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Monocular 3D shape recovery is fundamental to geometric understanding, yet achieving robust generalization across arbitrary viewpoints and unseen object categories remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we present a generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yiyao Ma , Kai Chen , Zhongxiang Zhou , Zhuheng Song , Dongsheng Xie , Zelong Tan , Rong Xiong , Qi Dou

In this work, we introduce the Geometry-Aware Large Reconstruction Model (GeoLRM), an approach which can predict high-quality assets with 512k Gaussians and 21 input images in only 11 GB GPU memory. Previous works neglect the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Chubin Zhang , Hongliang Song , Yi Wei , Yu Chen , Jiwen Lu , Yansong Tang

Most existing 3D shape datasets and models focus solely on geometry, overlooking the material properties that determine how objects appear. We introduce a two-stage large language model (LLM) based method for inferring material composition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Nafiseh Izadyar , Teseo Schneider

Feature matching is a challenging computer vision task that involves finding correspondences between two images of a 3D scene. In this paper we consider the dense approach instead of the more common sparse paradigm, thus striving to find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Johan Edstedt , Ioannis Athanasiadis , Mårten Wadenbäck , Michael Felsberg

Human visual perception offers valuable insights for understanding computational principles of motion-based scene interpretation. Humans robustly detect and segment moving entities that constitute independently moveable chunks of matter,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Eric Li , Arijit Dasgupta , Yoni Friedman , Mathieu Huot , Vikash Mansinghka , Thomas O'Connell , William T. Freeman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Visual recognition of materials and their states is essential for understanding the physical world, from identifying wet regions on surfaces or stains on fabrics to detecting infected areas on plants or minerals in rocks. Collecting data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Sagi Eppel , Jolina Li , Manuel Drehwald , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

In many applications, maintaining a consistent map of the environment is key to enabling robotic platforms to perform higher-level decision making. Detection of already visited locations is one of the primary ways in which map consistency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Alexander Millane , Helen Oleynikova , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , César Cadena

Representing scenes from multi-view images is a crucial task in computer vision with extensive applications. However, inherent photometric distortions in the camera imaging can significantly degrade image quality. Without accounting for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Weichen Dai , Kangcheng Ma , Jiaxin Wang , Kecen Pan , Yuhang Ming , Hua Zhang , Wanzeng Kong

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction from two-dimensional images is an active research field in computer vision, with applications ranging from navigation and object tracking to segmentation and three-dimensional modeling. Traditionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sierra Bonilla , Chiara Di Vece , Rema Daher , Xinwei Ju , Danail Stoyanov , Francisco Vasconcelos , Sophia Bano

The choice of data representation is a key factor in the success of deep learning in geometric tasks. For instance, DUSt3R recently introduced the concept of viewpoint-invariant point maps, generalizing depth prediction and showing that all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ben Kaye , Tomas Jakab , Shangzhe Wu , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Understanding material composition-structure-function relationships is of critical importance for the design and discovery of novel functional materials. While most such studies focus on individual materials, we conducted a global mapping…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-14 Qinyang Li , Rongzhi Dong , Nihang Fu , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Lai Wei , Jianjun Hu

Generative models for 2D images has recently seen tremendous progress in quality, resolution and speed as a result of the efficiency of 2D convolutional architectures. However it is difficult to extend this progress into the 3D domain since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Hassan Abu Alhaija , Alara Dirik , André Knörig , Sanja Fidler , Maria Shugrina

Object classification with 3D data is an essential component of any scene understanding method. It has gained significant interest in a variety of communities, most notably in robotics and computer graphics. While the advent of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jean-Baptiste Weibel , Timothy Patten , Markus Vincze

Mueller matrices (MMs) encode information on geometry and material properties, but recovering both simultaneously is an ill-posed problem. We explore whether MMs contain sufficient information to infer surface geometry and material…

In this paper, we study the representation of the shape and pose of objects using their keypoints. Therefore, we propose an end-to-end method that simultaneously detects 2D keypoints from an image and lifts them to 3D. The proposed method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Yigit Baran Can , Alexander Liniger , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Visual data in autonomous driving perception, such as camera image and LiDAR point cloud, can be interpreted as a mixture of two aspects: semantic feature and geometric structure. Semantics come from the appearance and context of objects to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Xia Chen , Jianren Wang , David Held , Martial Hebert

Object 6DoF (6D) pose estimation is essential for robotic perception, especially in industrial settings. It enables robots to interact with the environment and manipulate objects. However, existing benchmarks on object 6D pose estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ruimin Ma , Sebastian Zudaire , Zhen Li , Chi Zhang

We address the problem of ground-to-satellite image geo-localization, that is, estimating the camera latitude, longitude and orientation (azimuth angle) by matching a query image captured at the ground level against a large-scale database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Liu Liu , Dylan Campbell , Piotr Koniusz , Hongdong Li

Although recent 3D-native generators have made great progress in synthesizing reliable geometry, they still fall short in achieving realistic appearances. A key obstacle lies in the lack of diverse and high-quality real-world 3D assets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xinyue Liang , Zhinyuan Ma , Lingchen Sun , Yanjun Guo , Lei Zhang

We study the image-based geolocalization problem, aiming to localize ground-view query images on cartographic maps. Current methods often utilize cross-view localization techniques to match ground-view query images with 2D maps. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Mengjie Zhou , Liu Liu , Yiran Zhong , Andrew Calway