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We introduce a robust, real-time, high-resolution human video matting method that achieves new state-of-the-art performance. Our method is much lighter than previous approaches and can process 4K at 76 FPS and HD at 104 FPS on an Nvidia GTX…

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This paper introduces a novel approach for image and video orientation estimation by leveraging depth distribution in natural images. The proposed method estimates the orientation based on the depth distribution across different quadrants…

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Egocentric motion capture with a head-mounted body-facing stereo camera is crucial for VR and AR applications but presents significant challenges such as heavy occlusions and limited annotated real-world data. Existing methods rely on…

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Efficient neural representations for dynamic video scenes are critical for applications ranging from video compression to interactive simulations. Yet, existing methods often face challenges related to high memory usage, lengthy training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Andrew Bond , Jui-Hsien Wang , Long Mai , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Accurately capturing dynamic scenes with wide-ranging motion and light intensity is crucial for many vision applications. However, acquiring high-speed high dynamic range (HDR) video is challenging because the camera's frame rate restricts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Caixin Wang , Jie Zhang , Matthew A. Wilson , Ralph Etienne-Cummings

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) is a task that matches faces across two different domains such as visible light (VIS), near-infrared (NIR), or the sketch domain. Due to the lack of databases, HFR methods usually exploit the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 MyeongAh Cho , Taeoh Kim , Ig-Jae Kim , Kyungjae Lee , Sangyoun Lee

Human Motion Segmentation (HMS), which aims to partition a video into non-overlapping segments corresponding to different human motions, has recently attracted increasing research attention. Existing HMS approaches are predominantly based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xianghan Meng , Zhiyuan Huang , Zhengyu Tong , Chun-Guang Li

We introduce a novel camera model for monocular 3D Morphable Model (3DMM) regression methods that effectively captures the perspective distortion effect commonly seen in close-up facial images. Fitting 3D morphable models to video is a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Toby Chong , Ryota Nakajima

High-fidelity reconstruction of 3D human avatars has a wild application in visual reality. In this paper, we introduce FAGhead, a method that enables fully controllable human portraits from monocular videos. We explicit the traditional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yixin Xuan , Xinyang Li , Gongxin Yao , Shiwei Zhou , Donghui Sun , Xiaoxin Chen , Yu Pan

Rendering high-fidelity images from sparse point clouds is still challenging. Existing learning-based approaches suffer from either hole artifacts, missing details, or expensive computations. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jiaxu Wang , Ziyi Zhang , Junhao He , Renjing Xu

In this work we present a face alignment pipeline based on two novel methods: weighted splitting for K-cluster Regression Forests and 3D Affine Pose Regression for face shape initialization. Our face alignment method is based on the Local…

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We propose a human pose estimation framework that solves the task in the regression-based fashion. Unlike previous regression-based methods, which often fall behind those state-of-the-art methods, we formulate the pose estimation task into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Weian Mao , Yongtao Ge , Chunhua Shen , Zhi Tian , Xinlong Wang , Zhibin Wang

Human Mesh Recovery (HMR) is an important yet challenging problem with applications across various domains including motion capture, augmented reality, and biomechanics. Accurately predicting human pose parameters from a single image…

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Retrieving the reflectance spectrum from objects is an essential task for many classification and detection problems, since many materials and processes have a unique spectral behaviour. In many cases, it is highly desirable to capture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Frank Sippel , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

While existing face recognition systems based on local features are robust to issues such as misalignment, they can exhibit accuracy degradation when comparing images of differing resolutions. This is common in surveillance environments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Yongkang Wong , Conrad Sanderson , Sandra Mau , Brian C. Lovell

In real-world scenarios, many factors may harm face recognition performance, e.g., large pose, bad illumination,low resolution, blur and noise. To address these challenges, previous efforts usually first restore the low-quality faces to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Xiaoguang Tu , Jian Zhao , Qiankun Liu , Wenjie Ai , Guodong Guo , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Jiashi Feng

This paper introduces a novel real-time algorithm for facial landmark tracking. Compared to detection, tracking has both additional challenges and opportunities. Arguably the most important aspect in this domain is updating a tracker's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Enrique Sánchez-Lozano , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Michel Valstar

Rendering scenes with a high-quality human face from arbitrary viewpoints is a practical and useful technique for many real-world applications. Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), a rendering technique that uses neural networks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Satoshi Tsutsui , Weijia Mao , Sijing Lin , Yunyi Zhu , Murong Ma , Mike Zheng Shou

Video super-resolution (SR) aims at generating a sequence of high-resolution (HR) frames with plausible and temporally consistent details from their low-resolution (LR) counterparts. The key challenge for video SR lies in the effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Li Liu , Zaiping Lin , Xinpu Deng , Wei An

Recent advances in video diffusion models have enabled realistic and controllable human image animation with temporal coherence. Although generating reasonable results, existing methods often overlook the need for regional supervision in…

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