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Maolin Gao

8 accepted papers

2026

From Pairwise Affinities to Functional Correspondences: Rethinking Attention

ICML 2026poster

Learning mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, or operator learning, is essential for many machine learning applications. Although transformer-based operators are popular, they often rely on token-wise attention. These methods treat continuous fields as discrete tokens and usually i…

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2026

RINO: Rotation-Invariant Non-Rigid Correspondences

CVPR 2026

Dense 3D shape correspondence remains a central challenge in computer vision and graphics as many deep learning approaches still rely on intermediate geometric features or handcrafted descriptors, limiting their effectiveness under non-isometric deformations, partial data, and non-manifold inputs. T

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2025

EchoMatch: Partial-to-Partial Shape Matching via Correspondence Reflection

CVPR 2025poster

Finding correspondences between 3D shapes is a crucial problem in computer vision and graphics. While most research has focused on finding correspondences in settings where at least one of the shapes is complete, the realm of partial-to-partial shape matching remains under-explored. Yet, it is impor…

2024

Finsler-Laplace-Beltrami Operators with Application to Shape Analysis

CVPR 2024poster

The Laplace-Beltrami operator (LBO) emerges from studying manifolds equipped with a Riemannian metric. It is often called the swiss army knife of geometry processing as it allows to capture intrinsic shape information and gives rise to heat diffusion geodesic distances and a multitude of shape descr…

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2024

Partial-to-Partial Shape Matching with Geometric Consistency

CVPR 2024poster

Finding correspondences between 3D shapes is an important and long-standing problem in computer vision graphics and beyond. A prominent challenge are partial-to-partial shape matching settings which occur when the shapes to match are only observed incompletely (e.g. from 3D scanning). Although parti…

2023

SIGMA: Scale-Invariant Global Sparse Shape Matching

ICCV 2023poster

We propose a novel mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulation for generating precise sparse correspondences for highly non-rigid shapes. To this end, we introduce a projected Laplace-Beltrami operator (PLBO) which combines intrinsic and extrinsic geometric information to measure the deformation qua…

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2019

Variational Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo Under General Lighting

ICCV 2019poster

Photometric stereo (PS) techniques nowadays remain constrained to an ideal laboratory setup where modeling and calibration of lighting is amenable. To eliminate such restrictions, we propose an efficient principled variational approach to uncalibrated PS under general illumination. To this end, the…

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