Summary of An Intrinsic Vector Heat Network, by Alexander Gao et al.
An Intrinsic Vector Heat Network
by Alexander Gao, Maurice Chu, Mubbasir Kapadia, Ming C. Lin, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The novel neural network architecture introduced in this paper learns tangent vector fields that are intrinsically defined on manifold surfaces embedded in 3D. The approach is different from previous methods, which treat vectors as multi-dimensional scalar fields and use traditional scalar-valued architectures to process channels individually. Instead, the proposed Vector Heat Network incorporates a trainable vector heat diffusion module to spatially propagate vector-valued feature data across the surface. This architecture is invariant to rigid motion of the input, isometric deformation, and choice of local tangent bases, making it robust to discretizations of the surface. The network’s effectiveness is evaluated on triangle meshes and empirically validated for its invariant properties. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a new way to learn vector fields that are defined on surfaces in 3D space. Vector fields are used in many areas like science and engineering to represent flows. Before, people tried to learn these fields by treating the vectors as if they were just numbers. This didn’t work well because it ignored important properties of the vectors. The new method uses a special kind of neural network that can take into account these vector properties. This makes it more robust and accurate when used on real-world problems like generating shapes from triangles. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion * Neural network
