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Scene reconstruction is an essential capability for underwater robots navigating in close proximity to structures. Monocular vision-based reconstruction methods are unreliable in turbid waters and lack depth scale information. Sonars are…

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Uncalibrated photometric stereo is proposed to estimate the detailed surface normal from images under varying and unknown lightings. Recently, deep learning brings powerful data priors to this underdetermined problem. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Fangzhou Gao , Meng Wang , Lianghao Zhang , Li Wang , Jiawan Zhang

We propose a new modeling approach for scatter estimation and descattering in polyenergetic X-ray computed tomography (CT) based on fitting models to local neighborhoods of a training set. X-ray CT is widely used in medical and industrial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Jennifer L. Schei , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Computational time reversal imaging can be used to locate the position of multiple scatterers in a known background medium. Here, we discuss a sparse approximation method for computational time-reversal imaging. The method is formulated…

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Improving the image contrast of objects immersed in weakly scattering media can be achieved using various strategies. One common approach is to reject events associated with scattered photons in favor of the detection of ballistic photons.…

In computed tomography (CT) reconstruction, scattering causes server quality degradation of the reconstructed CT images by introducing streaks and cupping artifacts which reduce the detectability of low contrast objects. Monte Carlo (MC)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Ammar Alsaffar , Steffen Kieß , Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

This paper addresses the problem of inverse rendering from photometric images. Existing approaches for this problem suffer from the effects of self-shadows, inter-reflections, and lack of constraints on the surface reflectance, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jingzhi Bao , Guanying Chen , Shuguang Cui

This work is concerned with optical imaging in strongly diffusive environments. We consider a typical setting in optical coherence tomography where a sample is probed by a collection of wavefields produced by a laser and propagating through…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-10 Randy Bartels , Olivier Pinaud , Maxine Varughese

Atmospheric lidar observations provide a unique capability to directly observe the vertical column of cloud and aerosol scattering properties. Detector and solar background noise, however, hinder the ability of lidar systems to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Willem J. Marais , Robert E. Holz , Yu Hen Hu , Ralph E. Kuehn , Edwin E. Eloranta , Rebecca M. Willett

Hyperspectral imaging is useful for applications ranging from medical diagnostics to agricultural crop monitoring; however, traditional scanning hyperspectral imagers are prohibitively slow and expensive for widespread adoption. Snapshot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Kristina Monakhova , Kyrollos Yanny , Neerja Aggarwal , Laura Waller

With the advent of the screen-reading era, the confidential documents displayed on the screen can be easily captured by a camera without leaving any traces. Thus, this paper proposes a novel screen-shooting resilient watermarking scheme for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Sulong Ge , Zhihua Xia , Yao Tong , Jian Weng , Jianan Liu

We propose a new approach called LiDAR-Flow to robustly estimate a dense scene flow by fusing a sparse LiDAR with stereo images. We take the advantage of the high accuracy of LiDAR to resolve the lack of information in some regions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Qing Rao , Didier Stricker

Most deraining works focus on rain streaks removal but they cannot deal adequately with heavy rain images. In heavy rain, streaks are strongly visible, dense rain accumulation or rain veiling effect significantly washes out the image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Ruotent Li , Loong Fah Cheong , Robby T. Tan

The goal of synthetic aperture imaging is to estimate the reflectivity of a remote region of interest by processing data gathered with a moving sensor which emits periodically a signal and records the backscattered wave. We introduce and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

We demonstrate a high-speed method to image objects through a thin scattering medium and around a corner. The method employs a reference object of known shape to retrieve the speckle-like point spread function of the scatterer. We extract…

Self-supervised deep learning methods have leveraged stereo images for training monocular depth estimation. Although these methods show strong results on outdoor datasets such as KITTI, they do not match performance of supervised methods on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Benjamin Keltjens , Tom van Dijk , Guido de Croon

We introduce the first end-to-end learning-based solution to near-field Photometric Stereo (PS), where the light sources are close to the object of interest. This setup is especially useful for reconstructing large immobile objects. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Daniel Lichy , Soumyadip Sengupta , David W. Jacobs

Camera anomalies like rain or dust can severelydegrade image quality and its related tasks, such as localizationand segmentation. In this work we address this importantissue by implementing a pre-processing step that can effectivelymitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Gianmario Fumagalli , Yannick Huber , Marcin Dymczyk , Roland Siegwart , Renaud Dubé

Estimating depth from images nowadays yields outstanding results, both in terms of in-domain accuracy and generalization. However, we identify two main challenges that remain open in this field: dealing with non-Lambertian materials and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Alex Costanzino , Fabio Tosi , Matteo Poggi , Samuele Salti , Stefano Mattoccia , Luigi Di Stefano

This paper introduces FlowMap, an end-to-end differentiable method that solves for precise camera poses, camera intrinsics, and per-frame dense depth of a video sequence. Our method performs per-video gradient-descent minimization of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Cameron Smith , David Charatan , Ayush Tewari , Vincent Sitzmann