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Tiago Novello
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12ranked-venue papers
5as first author
9since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0003-4512-8019ORCID · corroborated
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Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 10 · 5 first-author · 7 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 5 · 2 first-author · 5 since 2021Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Tuning the Frequencies: Robust Training for Sinusoidal Neural NetworksabstractSinusoidal neural networks have been shown effective as implicit neural representations (INRs) of low-dimensional signals, due to their smoothness and high representation capacity. However, initializing and training them remain empirical tasks which lack on deeper understanding to guide the learning process. To fill this gap, our work introduces a theoretical framework that explains the capacity property of sinusoidal networks and offers robust control mechanisms for initialization and training. Our analysis is based on a novel amplitude-phase expansion of the sinusoidal multi-layer perceptron, showing how its layer compositions produce a large number of new frequencies expressed as integer combinations of the input frequencies. This relationship can be directly used to initialize the input neurons, as a form of spectral sampling, and to bound the network’s spectrum while training. Our method, referred to as TUNER (TUNing sinusoidal nEtwoRks), greatly improves the stability and convergence of sinusoidal INR training, leading to detailed reconstructions, while preventing overfitting. Tiago Novello, Diana Aldana, Andre Araujo, Luiz Velho 0001 |
CVPR | 1 |
| 2025 | Neuro-Spectral Architectures for Causal Physics-Informed NetworksabstractPhysics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful frame-
work for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, standard MLP-
based PINNs often fail to converge when dealing with complex initial value
problems, leading to solutions that violate causality and suffer from a spectral
bias towards low-frequency components. To address these issues, we introduce
NeuSA (Neuro-Spectral Architectures), a novel class of PINNs inspired by classi-
cal spectral methods, designed to solve linear and nonlinear PDEs with variable
coefficients. NeuSA learns a projection of the underlying PDE onto a spectral
basis, leading to a finite-dimensional representation of the dynamics which is then
integrated with an adapted Neural ODE (NODE). This allows us to overcome
spectral bias, by leveraging the high-frequency components enabled by the spectral
representation; to enforce causality, by inheriting the causal structure of NODEs,
and to start training near the target solution, by means of an initialization scheme
based on classical methods. We validate NeuSA on canonical benchmarks for lin-
ear and nonlinear wave equations, demonstrating strong performance as compared
to other architectures, with faster convergence, improved temporal consistency
and superior predictive accuracy. Code and pretrained models are available in
https://github.com/arthur-bizzi/neusa. Arthur Bizzi, Leonardo M. Moreira, Márcio Marques, Leonardo Mendonça, Christian Júnior de Oliveira, Vitor Balestro, Lucas dos Santos Fernandez, Daniel Yukimura, Pavel Petrov, João M. Pereira 0002, Tiago Novello, Lucas Nissenbaum |
NeurIPS | 11 |
| 2025 | FLOWING: Implicit Neural Flows for Structure-Preserving MorphingabstractMorphing is a long-standing problem in vision and computer graphics, requir-
ing a time-dependent warping for feature alignment and a blending for smooth
interpolation. Recently, multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have been explored as
implicit neural representations (INRs) for modeling such deformations, due to
their meshlessness and differentiability; however, extracting coherent and accurate
morphings from standard MLPs typically relies on costly regularizations, which
often lead to unstable training and prevent effective feature alignment. To overcome
these limitations, we propose FLOWING (FLOW morphING), a framework that
recasts warping as the construction of a differential vector flow, naturally ensuring
continuity, invertibility, and temporal coherence by encoding structural flow prop-
erties directly into the network architectures. This flow-centric approach yields
principled and stable transformations, enabling accurate and structure-preserving
morphing of both 2D images and 3D shapes. Extensive experiments across a
range of applications—including face and image morphing, as well as Gaussian
