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We propose a method for dense depth estimation from an event stream generated when sweeping the focal plane of the driving lens attached to an event camera. In this method, a depth map is inferred from an ``event focal stack'' composed of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Kenta Horikawa , Mariko Isogawa , Hideo Saito , Shohei Mori

To train deep learning models, which often outperform traditional approaches, large datasets of a specified medium, e.g., images, are used in numerous areas. However, for light field-specific machine learning tasks, there is a lack of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Julia Huang , Toure Smith , Aloukika Patro , Vidhi Chhabra

This paper reviews the recent progresses of the depth map generation for dynamic scene and its corresponding computational models. This paper mainly covers the homogeneous ambiguity models in depth sensing, resolution models in depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Qifei Wang

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of a vast number of applications requiring 3D assessment of the environment, such as robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous driving to name a few. One prominent technique for depth estimation is stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Amit Bracha , Noam Rotstein , David Bensaïd , Ron Slossberg , Ron Kimmel

Noise synthesis is a challenging low-level vision task aiming to generate realistic noise given a clean image along with the camera settings. To this end, we propose an effective generative model which utilizes clean features as guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Mingyang Song , Yang Zhang , Tunç O. Aydın , Elham Amin Mansour , Christopher Schroers

Light Field (LF) offers unique advantages such as post-capture refocusing and depth estimation, but low-light conditions limit these capabilities. To restore low-light LFs we should harness the geometric cues present in different LF views,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Mohit Lamba , Kranthi Kumar , Kaushik Mitra

Camera arrays provide spatial and angular information within a single snapshot. With refocusing methods, focal planes can be altered after exposure. In this letter, we propose a light field refocusing method to improve the imaging quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Yingqian Wang , Jungang Yang , Yulan Guo , Chao Xiao , Wei An

We present Neural Microfacet Fields, a method for recovering materials, geometry, and environment illumination from images of a scene. Our method uses a microfacet reflectance model within a volumetric setting by treating each sample along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Alexander Mai , Dor Verbin , Falko Kuester , Sara Fridovich-Keil

We present a method that takes as input a set of images of a scene illuminated by unconstrained known lighting, and produces as output a 3D representation that can be rendered from novel viewpoints under arbitrary lighting conditions. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Pratul P. Srinivasan , Boyang Deng , Xiuming Zhang , Matthew Tancik , Ben Mildenhall , Jonathan T. Barron

Supervised and unsupervised homography estimation methods depend on image pairs tailored to specific modalities to achieve high accuracy. However, their performance deteriorates substantially when applied to unseen modalities. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jinkun You , Jiaxin Cheng , Jie Zhang , Yicong Zhou

While 2D generative adversarial networks have enabled high-resolution image synthesis, they largely lack an understanding of the 3D world and the image formation process. Thus, they do not provide precise control over camera viewpoint or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Katja Schwarz , Yiyi Liao , Michael Niemeyer , Andreas Geiger

Underwater image restoration and enhancement are crucial for correcting color distortion and restoring image details, thereby establishing a fundamental basis for subsequent underwater visual tasks. However, current deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yufeng Tian , Yifan Chen , Zhe Sun , Libang Chen , Mingyu Dou , Jijun Lu , Ye Zheng , Xuelong Li

We propose Light-Geometry Interaction (LGI) maps, a novel representation that encodes light-aware occlusion from monocular depth. Unlike ray tracing, which requires full 3D reconstruction, LGI captures essential light-shadow interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shan Wang , Peixia Li , Chenchen Xu , Ziang Cheng , Jiayu Yang , Hongdong Li , Pulak Purkait

Deep vision models are now mature enough to be integrated in industrial and possibly critical applications such as autonomous navigation. Yet, data collection and labeling to train such models requires too much efforts and costs for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Estelle Chigot , Dennis G. Wilson , Meriem Ghrib , Fabrice Jimenez , Thomas Oberlin

This paper presents a Progressively-connected Light Field network (ProLiF), for the novel view synthesis of complex forward-facing scenes. ProLiF encodes a 4D light field, which allows rendering a large batch of rays in one training step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Peng Wang , Yuan Liu , Guying Lin , Jiatao Gu , Lingjie Liu , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Nowadays, the majority of state of the art monocular depth estimation techniques are based on supervised deep learning models. However, collecting RGB images with associated depth maps is a very time consuming procedure. Therefore, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Andrea Pilzer , Stéphane Lathuilière , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Wide field-of-view (FoV) cameras efficiently capture large portions of the scene, which makes them attractive in multiple domains, such as automotive and robotics. For such applications, estimating depth from multiple images is a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Daniel Lichy , Hang Su , Abhishek Badki , Jan Kautz , Orazio Gallo

There is a strong demand on capturing underwater scenes without distortions caused by refraction. Since a light field camera can capture several light rays at each point of an image plane from various directions, if geometrically correct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-24 Kazuto Ichimaru , Hiroshi Kawasaki

We present an algorithm for estimating consistent dense depth maps and camera poses from a monocular video. We integrate a learning-based depth prior, in the form of a convolutional neural network trained for single-image depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Johannes Kopf , Xuejian Rong , Jia-Bin Huang

Recent years have seen remarkable progress in deep learning powered visual content creation. This includes deep generative 3D-aware image synthesis, which produces high-idelity images in a 3D-consistent manner while simultaneously capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Weihao Xia , Jing-Hao Xue