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Record W4417124680 · doi:10.1145/3757377.3763900

Variational Neural Surfacing of 3D Sketches

2025· article· W4417124680 on OpenAlexafffund
Stephanie Wang, Mikhail Bessmeltsev

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldEngineering
Topic3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsSurface (topology)Representation (politics)Set (abstract data type)Parameterized complexityVirtual realityArtificial neural networkAugmented realityPerception

Abstract

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3D sketches are an effective representation of a 3D shape, convenient to create via modern Virtual or Augmented Reality (VR/AR) interfaces or from 2D sketches. For 3D sketches drawn by designers, human observers can consistently imagine the surface they imply, yet reconstructing such a surface with modern methods remains an open problem. Existing methods either assume a clean, well-structured 3D curve network (while in reality most 3D sketches are rough and unstructured), or make no effort to produce a surface consistent with perceptual observations. We propose a novel method that addresses this challenge by designing a system that reconstructs a surface that better aligns with human perception from a clean or rough set of 3D sketches. As the topology of the desired surface is unknown, we use an implicit neural surface representation, parameterized via its gradient field.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.214 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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