Splatting morphing—show that FLOWING achieves state-of-the-art morphing
quality with faster convergence. Code and pretrained models are available in
https://schardong.github.io/flowing. Arthur Bizzi, Matias Grynberg Portnoy, Vitor Pereira Matias, Daniel Perazzo, Joao Paulo Silva do Monte Lima, Luiz Velho 0001, Nuno Gonçalves 0001, Guilherme G. Schardong, Tiago Novello |
NeurIPS | 10 |
| 2025 | Democratizing interactivity: An overview of interfaces for multimedia machine learning
Alberto Arkader Kopiler, Guilherme G. Schardong, Luiz Schirmer, Daniel Perazzo, Tiago Novello, Luiz Velho 0001 |
Comput. Graph. | 5 |
| 2024 | Neural Implicit Morphing of Face ImagesabstractFace morphing is a problem in computer graphics with numerous artistic and forensic applications. It is challenging due to variations in pose, lighting, gender, and ethnicity. This task consists of a warping for feature alignment and a blending for a seamless transition between the warped images. We propose to leverage coord-based neural networks to represent such warpings and blendings of face images. During training, we exploit the smoothness and flexibility of such networks by combining energy functionals employed in classical approaches without discretizations. Additionally, our method is time-dependent, allowing a continuous warping/blending of the images. During morphing inference, we need both direct and inverse transformations of the time-dependent warping. The first (second) is responsible for warping the target (source) image into the source (target) image. Our neural warping stores those maps in a single network dismissing the need for inverting them. The results of our experiments indicate that our method is competitive with both classical and generative models under the lens of image quality and face-morphing detectors. Aesthetically, the resulting images present a seamless blending of diverse faces not yet usual in the literature. Guilherme G. Schardong, Tiago Novello, Hallison Paz, Iurii Medvedev, Vinícius da Silva, Luiz Velho 0001, Nuno Gonçalves 0001 |
CVPR | 2 |
| 2024 | Geometric implicit neural representations for signed distance functions
Luiz Schirmer, Tiago Novello, Vinícius da Silva, Guilherme G. Schardong, Daniel Perazzo, Hélio Lopes 0001, Nuno Gonçalves 0001, Luiz Velho 0001 |
Comput. Graph. | 2 |
| 2023 | Neural Implicit Surface EvolutionabstractThis work investigates the use of smooth neural networks for modeling dynamic variations of implicit surfaces under the level set equation (LSE). For this, it extends the representation of neural implicit surfaces to the space-time ℝ3× ℝ, which opens up mechanisms for continuous geometric transformations. Examples include evolving an initial surface towards general vector fields, smoothing and sharpening using the mean curvature equation, and interpolations of initial conditions.The network training considers two constraints. A data term is responsible for fitting the initial condition to the corresponding time instant, usually ℝ3× {0}. Then, a LSE term forces the network to approximate the underlying geometric evolution given by the LSE, without any supervision. The network can also be initialized based on previously trained initial conditions, resulting in faster convergence compared to the standard approach. Tiago Novello, Vinícius da Silva, Guilherme G. Schardong, Luiz Schirmer, Hélio Lopes 0001, Luiz Velho 0001 |
ICCV | 1 |
| 2023 | MR-Net: Multiresolution sinusoidal neural networks
Hallison Paz, Daniel Perazzo, Tiago Novello, Guilherme G. Schardong, Luiz Schirmer, Vinícius da Silva, Daniel Yukimura, Fabio Chagas, Hélio Lopes 0001, Luiz Velho 0001 |
Comput. Graph. | 3 |
| 2022 | Exploring differential geometry in neural implicits
Tiago Novello, Guilherme G. Schardong, Luiz Schirmer, Vinícius da Silva, Hélio Lopes 0001, Luiz Velho 0001 |
Comput. Graph. | 1 |
| 2020 | Immersive Visualization of the Classical Non-Euclidean Spaces using Real-Time Ray Tracing in VRabstractThis paper presents a system for immersive visualization of the Classical Non-Euclidean spaces using real-time ray tracing. It exploits the capabilities of the latest generation of GPU's based on the NVIDIA's Turing architecture in order to develop new methods for intuitive exploration of landscapes featuring non-trivial geometry and topology in virtual reality. Luiz Velho 0001, Vinícius da Silva, Tiago Novello |
Graphics Interface | 3 |
| 2020 | Visualization of Nil, Sol, and SL2(R)˜ geometries
Tiago Novello, Vinícius da Silva, Luiz Velho 0001 |
Comput. Graph. | 1 |
| 2020 | Global illumination of non-Euclidean spaces
Tiago Novello, Vinícius da Silva, Luiz Velho 0001 |
Comput. Graph. | 1 |