FLOWING: Implicit Neural Flows for Structure-Preserving Morphing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09537v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:50:23 GMT
• Title: FLOWING: Implicit Neural Flows for Structure-Preserving Morphing
• Authors: Arthur Bizzi, Matias Grynberg, Vitor Matias, Daniel Perazzo, João Paulo Lima, Luiz Velho, Nuno Gonçalves, João Pereira, Guilherme Schardong, Tiago Novello,
• Abstract summary: FLOWING (FLOW morphING) is a framework that recasts warping as the construction of a differential vector flow.<n>We show that FLOWING achieves state-of-the-art morphing quality with faster convergence.
• Score: 5.498230316788923
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Morphing is a long-standing problem in vision and computer graphics, requiring 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 properties 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 at http://schardong.github.io/flowing.

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