arXiv Machine Learning By Yuanqing Wang, Yapeng Tian, Baris Coskunuzer

Heat Field Signatures: From Point Clouds to Smooth Geometry

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Heat Field Signatures (HFS) lift irregular point clouds into a multiscale family of smooth ambient heat fields, enabling closed‑form computation of global and local geometric signatures directly from pairwise distances. HFS captures heat concentration, intrinsic dimension, anisotropy, and scale transitions, and introduces the Heat Dimension Spectrum (HDS) as a compact multiscale summary. The method serves as a descriptor, lightweight learned representation, or feature channel for neural point‑cloud models, outperforming strong baselines on synthetic and real‑world benchmarks while reducing end‑to‑end cost.

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