EG 2024 - Full Papers - CGF 43-Issue 2

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Shape and Scene Understanding

Neural Semantic Surface Maps

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Luca Morreale, Noam Aigerman, Vladimir G. Kim, and Niloy J. Mitra

HaLo-NeRF: Learning Geometry-Guided Semantics for Exploring Unconstrained Photo Collections

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Chen Dudai, Morris Alper, Hana Bezalel, Rana Hanocka, Itai Lang, and Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Raster-to-Graph: Floorplan Recognition via Autoregressive Graph Prediction with an Attention Transformer

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Sizhe Hu, Wenming Wu, Ruolin Su, Wanni Hou, Liping Zheng, and Benzhu Xu

Reflectance and Shading Models

Interactive Exploration of Vivid Material Iridescence based on Bragg Mirrors

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Gary Fourneau, Romain Pacanowski, and Pascal Barla

Single-Image SVBRDF Estimation with Learned Gradient Descent

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Xuejiao Luo, Leonardo Scandolo, Adrien Bousseau, and Elmar Eisemann

Procedural Modeling and Architectural Design

PossibleImpossibles: Exploratory Procedural Design of Impossible Structures

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Yuanbo Li, Tianyi Ma, Zaineb Aljumayaat, and Daniel Ritchie

Hierarchical Co-generation of Parcels and Streets in Urban Modeling

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Zebin Chen, Peng Song, and F. Peter Ortner

Strokes2Surface: Recovering Curve Networks From 4D Architectural Design Sketches

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Shervin Rasoulzadeh, Michael Wimmer, Philipp Stauss, and Iva Kovacic

Real-time Neural Rendering

TRIPS: Trilinear Point Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering

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Linus Franke, Darius Rückert, Laura Fink, and Marc Stamminger

Real-time Neural Rendering of Dynamic Light Fields

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Arno Coomans, Edoardo Alberto Dominici, Christian Döring, Joerg H. Mueller, Jozef Hladky, and Markus Steinberger

Real-Time Neural Materials using Block-Compressed Features

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Clément Weinreich, Louis De Oliveira, Antoine Houdard, and Georges Nader

Neural 3D Shape Synthesis

SENS: Part-Aware Sketch-based Implicit Neural Shape Modeling

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Alexandre Binninger, Amir Hertz, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Daniel Cohen-Or, and Raja Giryes

Physically-Based Lighting for 3D Generative Models of Cars

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Nicolas Violante, Alban Gauthier, Stavros Diolatzis, Thomas Leimkühler, and George Drettakis

Rendering Natural Phenomena

Real-Time Underwater Spectral Rendering

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Nestor Monzon, Diego Gutierrez, Derya Akkaynak, and Adolfo Muñoz

Physically Based Real-Time Rendering of Atmospheres using Mie Theory

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Simon Schneegans, Tim Meyran, Ingo Ginkel, Gabriel Zachmann, and Andreas Gerndt

An Empirically Derived Adjustable Model for Particle Size Distributions in Advection Fog

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Monika Kolárová, Loïc Lachiver, and Alexander Wilkie

Geometry Processing

BallMerge: High-quality Fast Surface Reconstruction via Voronoi Balls

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Amal Dev Parakkat, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Elmar Eisemann, and Pooran Memari

Non-Euclidean Sliced Optimal Transport Sampling

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Baptiste Genest, Nicolas Courty, and David Coeurjolly

GLS-PIA: n-Dimensional Spherical B-Spline Curve Fitting based on Geodesic Least Square with Adaptive Knot Placement

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Yuming Zhao, Zhongke Wu, and Xingce Wang

Cloth Simulation

Estimating Cloth Simulation Parameters From Tag Information and Cusick Drape Test

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Eunjung Ju, Kwang-yun Kim, Sungjin Yoon, Eungjune Shim, Gyoo-Chul Kang, Phil Sik Chang, and Myung Geol Choi

Neural Garment Dynamics via Manifold-Aware Transformers

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Peizhuo Li, Tuanfeng Y. Wang, Timur Levent Kesdogan, Duygu Ceylan, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Practical Method to Estimate Fabric Mechanics from Metadata

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Henar Dominguez-Elvira, Alicia Nicás, Gabriel Cirio, Alejandro Rodríguez, and Elena Garces

Meshes

Polygon Laplacian Made Robust

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Astrid Bunge, Dennis R. Bukenberger, Sven Dominik Wagner, Marc Alexa, and Mario Botsch

Advancing Front Surface Mapping

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Marco Livesu

Fluid Simulation

The Impulse Particle-In-Cell Method

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Sergio Sancho, Jingwei Tang, Christopher Batty, and Vinicius C. Azevedo

