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20 Citations
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6 December 2019

In this paper we improve an efficient implicit surface reconstruction method based on the surface following method for the radial basis functions interpolant. The method balances the reconstruction efficiency and the evaluation efficiency in the proc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,192 Views
10 Pages

25 November 2018

Considering the Weierstrass data as ( ψ , f , g ) = ( 2 , 1 - z - m , z n ) , we introduce a two-parameter family of Henneberg-type minimal surface that we call H m , n for positive integers ( m , n ) by using t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,403 Views
21 Pages

30 April 2025

In this paper, we investigate implicit surface reconstruction methods based on deep learning, enhanced by multi-sensor data fusion, to improve the accuracy of 3D reconstruction in complex scenes. Existing single-sensor approaches often struggle with...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,079 Views
17 Pages

6 December 2023

Accurate climate data at fine spatial resolution are essential for scientific research and the development and planning of crucial social systems, such as energy and agriculture. Among them, sea surface temperature plays a critical role as the associ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Machine Learning for Remote Sensing to Enhance Spatio-Temporal Generalizability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,763 Views
21 Pages

Heat Transfer Mechanism Investigation of Bubble Growth on the Superhydrophilic Nano-Structured Surface Using Moving Particle Semi-Implicit Method

  • Kailun Guo,
  • Sijun Li,
  • Yubao Zhong,
  • Ronghua Chen,
  • Mingjun Wang,
  • Suizheng Qiu,
  • Wenxi Tian and
  • Guanghui Su

23 March 2023

The boiling behavior on nano-structured surfaces is a frontier research direction in nuclear engineering. However, the mechanism of boiling heat transfer on nano-structured surfaces is still unclear. In this study, a depletable micro-layer model and...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Thermal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,411 Views
26 Pages

17 March 2025

The moving particle semi-implicit method (MPS) has been employed to numerically simulate fluid flows. Further, some studies have used the MPS method to solve the Darcy–Brinkman equation, which also expresses fluid flow in porous media. However,...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,582 Views
20 Pages

31 August 2023

Automatic reconstruction of surfaces from satellite imagery is a hot topic in computer vision and photogrammetry. State-of-the-art reconstruction methods typically produce 2.5D elevation data. In contrast, we propose a one-stage method directly gener...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Information Recovery and 2D Image Processing for Remotely Sensed Optical Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,543 Views
18 Pages

Accurate Fruit Phenotype Reconstruction via Geometry-Smooth Neural Implicit Surface

  • Wei Ying,
  • Kewei Hu,
  • Ayham Ahmed,
  • Zhenfeng Yi,
  • Junhong Zhao and
  • Hanwen Kang

19 December 2024

Accurate collection of plant phenotyping is critical to optimising sustainable farming practices in precision agriculture. Traditional phenotyping in controlled laboratory environments, while valuable, falls short in understanding plant growth under...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Advances in Perception for Agricultural Robots)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,268 Views
15 Pages

1 February 2021

In this paper, we introduce combination constraints for modeling ore bodies based on multiple implicit fields interpolation. The basic idea of the method is to define a multi-labeled implicit function that combines different sub-implicit fields by th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,023 Views
10 Pages

Improved Compressive Properties of Lattice Structure Based on an Implicit Surface Hybrid Optimization Design Method via Selective Laser Melting

  • Xiong Xiao,
  • Liangwen Xie,
  • Rongyao Tang,
  • Jiaan Liu,
  • Peng Song,
  • Xianyong Zhu,
  • Jiali Zhao,
  • Cheng Jiang,
  • Song Yang and
  • Peng Wu

5 September 2022

In recent years, the lattice structure produced by additive manufacturing is a type of metal foam that has been increasingly investigated for its unique mechanical properties. However, the conventional Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is inefficient, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synthesis and Applications of Metallic Foams)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,284 Views
21 Pages

Non-probabilistic reliability analysis has great developmental potential in the field of structural reliability analysis, as it is often difficult to obtain enough samples to construct an accurate probability distribution function of random variables...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,142 Views
17 Pages

18 February 2019

Tissue repairing has been the ultimate goal of surgery, especially with the emergence of reconstructive medicine. A large amount of research devoted to exploring innovative porous scaffold designs, including homogeneous and inhomogeneous ones, have b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Applications of Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,672 Views
16 Pages

