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Visual perception is regularly used by humans and robots for navigation. By either implicitly or explicitly mapping the environment, ego-motion can be determined and a path of actions can be planned. The process of mapping and navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Jacky C. K. Chow , Ivan Detchev , Kathleen Ang , Kristian Morin , Karthik Mahadevan , Nicholas Louie

This paper aims at distributed algorithms for solving a system of linear algebraic equations. Different from most existing formulations for this problem, we assume that the local data at each node is not accurately measured but subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Yutao Tang , Yicheng Zhang , Ruonan Li , Xinghu Wang

We tackle the problem of automatic calibration of radially distorted cameras in challenging conditions. Accurately determining distortion parameters typically requires either 1) solving the full Structure from Motion (SfM) problem involving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Daniil Sinitsyn , Linus Härenstam-Nielsen , Daniel Cremers

Modeling strong gravitational lenses in order to quantify the distortions in the images of background sources and to reconstruct the mass density in the foreground lenses has traditionally been a difficult computational challenge. As the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-05 Alexandre Adam , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Yashar Hezaveh

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been widely applied to 3D imaging in challenging scenarios. However, limited signal photon counts and high noises in the collected data have posed great challenges for predicting the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Gongxin Yao , Yiwei Chen , Yong Liu , Xiaomin Hu , Yu Pan

We address the problem of restoring a high-quality image from an observed image sequence strongly distorted by atmospheric turbulence. A novel algorithm is proposed in this paper to reduce geometric distortion as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Chun Pong Lau , Yu Hin Lai , Lok Ming Lui

This paper introduces a novel approach to robust surface reconstruction from photometric stereo normal vector maps that is particularly well-suited for reconstructing surfaces from noisy gradients. Specifically, we propose an adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Andrew J. Wagenmaker , Brian E. Moore , Raj Rao Nadakuditi

This paper introduces a novel approach to the fine alignment of images in a burst captured by a handheld camera. In contrast to traditional techniques that estimate two-dimensional transformations between frame pairs or rely on discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Bruno Lecouat , Yann Dubois de Mont-Marin , Théo Bodrito , Julien Mairal , Jean Ponce

Image distortion due to weak gravitational lensing is examined using a non-perturbative method of integrating the geodesic deviation and optical scalar equations along the null geodesics connecting the observer to a distant source. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-28 Thomas P. Kling , Louis Bianchini

Fisheye images are categorized fisheye into central and deviated based on the optical center position. Existing rectification methods are limited to central fisheye images, while this paper proposes a novel method that extends to deviated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Zhaokang Liao , Hao Feng , Shaokai Liu , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

In this investigation we focus on the problem of mapping the ground reflectivity with multiple laser scanners mounted on mobile robots/vehicles. The problem originates because regions of the ground become populated with a varying number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Juan Castorena

Turbulence-degraded image frames are distorted by both turbulent deformations and space-time-varying blurs. To suppress these effects, we propose a multi-frame reconstruction scheme to recover a latent image from the observed image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Chun Pong Lau , Yu Hin Lai , Lok Ming Lui

This work is concerned with the recovery of piecewise constant images from noisy linear measurements. We study the noise robustness of a variational reconstruction method, which is based on total (gradient) variation regularization. We show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Yohann De Castro , Vincent Duval , Romain Petit

Distortion is widely existed in the images captured by popular wide-angle cameras and fisheye cameras. Despite the long history of distortion rectification, accurately estimating the distortion parameters from a single distorted image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Kang Liao , Chunyu Lin , Yao Zhao

We analyze the Basis Pursuit recovery of signals with general perturbations. Previous studies have only considered partially perturbed observations Ax + e. Here, x is a signal which we wish to recover, A is a full-rank matrix with more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Matthew A. Herman , Thomas Strohmer

In this paper, we present a modular approach for reconstructing lensless measurements. It consists of three components: a newly-proposed pre-processor, a physics-based camera inverter to undo the multiplexing of lensless imaging, and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Yohann Perron , Eric Bezzam , Martin Vetterli

For quasi-linear interface problems with discontinuous diffusion coefficients, the nonconvex objective functional often leads to optimization stagnation in randomized neural network approximations. This paper Proposes a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Siyuan Lang , Zhiyue Zhang

In many applications of tomography, the acquired projections are either limited in number or contain a significant amount of noise. In these cases, standard reconstruction methods tend to produce artifacts that can make further analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-11 D. M. Pelt , K. J. Batenburg

Image quality is the basis of image communication and understanding tasks. Due to the blur and noise effects caused by imaging, transmission and other processes, the image quality is degraded. Blind image restoration is widely used to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Ningshan Xu

A distortion calibration method for wide-angle lens is proposed based on fringe-pattern phase analysis. Firstly, according to the experimental result of the radial distortion of the image not related to the recording depth of field, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Weishuai Zhou , Jiawen Weng , Junzheng Peng , Jingang Zhong