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In this paper, we present a patch-based representation of surfaces, PolyFit, which is obtained by fitting jet functions locally on surface patches. Such a representation can be learned efficiently in a supervised fashion from both analytic…

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Reconstructing object geometry and material from multiple views typically requires optimization. Differentiable path tracing is an appealing framework as it can reproduce complex appearance effects. However, it is difficult to use due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Purvi Goel , Loudon Cohen , James Guesman , Vikas Thamizharasan , James Tompkin , Daniel Ritchie

Reconstructing the shape and spatially varying surface appearances of a physical-world object as well as its surrounding illumination based on 2D images (e.g., photographs) of the object has been a long-standing problem in computer vision…

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The problem of inferring object shape from a single 2D image is underconstrained. Prior knowledge about what objects are plausible can help, but even given such prior knowledge there may still be uncertainty about the shapes of occluded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Matthew D. Hoffman , Tuan Anh Le , Pavel Sountsov , Christopher Suter , Ben Lee , Vikash K. Mansinghka , Rif A. Saurous

We investigate the problem of learning category-specific 3D shape reconstruction from a variable number of RGB views of previously unobserved object instances. Most approaches for multiview shape reconstruction operate on sparse shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Srinath Sridhar , Davis Rempe , Julien Valentin , Sofien Bouaziz , Leonidas J. Guibas

Learning-based methods have attracted a lot of research attention and led to significant improvements in low-light image enhancement. However, most of them still suffer from two main problems: expensive computational cost in high resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jiancheng Huang , Yifan Liu , Shifeng Chen

Images from adaptive optics systems are generally affected by significant distortions of the point spread function (PSF) across the field of view, depending on the position of natural and artificial guide stars. Image reduction techniques…

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This paper addresses the problem of 3D human body shape and pose estimation from RGB images. Some recent approaches to this task predict probability distributions over human body model parameters conditioned on the input images. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Akash Sengupta , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Cipolla

Structure-from-Motion (SfM) is a fundamental 3D vision task for recovering camera parameters and scene geometry from multi-view images. While recent deep learning advances enable accurate Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) from single images…

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Precise calibration is a must for high reliance 3D computer vision algorithms. A challenging case is when the camera is behind a protective glass or transparent object: due to refraction, the image is heavily distorted; the pinhole camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Szabolcs Pável , Csanád Sándor , Lehel Csató

We present a new deep learning approach for matching deformable shapes by introducing {\it Shape Deformation Networks} which jointly encode 3D shapes and correspondences. This is achieved by factoring the surface representation into (i) a…

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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a critical imaging method for capturing and modeling tissue microarchitecture at a millimeter scale. A common practice to model the measured DW-MRI signal is via fiber orientation…

Reconstructing the underlying 3D surface of an object from a single image is a challenging problem that has received extensive attention from the computer vision community. Many learning-based approaches tackle this problem by learning a 3D…

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Depth-from-Focus (DFF) enables precise depth estimation by analyzing focus cues across a stack of images captured at varying focal lengths. While recent learning-based approaches have advanced this field, they often struggle in complex…

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The availability of affordable and portable depth sensors has made scanning objects and people simpler than ever. However, dealing with occlusions and missing parts is still a significant challenge. The problem of reconstructing a (possibly…

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Monocular depth estimation and image deblurring are two fundamental tasks in computer vision, given their crucial role in understanding 3D scenes. Performing any of them by relying on a single image is an ill-posed problem. The recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Saqib Nazir , Lorenzo Vaquero , Manuel Mucientes , Víctor M. Brea , Daniela Coltuc

Statistical shape modeling (SSM) is a powerful computational framework for quantifying and analyzing the geometric variability of anatomical structures, facilitating advancements in medical research, diagnostics, and treatment planning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Krithika Iyer , Jadie Adams , Shireen Y. Elhabian

This paper considers the problem of single image depth estimation. The employment of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has recently brought about significant advancements in the research of this problem. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Junjie Hu , Mete Ozay , Yan Zhang , Takayuki Okatani

We study the problem of shape generation in 3D mesh representation from a few color images with known camera poses. While many previous works learn to hallucinate the shape directly from priors, we resort to further improving the shape…

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