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most citedUnsupervised Learning of Robust Spectral Shape Matching

42 citations · 45 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2026

Teaching DINOv3 About Partial 3D Geometry: A Self-Supervised Geometry-Aware Approach

Viktoria Ehm, Dongliang Cao, Riccardo Marin +4

Partial shape matching is a crucial yet underexplored problem in 3D vision, with significant relevance to real-world scenarios where shapes are often only partially observed. Exist…

cs.CV2026

Hyper-Network Neural Functional Maps for Unsupervised Robust 3D Shape Matching

Dongliang Cao, Florian Bernard

Functional maps are the cornerstone of recent non-rigid 3D shape matching methods due to their efficiency and performance. However, existing methods struggle with challenging scena…

cs.GR2026

Non-Rigid 3D Shape Correspondences: From Foundations to Open Challenges and Opportunities

Aleksei Zhuravlev, Lennart Bastian, Dongliang Cao +12

Estimating correspondences between deformed shape instances is a long-standing problem in computer graphics; numerous applications, from texture transfer to statistical modelling,…

cs.GR2025

Hyper Diffusion Avatars: Dynamic Human Avatar Generation using Network Weight Space Diffusion

Dongliang Cao, Guoxing Sun, Marc Habermann +1

Creating human avatars is a highly desirable yet challenging task. Recent advancements in radiance field rendering have achieved unprecedented photorealism and real-time performanc…

cs.CV2025

TwoSquared: 4D Generation from 2D Image Pairs

Lu Sang, Zehranaz Canfes, Dongliang Cao +3

Despite the astonishing progress in generative AI, 4D dynamic object generation remains an open challenge. With limited high-quality training data and heavy computing requirements,…

cs.CV2025

4Deform: Neural Surface Deformation for Robust Shape Interpolation

Lu Sang, Zehranaz Canfes, Dongliang Cao +3

Generating realistic intermediate shapes between non-rigidly deformed shapes is a challenging task in computer vision, especially with unstructured data (e.g., point clouds) where…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Implicit Neural Surface Deformation with Explicit Velocity Fields

Lu Sang, Zehranaz Canfes, Dongliang Cao +2

In this work, we introduce the first unsupervised method that simultaneously predicts time-varying neural implicit surfaces and deformations between pairs of point clouds. We propo…

cs.CV2024

Beyond Complete Shapes: A Benchmark for Quantitative Evaluation of 3D Shape Surface Matching Algorithms

Viktoria Ehm, Nafie El Amrani, Yizheng Xie +9

Finding correspondences between 3D deformable shapes is an important and long-standing problem in geometry processing, computer vision, graphics, and beyond. While various shape ma…

cs.CV2024

Synchronous Diffusion for Unsupervised Smooth Non-Rigid 3D Shape Matching

Dongliang Cao, Zorah Laehner, Florian Bernard

Most recent unsupervised non-rigid 3D shape matching methods are based on the functional map framework due to its efficiency and superior performance. Nevertheless, respective meth…

cs.CV2024

Spectral Meets Spatial: Harmonising 3D Shape Matching and Interpolation

Dongliang Cao, Marvin Eisenberger, Nafie El Amrani +2

Although 3D shape matching and interpolation are highly interrelated, they are often studied separately and applied sequentially to relate different 3D shapes, thus resulting in su…

cs.CV2023

Revisiting Map Relations for Unsupervised Non-Rigid Shape Matching

Dongliang Cao, Paul Roetzer, Florian Bernard

We propose a novel unsupervised learning approach for non-rigid 3D shape matching. Our approach improves upon recent state-of-the art deep functional map methods and can be applied…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

DiscoMatch: Fast Discrete Optimisation for Geometrically Consistent 3D Shape Matching

Paul Roetzer, Ahmed Abbas, Dongliang Cao +2

In this work we propose to combine the advantages of learningbased and combinatorial formalisms for 3D shape matching. While learningbased methods lead to state-of-the-art matching…

eess.IV2023

DefCor-Net: Physics-Aware Ultrasound Deformation Correction

Zhongliang Jiang, Yue Zhou, Dongliang Cao +1

The recovery of morphologically accurate anatomical images from deformed ones is challenging in ultrasound (US) image acquisition, but crucial to accurate and consistent diagnosis,…

cs.CV2023★ 42 cited

Unsupervised Learning of Robust Spectral Shape Matching

Dongliang Cao, Paul Roetzer, Florian Bernard

We propose a novel learning-based approach for robust 3D shape matching. Our method builds upon deep functional maps and can be trained in a fully unsupervised manner. Previous dee…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Self-Supervised Learning for Multimodal Non-Rigid 3D Shape Matching

Dongliang Cao, Florian Bernard

The matching of 3D shapes has been extensively studied for shapes represented as surface meshes, as well as for shapes represented as point clouds. While point clouds are a common…

cs.CV2022

Unsupervised Deep Multi-Shape Matching

Dongliang Cao, Florian Bernard

3D shape matching is a long-standing problem in computer vision and computer graphics. While deep neural networks were shown to lead to state-of-the-art results in shape matching,…