Isospectralization, or how to hear shape, style, and correspondence

Luca Cosmo, Mikhail Panine, Arianna Rampini, Maks Ovsjanikov, Michael M. Bronstein, Rodola Rodola

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Abstract

The question whether one can recover the shape of a geometric object from its Laplacian spectrum ('hear the shape of the drum') is a classical problem in spectral geometry with a broad range of implications and applications. While theoretically the answer to this question is negative (there exist examples of iso-spectral but non-isometric manifolds), little is known about the practical possibility of using the spectrum for shape reconstruction and optimization. In this paper, we introduce a numerical procedure called isospectralization, consisting of deforming one shape to make its Laplacian spectrum match that of another. We implement the isospectralization procedure using modern differentiable programming techniques and exemplify its applications in some of the classical and notoriously hard problems in geometry processing, computer vision, and graphics such as shape reconstruction, pose and style transfer, and dense deformable correspondence.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages7521-7530
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781728132938
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2019 - Long Beach, United States
Duration: 16 Jun 201920 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Volume2019-June
ISSN (Print)1063-6919

Conference

Conference32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLong Beach
Period16/06/1920/06/19

Funding

FundersFunder number
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme802554

    Keywords

    • Grouping and Shape
    • Physics-based Vision and Shape-from-X
    • Segmentation
    • Vision + Graphics

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