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Implicit neural representations have emerged as a powerful tool in learning 3D geometry, offering unparalleled advantages over conventional representations like mesh-based methods. A common type of INR implicitly encodes a shape's boundary…

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We propose a two-level structural optimization method for obtaining an approximate optimal shape of piecewise developable surface without specifying internal boundaries between surface patches. The condition for developability of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Makoto Ohsaki , Kentaro Hayakawa , Jingyao Zhang

We propose a novel method to reconstruct the 3D shapes of transparent objects using hand-held captured images under natural light conditions. It combines the advantage of explicit mesh and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) network, a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jiamin Xu , Zihan Zhu , Hujun Bao , Weiwei Xu

We introduce neural cortical maps, a continuous and compact neural representation for cortical feature maps, as an alternative to traditional discrete structures such as grids and meshes. It can learn from meshes of arbitrary size and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Ines Vati , Pierrick Bourgeat , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Vincent Dore , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes , Léo Lebrat

The interaction of neural networks with physical equations offers a wide range of applications. We provide a method which enables a neural network to transform objects subject to given physical constraints. Therefore an U-Net architecture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Lukas Harsch , Johannes Burgbacher , Stefan Riedelbauch

Deep Learning (DL) has attracted a lot of attention for its ability to reach state-of-the-art performance in many machine learning tasks. The core principle of DL methods consists in training composite architectures in an end-to-end…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Carlos Lassance , Vincent Gripon , Antonio Ortega

Simulating interactions between non-spherical colloidal particles is computationally challenging due to the complex dependency of forces and energies on their geometry. We introduce and evaluate both descriptor-based and end-to-end models…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-22 B. Rusen Argun , Antonia Statt

Neural Representations have recently been shown to effectively reconstruct a wide range of signals from 3D meshes and shapes to images and videos. We show that, when adapted correctly, neural representations can be used to directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Maor Ashkenazi , Zohar Rimon , Ron Vainshtein , Shir Levi , Elad Richardson , Pinchas Mintz , Eran Treister

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have achieved great success in the past few years. However, most current methods still require intensive resources due to ray marching-based rendering. To construct urban-level radiance fields efficiently, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Fan Lu , Yan Xu , Guang Chen , Hongsheng Li , Kwan-Yee Lin , Changjun Jiang

Neural implicit surface representations have recently emerged as popular alternative to explicit 3D object encodings, such as polygonal meshes, tabulated points, or voxels. While significant work has improved the geometric fidelity of these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yanran Guan , Andrei Chubarau , Ruby Rao , Derek Nowrouzezahrai

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) provide a high fidelity, continuous scene representation that can realistically represent complex behaviour of light. Despite works like Ref-NeRF improving geometry through physics-inspired models, the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jack Naylor , Viorela Ila , Donald G. Dansereau

With the rapid advancement of graphical processing units, Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are emerging as a promising tool for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, PINNs are not well suited for solving PDEs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuxiang Gao , Soheil Kolouri , Ravindra Duddu

Neural radiance fields achieve unprecedented quality for novel view synthesis, but their volumetric formulation remains expensive, requiring a huge number of samples to render high-resolution images. Volumetric encodings are essential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zian Wang , Tianchang Shen , Merlin Nimier-David , Nicholas Sharp , Jun Gao , Alexander Keller , Sanja Fidler , Thomas Müller , Zan Gojcic

Being able to grasp objects is a fundamental component of most robotic manipulation systems. In this paper, we present a new approach to simultaneously reconstruct a mesh and a dense grasp quality map of an object from a depth image. At the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Nikhil Chavan-Dafle , Sergiy Popovych , Shubham Agrawal , Daniel D. Lee , Volkan Isler

We study the problem of reconstructing 3D feature curves of an object from a set of calibrated multi-view images. To do so, we learn a neural implicit field representing the density distribution of 3D edges which we refer to as Neural Edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Yunfan Ye , Renjiao Yi , Zhirui Gao , Chenyang Zhu , Zhiping Cai , Kai Xu

Impressive progress in 3D shape extraction led to representations that can capture object geometries with high fidelity. In parallel, primitive-based methods seek to represent objects as semantically consistent part arrangements. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Despoina Paschalidou , Angelos Katharopoulos , Andreas Geiger , Sanja Fidler

Mesh is an important and powerful type of data for 3D shapes and widely studied in the field of computer vision and computer graphics. Regarding the task of 3D shape representation, there have been extensive research efforts concentrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Yutong Feng , Yifan Feng , Haoxuan You , Xibin Zhao , Yue Gao

Neural networks have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling physical systems, offering the ability to learn complex representations from limited data while integrating foundational scientific knowledge. In particular, neuro-symbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wenkai Tan , Alvaro Velasquez , Houbing Song

Neural implicit representations are widely used for 3D shape modeling due to their smoothness and compactness, but traditional MLP-based methods struggle with sharp features, such as edges and corners in CAD models, and require long…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guying Lin , Lei Yang , Congyi Zhang , Hao Pan , Yuhan Ping , Guodong Wei , Taku Komura , John Keyser , Wenping Wang

Mathematical morphology is a theory and technique to collect features like geometric and topological structures in digital images. Given a target image, determining suitable morphological operations and structuring elements is a cumbersome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Yucong Shen , Xin Zhong , Frank Y. Shih