BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:19721003T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19721003T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260114T163633Z LOCATION:Darling Harbour Theatre\, Level 2 (Convention Centre) DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231212T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231212T124500 UID:siggraphasia_SIGGRAPH Asia 2023_sess209_papers_491@linklings.com SUMMARY:GeoLatent: A Geometric Approach to Latent Space Design for Deforma ble Shape Generators DESCRIPTION:Haitao Yang, Bo Sun, Liyan Chen, Amy Pavel, and Qixing Huang ( University of Texas at Austin)\n\nWe study how to optimize the latent spac e of neural shape generators that map latent codes to 3D deformable shapes . The key focus is to look at a deformable shape generator from a differen tial geometry perspective. We define a Riemannian metric based on as-rigid -as-possible and as-conformal-as-possible deformation energies. Under this metric, we study two desired properties of the latent space: 1) straight- line interpolations in latent codes follow geodesic curves; 2) latent code s disentanglement pose and shape variations at different scales. Strictly enforcing the geometric interpolation property, however, only applies if t he metric matrix is a constant. We show how to achieve this property appro ximately by enforcing that geodesic extrapolations are axis-aligned, i.e., extrapolations along coordinate axis follow geodesic curves. In addition, we introduce a novel approach that decouples pose and shape variations vi a generalized eigendecomposition. We also study efficient regularization t erms for learning deformable shape generators, e.g., that promote smooth i nterpolations. Experimental results on benchmark datasets show that our ap proach leads to interpretable latent codes, improves the generalizability of synthetic shapes, and enhances performance in geodesic interpolation, g eodesic shooting, and parallel translation applications.\n\nRegistration C ategory: Full Access, Enhanced Access, Trade Exhibitor, Experience Hall Ex hibitor\n\n URL:https://asia.siggraph.org/2023/full-program?id=papers_491&sess=sess209 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR