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A suitable measure for the similarity of shapes represented by parameterized curves or surfaces is the Fr\'echet distance. Whereas efficient algorithms are known for computing the Fr\'echet distance of polygonal curves, the same problem for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Helmut Alt , Maike Buchin

Triangular meshes are the most popular representations of 3D objects, but many mesh surfaces contain topological singularities that represent a challenge for displaying or further processing them properly. One such singularity is the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-22 K. Sfikas , P. Perakis , T. Theoharis

Meshes are fundamental representations of 3D surfaces. However, creating high-quality meshes is a labor-intensive task that requires significant time and expertise in 3D modeling. While a delicate object often requires over $10^4$ faces to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zekun Hao , David W. Romero , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ming-Yu Liu

Neural implicit fields have emerged as a powerful 3D representation for reconstructing and rendering photo-realistic views, yet they possess limited editability. Conversely, explicit 3D representations, such as polygonal meshes, offer ease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Can Wang , Mingming He , Menglei Chai , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao

Conventional production workflow of high-precision mesh assets necessitates a cumbersome and laborious process of manual sculpting by specialized 3D artists/modelers. The recent years have witnessed remarkable advances in AI-empowered 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Qijian Zhang , Xiaozheng Jian , Xuan Zhang , Wenping Wang , Junhui Hou

We propose a system for differentiating through solutions to geometry processing problems. Our system differentiates a broad class of geometric algorithms, exploiting existing fast problem-specific schemes common to geometry processing,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ana Dodik , Ahmed H. Mahmoud , Justin Solomon

As the most common representation for 3D shapes, mesh is often stored discretely with arrays of vertices and faces. However, 3D shapes in the real world are presented continuously. In this paper, we propose to learn a continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Zhongpai Gao

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

Geometric rounding of a mesh is the task of approximating its vertex coordinates by floating point numbers while preserving mesh structure. Geometric rounding allows algorithms of computational geometry to interface with numerical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Victor Milenkovic , Elisha Sacks

Computing occluding contours is a key building block of non-photorealistic rendering, but producing contours with consistent visibility has been notoriously challenging. This paper describes the first general-purpose smooth surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ryan Capouellez , Jiacheng Dai , Aaron Hertzmann , Denis Zorin

The question of representation of 3D geometry is of vital importance when it comes to leveraging the recent advances in the field of machine learning for geometry processing tasks. For common unstructured surface meshes state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Isaak Lim , Alexander Dielen , Marcel Campen , Leif Kobbelt

Volume approximation is an important problem found in many applications of computer graphics, vision, and image processing. The problem is about computing an accurate and compact approximate representation of 3D volumes using some simple…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Feng Sun , Yi-King Choi , Yizhou Yu , Wenping Wang

Recent advances in electron microscopy have enabled the imaging of single cells in 3D at nanometer length scale resolutions. An uncharted frontier for in silico biology is the ability to simulate cellular processes using these observed…

The proliferation of 3D representations, from explicit meshes to implicit neural fields and more, motivates the need for simulators agnostic to representation. We present a data-, mesh-, and grid-free solution for elastic simulation for any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Vismay Modi , Nicholas Sharp , Or Perel , Shinjiro Sueda , David I. W. Levin

Recent generative models can create visually plausible 3D representations of objects. However, the generation process often allows for implicit control signals, such as contextual descriptions, and rarely supports bold geometric distortions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Changwoon Choi , Hyunsoo Lee , Clément Jambon , Yael Vinker , Young Min Kim

Recent point-based differentiable rendering techniques have achieved significant success in high-fidelity reconstruction and fast rendering. However, due to the unstructured nature of point-based representations, they are difficult to apply…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kaiwen Song , Jinkai Cui , Zherui Qiu , Juyong Zhang

The recent developments in neural fields have brought phenomenal capabilities to the field of shape generation, but they lack crucial properties, such as incremental control - a fundamental requirement for artistic work. Triangular meshes,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Amir Barda , Vladimir G. Kim , Noam Aigerman , Amit H. Bermano , Thibault Groueix

Unsigned distance functions offer a powerful and flexible implicit surface representation that, unlike their signed counterparts, allow for surfaces that are open, non-orientable, or non-manifold. We consider the problem of reconstructing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ningna Wang , Xiana Carrera , Christopher Batty , Oded Stein , Silvia Sellán

We introduce a new formalism and a number of new results in the context of geometric computational vision. The classical scope of the research in geometric computer vision is essentially limited to static configurations of points and lines…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-13 Michael Fryers , Jeremy Yirmeyahu Kaminski , Mina Teicher

Researchers have now achieved great success on dealing with 2D images using deep learning. In recent years, 3D computer vision and Geometry Deep Learning gain more and more attention. Many advanced techniques for 3D shapes have been…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Yun-Peng Xiao , Yu-Kun Lai , Fang-Lue Zhang , Chunpeng Li , Lin Gao