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arxiv: 2603.27309 · v2 · pith:3ADWP3EGnew · submitted 2026-03-28 · 💻 cs.GR · cs.CV

MeshTailor: Cutting Seams via Generative Mesh Traversal

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classification 💻 cs.GR cs.CV
keywords 3D mesh processingseam generationgenerative modelstransformerautoregressive predictiongraph traversalsurface cuttingmesh unfolding
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The pith

MeshTailor generates coherent seams on 3D meshes by autoregressive traversal directly on the mesh graph.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents MeshTailor as a generative method that creates edge-aligned seams straight from the mesh structure rather than through external projections or optimization. It serializes the seam possibilities into ordered chains that start with large structural cuts and refine down to details, then feeds both connectivity and shape data into a transformer that predicts the next vertex along the seam one step at a time. This setup is intended to avoid the artifacts and manual fixes common in earlier approaches while producing seams that stay aligned with the surface edges. Readers interested in 3D modeling would care because cleaner seams simplify unfolding, texturing, and fabrication of complex shapes.

Core claim

MeshTailor is the first mesh-native generative framework for synthesizing edge-aligned seams on 3D surfaces. It operates directly on the mesh graph, eliminating projection artifacts and fragile snapping heuristics. ChainingSeams provides a hierarchical serialization of the seam graph that orders chains from global structural cuts down to local details in a coarse-to-fine manner, and a dual-stream encoder fuses topological and geometric context. The MeshTailor Transformer utilizes an autoregressive pointer layer to trace seams vertex-by-vertex within local neighborhoods, producing more coherent and structurally regular seam layouts than recent optimization-based and learning-based baselines.

What carries the argument

ChainingSeams hierarchical serialization of the seam graph combined with dual-stream vertex embeddings that feed an autoregressive pointer layer for vertex-by-vertex tracing inside local neighborhoods.

If this is right

  • Direct operation on the mesh graph removes dependence on extrinsic coordinates and associated projection errors.
  • Coarse-to-fine chaining lets the model build large structural seams first before adding fine details.
  • Autoregressive vertex prediction within neighborhoods produces edge-aligned seams without post-processing heuristics.
  • The resulting layouts show greater coherence and structural regularity than both optimization and earlier learning methods.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same traversal approach could be adapted for other mesh tasks such as generating cut paths for unfolding or procedural detailing.
  • If the hierarchical ordering generalizes, similar graph-native generators might reduce reliance on 2D projections across broader 3D geometry processing pipelines.
  • Applications like automated texture atlas creation or fabrication planning could incorporate this seam generator as a modular step.

Load-bearing premise

That ordering seams in global-to-local chains and embedding both topology and geometry together is enough for an autoregressive model to trace reliable seams without needing projections or snapping fixes.

