Publications

Unraveling Brainstem Deformations in Joubert Syndrome: A Statistical Shape Analysis of MRI-Derived Structures

Francesca Maccarone, Giorgio Longari, Filippo Arrigoni, Denis Peruzzo, Simone Melzi.

Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2025.

NAM: Neural Adjoint Maps for refining shape correspondences

Giulio Viganò, Maks Ovsjanikov, Simone Melzi.

Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2025, journal track).

Escaping Plato’s Cave: Towards the Alignment of 3D and Text Latent Spaces

Souhail Hadgi, Luca Moschella, Andrea Santilli, Diego Gomez, Qixing Huang, Emanuele Rodolà, Simone Melzi, Maks Ovsjanikov.

Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 

Fetal gestational age prediction via shape descriptors of cortical development  

Tommaso Ciceri, Letizia Squarcina, Alessandra Bertoldo, Paolo Brambilla, Simone Melzi, Denis Peruzzo.

Frontiers in Pediatrics.

Deformation Recovery: Localized Learning for Detail-Preserving Deformations 

Ramana Sundararaman, Nicolas Donati,  Simone Melzi, Etienne Corman, Maks Ovsjanikov.

Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, journal track).

ReMatching: Low-Resolution Representations for Scalable Shape Correspondence 

Filippo Maggioli, Daniele Baieri, Emanuele Rodolà, Simone Melzi.

The 18th European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV  2024. 

Reconstructing Curves from Sparse Samples on Riemannian Manifolds

Diana Marin, Filippo Maggioli, Simone Melzi, Stefan Ohrhallinger, Michael Wimmer.

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2024 (Proc. Symposium on Geometry Processing - SGP). 

Bijective upsampling and learned embedding for point clouds correspondences 

Giulio Viganò, Simone Melzi.

Computer & Graphics 2024. 

Localized Gaussians as Self-Attention Weights for Point Clouds Correspondence  

Alessandro Riva, Alessandro Raganato, Simone Melzi.

Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics (STAG) 2024. 

S4A: Scalable Spectral Statistical Shape Analysis 

Francesca Maccarone, Giorgio Longari, Giulio Viganò, Filippo Maggioli, Simone Melzi.

Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics (STAG) 2024. 

TACO: a benchmark for connectivity-invariance in shape correspondence 

Simone Pedico, Simone Melzi, Filippo Maggioli.

Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics (STAG) 2024. 

Attention and positional encoding are (almost) all you need for shape matching

Alessandro Raganato, Gabriella Pasi, Simone Melzi.

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2023 (Proc. Symposium on Geometry Processing - SGP). 

Spectral-based Segmentation for Functional Shape-matching

Claudio Mancinelli, Simone Melzi.

Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics (STAG) 2023.

GIM3D plus: A labeled 3D dataset to design data-driven solutions for dressed humans

Pietro Musoni, Simone Melzi, Umberto Castellani.

Graphical Models 2023. 

Assessing craniofacial growth and form without landmarks: A new automatic approach based on spectral methods

Robin Magnet, Kevin Bloch, Maxime Taverne, Simone Melzi, Maya Geoffroy, Roman H. Khonsari, Maks Ovsjanikov.

Journal of Morphology 2023. 

Extracting a functional representation from a dictionary for non-rigid shape matching

Michele Colombo, Giacomo Boracchi, Simone Melzi.

Computer & Graphics 2023. 

PC-GAU: PCA Basis of Scattered Gaussians for Shape Matching via Functional Maps

Michele Colombo, Giacomo Boracchi, Simone Melzi.

Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics (STAG) 2022 (Best paper award). 

MoMaS: Mold Manifold Simulation for Real-time Procedural Texturing

Filippo Maggioli, Marin Riccardo, Simone Melzi, Emanuele Rodolà.

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2022 (presented at Pacific Graphics 2022). 

Localized Shape Modelling with Global Coherence: An Inverse Spectral Approach 

Marco Pegoraro, Simone Melzi, Umberto Castellani, Riccardo Marin, Emanuele Rodolà.

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2022 (Proc. Symposium on Geometry Processing - SGP). 

