Radiance fields have gained tremendous success with applications ranging from novel view synthesis to geometry reconstruction, especially with the advent of Gaussian splatting. However, they sacrifice modeling of material reflective properties and lighting con...

We present a high-speed underwater optical backscatter communication technique based on acousto-optic light steering. Our approach enables underwater assets to transmit data at rates potentially reaching hundreds of Mbps, vastly outperforming current state-of-...

Hand-drawn character animation is a vibrant research area in computer graphics and presents unique challenges in achieving geometric consistency while conveying expressive motion details. Traditional skeletal animation methods maintain geometric consistency bu...

We present MILO (Metric for Image- and Latent-space Optimization), a lightweight, multiscale, perceptual metric for full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA). MILO is trained using pseudo-MOS (Mean Opinion Score) supervision, in which reproducible disto...

This paper introduces a method for simplifying textured surface triangle meshes in the wild while maintaining high visual quality. While previous methods achieve excellent results on manifold meshes by using the quadric error metric, they struggle to produce h...

The realistic simulation of sand, soil, powders, rubble piles, and large collections of rigid bodies is a common and important problem in the fields of computer graphics, computational physics, and engineering. Direct simulation of these individual bodies quic...

We present an unsupervised framework for physically plausible shape interpolation and dense correspondence estimation between 3D articulated shapes. Our approach intentionally focuses upon pose variation within the same identity, which we believe is a meaningf...

Approximate Convex Decomposition (ACD) aims to approximate complex 3D shapes with convex components, which is widely applied to create compact collision representations for real-time applications, including VR/AR, interactive games, and robotic simulations. Ef...

Geometry-aware online motion retargeting is crucial for real-time character animation in gaming and virtual reality. However, existing methods often rely on complex optimization procedures or deep neural networks, which constrain their applicability in real-ti...

A stretch sensor is a device that attaches to objects and measures the amount by which they deform. These sensors have shown great promise as an alternative to vision-based motion-capture systems, and for robotic sensing. Currently, they are generally limited ...

Traditional integral wood joints, despite their strength, durability, and elegance, remain rare in modern workflows due to the cost and difficulty of manual fabrication. CNC milling offers a scalable alternative, but directly milling traditional joints often f...

Enabling photorealistic avatar animations in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) has been challenging because of the difficulty of obtaining ground truth state of faces. It is physically impossible to obtain synchronized images from head-mounted cameras (HMC...

A core operation in Monte Carlo volume rendering is transmittance estimation: Given a segment along a ray, the goal is to estimate the fraction of light that will pass through this segment without encountering absorption or out-scattering. A naive approach is ...

Computing the boundary surface of the 3D volume swept by a rigid or deforming solid remains a challenging problem in geometric modeling. Existing approaches are often limited to sweeping rigid shapes, cannot guarantee a watertight surface, or struggle with mod...

This paper introduces a novel wavelet-based framework for simulating both single-phase (e.g., smoke) and two-phase (e.g., bubbly water) flows, featuring unified boundary condition handling for free surfaces and solid obstacles. In liquid simulations, conventio...

Stokes parameters are the standard representation of polarized light intensity in Mueller calculus and are widely used in polarization-aware computer graphics. However, their reliance on local frames-aligned with ray propagation directions-introduces a fundame...

Geometric features between the micro and macro scales produce an expressive family of visual effects grouped under the term "glints". Efficiently rendering these effects amounts to finding the highlights caused by the geometry under each pixel. To allow for fa...

In text-to-image models, consistent character generation is the task of achieving text alignment while maintaining the subject's appearance across different prompts. However, since style and appearance are often entangled, the existing methods struggle to pres...

We present a framework to optimize and generate Acoustic Reliefs : acoustic diffusers that not only perform well acoustically in scattering sound uniformly in all directions, but are also visually interesting and can approximate user-provided images. To this e...

Low-discrepancy sequences have seen widespread adoption in computer graphics thanks to the superior rates of convergence that they provide. Because rendering integrals often are comprised of products of lower-dimensional integrals, recent work has focused on d...