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The Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework was recently introduced for low-dose CT reconstruction to leverage the interpretability and the flexibility of model-based methods to incorporate various plugins, such as trained deep learning (DL) neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Qifan Xu , Qihui Lyu , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

We consider the problem of dense depth prediction from a sparse set of depth measurements and a single RGB image. Since depth estimation from monocular images alone is inherently ambiguous and unreliable, to attain a higher level of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fangchang Ma , Sertac Karaman

We present a deep model that can accurately produce dense depth maps given an RGB image with known depth at a very sparse set of pixels. The model works simultaneously for both indoor/outdoor scenes and produces state-of-the-art dense depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Zhao Chen , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Gilad Drozdov , Andrew Rabinovich

We explore the connection between Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods and Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIM) for solving ill-posed inverse problems, with a focus on single-pixel imaging. We begin by identifying key distinctions between PnP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaodong Wang , Ping Wang , Zhangyuan Li , Xin Yuan

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

Accurate and dense depth estimation with stereo cameras and LiDAR is an important task for automatic driving and robotic perception. While sparse hints from LiDAR points have improved cost aggregation in stereo matching, their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Ang Li , Anning Hu , Wei Xi , Wenxian Yu , Danping Zou

We present a deep learning system to infer the posterior distribution of a dense depth map associated with an image, by exploiting sparse range measurements, for instance from a lidar. While the lidar may provide a depth value for a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Yanchao Yang , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

This work proposes a new method to accurately complete sparse LiDAR maps guided by RGB images. For autonomous vehicles and robotics the use of LiDAR is indispensable in order to achieve precise depth predictions. A multitude of applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Davy Neven , Bert De Brabandere , Luc Van Gool

Dense depth maps have been used as a key element of visual perception tasks. There have been tremendous efforts to enhance the depth quality, ranging from optimization-based to learning-based methods. Despite the remarkable progress for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jin-Hwi Park , Chanhwi Jeong , Junoh Lee , Hae-Gon Jeon

Depth completion aims at predicting dense pixel-wise depth from an extremely sparse map captured from a depth sensor, e.g., LiDARs. It plays an essential role in various applications such as autonomous driving, 3D reconstruction, augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Junjie Hu , Chenyu Bao , Mete Ozay , Chenyou Fan , Qing Gao , Honghai Liu , Tin Lun Lam

We introduce Blind Plug-and-Play Diffusion Models (Blind-PnPDM) as a novel framework for solving blind inverse problems where both the target image and the measurement operator are unknown. Unlike conventional methods that rely on explicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Anqi Li , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

For image recovery problems, plug-and-play (PnP) methods have been developed that replace the proximal step in an optimization algorithm with a call to an application-specific denoiser, often implemented using a deep neural network.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Saurav K Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Christopher A Metzler , Philip Schniter

With the help of the deep learning paradigm, many point cloud networks have been invented for visual analysis. However, there is great potential for development of these networks since the given information of point cloud data has not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

Depth estimation aims to predict dense depth maps. In autonomous driving scenes, sparsity of annotations makes the task challenging. Supervised models produce concave objects due to insufficient structural information. They overfit to valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Jiaqi Li , Yiran Wang , Zihao Huang , Jinghong Zheng , Ke Xian , Zhiguo Cao , Jianming Zhang

Dense depth estimation plays a key role in multiple applications such as robotics, 3D reconstruction, and augmented reality. While sparse signal, e.g., LiDAR and Radar, has been leveraged as guidance for enhancing dense depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yu-Kai Huang , Yueh-Cheng Liu , Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-Ting Su , Yu-Cheng Chang , Tsung-Lin Tsou , Yu-An Wang , Winston H. Hsu

We propose a method for depth estimation under different illumination conditions, i.e., day and night time. As photometry is uninformative in regions under low-illumination, we tackle the problem through a multi-sensor fusion approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Vadim Ezhov , Hyoungseob Park , Zhaoyang Zhang , Rishi Upadhyay , Howard Zhang , Chethan Chinder Chandrappa , Achuta Kadambi , Yunhao Ba , Julie Dorsey , Alex Wong

Depth completion is a pivotal challenge in computer vision, aiming at reconstructing the dense depth map from a sparse one, typically with a paired RGB image. Existing learning based models rely on carefully prepared but limited data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Shenglun Chen , Xinzhu Ma , Hong Zhang , Haojie Li , Zhihui Wang

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a broadly applicable methodology for solving inverse problems by exploiting statistical priors specified as denoisers. Recent work has reported the state-of-the-art performance of PnP algorithms using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Yu Sun , Zihui Wu , Xiaojian Xu , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Depth completion aims to predict a dense depth map from a sparse depth input. The acquisition of dense ground truth annotations for depth completion settings can be difficult and, at the same time, a significant domain gap between real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Adrian Lopez-Rodriguez , Benjamin Busam , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Plug&Play (PnP) diffusion models are state-of-the-art methods in computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Such methods usually consider applications where the sinogram contains a sufficient amount of information for the posterior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Liam Moroy , Guillaume Bourmaud , Frédéric Champagnat , Jean-François Giovannelli
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