Wavelet Potentials: An Efficient Potential Recovery Technique for Pointwise Incompressible Fluids

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Luan Lyu, Xiaohua Ren, Wei Cao, Jian Zhu, Enhua Wu, and Zhi-Xin Yang

Monte Carlo Vortical Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for Simulating Turbulent Flows

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Xingyu Ye, Xiaokun Wang, Yanrui Xu, Jiri Kosinka, Alexandru C. Telea, Lihua You, Jian Jun Zhang, and Jian Chang

Fabrication

Computational Smocking through Fabric-Thread Interaction

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Ningfeng Zhou, Jing Ren, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Unfolding via Mesh Approximation using Surface Flows

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Lars Zawallich and Renato Pajarola

Freeform Shape Fabrication by Kerfing Stiff Materials

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Nils Speetzen and Leif Kobbelt

Simulating Natural Phenomena

Physically-based Analytical Erosion for fast Terrain Generation

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Petros Tzathas, Boris Gailleton, Philippe Steer, and Guillaume Cordonnier

Volcanic Skies: Coupling Explosive Eruptions with Atmospheric Simulation to Create Consistent Skyscapes

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Pieter C. Pretorius, James Gain, Maud Lastic, Guillaume Cordonnier, Jiong Chen, Damien Rohmer, and Marie-Paule Cani

Perceptual Rendering

Navigating the Manifold of Translucent Appearance

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Dario Lanza, Belen Masia, and Adrian Jarabo

Perceptual Quality Assessment of NeRF and Neural View Synthesis Methods for Front-Facing Views

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Hanxue Liang, Tianhao Wu, Param Hanji, Francesco Banterle, Hongyun Gao, Rafal Mantiuk, and Cengiz Öztireli

Predicting Perceived Gloss: Do Weak Labels Suffice?

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Julia Guerrero-Viu, Jose Daniel Subias, Ana Serrano, Katherine R. Storrs, Roland W. Fleming, Belen Masia, and Diego Gutierrez

Digital Humans and Characters

TailorMe: Self-Supervised Learning of an Anatomically Constrained Volumetric Human Shape Model

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Stephan Wenninger, Fabian Kemper, Ulrich Schwanecke, and Mario Botsch

CharacterMixer: Rig-Aware Interpolation of 3D Characters

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Xiao Zhan, Rao Fu, and Daniel Ritchie

Stylize My Wrinkles: Bridging the Gap from Simulation to Reality

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Sebastian Weiss, Jackson Stanhope, Prashanth Chandran, Gaspard Zoss, and Derek Bradley

Sampling and Image Enhancement

Enhancing Image Quality Prediction with Self-supervised Visual Masking

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Ugur Çogalan, Mojtaba Bemana, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Karol Myszkowski

Enhancing Spatiotemporal Resampling with a Novel MIS Weight

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Xingyue Pan, Jiaxuan Zhang, Jiancong Huang, and Ligang Liu

Neural Denoising for Deep-Z Monte Carlo Renderings

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Xianyao Zhang, Gerhard Röthlin, Shilin Zhu, Tunç Ozan Aydin, Farnood Salehi, Markus Gross, and Marios Papas

Face Modeling and Reconstruction

Learning to Stabilize Faces

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Jan Bednarik, Erroll Wood, Vassilis Choutas, Timo Bolkart, Daoye Wang, Chenglei Wu, and Thabo Beeler

3D Reconstruction and Semantic Modeling of Eyelashes

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Glenn Kerbiriou, Quentin Avril, and Maud Marchal

ShellNeRF: Learning a Controllable High-resolution Model of the Eye and Periocular Region

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Gengyan Li, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Abhimitra Meka, Marcel Buehler, Franziska Mueller, Paulo Gotardo, Otmar Hilliges, and Thabo Beeler

Vector Art and Line Drawings

Region-Aware Simplification and Stylization of 3D Line Drawings

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Vivien Nguyen, Matthew Fisher, Aaron Hertzmann, and Szymon Rusinkiewicz

Vector Art and Line Drawings

FontCLIP: A Semantic Typography Visual-Language Model for Multilingual Font Applications

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Yuki Tatsukawa, I-Chao Shen, Anran Qi, Yuki Koyama, Takeo Igarashi, and Ariel Shamir

Sketch Video Synthesis

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Yudian Zheng, Xiaodong Cun, Menghan Xia, and Chi-Man Pun

Neural Texture and Image Synthesis

Surface-aware Mesh Texture Synthesis with Pre-trained 2D CNNs

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Áron Samuel Kovács, Pedro Hermosilla, and Renata Georgia Raidou

