Publications

2024

• Neural Surfaces

  Luca Morreale

  PhD thesis 2024

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

• Leveraging VLM-Based Pipelines to Annotate 3D Objects

  Rishabh Kabra, Loic Matthey, Alexander Lerchner, Niloy J. Mitra

  ICML 2024

  [paper]

  shape analysis

• Neural Semantic Surface Maps

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

  Eurographics 2024

  [paper]

  [webpage]

  [code]

  shape analysis

2023

• ShapeCoder: Discovering Abstractions for Visual Programs from Unstructured Primitives

  Kenny Jones, Paul Guerrero, Niloy J. Mitra, Daniel Ritchie

  SIGGRAPH 2023

  [webpage]

  shape analysis

  creativeAI

2022

• CAD2Sketch: Generating Concept Sketches from CAD Sequences

  Felix Hähnlein, Changjian Li, Niloy J. Mitra, Adrien Bousseau

  Siggraph Asia 2022

  [webpage]

  shape analysis

  creativeAI

  shape acquisition and abstraction

• Free2CAD: Parsing Freehand Drawings Into CAD Commands

  Changjian Li, Hao Pan, Adrien Bousseau, Niloy J. Mitra

  SIGGRAPH 2022

  Honorable Mention Best Paper Award

  [webpage]

  [paper]

  [code]

  [video]

  shape analysis

  creativeAI

  shape acquisition and abstraction

  structure-aware geometry processing

• Neural Convolutional Surfaces

  Luca Morreale, Noam Aigerman, Paul Guerrero, Vladimir Kim, Niloy J. Mitra

  CVPR 2022

  [paper]

  [webpage]

  [code]

  shape analysis

• ShapeFormer: Transformer-based Shape Completion via Sparse Representation

  Xingguang Yan, Liqiang Lin, Niloy J. Mitra, Dani Lischinski, Danny Cohen-Or, Hui Huang

  CVPR 2022

  [paper]

  [code]

  [webpage]

  shape analysis

  creativeAI

• Z2P: Instant Rendering of Point Clouds

  Gal Metzer, Rana Hanocka, Raja Giryes, Niloy J. Mitra, Daniel Cohen-Or

  Eurographics 2022

  [paper]

  shape analysis

  creativeAI

2021

• A Multi-Implicit Neural Representation for Fonts

  Pradyumna Reddy, Zhifei Zhang, Matthew Fisher, Hailin Jin, Zhaowen Wang, Niloy J. Mitra

  NeurIPS 2021

  [paper]

  [webpage]

  [code]

  shape analysis

  structure-aware geometry processing

• SketchGen: Generating Constrained CAD Sketches

  Wamiq Reyaz Para, Shariq Farooq Bhat, Paul Guerrero, Tom Kelly, Niloy Mitra, Leonidas Guibas, Peter Wonka

  NeurIPS 2021

  [paper]

  [webpage]

  shape analysis

  structure-aware geometry processing

• Differentiable Surface Triangulation

  Marie-Julie Rakotosaona, Paul Guerrero, Noam Aigerman, Niloy, Maks Ovsjanikov

  Siggraph Asia 2021

  [paper]

  [webpage]

  shape analysis

• ShapeMOD: Macro Operation Discovery for 3D Shape Programs

  Kenny Jones, David Charatan, Paul Guerrero, Niloy J. Mitra, Daniel Ritchie

  SIGGRAPH 2021

  shape analysis

  structure-aware geometry processing

• Neural Surface Maps

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

  CVPR 2021

  [paper]

  [webpage]

  [code]

  shape analysis

2020

• Point2Surf: Learning Implicit Surfaces from Point Cloud Patches

  Philipp Erler, Paul Guerrero, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael Wimmer, Niloy J. Mitra

  ECCV 2020

  Selected as a Spotlight

  [paper]

  [webpage]

  shape analysis

  shape acquisition and abstraction

• Pix2Surf: Learning Parametric 3D Surface Models of Objects from Images

  Jiahui Lei, Srinath Sridhar, Paul Guerrero, Minhyuk Sung, Niloy J. Mitra, Leonidas Guibas

  ECCV 2020

  [paper]

