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We propose a realistic device for detecting objects almost without transferring a single quantum of energy to them. The device can work with an efficiency close to 100% and relies on two detectors counting both presence and absence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Harry Paul , Mladen Pavicic

Visual relationship detection aims to identify objects and their relationships in images. Prior methods approach this task by adding separate relationship modules or decoders to existing object detection architectures. This separation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Tim Salzmann , Markus Ryll , Alex Bewley , Matthias Minderer

Coherent LiDAR (Light Detecting And Ranging) is a promising 3D imaging technology that provides significant advantages over more traditional LiDAR systems. In addition to being immune to ambient light, it directly measures the velocity of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Alexander Y. Piggott

Object detection is a fundamental task in computer vision and image understanding, with the goal of identifying and localizing objects of interest within an image while assigning them corresponding class labels. Traditional methods, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Fnu Neha , Deepshikha Bhati , Deepak Kumar Shukla , Md Amiruzzaman

On-invasive optical imaging techniques are essential diagnostic tools in many fields. Although various recent methods have been proposed to utilize and control light in multiple scattering media, non-invasive optical imaging through and…

Accurate detection and tracking of objects is vital for effective video understanding. In previous work, the two tasks have been combined in a way that tracking is based heavily on detection, but the detection benefits marginally from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Zheng Zhang , Dazhi Cheng , Xizhou Zhu , Stephen Lin , Jifeng Dai

In this work, we propose two cost efficient methods for object identification, using a multi-fingered robotic hand equipped with proprioceptive sensing. Both methods are trained on known objects and rely on a limited set of features,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Teresa Alves , Alexandre Bernardino , Plinio Moreno

3D object detection is vital as it would enable us to capture objects' sizes, orientation, and position in the world. As a result, we would be able to use this 3D detection in real-world applications such as Augmented Reality (AR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Abonia Sojasingarayar , Ashish Patel

The ability to interpret and comprehend a 3D scene is essential for many vision and robotics systems. In numerous applications, this involves 3D object detection, i.e.~identifying the location and dimensions of objects belonging to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Olivier Moliner , Viktor Larsson , Kalle Åström

Recent advancements in image synthesis are fueled by the advent of large-scale diffusion models. Yet, integrating realistic object visualizations seamlessly into new or existing backgrounds without extensive training remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Phillip Mueller , Jannik Wiese , Ioan Craciun , Lars Mikelsons

Active recognition enables robots to intelligently explore novel observations, thereby acquiring more information while circumventing undesired viewing conditions. Recent approaches favor learning policies from simulated or collected data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Lei Fan , Mingfu Liang , Yunxuan Li , Gang Hua , Ying Wu

We present a framework capable of tackilng the problem of continual object recognition in a setting which resembles that under whichhumans see and learn. This setting has a set of unique characteristics:it assumes an egocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Luca Erculiani , Fausto Giunchiglia , Andrea Passerini

Traditional image recognition methods only consider objects belonging to already learned classes. However, since training a recognition model with every object class in the world is unfeasible, a way of getting information on unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Kohei Uehara , Antonio Tejero-De-Pablos , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Most of us are not experts in specific fields, such as ornithology. Nonetheless, we do have general image and language understanding capabilities that we use to match what we see to expert resources. This allows us to expand our knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Subhabrata Choudhury , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

In the context of visual perception, the optical signal from a scene is transferred into the electronic domain by detectors in the form of image data, which are then processed for the extraction of visual information. In noisy and…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-07 Jungmin Kim , Nanfang Yu , Zongfu Yu

In this thesis we discuss architectural designs and training methods for a neural network to have the ability of dissecting an image into objects of interest without supervision. The main challenge in 2D unsupervised object segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Sara Sabour

Understanding the shape and structure of objects is undoubtedly extremely important for object recognition, but the most common pattern recognition method currently used is machine learning, which often requires a large number of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Wei Hui , Liping Yu , Yiran Wei

The randomness and uniqueness of human eye patterns is a major breakthrough in the search for quicker, easier and highly reliable forms of automatic human identification. It is being used extensively in security solutions. This includes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Mohamed A. El-Sayed , Mohamed A. Khafagy

In the beginning stage, face verification is done using easy method of geometric algorithm models, but the verification route has now developed into a scientific progress of complicated geometric representation and identical procedure. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-24 V. Karthikeyan , K. Vijayalakshmi , P. Jeyakumar

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging relies on collecting light that is rendered incoherent from the multiple scattering events and is then post-processed to provide an estimate of the hidden scene. Here we employ coherent phase control of the…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ilya Starshynov , Omair Ghafur , James Fitches , Daniele Faccio