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Aerial vehicles are revolutionizing applications that require capturing the 3D structure of dynamic targets in the wild, such as sports, medicine, and entertainment. The core challenges in developing a motion-capture system that operates in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cherie Ho , Andrew Jong , Harry Freeman , Rohan Rao , Rogerio Bonatti , Sebastian Scherer

3D reconstruction is a fundamental task in robotics that gained attention due to its major impact in a wide variety of practical settings, including agriculture, underwater, and urban environments. This task can be carried out via view…

The usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the context of structural health inspection is recently gaining tremendous popularity. Camera mounted UAVs enable the fast acquisition of a large number of images often used for mapping, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Alon Oring

3D reconstruction can be used as a platform to monitor the performance of activities on construction site, such as construction progress monitoring, structure inspection and post-disaster rescue. Comparing to other sensors, RGB image has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Zhexiong Shang , Zhigang Shen

3D reconstruction aims to recover the dense 3D structure of a scene. It plays an essential role in various applications such as Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), autonomous driving and robotics. Leveraging multiple views of a scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Fangjinhua Wang , Qingtian Zhu , Di Chang , Quankai Gao , Junlin Han , Tong Zhang , Richard Hartley , Marc Pollefeys

Current motion capture (MoCap) systems generally require markers and multiple calibrated cameras, which can be used only in constrained environments. In this work we introduce a drone-based system for 3D human MoCap. The system only needs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Xiaowei Zhou , Sikang Liu , Georgios Pavlakos , Vijay Kumar , Kostas Daniilidis

Reconstructing a 3D object from a 2D image is a well-researched vision problem, with many kinds of deep learning techniques having been tried. Most commonly, 3D convolutional approaches are used, though previous work has shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Rohan Agarwal , Wei Zhou , Xiaofeng Wu , Yuhan Li

This paper addresses real-time dense 3D reconstruction for a resource-constrained Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). Underwater vision-guided operations are among the most challenging as they combine 3D motion in the presence of external…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Weihan Wang , Bharat Joshi , Nathaniel Burgdorfer , Konstantinos Batsos , Alberto Quattrini Li , Philippos Mordohai , Ioannis Rekleitis

The problem of 3D high-resolution imaging in automotive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) side-looking radar using a 1D array is considered. The concept of motion-enhanced snapshots is introduced for generating larger apertures in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Sen Yuan , Francesco Fioranelli , Alexander Yarovoy

High resolution reconstruction of complicated objects from incomplete and noisy data can be achieved by solving modulation equations iteratively under physical constraints. This direct demodulation method is a powerful technique for dealing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ti-Pei Li , Mei Wu

3D phenotyping of plants plays a crucial role for understanding plant growth, yield prediction, and disease control. We present a pipeline capable of generating high-quality 3D reconstructions of individual agricultural plants. To acquire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Andre Rochow , Jonas Marcic , Svetlana Seliunina , Sven Behnke

With the advancement of millimeter-wave radar technology, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging at millimeter-wave frequencies has gained significant attention in both academic research and industrial applications. However, traditional SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Ayush Jha , Dhanireddy Chandrika , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula , Chetan Singh Thakur

This work presents a flexible system to reconstruct 3D models of objects captured with an RGB-D sensor. A major advantage of the method is that our reconstruction pipeline allows the user to acquire a full 3D model of the object. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Aitor Aldoma , Johann Prankl , Alexander Svejda , Markus Vincze

Surgical automation requires precise guidance and understanding of the scene. Current methods in the literature rely on bulky depth cameras to create maps of the anatomy, however this does not translate well to space-limited clinical…

This paper presents RFconstruct, a framework that enables 3D shape reconstruction using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) mmWave radars for self-driving scenarios. RFconstruct overcomes radar limitations of low angular resolution,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Samah Hussein , Junfeng Guan , Swathi Narashiman , Saurabh Gupta , Haitham Hassanieh

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital content creation, the demand for fast, convenient, and autonomous methods of crafting detailed 3D reconstructions of humans has grown significantly. Addressing this pressing need, our AirNeRF…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Alexey Kotcov , Maria Dronova , Vladislav Cheremnykh , Sausar Karaf , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Current methods for 3D reconstruction and environmental mapping frequently face challenges in achieving high precision, highlighting the need for practical and effective solutions. In response to this issue, our study introduces FlyNeRF, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Maria Dronova , Vladislav Cheremnykh , Alexey Kotcov , Aleksey Fedoseev , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

This paper propose a interactive 3D modeling method and corresponding system based on single or multiple uncalibrated images. The main feature of this method is that, according to the modeling habits of ordinary people, the 3D model of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhi He , Rui Wang , Wei Hua , Yuchi Huo

This paper addresses outdoor terrain mapping using overhead images obtained from an unmanned aerial vehicle. Dense depth estimation from aerial images during flight is challenging. While feature-based localization and mapping techniques can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Qiaojun Feng , Nikolay Atanasov

3D reconstruction from 2D images is a central problem in computer vision. Recent works have been focusing on reconstruction directly from a single image. It is well known however that only one image cannot provide enough information for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Jhony K. Pontes , Chen Kong , Anders Eriksson , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan , Simon Lucey