arXiv Computer Vision

Differentiable Voxelization of Surface Representations

The paper introduces a differentiable voxelization technique that computes gradients of volumetric properties, such as winding numbers, with respect to surface mesh parameters. This method allows efficient optimization of triangle meshes using voxel-based volume samples on a regular grid. The authors demonstrate its utility in applications like resolving mesh intersections, designing manufacturable shapes for bandsaw cutting, and creating near-tiling 3D structures.

arXiv AI
Aug 11

P2Voxel: Pyramid Pivot Voxelization for 3D Mesh Tokenization

arXiv:2608. 07549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Triangle meshes provide explicit and accurate surface geometry, yet their irregular topology connectivity makes 3D mesh tokenization a geometric sampling problem: how to sample and organize geometric evidence into compact, structured and learnable tokens.

By Zhenhong Sun, Haozhe Liu, Yifu Wang, Xibin Song, Senbo Wang, Huadong Mo, Daoyi Dong, Hongdong Li, Pan Ji
arXiv AI
Sep 30

CAD-Native Transformer Operators for AI-Aided Engineering

arXiv:2609.36806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern engineering systems, from automobiles to aircraft, are designed by using precise, continuous parametric computer-aided design (CAD) models. Eval...

By Daniel Leibovici, Nikola Borislavov Kovachki, Dawon Ahn, Ruben Ohana, Ira J. S. Shokar, Abouzar Ghasemi, Semih Akkurt, Rishikesh Ranade, Neil Ashton, Jan Kautz, Jean Kossaifi
arXiv AI
Sep 16

KaiNinja: Extending Native 3D Generators to the Part Level

KaiNinja extends the native 3D generator TRELLIS.2 to produce part-level meshes by introducing a dual‑volume representation that overcomes the single‑sheet limitation of the O‑Voxel grid. It maintains TRELLIS.2’s speed and quality while eliminating the need for external segmentation, and is trained on diverse data including CAD models and assets created by an LLM‑driven agent. The method improves whole‑object fidelity and outperforms other part‑generation pipelines, reducing Chamfer distance by 40% and increasing strict part F‑score by 16%.

By Ruihan Yu, Lian Fu, Muyao Niu, Zheng-hui Huang, Yu-Ju Tsai, Sho Kuno, Fengbo Lan, Yonghao Yu, Erwin Wu, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Kaipeng Zhang, Zhixiang Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

Elastic Triangle Splatting

arXiv:2608.29106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While neural rendering methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting achieve remarkable visual fidelity, traditional polygonal meshes remain the backbone of es...

By Tian Shi, Shenhan Qian, Daniel Cremers
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 7

MeshOctave: Vertex Split-and-Rewire Cascades for Native Mesh Generation

MeshOctave introduces a novel approach to native mesh generation that replaces sequential autoregressive or heuristic flow models with a parallel, coarse-to-fine paradigm. By defining scales through dyadic spatial grid resolutions, it collapses vertices deterministically and then performs split-and-rewire operations to reconstruct fine topology without serialization. The method employs a scale-conditioned masked-uniform discrete diffusion model, achieving higher geometric fidelity and topological validity while supporting adaptive resolution refinement and mesh subdivision tasks.

By Junkai Lin, Tianhao Zhao, Hang Long, Huipeng Guo, Jielei Zhang, Youjia Zhang, Jiale Xu, Wenbing Li, Rendong Liang, Jozef Hladk\'y, Matthias Nie{\ss}ner, Yuanming Hu, Wei Yang
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 1

MeshOctave generates meshes via cascading resolution transitions

arXiv:2609.38985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating compact, artist-style meshes with explicit topology typically relies on autoregressive models which incur prohibitive sequential per-token c...

By Junkai Lin, Tianhao Zhao, Hang Long, Huipeng Guo, Jielei Zhang, Youjia Zhang, Jiale Xu, Wenbing Li, Rendong Liang, Jozef Hladk\'y, Matthias Nie{\ss}ner, Yuanming Hu, Wei Yang
arXiv AI
Oct 2

CANTO: CAD-Native Transformer Operators for AI-Aided Engineering

CANTO is a transformer neural operator that directly maps continuous CAD geometry—represented as sequences of NURBS patches—to physical fields without requiring meshing. It tokenizes control points, knot vectors, and weights to predict continuous surface and volume fields at arbitrary query locations. Evaluated on automotive and aircraft aerodynamics benchmarks, CANTO achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy, notably a 19.8% reduction in surface‑pressure error on HiLiftAeroML, and enables gradient‑based inverse design, finding lower‑drag designs on AhmedML.

By Daniel Leibovici, Nikola Borislavov Kovachki, Dawon Ahn, Ruben Ohana, Ira J. S. Shokar, Abouzar Ghasemi, Semih Akkurt, Rishikesh Ranade, Neil Ashton, Jan Kautz, Jean Kossaifi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

CADFit: Precise Mesh-to-CAD Program Generation with Hybrid Optimization

arXiv:2605. 01171v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite recent progress, recovering parametric CAD construction sequences from geometric input, such as meshes or point clouds, is a key challenge for design and manufacturing, as existing CAD reconstruction and generation methods are largely restricted to difficult-to-edit formats like meshes or Breps or editable simple sketch-and-extrude pipelines and low-complexity datasets.

By Ghadi Nehme, Eamon Whalen, Faez Ahmed