Spectral Unions of Partial Deformable 3D Shapes 

Luca Moschella,  Simone Melzi, Luca Cosmo, Filippo Maggioli, Or Litany, Maks Ovsjanikov, Leonidas Guibas, Emanuele Rodolà.

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2022 (presented at Eurographics 2022). 

Complex Functional Maps: a Conformal Link Between Tangent Bundles 

Nicolas Donati,  Etienne Corman, Simone Melzi, Maks Ovsjanikov.

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2022 (presented at Eurographics 2022).  

Shape Registration in the Time of Transformers

Giovanni Trappolini, Luca Cosmo, Luca Moschella, Riccardo Marin, Simone Melzi, Emanuele Rodolà.

Proc. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021.

A functional skeleton transfer

Pietro Musoni, Riccardo Marin, Simone Melzi, Umberto Castellani.

Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2021. 

Spectral Shape Recovery and Analysis Via Data-driven Connections 

Riccardo Marin, Arianna Rampini Umberto Castellani, Emanuele Rodolà, Maks Ovsjanikov, Simone Melzi. 

International Journal of Computer Vision  (IJCV). 2021.

Discrete Optimization for Shape Matching

Jing Ren, Simone Melzi, Peter Wonka, Maks Ovsjanikov.

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2021 (Proc. Symposium on Geometry Processing - SGP). 

Learning disentangled representations via product manifold projection 

Marco Fumero, Luca Cosmo, Simone Melzi, Emanuele Rodolà.

Proc.  International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2021. 

Universal Spectral Adversarial Attacks for Deformable Shapes 

Arianna Rampini, Franco Pestarini, Luca Cosmo, Simone Melzi, Emanuele Rodolà.

Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2021. 

Fast Sinkhorn Filters: Using Matrix Scaling for Non-Rigid Shape Correspondence with Functional Maps 

Gautam Pai, Jing Ren, Simone Melzi, Peter Wonka, Maks Ovsjanikov.

Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2021. 

Orthogonalized Fourier Polynomials for Signal Approximation and Transfer

Filippo Maggioli,  Simone Melzi, Michael Bronstein, Maks Ovsjanikov, Emanuele Rodolà.

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2021 (Presented at Eurographics 2021). 

Correspondence Learning via Linearly-invariant Embedding 

Riccardo Marin*, Marie-Julie Rakotosaona*, Simone Melzi, Maks Ovsjanikov.

Proc. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020 (* equal contribution).

Wavelet-based Heat Kernel Derivatives: Towards Informative Localized Shape Analysis

Maxime Kirgo,  Simone Melzi, Giuseppe Patanè, Emanuele Rodolà, Maks Ovsjanikov.

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2020. 

MapTree: Recovering Multiple Solutions in the Space of Maps

Jing Ren, Simone Melzi, Maks Ovsjanikov, Peter Wonka.

Transactions on Graphics 2020 (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia) . 

Instant recovery of shape from spectrum via latent space connections

Riccardo Marin, Arianna Rampini Umberto Castellani, Emanuele Rodolà, Maks Ovsjanikov, Simone Melzi. 

 Oral at the International Conference on 3D Vision 2020 (3DV). Best Student Paper Award.

Infinite Feature Selection: A Graph-based Feature Filtering Approach

Giorgio Roffo, Simone Melzi, Umberto Castellani, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Marco Cristani.

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020. 

Intrinsic/extrinsic embedding for functional remeshing of 3D shapes

Simone Melzi, Riccardo Marin, Pietro Musoni, Filippo Bardon, Marco Tarini, Umberto Castellani.

Computers & Graphics, 2020. 

ZoomOut: Spectral Upsampling for Efficient Shape Correspondence 

Simone Melzi*, Jing Ren*, Emanuele Rodolà, Abhishek Sharma, Peter Wonka, Maks Ovsjanikov (* equal contribution).

Transactions on Graphics 2019 (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia) . 

High-Resolution Augmentation for Template Based Matching of Human Models 

Riccardo Marin, Simone Melzi,  Emanuele Rodolà, Umberto Castellani.

 Poster at the International Conference on 3D Vision 2019 (3DV). 

Visual assessments of functional maps

Simone Melzi, Riccardo Marin, Pietro Musoni, Umberto Castellani, Marco Tarini.

