significant progress in recent years. Existing methods typically fall into two separate categories: parametric CAD modeling and direct boundary representation (B-Rep) synthesis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiahao Li , Qingwang Zhang , Qiuyu Chen , Guozhan Qiu , Yunzhong Lou , Xiangdong Zhou

Data-driven cell tracking and segmentation methods in biomedical imaging require diverse and information-rich training data. In cases where the number of training samples is limited, synthetic computer-generated data sets can be used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 David Wiesner , Julian Suk , Sven Dummer , Tereza Nečasová , Vladimír Ulman , David Svoboda , Jelmer M. Wolterink

B-spline modeling is fundamental to CAD systems, and its evaluation and manipulation algorithms currently in use were developed decades ago, specifically for CPU architectures. While remaining effective for many applications, these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Jiayu Wu , Qiang Zou

Computer-aided design (CAD) tools empower designers to design and modify 3D models through a series of CAD operations, commonly referred to as a CAD sequence. In scenarios where digital CAD files are not accessible, reverse engineering (RE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Xingang Li , Zhenghui Sha

While accurate and user-friendly Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is crucial for industrial design and manufacturing, existing methods still struggle to achieve this due to their over-simplified representations or architectures incapable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jianyu Wu , Yizhou Wang , Xiangyu Yue , Xinzhu Ma , Jingyang Guo , Dongzhan Zhou , Wanli Ouyang , Shixiang Tang

Synthetic generation of three-dimensional cell models from histopathological images aims to enhance understanding of cell mutation, and progression of cancer, necessary for clinical assessment and optimal treatment. Classical reconstruction…

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