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X-ray computed tomographic infrastructures are medical imaging modalities that rely on the acquisition of rays crossing examined objects while measuring their intensity decrease. Physical measurements are post-processed by mathematical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Attila Juhos

Numerical integration is a foundational technique in scientific computing and is at the core of many computer vision applications. Among these applications, neural volume rendering has recently been proposed as a new paradigm for view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 David B. Lindell , Julien N. P. Martel , Gordon Wetzstein

This paper presents an initial work on assessment of gait normality in which the human body motion is represented by a sequence of enhanced depth maps. The input data is provided by a system consisting of a Time-of-Flight (ToF) depth camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Trong Nguyen Nguyen , Huu Hung Huynh , Jean Meunier

Despite the growing demand for accurate surface normal estimation models, existing methods use general-purpose dense prediction models, adopting the same inductive biases as other tasks. In this paper, we discuss the inductive biases needed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Gwangbin Bae , Andrew J. Davison

Achieving high-fidelity 3D surface reconstruction while preserving fine details remains challenging, especially in the presence of materials with complex reflectance properties and without a dense-view setup. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Robin Bruneau , Baptiste Brument , Yvain Quéau , Jean Mélou , François Bernard Lauze , Jean-Denis Durou , Lilian Calvet

Over the past few years, monocular depth estimation and completion have been paid more and more attention from the computer vision community because of their widespread applications. In this paper, we introduce novel physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Peter C. Y. Chen , Zhengguo Li

With the improvement of social life quality and the real needs of daily work, images are more and more all around us. Image blurring due to camera shake, human movement, etc. has become the key to affecting image quality. How to remove…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 ChuMiao Li

Clustering analyses of spectroscopic surveys are based upon density fluctuations, which are estimated by comparing the observed tracer density field to a selection function accounting for the survey density and geometry. However, this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Arnaud de Mattia , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider

Reconstruction of a continuous surface of two-dimensional manifold from its raw, discrete point cloud observation is a long-standing problem. The problem is technically ill-posed, and becomes more difficult considering that various sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Zhangjin Huang , Yuxin Wen , Zihao Wang , Jinjuan Ren , Kui Jia

The integral image, an intermediate image representation, has found extensive use in multi-scale local feature detection algorithms, such as Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF), allowing fast computation of rectangular features at constant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Shoaib Ehsan , Adrian F. Clark , Naveed ur Rehman , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Reconstructing surfaces from normals is a key component of photometric stereo. This work introduces an adaptive surface triangulation in the image domain and afterwards performs the normal integration on a triangle mesh. Our key insight is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Moritz Heep , Eduard Zell

Implicitly described domains are a well established tool in the simulation of time dependent problems, e.g. using level-set methods. In order to solve partial differential equations on such domains, a range of numerical methods was…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-01-16 Christian Engwer , Andreas Nüßing

Neural implicit reconstruction via volume rendering has demonstrated its effectiveness in recovering dense 3D surfaces. However, it is non-trivial to simultaneously recover meticulous geometry and preserve smoothness across regions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ziyu Tang , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Di Huang , Hujun Bao , Tong He , Guofeng Zhang

We study the numerical computation of an expectation of a bounded function with respect to a measure given by a non-normalized density on a convex body. We assume that the density is log-concave, satisfies a variability condition and is not…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Daniel Rudolf

For more than half a century, the Hough transform is ever-expanding for new frontiers. Thousands of research papers and numerous applications have evolved over the decades. Carrying out an all-inclusive survey is hardly possible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Allam Shehata Hassanein , Sherien Mohammad , Mohamed Sameer , Mohammad Ehab Ragab

We report on the possibilities of using the method of normal fundamental systems for solving some problems of oscillation theory. Large elastic dynamical systems with continuous and discrete parameters are considered, which have many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Olena V. Mul , Delfim F. M. Torres

In the history of computer-aided design (CAD), feature-based parametric modeling and boundary representation-based direct modeling are two of the most important CAD paradigms, developed respectively in the late 1980s and the late 2000s.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Qiang Zou

Many computer vision and image processing applications rely on local features. It is well-known that motion blur decreases the performance of traditional feature detectors and descriptors. We propose an inertial-based deblurring method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Janne Mustaniemi , Juho Kannala , Simo Särkkä , Jiri Matas , Janne Heikkilä

Monocular depth prediction plays a crucial role in understanding 3D scene geometry. Although recent methods have achieved impressive progress in terms of evaluation metrics such as the pixel-wise relative error, most methods neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

Intraoperative segmentation and tracking of minimally invasive instruments is a prerequisite for computer- and robotic-assisted surgery. Since additional hardware like tracking systems or the robot encoders are cumbersome and lack accuracy,…