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Neural 3D Morphable Models: Spiral Convolutional Networks for 3D Shape Representation Learning and Generation
Generative models for 3D geometric data arise in many important applications
in 3D computer vision and graphics. In this paper, we focus on 3D deformable
shapes that share a common topological structure, such as human faces and
bodies. Morphable Models and their variants, despite their linear formulation,
have been widely used for shape representation, while most of the recently
proposed nonlinear approaches resort to intermediate representations, such as
3D voxel grids or 2D views. In this work, we introduce a novel graph
convolutional operator, acting directly on the 3D mesh, that explicitly models
the inductive bias of the fixed underlying graph. This is achieved by enforcing
consistent local orderings of the vertices of the graph, through the spiral
operator, thus breaking the permutation invariance property that is adopted by
all the prior work on Graph Neural Networks. Our operator comes by construction
with desirable properties (anisotropic, topology-aware, lightweight,
easy-to-optimise), and by using it as a building block for traditional deep
generative architectures, we demonstrate state-of-the-art results on a variety
of 3D shape datasets compared to the linear Morphable Model and other graph
convolutional operators.Comment: to appear at ICCV 201
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Converting a CAD Model into a Manufacturing Model for the Components Made of a Multiphase Perfect Material
To manufacture the component made of a multiphase perfect material (including homogeneous
and multi heterogeneous materials), it CAD model should be processed and converted into
layered manufacturing model for further transformation of numerical control (NC) coding. This
paper develops its detailed approaches and corresponding software. The process planning is made
first and includes: (1) determining the build orientation of the component; and (2) slicing the
component into layers adaptively according to different material regions since different materials
have different optimal layer thickness for manufacturing. After the process planning, the layered
manufacturing models with necessary information, including fabrication sequence and material
information of each layer, are fully generated.Mechanical Engineerin
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