  [webpage]

  shape analysis

  shape acquisition and abstraction

  structure-aware geometry processing

• Computational Design and Optimization of Non-circular Gears

  Hao Xu, Tianwen Fu, Peng Song, Chi-Wing Fu, Mingjun Zhou, Niloy J. Mitra

  Eurographics 2020

  [paper]

  shape analysis

  structure-aware geometry processing

2018

• SeeThrough: Finding Chairs in Heavily Occluded Indoor Scene Images

  Moos Hueting, Pradyumna Reddy, Ersin Yumer, Vladimir G. Kim, Nathan Carr, Niloy J. Mitra

  3DV 2018

  Selected for Oral presentation

  [webpage]

  [paper]

  [slides]

  [supplementary]

  [code]

  shape analysis

  shape acquisition and abstraction

• Joint Material and Illumination Estimation from Photo Sets in the Wild

  Tuanfeng Y. Wang, Tobias Ritschel, Niloy J. Mitra

  3DV 2018

  Selected for Oral presentation

  [webpage]

  [paper]

  [supplementary]

  [slides]

  [video]

  [data]

  [code]

  shape analysis

  creativeAI

• Deep Learning for Graphics

  Niloy J. Mitra, Iasonas Kokkinos, Paul Guerrero, Vladimir Kim, Kostas Rematas, Tobias Ritschel

  EUROGRAPHICS 2018

  [webpage]

  shape analysis

• PCPNET: Learning Local Shape Properties from Raw Point Clouds

  Paul Guerrero, Yanir Kleiman, Maks Ovsjanikov, Niloy J. Mitra

  Eurographics 2018

  [webpage]

  [paper]

  [code]

  [data]

  [slides]

  shape analysis

2017

• Cross-Dimensional Analysis for Improved Scene Understanding

  Moos Hueting

  Ph.D. thesis 2017

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

2016

• Scene Structure Inference through Scene Map Estimation

  Moos Hueting, Viorica Pătrăucean, Maks Ovsjanikov, Niloy J. Mitra

  VMV 2016

  [webpage]

  [paper]

  [code]

  [slides]

  shape analysis

  shape acquisition and abstraction

• Data-Driven Shape Analysis and Processing

  Kai Xu, Vladimir G. Kim, Qixing Huang, Niloy J. Mitra, Evangelos Kalogerakis

  SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

  [webpage]

  [course notes]

  shape analysis

• PATEX: Exploring Pattern Variations

  Paul Guerrero, Gilbert Bernstein, Wilmot Li, Niloy J. Mitra

  SIGGRAPH 2016

  [webpage]

  [paper]

  [video]

  [code]

  [data]

  [additional material]

  [slides]

  shape analysis

  creativeAI

• RAID: A Relation-Augmented Image Descriptor

  Paul Guerrero, Niloy J. Mitra, Peter Wonka

  SIGGRAPH 2016

  [webpage]

  [paper]

  [video]

  [code]

  [data]

  [additional material]

  [slides]

  shape analysis

  structure-aware geometry processing

• Discovering Structured Variations via Template Matching

  Duygu Ceylan*, Minh Dang*, Niloy J. Mitra, Boris Neubert, Mark Pauly

  Computer Graphics Forum 2016

  [webpage]

  [video]

  [paper]

  shape analysis

2015

• CrossLink: Joint Understanding of Image and 3D Model Collections through Shape and Camera Pose Variations

  Moos Hueting, Maks Ovsjanikov, Niloy J. Mitra

  Siggraph Asia 2015

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [code]

  shape analysis

• Guided Exploration of Physically Valid Shapes for Furniture Design

  Nobuyuki Umetani, Takeo Igarashi, Niloy J. Mitra

  Communications of the ACM 2015

  Communications of the ACM Research Highlight

  [article]

  [technical perspective]

  [original webpage]

  [pdf]

  [code / data]

  shape analysis

• Data-driven Modelling of Shape Structure

  Melinos Averkiou

  PhD Thesis 2015

  [pdf]

  [appendices]

  shape analysis

  structure-aware geometry processing

• Object Proposals Estimation in Depth Images Using Compact 3D Shape Manifolds (Oral)

  Shuai Zheng, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Melinos Averkiou, Ming-Ming Cheng, Niloy J. Mitra, Jamie Shotton, Philip HS Torr, Carsten Rother

