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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

Boundary Representation (B-Rep) is the widely adopted standard in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and manufacturing. However, generative modeling of B-Reps remains a formidable challenge due to their inherent heterogeneity as geometric cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Junran Lu , Yuanqi Li , Hengji Li , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

Boundary representation (B-rep) of geometric models is a fundamental format in Computer-Aided Design (CAD). However, automatically generating valid and high-quality B-rep models remains challenging due to the complex interdependence between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jing Li , Yihang Fu , Falai Chen

Parametric CAD models, represented as Boundary Representations (B-reps), are foundational to modern design and manufacturing workflows, offering the precision and topological breakdown required for downstream tasks such as analysis,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 James Noeckel , Benjamin Jones , Adriana Schulz , Brian Curless

In the realm of computer-aided design (CAD) software, the intersection of B-spline surfaces stands as a fundamental operation. Despite the extensive history of surface intersection algorithms, the challenge of handling complex intersection…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chenming Gao , Hongwei Lin , Gengchen Li

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

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

Boundary representation (B-rep) is the de facto standard for modern CAD, yet learning-based B-rep synthesis remains challenging due to the tight coupling between discrete topology and continuous geometry. We observe a fundamental asymmetry…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jing Li , Yihang Fu , Falai Chen

Existing auto-regressive mesh generation approaches suffer from ineffective topology preservation, which is crucial for practical applications. This limitation stems from previous mesh tokenization methods treating meshes as simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Gaochao Song , Zibo Zhao , Haohan Weng , Jingbo Zeng , Rongfei Jia , Shenghua Gao

We view the reconstruction of CAD models in the boundary representation (B-Rep) as the detection of geometric primitives of different orders, i.e. vertices, edges and surface patches, and the correspondence of primitives, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Haoxiang Guo , Shilin Liu , Hao Pan , Yang Liu , Xin Tong , Baining Guo

As the most essential part of CAD modeling operations, boolean operations on B-rep CAD models often suffer from errors. Errors caused by geometric precision or numerical uncertainty are hard to eliminate. They will reduce the reliability of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haomian Huang , Li Chen , Enya Shen , Jianmin Wang

Direct B-Rep generation is increasingly important in CAD workflows, eliminating costly modeling sequence data and supporting complex features. A key challenge is modeling joint distribution of the misaligned geometry and topology. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Weilin Lai , Tie Xu , Hu Wang

Many CAD learning pipelines discretize Boundary Representations (B-Reps) into triangle meshes, discarding analytic surface structure and topological adjacency and thereby weakening consistent instance-level analysis. We present STEP-Parts,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shen Fan , Mikołaj Kida , Przemyslaw Musialski

Triangulated meshes have become ubiquitous discrete-surface representations. In this paper we address the problem of how to maintain the manifold properties of a surface while it undergoes strong deformations that may cause topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Andrei Zaharescu , Edmond Boyer , Radu Horaud

Non-rigid 3D mesh matching is a critical step in computer vision and computer graphics pipelines. We tackle matching meshes that contain topological artefacts which can break the assumption made by current approaches. While Functional Maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Aymen Merrouche , Stefanie Wuhrer , Edmond Boyer

We propose a method that morphs high-orger meshes such that their boundaries and interfaces coincide/align with implicitly defined geometries. Our focus is particularly on the case when the target surface is prescribed as the zero…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Jorge-Luis Barrera , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal , Vladimir Tomov

We present a topology-informed inverse rendering approach for reconstructing high-genus surface meshes from multi-view images. Compared to 3D representations like voxels and point clouds, mesh-based representations are preferred as they…

Meshes are widely used in 3D computer vision and graphics, but their irregular topology poses challenges in applying them to existing neural network architectures. Recent advances in mesh neural networks turn to remeshing and push the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Shengchao Yuan , Yishun Dou , Rui Shi , Bingbing Ni , Zhong Zheng

A new topography adapted mesh generation process tailored to simulate Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) flows on complex terrains is presented. The mesher is fully automatic given: the maximum and minimum surface mesh size, the size of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Abel Gargallo-Peiró , Matias Avila , Arnau Folch

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
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