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Optical flow is the motion of a pixel between at least two consecutive video frames and can be estimated through an end-to-end trainable convolutional neural network. To this end, large training datasets are required to improve the accuracy…

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WarpFlow is a fast, interactive data querying and processing system with a focus on petabyte-scale spatiotemporal datasets and Tesseract queries. With the rapid growth in smartphones and mobile navigation services, we now have an…

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Reconstructing high-quality magnetic resonance images (MRI) from undersampled raw data is of great interest from both technical and clinical point of views. To this date, however, it is still a mathematically and computationally challenging…

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We present TokenFlow, a novel unified image tokenizer that bridges the long-standing gap between multimodal understanding and generation. Prior research attempt to employ a single reconstruction-targeted Vector Quantization (VQ) encoder for…

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In pulse-echo ultrasound, aberration often degrades image quality when beamforming does not account for wavefront distortions. To address this issue, local sound speed estimators have been developed in the past decade for distributed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Louise Zhuang , Samuel Beuret , Ben Frey , Saachi Munot , Walter Simson , Dongwoon Hyun , Jeremy J. Dahl

Research in ultrasound imaging is limited in reproducibility by two factors: First, many existing ultrasound pipelines are protected by intellectual property, rendering exchange of code difficult. Second, most pipelines are implemented in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Rüdiger Göbl , Nassir Navab , Christoph Hennersperger

In ultrasound (US) imaging, various types of adaptive beamforming techniques have been investigated to improve the resolution and contrast-to-noise ratio of the delay and sum (DAS) beamformers. Unfortunately, the performance of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

In portable, three dimensional, and ultra-fast ultrasound imaging systems, there is an increasing demand for the reconstruction of high quality images from a limited number of radio-frequency (RF) measurements due to receiver (Rx) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Yeo Hun Yoon , Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is critical for a variety of real-world robotic applications. However, current learning-based methods often struggle to balance accuracy and computational efficiency: methods that achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhiyong Zhang , Aniket Gupta , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

Traditional beamforming of medical ultrasound images relies on sampling rates significantly higher than the actual Nyquist rate of the received signals. This results in large amounts of data to store and process, imposing hardware and…

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Speed-of-sound is a biomechanical property for quantitative tissue differentiation, with great potential as a new ultrasound-based image modality. A conventional ultrasound array transducer can be used together with an acoustic mirror, or…

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A novel approach to improving the performances of confocal scanning imaging is proposed. We experimentally demonstrate its feasibility using acoustic waves. It relies on a new way to encode spatial information using the temporal dimension.…

4D-flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an emerging imaging technique where spatiotemporal 3D blood velocity can be captured with full volumetric coverage in a single non-invasive examination. This enables qualitative and quantitative…

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Visual encoding and decoding models act as gateways to understanding the neural mechanisms underlying human visual perception. Typically, visual encoding models that predict brain activity from stimuli and decoding models that reproduce…

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Panoramic video generation has attracted growing attention due to its applications in virtual reality and immersive media. However, existing methods lack explicit motion control and struggle to generate scenes with large and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Cheng Zhang , Hanwen Liang , Donny Y. Chen , Qianyi Wu , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Camilo Cruz Gambardella , Jianfei Cai

Optical flow is a classical task that is important to the vision community. Classical optical flow estimation uses two frames as input, whilst some recent methods consider multiple frames to explicitly model long-range information. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qiaole Dong , Yanwei Fu

Ultrasound is widely used in medical diagnostics allowing for accessible and powerful imaging but suffers from resolution limitations due to diffraction and the finite aperture of the imaging system, which restricts diagnostic use. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Felix Duelmer , Walter Simson , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab

Modern text-to-image diffusion models encode rich visual priors, but expose them only through one-way text-conditioned generation. Existing unified vision--language models derived from them recover bidirectional capability through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Eric Tillmann Bill , Enis Simsar , Alessio Tonioni , Thomas Hofmann

We present PixelFlow, a family of image generation models that operate directly in the raw pixel space, in contrast to the predominant latent-space models. This approach simplifies the image generation process by eliminating the need for a…

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