  GCPR 2015

  [pdf]

  [slides]

  shape analysis

• Autocorrelation Descriptor for Efficient Co-alignment of 3D Shape Collections

  Melinos Averkiou, Vladimir G. Kim, Niloy J. Mitra

  Computer Graphics Forum 2015

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [code]

  [slides]

  shape analysis

• A Sampler of Useful Computational Tools for Applied Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Image Processing

  Daniel Cohen-Or, Chen Greif, Tao Ju, Niloy J. Mitra, Ariel Shamir, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Hao (Richard) Zhang

  A K Peters / CRC Press 2015

  [Amazon (UK)]

  [Amazon (US)]

  shape analysis

• Ergonomics-inspired Geometric Exploration and Reshaping of Model Collections

  Youyi Zheng, Han Liu, Julie Dorsey, Niloy J. Mitra

  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2015

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

  structure-aware geometry processing

• Fast Wavefront Propagation (FWP) for Computing Exact Geodesic Distances on Meshes

  Chunxu Xu, Tuanfeng Y. Wang, Yong-Jin Liu, Ligang Liu, and Ying He

  Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2015

  [pdf]

  [code]

  shape analysis

• Replaceable Substructures for Efficient Part-Based Modeling

  Han Liu, Ulysse Vimont, Michael Wand, Marie-Paule Cani, Stefanie Hahmann, Damien Rohmer, Niloy J. Mitra

  Eurographics 2015

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [video]

  [code]

  shape analysis

  structure-aware geometry processing

2014

• MCGraph: Multi-Criterion Representation for Scene Understanding

  Moos Hueting, Aron Monszpart, Nicolas Mellado

  Siggraph Asia 2014 Workshop on Indoor Scene Understanding 2014

  [webpage]

  [data]

  [slides]

  shape analysis

• Adaptive multi-scale analysis for point-based surface editing

  Georges Nader, Gael Guennebaud, Nicolas Mellado

  Pacific Graphics 2014

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [slides]

  shape analysis

• Computational Design and Construction of Notch-free Reciprocal Frame Structures

  Nicolas Mellado, Peng Song, Xiaoqi Yan, Chi-Wing Fu, Niloy J. Mitra

  Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [video]

  [data]

  shape analysis

  structure-aware geometry processing

• What Makes London Work Like London?

  Sawsan AlHalawani, Yong-Liang Yang, Peter Wonka, Niloy J. Mitra

  Symposium on Geometry Processing 2014

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [slides]

  [code / data]

  shape analysis

• Metarepresentation of Shape Families

  Noa Fish*, Melinos Averkiou*, Oliver van Kaick, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Daniel Cohen-Or, Niloy J. Mitra

  SIGGRAPH 2014

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [video]

  [code/data]

  shape analysis

• Near-Regular Structure Discovery Using Linear Programming

  Qixing Huang, Leonidas Guibas, Niloy J. Mitra

  ACM TOG (presented at SIGGRAPH 2014) 2014

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

• Global Contrast Based Salient Region Detection

  Ming-Ming Cheng, Niloy J. Mitra, Xiaolei Huang, Philip Torr, Shi-Min Hu

  IEEE PAMI 2014

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [code/demo]

  shape analysis

• ShapeSynth: Parameterizing Model Collections for Coupled Shape Exploration and Synthesis

  Melinos Averkiou, Vladimir Kim, Youyi Zheng, Niloy J. Mitra

  Eurographics 2014

  [video]

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [source]

  [data]

  [big data]

  shape analysis

  structure-aware geometry processing

• 3D Timeline: Reverse Engineering of a Part-based Provenance from Consecutive 3D Models

  Jozef Dobos, Niloy J. Mitra, Anthony Steed

  Eurographics 2014

  [video]

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [supplementary]

  shape analysis

2013

• Analyzing Growing Plants from 4D Point Cloud Data

  Yangyan Li, Xiaochen Fan, Niloy J. Mitra, Daniel Chamovitz, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen

  Siggraph Asia 2013

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [video]