 Poster at the Symposium on Geometry Processing 2019 (SGP). 

GFrames: Gradient-Based Local Reference Frame for 3D Shape Matching

Simone Melzi, Riccardo Spezialetti, Federico Tombari, Michael Bronstein, Luigi Di Stefano and Emanuele Rodolà.

 The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2019. 

Sparse representation of step functions on manifolds

Simone Melzi.

 Computers & Graphics, 2019. 

POP: full Parametric modelling estimation for Occluded People

Riccardo Marin, Simone Melzi, Niloy Mitra, Umberto Castellani.

 The 12th Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, 2019 (3DOR). 

CMH: Coordinates Manifold Harmonics for Functional Remeshing 

Simone Melzi*, Riccardo Marin*, Pietro Musoni, Filippo Bardon, Marco Tarini, Umberto Castellani (* equal contribution).

 The 12th Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, 2019 (3DOR). 

Matching Humans with Different Connectivity 

Simone Melzi, Riccardo Marin, Emanuele Rodolà, Umberto Castellani et al.

 3D Shape Retrieval Contest 2019 (SHREC 2019), at the 12th Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, 2019. 

FARM: Functional Automatic Registration Method for 3D Human Bodies

Simone Melzi*, Riccardo Marin*, Emanuele Rodolà, Umberto Castellani (* equal contribution).

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2019. 

Indicators Basis for Functional Shape Analysis

Simone Melzi.

Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics (STAG) - presented at STAG 2018. 

Local Geometry Processing for Deformations of Non-Rigid 3D Shapes

Simone Melzi.

Ph.D. Thesis - presented at Università degli studi di Verona in June 2018. 

Improved functional mappings via product preservation

Simone Melzi*, Dorian Nogneng*, Emanuele Rodolà, Umberto Castellani, Michael Bronstein, Maks Ovsjanikov (* equal contribution).

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) - presented at EUROGRAPHICS 2018. 

Discrete time evolution process descriptor for shape analysis and matching

Simone Melzi, Maks Ovsjanikov, Giorgio Roffo, Marco Cristani, Umberto Castellani.

Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2018. 

Localized manifold harmonics for spectral shape analysis

Simone Melzi, Emanuele Rodolà, Umberto Castellani, and Michael Bronstein.

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) - presented at EUROGRAPHICS 2018. 

Region-based Correspondence Between 3D Shapes via Spatially Smooth Biclustering

Matteo Denitto, Simone Melzi, M. Bicego, U. Castellani, A. Farinelli, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Y. Kleiman, M. Ovsjanikov.

Intl. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision  (ICCV 2017).

Infinite Latent Feature Selection: A Probabilistic Latent Graph-Based Ranking Approach

Giorgio Roffo, Simone Melzi, Umberto Castellani, Alessandro Vinciarelli.

Intl. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision  (ICCV 2017).

Shape Analysis with Anisotropic Windowed Fourier Transform

Simone Melzi, Emanuele Rodolà, Umberto Castellani, Michael M. Bronstein.

Intl. Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2016).

Functional Maps for Brain Classification on Spectral Domain

Simone Melzi, Alessandro Mella, Umberto Castellani, et al.

SESAMI, International Workshop on Spectral and Shape Analysis in Medical Imaging (MICCAI 2016).

Online Feature Selection for Visual Tracking

Giorgio Roffo, Simone Melzi.

The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2016).

The Visual Object Tracking VOT2016 challenge results

M Kristan, A Leonardis, J Matas, M Felsberg, R Pflugfelder, G. Roffo, Simone Melzi, et al.

ECCV 2016 Workshops (ECCV 2016).

Infinite Feature Selection

Giorgio Roffo, Simone Melzi, Marco Cristani.

Intl. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision  (ICCV 2015).

Learning class‐specific descriptors for deformable shapes using localized spectral convolutional networks

Davide Boscaini, Jonathan Masci, Simone Melzi, Umberto Castellani, Michael M. Bronstein, Pierre Vandergheynst.

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF)  (presented at SGP 2015).

A bioinformatics approach to 3D shape matching

Manuele Bicego, Stefano Danese, Simone Melzi, Umberto Castellani.

European Conference on Computer Vision (NORDIA 2014).