GANtlitz: Ultra High Resolution Generative Model for Multi-Modal Face Textures

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Aurel Gruber, Edo Collins, Abhimitra Meka, Franziska Mueller, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Sergio Orts-Escolano, Luca Prasso, Jay Busch, Markus Gross, and Thabo Beeler

Stylized Face Sketch Extraction via Generative Prior with Limited Data

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Kwan Yun, Kwanggyoon Seo, Chang Wook Seo, Soyeon Yoon, Seongcheol Kim, Soohyun Ji, Amirsaman Ashtari, and Junyong Noh

Camera Paths and Motion Tracking

Cinematographic Camera Diffusion Model

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Hongda Jiang, Xi Wang, Marc Christie, Libin Liu, and Baoquan Chen

OptFlowCam: A 3D-Image-Flow-Based Metric in Camera Space for Camera Paths in Scenes with Extreme Scale Variations

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Lisa Piotrowski, Michael Motejat, Christian Rössl, and Holger Theisel

DivaTrack: Diverse Bodies and Motions from Acceleration-Enhanced 3-Point Trackers

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Dongseok Yang, Jiho Kang, Lingni Ma, Joseph Greer, Yuting Ye, and Sung-Hee Lee

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DivaTrack: Diverse Bodies and Motions from Acceleration-Enhanced 3-Point Trackers

Yang, Dongseok; Kang, Jiho; Ma, Lingni; Greer, Joseph; Ye, Yuting; Lee, Sung-Hee (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Full-body avatar presence is important for immersive social and environmental interactions in digital reality. However, current devices only provide three six degrees of freedom (DOF) poses from the headset and two controllers ...
OptFlowCam: A 3D-Image-Flow-Based Metric in Camera Space for Camera Paths in Scenes with Extreme Scale Variations

Piotrowski, Lisa; Motejat, Michael; Rössl, Christian; Theisel, Holger (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Interpolation between camera positions is a standard problem in computer graphics and can be considered the foundation of camera path planning. As the basis for a new interpolation method, we introduce a new Riemannian ...
Cinematographic Camera Diffusion Model

Jiang, Hongda; Wang, Xi; Christie, Marc; Liu, Libin; Chen, Baoquan (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Designing effective camera trajectories in virtual 3D environments is a challenging task even for experienced animators. Despite an elaborate film grammar, forged through years of experience, that enables the specification ...
Stylized Face Sketch Extraction via Generative Prior with Limited Data

Yun, Kwan; Seo, Kwanggyoon; Seo, Chang Wook; Yoon, Soyeon; Kim, Seongcheol; Ji, Soohyun; Ashtari, Amirsaman; Noh, Junyong (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Facial sketches are both a concise way of showing the identity of a person and a means to express artistic intention. While a few techniques have recently emerged that allow sketches to be extracted in different styles, ...
GANtlitz: Ultra High Resolution Generative Model for Multi-Modal Face Textures

Gruber, Aurel; Collins, Edo; Meka, Abhimitra; Mueller, Franziska; Sarkar, Kripasindhu; Orts-Escolano, Sergio; Prasso, Luca; Busch, Jay; Gross, Markus; Beeler, Thabo (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

High-resolution texture maps are essential to render photoreal digital humans for visual effects or to generate data for machine learning. The acquisition of high resolution assets at scale is cumbersome, it involves ...
Surface-aware Mesh Texture Synthesis with Pre-trained 2D CNNs

Kovács, Áron Samuel; Hermosilla, Pedro; Raidou, Renata Georgia (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Mesh texture synthesis is a key component in the automatic generation of 3D content. Existing learning-based methods have drawbacks-either by disregarding the shape manifold during texture generation or by requiring a large ...
FontCLIP: A Semantic Typography Visual-Language Model for Multilingual Font Applications

Tatsukawa, Yuki; Shen, I-Chao; Qi, Anran; Koyama, Yuki; Igarashi, Takeo; Shamir, Ariel (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Acquiring the desired font for various design tasks can be challenging and requires professional typographic knowledge. While previous font retrieval or generation works have alleviated some of these difficulties, they ...
Sketch Video Synthesis

Zheng, Yudian; Cun, Xiaodong; Xia, Menghan; Pun, Chi-Man (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Understanding semantic intricacies and high-level concepts is essential in image sketch generation, and this challenge becomes even more formidable when applied to the domain of videos. To address this, we propose a novel ...
Region-Aware Simplification and Stylization of 3D Line Drawings