  [data]

  shape analysis

• SalientShape: Group Saliency in Image Collections

  Ming-Ming Cheng, Niloy J. Mitra, Xiaolei Huang, Shi-Min Hu

  The Visual Computer 2013

  [webpage]

  shape analysis

• Interpreting Concept Sketches

  Tianjia Shao, Wilmot Li, Kun Zhou, Weiwei Xu, Baining Guo, Niloy J. Mitra

  SIGGRAPH 2013

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [code/demo]

  [video]

  shape analysis

• Learning Part-based Templates from Large Collections of 3D Shapes

  Vladimir G Kim, Wilmot Li, Niloy J. Mitra, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Stephen DiVerdi, Thomas Funkhouser

  SIGGRAPH 2013

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [code/data]

  shape analysis

• Illustrating How Mechanical Assemblies Work

  Niloy J. Mitra, Yong-Liang Yang, Dong-Ming Yan, Wilmot Li, Maneesh Agrawala

  Communications of the ACM 2013

  Communications of the ACM Research Highlight

  [article]

  [video]

  [technical perspective]

  [original webpage]

  shape analysis

• Graph Abstraction for Simplified Proofreading of Slice-based Volume Segmentation

  Ronell Sicat, Markus Hadwiger, Niloy J. Mitra

  EUROGRAPHICS 2013

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

• Symmetry in Shapes: Theory and Practice

  Niloy J. Mitra, Maks Ovsjanikov, Mark Pauly, Duygu Ceylan Michael Wand

  EUROGRAPHICS Tutorial 2013

  [webpage]

  shape analysis

• Symmetry in 3D Geometry: Extraction and Applications

  Niloy J. Mitra, Mark Pauly, Michael Wand, Duygu Ceylan

  CGF 2013

  [EG STAR webpage]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

2012

• Intuitive Design Exploration of Constrained Meshes

  Xin Zhao, Cheng-Cheng Tang, Yong-Liang Yang, Helmut Pottmann, Niloy J. Mitra

  AAG 2012

  [slides]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

  creativeAI

• Exploring Collections of 3D Models using Fuzzy Correspondences

  Vladimir G Kim, Wilmot Li, Niloy J. Mitra, Stephen DiVerdi, Thomas Funkhouser

  SIGGRAPH 2012

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [slides © Kim]

  [code/data]

  [video]

  shape analysis

• Symmetry in 3D Geometry: Extraction and Applications

  Niloy J. Mitra, Mark Pauly, Michael Wand, Duygu Ceylan

  EUROGRAPHICS 2012

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [slides]

  shape analysis

• Dynamic Geometry Processing

  Will Chang, Hao Li, Niloy J. Mitra, Mark Pauly, Michael Wand

  EUROGRAPHICS 2012

  [webpage]

  [slides]

  shape analysis

• Factored Facade Acquisition using Symmetric Line Arrangements

  Duygu Ceylan, Niloy J. Mitra, Hao Li, Thibaut Weise, Mark Pauly

  EUROGRAPHICS 2012

  [slides]

  [fast forward]

  [data]

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

  shape acquisition and abstraction

• Repetition Maximization based Texture Rectification

  Dror Aiger, Daniel Cohen-Or, Niloy J. Mitra

  EUROGRAPHICS 2012

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [supp. materials]

  [demo]

  shape analysis

• Variation-Factored Encoding of Facade Images

  Suhib Alsisan, Niloy J. Mitra

  EUROGRAPHICS 2012

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [supp. materials]

  shape analysis

2011

• Shape Space Exploration of Constrained Meshes

  Yong-Liang Yang, Yi-Jun Yang, Helmut Pottmann, Niloy J. Mitra

  SIGGRAPH Asia 2011

  [slides]

  [pdf]

  [webpage]

  [demo]

  shape analysis

• Slices: A Shape-proxy Based on Planar Sections

  James McCrae, Karan Singh, Niloy J. Mitra

  SIGGRAPH Asia 2011

  [webpage]

  [fast forward]

  [supp. materials]

  [slides]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

• Exploration of Continuous Variability in Collections of 3D Shapes

  Maks Ovsjanikov, Wilmot Li, Leonidas Guibas, Niloy J. Mitra

  SIGGRAPH 2011

  [webpage]

  [demo]

  [slides]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

• Global Contrast Based Salient Region Detection

  Ming-Ming Cheng, Guo-Xin Zhang, Niloy J. Mitra, Xiaolei Huang, Shi-Min Hu

  CVPR 2011

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [code]