Learning Implicit Neural Representation for Satellite Object Mesh Reconstruction

  • Xi Yang,
  • Mengqing Cao,
  • Cong Li,
  • Hua Zhao and
  • Dong Yang

24 August 2023

Constructing a surface representation from the sparse point cloud of a satellite is an important task for satellite on-orbit services such as satellite docking and maintenance. In related studies on surface reconstruction from point clouds, implicit...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,741 Views
15 Pages

18 April 2021

We propose and validate a method to find an implicit representation of a surface placed at a distance h from another implicit surface. With two such surfaces on either side of the original surface, a volumetric shell of predefined thickness can be ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,955 Views
15 Pages

9 February 2021

The mixed free-surface-pressurized flow in the tailrace tunnel of a hydropower station has a great impact on the pressure, velocity, and operation stability of the power station. In the present work, a characteristic implicit method based on the upwi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue CFD Based Researches and Applications for Fluid Machinery and Fluid Device)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
712 Views
8 Pages

13 March 2026

To facilitate the next generation of renewable energy devices, it is important to engineer oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts that balance efficiency and production costs. This work examines oxygen adsorption on the WC (0001) surface as a func...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,018 Views
22 Pages

24 February 2023

The non-unique critical state represents the distance between the critical state line (CSL) and the isotropic consolidation line (ICL) that significantly varies with stress paths and particle size distribution of soils. A structural bounding surface...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,345 Views
13 Pages

9 February 2022

In this paper, we explore a new approach, a two-step surface reconstruction method to extract the target isosurface from a given implicit function efficiently. Our main contribution is that we improve the surface reconstruction process by acceleratin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,488 Views
21 Pages

17 March 2021

The μ-basis is a newly developed algebraic tool in curve and surface representations and it is used to analyze some essential geometric properties of curves and surfaces. However, the theoretical frame of μ-bases is still developing, especially of su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,771 Views
14 Pages

Three-Dimensional Human Body Reconstruction Using Dual-View Normal Maps

  • Yukun Dong,
  • Shengtao Wang,
  • Junqi Sun,
  • Menghua Wang and
  • Long Cheng

12 December 2024

High-fidelity 3D human body reconstruction is challenging, as single-view methods often lead to distortions due to self-occlusion, and the existing multi-view approaches either focus on pose or exhibit limited performance. This study presents an effi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,324 Views
15 Pages

4 March 2020

For a water diversion hydropower system with a flat ceiling tail tunnel with high elevation, during transient states with relatively low tail water levels, free-surface-pressurized flow inevitably appears and its transient characteristics have obviou...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,617 Views
20 Pages

25 April 2023

The surface mesh reconstruction from point clouds has been a fundamental research topic in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. Recently, the Neural Implicit Representation (NIR)-based reconstruction has revolutionized this research topic. This wor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue LiDAR and Point Cloud Processing for Digital Surface Modelling and 3D Scene Reconstruction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,806 Views
17 Pages

8 September 2021

In this paper, we present a multi-domain implicit surface reconstruction algorithm for geological modeling based on the labeling of voxel points. The improved algorithm sets a label for each voxel point to represent the type of its geological domain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,365 Views
16 Pages

Controlling the Material Width of Equation-Based Lattices for Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing

  • Martha Baldwin,
  • Joseph Bartolai,
  • Joseph W. Fisher and
  • Simon W. Miller

Additive manufacturing (AM) developments have been strongly driven by the ability of AM to improve the strength-to-weight ratios of structures, in contrast to traditional manufacturing methods, heavily supported by lattice structures. These motivatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
482 Views
12 Pages

Design of Trabecular Bone-Inspired Mechano-Acoustic Coupling Porous Structures

  • Yiyan Lin,
  • Jundong Zhang,
  • Chaolei Zhang,
  • Ruiyao Liu and
  • Zhenglei Yu

17 June 2026

Aiming at the technical bottleneck that traditional porous structures can hardly achieve mechanical load-bearing and acoustic regulation simultaneously, this study designs and fabricates three implicit surface porous structures (Gyroid, Diamond, Lidi...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomaterials)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,096 Views
15 Pages

23 September 2019

A semi–implicit numerical model with a linear solver is proposed for the free-surface and pressurized mixed flows in hydraulic systems. It solves the two flow regimes within a unified formulation, and is much simpler than existing similar model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pipeline Fluid Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,531 Views
18 Pages

29 January 2024

Surface reconstruction using neural networks has proven effective in reconstructing dense 3D surfaces through image-based neural rendering. Nevertheless, current methods are challenging when dealing with the intricate details of large-scale scenes. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,843 Views
14 Pages