What would settle it

A side-by-side quantitative comparison on a benchmark set of 3D meshes measuring seam coherence and structural regularity metrics to check whether MeshTailor outputs are measurably superior to optimization and prior learning baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.27309 by Congyue Zhang, Hui Huang, Xingguang Yan, Xueqi Ma.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: MeshTailor. Top: MeshTailor generates seams (colored lines) directly on 3D meshes, producing clean, semantically aligned cuts that respect natural shape structure. Bottom: The resulting seams partition surfaces into coherent UV charts, which are flattened into 2D layouts with minimal fragmentation. Right: These high-quality UV maps facilitate seamless texture application, as demonstrated by the final textu… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of MeshTailor. Left: The dual-stream encoder. The input mesh is processed in parallel: the top stream extracts topological connectivity features H via a Graph Encoder on the mesh topology {V, E}, while the bottom stream samples surface points to extract global shape semantics tokens Z using a pretrained point-cloud encoder (frozen during training). These representations are fused via cross-attenti… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Canonical ordering of seam chains (coarse-to-fine). We serialize an unordered seam set into a deterministic sequence for autoregressive training/inference with a loops-first, balance-first, large-patch-first strategy: we prioritize loop cuts over open chains, re￾peatedly select the largest remaining surface patch, and within that patch choose the loop cut that best balances the two resulting sub-patch area… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Step-by-step seam generation as mesh traversal. Our autoregressive decoder traverses the input mesh connectivity, se￾lecting the next vertex from the current 1-ring neighborhood. This local constraint makes the predicted seams mesh-native and avoids invalid jumps across the surface. 3. Method 3.1. Overview Our goal is to generate UV seams that are both edge-aligned and continuous (mesh-native by constructi… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Seam layout and area distortion comparison on GarmentCodeData [15]. For each method, we show the predicted seams on the 3D mesh (left) and the corresponding area distortion heatmap on the UV layout (right). While prior methods often produce fragmented or jagged cuts that lead to irregular UV islands, MeshTailor generates cleaner, garment-aligned seam structures with coherent chains and loops, resulting in … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Seam layout and UV area distortion comparison on TexVerse [56]. We qualitatively compare MeshTailor with OptCuts, xatlas, Nuvo, Blender Smart UV Project, and PartUV on diverse assets from TexVerse. Compared to existing baselines that often produce fragmented charts or jagged cut boundaries, MeshTailor generates cleaner, mesh-aligned seams with coherent long-range chain/loop struc￾tures while maintaining co… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Left: pairwise preference rates between methods, where [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: UV quality under a tiling stripe texture. Fragmented [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Production-oriented UV usability. (a) Our UV layout supports diverse texture appearances on the same garment. (b) Stripe tiling with a user-edited logo, showing results from prior methods. Tailor is consistently preferred over all baselines, validating that mesh-native seam chains better match production con￾ventions. See Supplemental Material C.2 for details. 4.4. Applications Texture editing and replacem… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: MeshTailor generalizes to meshes at different levels of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: We perturb the input mesh by adding Gaussian noise [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Divide-and-conquer inference. Starting from a high-resolution mesh, MeshTailor predicts a major seam loop to split the surface into disconnected components, then recursively applies the same seam-tracing process to each sub-mesh. This recursion progressively decomposes the asset into semantically coherent parts, yielding clean, edge-aligned seams and the corresponding UV charts [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/f… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Ablation on seam generation. We compare Mesh [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Graph Encoder. We embed each vertex with coordinate-based point features and apply a stack of GraphSAGE layers with SiLU and LayerNorm to aggregate neighborhood in￾formation, producing per-vertex connectivity-aware embeddings used for seam generation. map a vertex id v ∈ [0, N−1] to candidate id (v + 2), while [EOC] and [EOS] are mapped to candidate ids 0 and 1, respectively. B.3.2. Encoding We compute th… view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Coordinate-to-mesh projection. Coordinate-based seams can look plausible in Euclidean space, but snapping them to the input mesh often induces jagged boundaries and may collapse onto the wrong surface sheet under nearby/interpenetrating geom￾etry, leading to disconnections [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_16.png] view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: User study interface. We present participants with paired seam layout results (including seam visualizations on the 3D mesh and the corresponding UV maps) and ask them to choose the higher-quality option in a 2AFC setting, following the pro￾vided criteria (minimization, concealment, and geometry aware￾ness). Structural complexity. We report the number of charts (UV islands) as a proxy for cut complexity. … view at source ↗
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Failure cases. (a) Hair and spiky assets. (b) Extremely low-poly meshes. (c) Decoding errors can derail a chain (red ar￾rows). Projection-induced jaggedness. Even when predicted segments form a visually plausible wireframe in Euclidean space, converting them into valid seams requires snapping points to mesh vertices/edges. Because the target is a dis￾crete mesh, small deviations in predicted coordinates c… view at source ↗
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: UV layout comparison on GarmentCodeData. Each island is shown with a unique color to reveal chart fragmentation and boundary regularity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_19.png] view at source ↗
Figure 20
Figure 20. Figure 20: UV layout comparison on TexVerse. Each island is shown with a unique color to reveal chart fragmentation and boundary regularity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_20.png] view at source ↗
Figure 21
Figure 21. Figure 21: Additional qualitative results. MeshTailor produces coherent seam layouts across diverse categories and shapes. Colored curves denote different predicted seam chains overlaid on the input meshes [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_21.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

We present MeshTailor, the first mesh-native generative framework for synthesizing edge-aligned seams on 3D surfaces. Unlike prior optimization-based or extrinsic learning-based methods, MeshTailor operates directly on the mesh graph, eliminating projection artifacts and fragile snapping heuristics. We introduce ChainingSeams, a hierarchical serialization of the seam graph that orders chains from global structural cuts down to local details in a coarse-to-fine manner, and a dual-stream encoder that fuses topological and geometric context. Leveraging this hierarchical representation and dual-stream vertex embeddings, our MeshTailor Transformer utilizes an autoregressive pointer layer to trace seams vertex-by-vertex within local neighborhoods. Extensive evaluations show that MeshTailor produces more coherent and structurally regular seam layouts compared to recent optimization-based and learning-based baselines.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents MeshTailor, the first mesh-native generative framework for synthesizing edge-aligned seams on 3D surfaces. It operates directly on the mesh graph using ChainingSeams, a hierarchical serialization of the seam graph that orders chains from global structural cuts to local details in a coarse-to-fine manner, together with a dual-stream encoder fusing topological and geometric context. The MeshTailor Transformer employs an autoregressive pointer layer to trace seams vertex-by-vertex within local neighborhoods. The central claim is that this approach yields more coherent and structurally regular seam layouts than recent optimization-based and learning-based baselines, supported by extensive evaluations.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work offers a meaningful contribution to geometry processing by introducing a direct mesh-graph generative model that sidesteps projection artifacts and snapping heuristics common in prior extrinsic methods. The combination of hierarchical ChainingSeams serialization and dual-stream embeddings provides a novel mechanism for autoregressive seam tracing, which could influence future work on mesh segmentation, UV mapping, and related tasks. The paper's emphasis on native mesh operations is a clear strength, though the absence of detailed quantitative support in the abstract limits immediate evaluation of its practical impact.