  [results page]

  shape analysis

• Shape Analysis with Subspace Symmetries

  Alexander Berner, Michael Wand, Niloy J. Mitra, Daniel Mewes, Hans-Peter Seidel

  Eurographics 2011

  [slides]

  [pdf]

  [webpage]

  [results page]

  shape analysis

• Computing Correspondences in Geometric Data Sets

  Will Chang, Hao Li, Niloy J. Mitra, Mark Pauly, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Michael Wand

  EUROGRAPHICS 2011

  [webpage]

  [slides]

  shape analysis

2010

• Analysis and Manipulation using Arterial Snakes

  Guo Li, Ligang Liu, Hanlin Zheng, Niloy J. Mitra

  Siggraph Asia 2010

  [slides]

  [pdf]

  [webpage]

  [results page]

  shape analysis

• Intrinsic Regularity Detection in 3D Geometry

  Niloy J. Mitra, Alex Bronstein, Michael Bronstein

  ECCV 2010

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

• Exploded View Diagrams of Mathematical Surfaces

  Olga Karpenko, Wilmot Li, Niloy J. Mitra, Maneesh Agrawala

  IEEE Vis 2010

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

  creativeAI

• Illustrating How Mechanical Assemblies Work

  Niloy J. Mitra, Yong-Liang Yang, Dong-Ming Yan, Wilmot Li, Maneesh Agrawala

  SIGGRAPH 2010

  [slides]

  [pdf]

  [webpage]

  shape analysis

  creativeAI

• Paneling Architectural Freeform Surfaces

  Michael Eigensatz, Martin Kilian, Alexander Schiftner, Niloy J. Mitra, Helmut Pottmann, Mark Pauly

  SIGGRAPH 2010

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [slides © Michael Eigensatz]

  shape analysis

• Visibility of Noisy Point Cloud Data

  Ravish Mehra, Pushkar Tripathi,

  SMI/CGI 2010

  [slides]

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

2009

• Shadow Art

  Niloy J. Mitra, Mark Pauly

  SIGGRAPH Asia 2009

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  [demo]

  shape analysis

  creativeAI

• Abstraction of Man-Made Shapes

  Ravish Mehra,Qingnan Zhou, Jeremy Long, Alla Sheffer, Amy Gooch, Niloy J. Mitra

  SIGGRAPH Asia 2009

  [webpage]

  [slides]

  [dataset/results]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

2008

• Symmetry for Architecture

  Niloy J. Mitra,

  AAG 2008

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

• Developable Surfaces with Curved Creases

  Martin Kilian, Simon Floery, Zhonggui Chen, Niloy J. Mitra, Alla Sheffer, Helmut Pottmann

  AAG 2008

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

• Laguerre Minimal Surfaces, Isotropic Geometry and Linear Elasticity

  Helmut Pottmann, Philipp Grohs, Niloy J. Mitra

  Advances in Computational Mathematics 2008

  [webpage]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

2007

• Symmetrization

  Niloy J. Mitra, Leonidas Guibas, Mark Pauly

  SIGGRAPH 2007

  [webpage]

  [poster]

  [slides]

  [video]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

• Geometric Modeling in Shape Space

  Martin Kilian, Niloy J. Mitra, Helmut Pottmann

  SIGGRAPH 2007

  [webpage]

  [poster]

  [slides]

  [video]

  [pdf]

  [suppl. video]

  shape analysis

2006

• Partial and Approximate Symmetry Detection for 3D Geometry

  Niloy J. Mitra, Leonidas Guibas, Mark Pauly

  SIGGRAPH 2006

  [webpage]

  [poster]

  [slides]

  [video]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

• Probabilistic Fingerprints for Shapes

  Niloy J. Mitra, Leonidas Guibas, Joachim Giesen, Mark Pauly

  Symposium on Geometry Processing 2006

  [slides]

  [poster]

  [webpage]

  [Workshop on Algo. for Modern Massive Data Sets]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis

2004

• Uncertainty and Variability in Point Cloud Surface Data

  Mark Pauly, Niloy J. Mitra, Leonidas Guibas

  Symposium on Point-Based Graphics 2004

  [webpage]

  [slides]

  [pdf]

  shape analysis