4 February 2025

Constructing a freeform surface that accurately satisfies both integrable condition and Snell’s law under a given invariant source–target map is challenging for freeform design. Here, we propose a fixed-point iteration method to address t...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,877 Views
18 Pages

30 December 2019

The main purpose of the present analysis is to report the numerical solution of the thermal radiations and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effect on the flow of micropolar nanofluid. Further, the effect of Brownian motion and thermophoresis on the flow fie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications in Thermal Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,606 Views
20 Pages

7 December 2023

We present a modified characteristic finite element method that exhibits second-order spatial accuracy for solving convection–reaction–diffusion equations on surfaces. The temporal direction adopted the backward-Euler method, while the sp...

(This article belongs to the Topic Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,196 Views
15 Pages

8 March 2025

The current neural implicit SLAM methods have demonstrated excellent performance in reconstructing ideal static 3D scenes. However, it remains a significant challenge for these methods to handle real scenes with drastic changes in lighting conditions...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Reconstruction with RGB-D Cameras and Multi-sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,827 Views
18 Pages

15 September 2023

Insert gradient coils with similar imaging body shapes typically have smaller dimensions and higher spatial efficiency. This often allows the gradient coils the achievement of stronger and faster gradient fields. Thus, improving existing methods to m...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,732 Views
22 Pages

21 September 2023

While recent advances in the field of neural rendering have shown impressive 3D reconstruction performance, it is still a challenge to accurately capture the appearance and geometry of a scene by using neural rendering, especially for remote sensing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Extraction, Processing and Analysis Methods for Remote Sensing Multi-Modal Information Navigation Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
570 Views
32 Pages

Joint 3D Reconstruction and Classification of Aircraft Based on Single-Image Neural Implicit Optimization

  • Yiyi Wang,
  • Xikai Fu,
  • Shangchen Feng,
  • Xiaolei Lv,
  • Huiming Chai and
  • Yanlin Feng

27 July 2026

3D reconstruction and classification of aircraft are two active research areas in optical remote sensing image processing which are of great significance for applications such as airport monitoring and intelligence analysis. The traditional approache...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enhanced Remote Sensing for Image Matching and 3D Reconstruction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,608 Views
20 Pages

24 January 2026

Surface reconstruction from 3D point clouds has a wide range of applications. In this paper, we focus on the reconstruction from raw, sparse point clouds. Although some existing methods work on this topic, the results often suffer from geometric defe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technical Advances in 3D Reconstruction—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
750 Views
24 Pages

Graph-Based and Multi-Stage Constraints for Hand–Object Reconstruction

  • Wenrun Wang,
  • Jianwu Dang,
  • Yangping Wang and
  • Hui Yu

13 January 2026

Reconstructing hand and object shapes from a single view during interaction remains challenging due to severe mutual occlusion and the need for high physical plausibility. To address this, we propose a novel framework for hand–object interactio...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,801 Views
20 Pages

An Accelerated Slicing Algorithm for Frep Models

  • Evgenii Maltsev,
  • Dmitry Popov,
  • Svyatoslav Chugunov,
  • Alexander Pasko and
  • Iskander Akhatov

23 July 2021

Complex 3D objects with microstructures can be modelled using the function representation (FRep) approach and then manufactured. The task of modelling a geometric object with a sophisticated microstructure based on unit cell repetition is often too c...

(This article belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,445 Views
23 Pages

LIMOFilling: Local Information Guide Hole-Filling and Sharp Feature Recovery for Manifold Meshes

  • Guohua Gou,
  • Haigang Sui,
  • Dajun Li,
  • Zhe Peng,
  • Bingxuan Guo,
  • Wei Yang and
  • Duo Huang

9 January 2022

Manifold mesh, a triangular network for representing 3D objects, is widely used to reconstruct accurate 3D models of objects structure. The complexity of these objects and self-occlusion, however, can cause cameras to miss some areas, creating holes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,405 Views
12 Pages

Border Irrigation Modeling with the Barré de Saint-Venant and Green and Ampt Equations

  • Sebastián Fuentes,
  • Carlos Fuentes,
  • Heber Saucedo and
  • Carlos Chávez

24 March 2022

In gravity irrigation, how water is distributed in the soil profile makes it necessary to study and develop methodologies to model the process of water infiltration and redistribution. In this work, a model is shown to simulate the advancing front in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Models and Methods in Engineering and Social Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,410 Views
17 Pages

