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We study the problem of single-image depth estimation for images in the wild. We collect human annotated surface normals and use them to train a neural network that directly predicts pixel-wise depth. We propose two novel loss functions for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Weifeng Chen , Donglai Xiang , Jia Deng

Casual photography is often performed in uncontrolled lighting that can result in low quality images and degrade the performance of downstream processing. We consider the problem of estimating surface normal and reflectance maps of scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhihao Xia , Jason Lawrence , Supreeth Achar

This work introduces a novel method for surface normal estimation from rectified stereo image pairs, leveraging affine transformations derived from disparity values to achieve fast and accurate results. We demonstrate how the rectification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Csongor Csanad Kariko , Muhammad Rafi Faisal , Levente Hajder

In this paper, we propose a deep learning architecture that produces accurate dense depth for the outdoor scene from a single color image and a sparse depth. Inspired by the indoor depth completion, our network estimates surface normals as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jiaxiong Qiu , Zhaopeng Cui , Yinda Zhang , Xingdi Zhang , Shuaicheng Liu , Bing Zeng , Marc Pollefeys

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) networks trained with perceptual and adversarial losses provide high-contrast outputs compared to those of networks trained with distortion-oriented losses, such as L1 or L2. However, it has been shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Seung Ho Park , Young Su Moon , Nam Ik Cho

Single image super-resolution (SISR) algorithms reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images with their low-resolution (LR) counterparts. It is desirable to develop image quality assessment (IQA) methods that can not only evaluate and compare…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Wei Zhou , Zhou Wang , Zhibo Chen

Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) task refers to learn a mapping from low-resolution images to the corresponding high-resolution ones. This task is known to be extremely difficult since it is an ill-posed problem. Recently, Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Seyed Mehdi Ayyoubzadeh , Xiaolin Wu

Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is widely used in industrial quality control and automation to test the purity and grade of items. In this research, we propose a novel sensorized end effector and acquisition strategy to capture spectral…

Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) often struggle with reconstructing and rendering highly reflective scenes. Recent advancements have developed various reflection-aware appearance models to enhance NeRF's capability to render specular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Ji Shi , Xianghua Ying , Ruohao Guo , Bowei Xing , Wenzhen Yue

Deep learning based methods have recently pushed the state-of-the-art on the problem of Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR). In this work, we revisit the more traditional interpolation-based methods, that were popular before, now with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Xu Jia , Hong Chang , Tinne Tuytelaars

The reconstruction of indoor scenes from multi-view RGB images is challenging due to the coexistence of flat and texture-less regions alongside delicate and fine-grained regions. Recent methods leverage neural radiance fields aided by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Sheng Ye , Yubin Hu , Matthieu Lin , Yu-Hui Wen , Wang Zhao , Yong-Jin Liu , Wenping Wang

This paper presents an uncalibrated deep neural network framework for the photometric stereo problem. For training models to solve the problem, existing neural network-based methods either require exact light directions or ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

Creating plausible surfaces is an essential component in achieving a high degree of realism in rendering. To relieve artists, who create these surfaces in a time-consuming, manual process, automated retrieval of the spatially-varying…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Mark Boss , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

The deep learning technique was used to increase the performance of single image super-resolution (SISR). However, most existing CNN-based SISR approaches primarily focus on establishing deeper or larger networks to extract more significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Huipeng Zheng , Lukman Hakim , Takio Kurita , Junichi Miyao

Understanding the 3D structure of a scene is of vital importance, when it comes to developing fully autonomous robots. To this end, we present a novel deep learning based framework that estimates depth, surface normals and surface curvature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Thanuja Dharmasiri , Andrew Spek , Tom Drummond

3D surface reconstruction from images is essential for numerous applications. Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have emerged as a promising framework for 3D modeling. However, NeRFs require accurate camera poses as input, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yiyang Chen , Siyan Dong , Xulong Wang , Lulu Cai , Youyi Zheng , Yanchao Yang

Implicit neural representation (INR) has become the standard approach for arbitrary-scale image super-resolution (ASSR). To date, no empirical study has systematically examined the effectiveness of existing methods, nor investigated the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tayyab Nasir , Daochang Liu , Ajmal Mian

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology has proven to be an important part of many robotics systems. Surface normals estimated from LiDAR data are commonly used for a variety of tasks in such systems. As most of the today's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Igor Bogoslavskyi , Konstantinos Zampogiannis , Raymond Phan

Single image super-resolution (SISR) is a very popular topic nowadays, which has both research value and practical value. In daily life, we crop a large image into sub-images to do super-resolution and then merge them together. Although…

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