Nguyen, Vivien; Fisher, Matthew; Hertzmann, Aaron; Rusinkiewicz, Szymon (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Shape-conveying line drawings generated from 3D models normally create closed regions in image space. These lines and regions can be stylized to mimic various artistic styles, but for complex objects, the extracted topology ...
ShellNeRF: Learning a Controllable High-resolution Model of the Eye and Periocular Region

Li, Gengyan; Sarkar, Kripasindhu; Meka, Abhimitra; Buehler, Marcel; Mueller, Franziska; Gotardo, Paulo; Hilliges, Otmar; Beeler, Thabo (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Eye gaze and expressions are crucial non-verbal signals in face-to-face communication. Visual effects and telepresence demand significant improvements in personalized tracking, animation, and synthesis of the eye region ...
3D Reconstruction and Semantic Modeling of Eyelashes

Kerbiriou, Glenn; Avril, Quentin; Marchal, Maud (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

High-fidelity digital human modeling has become crucial in various applications, including gaming, visual effects and virtual reality. Despite the significant impact of eyelashes on facial aesthetics, their reconstruction ...
Learning to Stabilize Faces

Bednarik, Jan; Wood, Erroll; Choutas, Vassilis; Bolkart, Timo; Wang, Daoye; Wu, Chenglei; Beeler, Thabo (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Nowadays, it is possible to scan faces and automatically register them with high quality. However, the resulting face meshes often need further processing: we need to stabilize them to remove unwanted head movement. ...
Neural Denoising for Deep-Z Monte Carlo Renderings

Zhang, Xianyao; Röthlin, Gerhard; Zhu, Shilin; Aydin, Tunç Ozan; Salehi, Farnood; Gross, Markus; Papas, Marios (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

We present a kernel-predicting neural denoising method for path-traced deep-Z images that facilitates their usage in animation and visual effects production. Deep-Z images provide enhanced flexibility during compositing ...
Enhancing Spatiotemporal Resampling with a Novel MIS Weight

Pan, Xingyue; Zhang, Jiaxuan; Huang, Jiancong; Liu, Ligang (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

In real-time rendering, optimizing the sampling of large-scale candidates is crucial. The spatiotemporal reservoir resampling (ReSTIR) method provides an effective approach for handling large candidate samples, while the ...
Enhancing Image Quality Prediction with Self-supervised Visual Masking

Çogalan, Ugur; Bemana, Mojtaba; Seidel, Hans-Peter; Myszkowski, Karol (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Full-reference image quality metrics (FR-IQMs) aim to measure the visual differences between a pair of reference and distorted images, with the goal of accurately predicting human judgments. However, existing FR-IQMs, ...
Stylize My Wrinkles: Bridging the Gap from Simulation to Reality

Weiss, Sebastian; Stanhope, Jackson; Chandran, Prashanth; Zoss, Gaspard; Bradley, Derek (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Modeling realistic human skin with pores and wrinkles down to the milli- and micrometer resolution is a challenging task. Prior work showed that such micro geometry can be efficiently generated through simulation methods, ...
CharacterMixer: Rig-Aware Interpolation of 3D Characters

Zhan, Xiao; Fu, Rao; Ritchie, Daniel (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

We present CharacterMixer, a system for blending two rigged 3D characters with different mesh and skeleton topologies while maintaining a rig throughout interpolation. CharacterMixer also enables interpolation during motion ...
TailorMe: Self-Supervised Learning of an Anatomically Constrained Volumetric Human Shape Model

Wenninger, Stephan; Kemper, Fabian; Schwanecke, Ulrich; Botsch, Mario (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Human shape spaces have been extensively studied, as they are a core element of human shape and pose inference tasks. Classic methods for creating a human shape model register a surface template mesh to a database of 3D ...
Predicting Perceived Gloss: Do Weak Labels Suffice?

Guerrero-Viu, Julia; Subias, Jose Daniel; Serrano, Ana; Storrs, Katherine R.; Fleming, Roland W.; Masia, Belen; Gutierrez, Diego (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Estimating perceptual attributes of materials directly from images is a challenging task due to their complex, not fullyunderstood interactions with external factors, such as geometry and lighting. Supervised deep learning ...
Perceptual Quality Assessment of NeRF and Neural View Synthesis Methods for Front-Facing Views

Liang, Hanxue; Wu, Tianhao; Hanji, Param; Banterle, Francesco; Gao, Hongyun; Mantiuk, Rafal; Öztireli, Cengiz (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)

Neural view synthesis (NVS) is one of the most successful techniques for synthesizing free viewpoint videos, capable of achieving high fidelity from only a sparse set of captured images. This success has led to many variants ...