publications | Yuezhi Yang

2025

An Efficient Global-2-Local Rotation Optimization Approach via Spherical Harmonics.

Zihang He^* , Jiaxin Lu^* , Yuezhi Yang^* , Congyue Deng , Leonidas Guibas , and Qixing Huang

Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) , 2025

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This paper studies the classical problem of 3D shape alignment, namely computing the relative rotation between two shapes (centered at the origin and normalized by scale) by aligning spherical harmonic coefficients of their spherical function representations. Unlike most prior work, which focuses on the regime in which the inputs have approximately the same shape, we focus on the more general and challenging setting in which the shapes may differ. Central to our approach is a stability analysis of spherical harmonic coefficients, which sheds light on how to align them for robust rotation estimation. We observe that due to symmetries, certain spherical harmonic coefficients may vanish. As a result, using a robust norm for alignment that automatically discards such coefficients offers more accurate rotation estimates than the widely used L2 norm. To enable efficient continuous optimization, we show how to analytically compute the Jacobian of spherical harmonic coefficients with respect to rotations. We also introduce an efficient approach for rotation initialization that requires only a sparse set of rotation samples. Experimental results show that our approach achieves better accuracy and efficiency compared to baseline approaches.
GenAnalysis: Joint Shape Analysis by Learning Man-Made Shape Generators with Deformation Regularizations.

Yuezhi Yang , Haitao Yang , George Kiyohiro Nakayama , Xiangru Huang , Leonidas Guibas , and Qixing Huang

SIGGRAPH (Journal) , 2025

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We introduce GenAnalysis, an implicit shape generation framework that allows joint analysis of a collection of man-made shapes. GenAnalysis innovates in learning an implicit shape generator to reconstruct a continuous shape space from the input shape collection. It offers interpolations between pairs of input shapes for correspondence computation. It also allows us to understand the shape variations of each shape in the context of neighboring shapes. Such variations provide segmentation cues. A key idea of GenAnalysis is to enforce an as-affine-as-possible (AAAP) deformation regularization loss among adjacent synthetic shapes of the generator. This loss forces the generator to learn the underlying piece-wise affine part structures. We show how to extract data-driven segmentation cues by recovering piece-wise affine vector fields in the tangent space of each shape and how to use this generator to compute consistent inter-shape correspondences. These correspondences are then used to aggregate single-shape segmentation cues into consistent segmentations. Experimental results on benchmark datasets show that GenAnalysis achieves state-of-the-art results on shape segmentation and shape matching.
GenVDM: Generating Vector Displacement Maps From a Single Image.

Yuezhi Yang , Qimin Chen , Vladimir G. Kim , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Qixing Huang , and Zhiqin Chen

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) highlight , 2025

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Vector displacement map is a common tool for artists to add parts or surface details to 3D shapes. However, creating VDM is tedious as it requires artists enormous effort to model 3D shapes, Despite the growing popularity of text/image to 3D object model, most of them has fail to generate details comparable to VDM. In this project, we present a system to automatically generate a VDM conditioned on text prompt or an image. To tackle the challenge of VDM data scarcity, we propose a multi-view normal image generation model that fineturn stable diffusion model on part-level objaverse data. We then build a reconstruction model to directly reconstruct VDM from multi-view data. Preliminary result shows that our model outperforms text/image to 3D models in detail generation.

2022

Discovering Design Concepts for CAD Sketches

Yuezhi Yang , and Hao Pan

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) spotlight , 2022

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Sketch design concepts are recurring patterns found in parametric CAD sketches.Though rarely explicitly formalized by the CAD designers, these concepts are implicitly used in design for modularity and regularity. In this paper, we propose a learning based approach that discovers the modular concepts by induction over raw sketches. We propose the dual implicit-explicit representation of concept structures that allows implicit detection and explicit generation, and the separation of structure generation and parameter instantiation for parameterized concept generation, to learn modular concepts by end-to-end training. We demonstrate the design concept learning on a large scale CAD sketch dataset and show its applications for design intent interpretation and auto-completion.

2021

ToothInpaintor: Tooth Inpainting from Partial 3D Dental Model and 2D Panoramic Image

Yuezhi Yang , Zhiming Cui , Changjian Li , and Wenping Wang

Arxiv , 2021

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In orthodontic treatment, a full tooth model consisting of both the crown and root is indispensable in making the treatment plan. However, acquiring tooth root information to obtain the full tooth model from CBCT images is sometimes restricted due to the massive radiation of CBCT scanning. Thus, reconstructing the full tooth shape from the ready-to-use input, e.g., the partial intra-oral scan and the 2D panoramic image, is an applicable and valuable solution. In this paper, we propose a neural network, called ToothInpaintor, that takes as input a partial 3D dental model and a 2D panoramic image and reconstructs the full tooth model with high-quality root(s). Technically, we utilize the implicit rep- resentation for both the 3D and 2D inputs, and learn a latent space of the full tooth shapes. At test time, given an input, we successfully project it to the learned latent space via neural optimization to obtain the full tooth model conditioned on the input. To help find the robust projec- tion, a novel adversarial learning module is exploited in our pipeline. We extensively evaluate our method on a dataset collected from real-world clinics. The evaluation, comparison, and comprehensive ablation studies demonstrate that our approach
Domain Generalization for Mammography Detection via Multi-style and Multi-view Contrastive Learning

Zheren Li , Zhiming Cui , Sheng Wang , Yuji Qi , Xi Ouyang , Qitian Chen , Yuezhi Yang , Zhong Xue , and 2 more authors

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Conference(MICCAI) , 2021

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Lesion detection is a fundamental problem in the computeraided diagnosis scheme for mammography. The advance of deep learning techniques have made a remarkable progress for this task, provided that the training data are large and sufficiently diverse in terms of image style and quality. In particular, the diversity of image style may be majorly attributed to the vendor factor. However, the collection of mammograms from vendors as many as possible is very expensive and sometimes impractical for laboratory-scale studies. Accordingly, to further augment the generalization capability of deep learning model to various vendors with limited resources, a new contrastive learning scheme is developed. Specifically, the backbone network is firstly trained with a multi-style and multi-view unsupervised self-learning scheme for the embedding of invariant features to various vendor-styles. Afterward, the backbone network is then recalibrated to the downstream task of lesion detection with the specific supervised learning. The proposed method is evaluated with mammograms from four vendors and one unseen public dataset. The experimental results suggest that our approach can effectively improve detection performance on both seen and unseen domains, and outperforms many state-of-the-art (SOTA) generalization methods