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Recovering high-quality surfaces from irregular point cloud is ill-posed unless strong geometric priors are available. We introduce an implicit self-prior approach that distills a shape-specific prior directly from the input point cloud…

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Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) with machine learning typically requires training a new neural network for every new equation. This optimization is slow. We introduce MetaColloc. It is an optimization-free and data-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zichuan Yang

This paper describes a method for fast simplification of surface meshes. Whereas past methods focus on visual appearance, our goal is to solve equations on the surface. Hence, rather than approximate the extrinsic geometry, we construct a…

Representing shapes as level sets of neural networks has been recently proved to be useful for different shape analysis and reconstruction tasks. So far, such representations were computed using either: (i) pre-computed implicit shape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Amos Gropp , Lior Yariv , Niv Haim , Matan Atzmon , Yaron Lipman

In this paper, we introduce Point2Mesh, a technique for reconstructing a surface mesh from an input point cloud. Instead of explicitly specifying a prior that encodes the expected shape properties, the prior is defined automatically using…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Rana Hanocka , Gal Metzer , Raja Giryes , Daniel Cohen-Or

Estimation of differential geometric quantities in discrete 3D data representations is one of the crucial steps in the geometry processing pipeline. Specifically, estimating normals and sharp feature lines from raw point cloud helps improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Albert Matveev , Alexey Artemov , Denis Zorin , Evgeny Burnaev

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology that provides cloud and IT services within the proximity of the mobile user. With the increasing number of mobile applications, mobile devices (MD) encounter limitations of their…

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We propose a novel normal estimation method called HSurf-Net, which can accurately predict normals from point clouds with noise and density variations. Previous methods focus on learning point weights to fit neighborhoods into a geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Qing Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Jin-San Cheng , Cheng Wang , Yi Fang , Zhizhong Han

Mesh-based simulations are central to modeling complex physical systems in many disciplines across science and engineering. Mesh representations support powerful numerical integration methods and their resolution can be adapted to strike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Tobias Pfaff , Meire Fortunato , Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez , Peter W. Battaglia

Numerical solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) require expensive simulations, limiting their application in design optimization, model-based control, and large-scale inverse problems. Surrogate modeling techniques seek to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 James Duvall , Karthik Duraisamy , Shaowu Pan

In this work, we introduce a novel computational framework for solving the two-dimensional Hele-Shaw free boundary problem with surface tension. The moving boundary is represented by point clouds, eliminating the need for a global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Zengyan Zhang , Wenrui Hao , John Harlim

Preserving geometric structure is important in learning. We propose a unified class of geometry-aware architectures that interleave geometric updates between layers, where both projection layers and intrinsic exponential map updates arise…

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Learning point clouds is challenging due to the lack of connectivity information, i.e., edges. Although existing edge-aware methods can improve the performance by modeling edges, how edges contribute to the improvement is unclear. In this…

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We propose a new supervized learning framework for oversegmenting 3D point clouds into superpoints. We cast this problem as learning deep embeddings of the local geometry and radiometry of 3D points, such that the border of objects presents…

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Industrial design evaluation often relies on high-fidelity simulations of governing partial differential equations (PDEs). While accurate, these simulations are computationally expensive, making dense exploration of design spaces…

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Since the earliest stages of human civilization, advances in technology have been tightly linked to our ability to understand and predict the mechanical behavior of materials. In recent years, this challenge has increasingly been framed…

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Learning-based edge detection models trained with cross-entropy loss often suffer from thick edge predictions, which deviate from the crisp, single-pixel annotations typically provided by humans. While previous approaches to achieving crisp…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiaxin Cheng , Yue Wu , Yicong Zhou

Point cloud completion aims to recover complete 3D geometry from partial observations caused by limited viewpoints and occlusions. Existing learning-based works, including 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based, point-based, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jiangyuan Liu , Yuhao Zhao , Hongxuan Ma , Zhe Liu , Jian Wang , Wei Zou

Point cloud learning often rests on the premise that observed samples are noisy traces of an underlying geometric object, such as a manifold embedded in a high-dimensional feature space. Yet much of this geometry is not captured directly by…

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