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SeamFlow: Structure-Aware Flow Matching on Edge Probabilities for Artist-Like UV Unwrapping

arXiv 2609.04751 ↗First posted 4 Sep 2026cs.CVcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

3D surface cutting and UV unwrapping are fundamental problems in computer graphics. Traditional geometric optimization methods mainly focus on reducing parameterization distortion, but they often overlook visual semantic coherence in seam layouts. Recent autoregressive generative methods improve semantic coherence, yet limited perception of mesh topology often causes inaccurate local cuts. To address these limitations, we introduce SeamFlow, a novel generative framework for 3D surface cutting. We reformulate the discrete mesh-cutting problem as continuous flow matching in a high-dimensional edge-probability space. Through continuous relaxation, SeamFlow learns a deterministic mapping from a Gaussian prior to a target seam-probability distribution. An evolution network couples local topological tokens with global shape priors and guides smooth probability flow through Ordinary Differential Equation solving. Compared with existing autoregressive generative frameworks, SeamFlow improves topology awareness through edge tokenization while eliminating both 3D spatial projection errors and artificial sequential-order bias. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SeamFlow achieves exceptional semantic coherence and remarkably low parameterization distortion. The project page is https://meshy-dev.github.io/seamflow.

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  1. 2026SeamGen: Artist-Aligned UV Seam Generation via Graph Flow Matching
  2. 2026DreamUV: Unwrap Artist-like UV by End-to-End Flow Matching
  3. 2026MeshQuery: Agentic Seam Planning for UV Parametrization
  4. 2026TaoFlowForge: Progressive Native Mesh Generation via Cascaded Flow Matching
  5. 2026PolyFlow: Continuous Topology Embedding Flow Matching for Artist-style Mesh Generation
  6. 2026Meshy T2: Fast Native Mesh Generation with Flow Matching
  7. 2026LATO.2: Factorized 3D Mesh Generation with Vertex and Topology Flow
  8. 2026TriFlow: Generating Artist-Like 3D Mesh Topology via Nearest-Vertex Vector Fields