25 March 2024

In the field of multi-view satellite photogrammetry, the neural radiance field (NeRF) method has received widespread attention due to its ability to provide continuous scene representation and realistic rendering effects. However, the satellite radia...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,019 Views
22 Pages

Dupin Cyclides as a Subspace of Darboux Cyclides

  • Jean Michel Menjanahary and
  • Raimundas Vidunas

31 July 2024

Dupin cyclides are interesting algebraic surfaces used in geometric design and architecture to join canal surfaces smoothly and to construct model surfaces. Dupin cyclides are special cases of Darboux cyclides, which in turn are rather general surfac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,497 Views
28 Pages

ED2IF2-Net: Learning Disentangled Deformed Implicit Fields and Enhanced Displacement Fields from Single Images Using Pyramid Vision Transformer

  • Xiaoqiang Zhu,
  • Xinsheng Yao,
  • Junjie Zhang,
  • Mengyao Zhu,
  • Lihua You,
  • Xiaosong Yang,
  • Jianjun Zhang,
  • He Zhao and
  • Dan Zeng

27 June 2023

There has emerged substantial research in addressing single-view 3D reconstruction and the majority of the state-of-the-art implicit methods employ CNNs as the backbone network. On the other hand, transformers have shown remarkable performance in man...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights into Computer Vision and Graphics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,893 Views
23 Pages

Mesh Processing for Snapping Feature Points and Polylines in Orebody Modeling

  • Zhaopeng Li,
  • Deyun Zhong,
  • Liguan Wang,
  • Qiwang Tang and
  • Zhaohao Wu

25 July 2022

The 3D refinement modeling of the orebody provides an important guarantee for the estimation of the resources and reserves of an ore deposit. Implicit modeling techniques can effectively improve the efficiency of orebody modeling and facilitate the d...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,057 Views
17 Pages

A Hybrid Method for 3D Reconstruction of MR Images

  • Loubna Lechelek,
  • Sebastien Horna,
  • Rita Zrour,
  • Mathieu Naudin and
  • Carole Guillevin

Three-dimensional surface reconstruction is a well-known task in medical imaging. In procedures for intervention or radiation treatment planning, the generated models should be accurate and reflect the natural appearance. Traditional methods for this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geometry Reconstruction from Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,950 Views
16 Pages

25 March 2025

With the development of 3D geological modeling, implicit modeling methods have gradually gained popularity. However, existing potential field methods cannot directly represent unconformable geological interfaces. In response, an implicit modeling met...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multimodal Information-Assisted Visual Recognition or Generation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,791 Views
17 Pages

20 January 2023

The article considers an implicit finite-difference scheme for the Duffing equation with a derivative of a fractional variable order of the Riemann–Liouville type. The issues of stability and convergence of an implicit finite-difference scheme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Modelling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
653 Views
20 Pages

18 December 2025

To achieve precise tracking control under the hardware of electronic throttle digital control, this paper proposes a novel implicit discrete-time fast terminal sliding mode control method for electronic throttles. Specifically, a recursive discrete-t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,134 Views
22 Pages

Consistent Implicit Time Integration for Viscoplastic Modelingof Subsidence above Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

  • Aldo Ghisi,
  • Massimiliano Cremonesi,
  • Umberto Perego,
  • Anna Corradi,
  • Fabrizio Gemelli and
  • Stefano Mantica

14 April 2021

The viscoplastic model proposed by Vermeer and Neher in 1999 is still currently used in the oil and gas industry for subsidence modeling, to predict the deformation of the ground surface induced by hydrocarbon withdrawal from underground reservoirs....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Element-Based Methods for the Solution of Engineering Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,072 Views
20 Pages

Molecular Surface Remeshing with Local Region Refinement

  • Dawar Khan,
  • Dong-Ming Yan,
  • Sheng Gui,
  • Benzhuo Lu and
  • Xiaopeng Zhang

Molecular surface mesh generation is a prerequisite for using the boundary element method (BEM) and finite element method (FEM) in implicit-solvent modeling. Molecular surface meshes typically have small angles, redundant vertices, and low-quality el...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Biophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,818 Views
18 Pages

Conventional Implicatures in Argumentation

  • Annette Hautli-Janisz,
  • Katarzyna Budzynska and
  • Chris Reed

30 December 2022

Despite the ubiquity of conventional implicatures in language and the critical role they play in argumentation, they have heretofore been almost entirely absent from theories of argument and the linguistic expression of reasoning. In this paper, we d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pragmatics and Argumentation)

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