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Superpixels have become very popular in many computer vision applications. Nevertheless, they remain underexploited since the superpixel decomposition may produce irregular and non stable segmentation results due to the dependency to the…

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Depth estimation from a single image is an active research topic in computer vision. The most accurate approaches are based on fully supervised learning models, which rely on a large amount of dense and high-resolution (HR) ground-truth…

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In this paper, we present a novel reconstruction method for diffuse optical spectroscopic imaging with a commonly used tissue model of optical absorption and scattering. It is based on linearization and group sparsity, which allows…

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We demonstrate the use of deep learning for fast spectral deconstruction of speckle patterns. The artificial neural network can be effectively trained using numerically constructed multispectral datasets taken from a measured spectral…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Ulas Kürüm , P. R. Wiecha , Rebecca French , Otto L. Muskens

Diffusion models (DMs) have exhibited remarkable efficacy in various image restoration tasks. However, existing approaches typically operate within the high-dimensional pixel space, resulting in high computational overhead. While methods…

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Image reconstruction from radio-frequency data is pivotal in ultrafast plane wave ultrasound imaging. Unlike the conventional delay-and-sum (DAS) technique, which relies on somewhat imprecise assumptions, deep learning-based methods perform…

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Traditional feature-based image stitching technologies rely heavily on feature detection quality, often failing to stitch images with few features or low resolution. The learning-based image stitching solutions are rarely studied due to the…

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Image Phase Alignment Super-Sampling (ImPASS) is a computational imaging algorithm for converting a sequence of displaced low-resolution images into a single high-resolution image. The method consists of a unique combination of Phase…

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Light rays incident on a transparent object of uniform refractive index undergo deflections, which uniquely characterize the surface geometry of the object. Associated with each point on the surface is a deflection map (or spectrum) which…

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Deep learning techniques have enabled rapid progress in monocular depth estimation, but their quality is limited by the ill-posed nature of the problem and the scarcity of high quality datasets. We estimate depth from a single camera by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Rahul Garg , Neal Wadhwa , Sameer Ansari , Jonathan T. Barron

Capturing depth and reflectivity images at low light levels from active illumination of a scene has wide-ranging applications. Conventionally, even with single-photon detectors, hundreds of photon detections are needed at each pixel to…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-12 Dongeek Shin , Ahmed Kirmani , Vivek K Goyal , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

The task of point cloud upsampling aims to acquire dense and uniform point sets from sparse and irregular point sets. Although significant progress has been made with deep learning models, state-of-the-art methods require ground-truth dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xinhai Liu , Xinchen Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Depth map estimation is a crucial task in computer vision, and new approaches have recently emerged taking advantage of light fields, as this new imaging modality captures much more information about the angular direction of light rays…

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Depth estimation is a fundamental problem for light field photography applications. Numerous methods have been proposed in recent years, which either focus on crafting cost terms for more robust matching, or on analyzing the geometry of…

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Computed tomography is widely used to examine internal structures in a non-destructive manner. To obtain high-quality reconstructions, one typically has to acquire a densely sampled trajectory to avoid angular undersampling. However, many…

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In this paper we consider the problem of estimating a dense depth map from a set of sparse LiDAR points. We use techniques from compressed sensing and the recently developed Alternating Direction Neural Networks (ADNNs) to create a deep…

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Depth completion aims to recover dense depth maps from sparse depth measurements. It is of increasing importance for autonomous driving and draws increasing attention from the vision community. Most of existing methods directly train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Yan Xu , Xinge Zhu , Jianping Shi , Guofeng Zhang , Hujun Bao , Hongsheng Li

Neural implicit representations have revolutionized dense multi-view surface reconstruction, yet their performance significantly diminishes with sparse input views. A few pioneering works have sought to tackle the challenge of sparse-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Sheng Ye , Yuze He , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Ruoyu Fan , Yiheng Han , Yubin Hu , Ran Yi , Yu-Hui Wen , Yong-Jin Liu , Wenping Wang

Superpixel decomposition methods are generally used as a pre-processing step to speed up image processing tasks. They group the pixels of an image into homogeneous regions while trying to respect existing contours. For all state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Rémi Giraud , Vinh-Thong Ta , Nicolas Papadakis

For active optical imaging, the use of single-photon detectors can greatly improve the detection sensitivity of the system. However, the traditional maximum-likelihood based imaging method needs a long acquisition time to capture clear…