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We propose a learning-based method that solves monocular stereo and can be extended to fuse depth information from multiple target frames. Given two unconstrained images from a monocular camera with known intrinsic calibration, our network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Kaixuan Wang , Shaojie Shen

We present a unified formulation and model for three motion and 3D perception tasks: optical flow, rectified stereo matching and unrectified stereo depth estimation from posed images. Unlike previous specialized architectures for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Haofei Xu , Jing Zhang , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Fisher Yu , Dacheng Tao , Andreas Geiger

In this paper, we propose the Matting Anything Model (MAM), an efficient and versatile framework for estimating the alpha matte of any instance in an image with flexible and interactive visual or linguistic user prompt guidance. MAM offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Jiachen Li , Jitesh Jain , Humphrey Shi

Deep Learning (DL) has brought significant advances to robotics vision tasks. However, most existing DL methods have a major shortcoming, they rely on a static inference paradigm inherent in traditional computer vision pipelines. On the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Stefanos Ginargiros , Nikolaos Passalis , Anastasios Tefas

We present a method to infer a dense depth map from a color image and associated sparse depth measurements. Our main contribution lies in the design of an annealing process for determining co-visibility (occlusions, disocclusions) and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Alex Wong , Xiaohan Fei , Byung-Woo Hong , Stefano Soatto

The problem of Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) consists in following the trajectory of different objects in a sequence, usually a video. In recent years, with the rise of Deep Learning, the algorithms that provide a solution to this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Gioele Ciaparrone , Francisco Luque Sánchez , Siham Tabik , Luigi Troiano , Roberto Tagliaferri , Francisco Herrera

Object detection is a central downstream task used to test if pre-trained network parameters confer benefits, such as improved accuracy or training speed. The complexity of object detection methods can make this benchmarking non-trivial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yanghao Li , Saining Xie , Xinlei Chen , Piotr Dollar , Kaiming He , Ross Girshick

Object recognition in unseen indoor environments remains a challenging problem for visual perception of mobile robots. In this letter, we propose the use of topologically persistent features, which rely on the objects' shape information, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Ekta U. Samani , Xingjian Yang , Ashis G. Banerjee

Optical flow estimation is a crucial subfield of computer vision, serving as a foundation for video tasks. However, the real-world robustness is limited by animated synthetic datasets for training. This introduces domain gaps when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang

We present a new approach to 3D object representation where a neural network encodes the geometry of an object directly into the weights and biases of a second 'mapping' network. This mapping network can be used to reconstruct an object by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Eric Mitchell , Selim Engin , Volkan Isler , Daniel D Lee

Existing approaches for controlling text-to-image diffusion models, while powerful, do not allow for explicit 3D object-centric control, such as precise control of object orientation. In this work, we address the problem of multi-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Rishubh Parihar , Vaibhav Agrawal , Sachidanand VS , R. Venkatesh Babu

We present a novel method, called NeTO, for capturing 3D geometry of solid transparent objects from 2D images via volume rendering. Reconstructing transparent objects is a very challenging task, which is ill-suited for general-purpose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Zongcheng Li , Xiaoxiao Long , Yusen Wang , Tuo Cao , Wenping Wang , Fei Luo , Chunxia Xiao

Salient object detection (SOD), which aims to identify and locate the most salient pixels or regions in images, has been attracting more and more interest due to its various real-world applications. However, this vision task is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

Extracting accurate foregrounds from natural images benefits many downstream applications such as film production and augmented reality. However, the furry characteristics and various appearance of the foregrounds, e.g., animal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Jizhizi Li , Jing Zhang , Stephen J. Maybank , Dacheng Tao

Learning visual representations with self-supervised learning has become popular in computer vision. The idea is to design auxiliary tasks where labels are free to obtain. Most of these tasks end up providing data to learn specific kinds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Xiaolong Wang , Kaiming He , Abhinav Gupta

Image matting is a long-standing problem in computer graphics and vision, mostly identified as the accurate estimation of the foreground in input images. We argue that the foreground objects can be represented by different-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Yu Qiao , Yuhao Liu , Qiang Zhu , Xin Yang , Yuxin Wang , Qiang Zhang , Xiaopeng Wei

Flow Matching has emerged as a powerful framework for learning continuous transformations between distributions, enabling high-fidelity generative modeling. This work introduces Symmetrical Flow Matching (SymmFlow), a new formulation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Francisco Caetano , Christiaan Viviers , Peter H. N. De With , Fons van der Sommen

Obtained by moving object detection, the foreground mask result is unshaped and can not be directly used in most subsequent processes. In this paper, we focus on this problem and address it by constructing an optical flow based moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Zheng Zhu , Jiagang Zhu

In this paper, we introduce DiffusionMat, a novel image matting framework that employs a diffusion model for the transition from coarse to refined alpha mattes. Diverging from conventional methods that utilize trimaps merely as loose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yangyang Xu , Shengfeng He , Wenqi Shao , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

This work presents an unsupervised learning based approach to the ubiquitous computer vision problem of image matching. We start from the insight that the problem of frame-interpolation implicitly solves for inter-frame correspondences.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Gucan Long , Laurent Kneip , Jose M. Alvarez , Hongdong Li