arXiv Computer Vision

Blended Chart Surfaces: A Seamless Explicit Representation for Smooth Surface Fitting

Blended Chart Surfaces present a compact, network‑free, explicit surface representation that is smooth by construction and anchored to user‑provided topology. The method jointly optimizes polynomial maps at proxy mesh vertices to fit an implicit target shape, then fuses neighboring maps with a smooth one‑ring coordinate blending scheme, decoupling coarse geometry from fine details. The resulting surface is globally smooth, fully differentiable, and equivariant to rigid motions and scaling, enabling reliable access to differential quantities and surface energies while avoiding seam artifacts common in other explicit neural maps.

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Jul 21

Fluid-SDF: Ultra-Lightweight and Editable Implicit Shape Representation via Differentiable Primitives

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have become the standard for continuous 2D shape modeling, but they suffer from black-box uneditability, vulnerability to noise, and high parameter counts that severely hinder deployment on edge devices. We introduce Fluid-SDF, a highly compressed, differentiable Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) framework that models shapes using explicit geometric primitives blended via a smooth minimum function.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

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.

By Tobias Djuren, Ugo Finnendahl, Markus Worchel, Hendrik Meyer, Marc Alexa
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2

TriFlow: Generating Artist-Like 3D Mesh Topology via Nearest-Vertex Vector Fields

TriFlow introduces a generative method for creating compact 3D meshes with artist‑like triangle topology directly from input geometry such as signed distance fields. It represents mesh topology as a nearest‑vertex vector field (NVF) over the surface, trains a latent flow‑matching model to synthesize this field, and then clusters surface regions to guide a constrained quadric error metric simplification. The resulting meshes closely match the input geometry while exhibiting structured, artist‑like connectivity, achieving 90% lower Chamfer Distance and an 8× speedup over state‑of‑the‑art learning‑based approaches.

By Haoxuan Li, Ziya Erko\c{c}, Daniele Sirigatti, Vladislav Rosov, Lei Li, Angela Dai, Matthias Nie{\ss}ner
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
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
Sep 7

SeamFlow: Structure-Aware Flow Matching on Edge Probabilities for Artist-Like UV Unwrapping

SeamFlow is a new generative framework for 3D surface cutting and UV unwrapping that reformulates the discrete mesh‑cutting problem as continuous flow matching in a high‑dimensional edge‑probability space. By learning a deterministic mapping from a Gaussian prior to a target seam‑probability distribution and using an evolution network to couple local topological tokens with global shape priors, SeamFlow guides smooth probability flow through ODE solving. Compared with existing autoregressive generative methods, SeamFlow improves topology awareness, eliminates 3D spatial projection errors and artificial sequential‑order bias, and achieves exceptional semantic coherence with remarkably low parameterization distortion.

By Yuming Zhao, Zangyueyang Xian, Qijian Zhang, Rendong Liang, Qin Jia, Ying He, Junhui Hou