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New methods accelerate Heat Kernel Textures computation

Researchers have developed two novel methods to accelerate the computation of Heat Kernel Textures (HKTex), a technique used for representing surface appearance. The first method, LocalHK, replaces spectral evaluation with local unfolding and an analytic log-map kernel, significantly reducing initialization time and enabling larger mesh processing. The second method, ThermalRF, uses randomized range finding and Chebyshev actions to construct global low-rank heat factors without mesh-sized eigenvectors, leading to reduced end-to-end preprocessing and optimization times while maintaining high fidelity. AI

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New methods accelerate Heat Kernel Textures computation

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhewen He, Junyi Hu, Yi Fang ·

    Accelerating HKTex without Mesh Eigensystems: Local Unfolding and Randomized Thermal Features

    arXiv:2609.14105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Heat Kernel Textures (HKTex) represent surface appearance with intrinsic anisotropic kernels, but evaluate them using 50 global Laplace-Beltrami eigendecompositions and a resident basis of shape [50,V,256]. We study two complementar…