major comments (2)
  1. Abstract: the claim that 'extensive evaluations show that MeshTailor produces more coherent and structurally regular seam layouts' is load-bearing for the superiority assertion, yet the abstract (and available summary) provides no quantitative metrics, baseline details, error analysis, or ablation results; this directly weakens the ability to verify the reported advantage over optimization and learning baselines.
  2. Method description of ChainingSeams and autoregressive pointer layer: the hierarchical serialization via ChainingSeams combined with dual-stream vertex embeddings is asserted to enable reliable autoregressive seam tracing without projection artifacts. For meshes with complex topology or long seams, however, sequential local vertex choices risk compounding prediction errors, potentially producing locally plausible but globally fragmented or irregular layouts; this assumption is central to the coherence claim and requires explicit discussion or additional global-consistency experiments.
minor comments (2)
  1. Abstract: the phrase 'mesh-native' is used without an immediate contrast to extrinsic methods; a brief parenthetical definition would improve clarity for readers unfamiliar with the distinction.
  2. Notation throughout: the dual-stream encoder is described as fusing 'topological and geometric context,' but the precise fusion mechanism (e.g., concatenation, attention, or gating) is not specified in the summary; adding an equation or diagram reference would aid reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive report. We address each major comment below and have prepared revisions to strengthen the presentation of results and the discussion of model assumptions.

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  1. Referee: [—] Abstract: the claim that 'extensive evaluations show that MeshTailor produces more coherent and structurally regular seam layouts' is load-bearing for the superiority assertion, yet the abstract (and available summary) provides no quantitative metrics, baseline details, error analysis, or ablation results; this directly weakens the ability to verify the reported advantage over optimization and learning baselines.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from concrete quantitative support for the central claim. In the revised manuscript we have updated the abstract to include a concise summary of the key metrics (coherence score, structural regularity index, and relative improvements versus the strongest baselines) drawn from the quantitative tables in Section 5. This keeps the abstract brief while making the superiority statement verifiable at a glance. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [—] Method description of ChainingSeams and autoregressive pointer layer: the hierarchical serialization via ChainingSeams combined with dual-stream vertex embeddings is asserted to enable reliable autoregressive seam tracing without projection artifacts. For meshes with complex topology or long seams, however, sequential local vertex choices risk compounding prediction errors, potentially producing locally plausible but globally fragmented or irregular layouts; this assumption is central to the coherence claim and requires explicit discussion or additional global-consistency experiments.

    Authors: We acknowledge the legitimate concern about error accumulation in long autoregressive sequences. The hierarchical ordering in ChainingSeams is intended to mitigate this by resolving global cuts before local refinements, and the dual-stream embeddings supply both local geometry and global topological context at each step. In the revision we have added an explicit paragraph in Section 3.3 discussing potential compounding errors and the mechanisms that limit their impact. We have also inserted a new global-consistency experiment (reported in Section 5.4) that measures end-to-end seam continuity on high-genus and long-seam meshes; the results show that fragmentation remains low relative to the baselines. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in MeshTailor derivation chain

full rationale

The paper introduces a new mesh-native generative approach with ChainingSeams for hierarchical seam serialization and a dual-stream encoder for topological-geometric fusion, followed by an autoregressive pointer-based tracing in the MeshTailor Transformer. These components are presented as novel constructions operating directly on the mesh graph, with evaluations against external optimization and learning baselines. No equations, predictions, or central claims reduce by construction to fitted inputs or self-citations; the framework is self-contained with independent content relative to prior work. No load-bearing uniqueness theorems or ansatzes from overlapping author citations are invoked in the provided text.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The framework rests on the unstated premise that direct mesh-graph traversal can capture all necessary seam constraints without external projection; no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are explicitly listed in the abstract.

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