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Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion (NRSfM) problem aims to recover 3D geometry of a deforming object from its 2D feature correspondences across multiple frames. Classical approaches to this problem assume a small number of feature points and,…

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Previous multi-view normal integration methods typically sample a single ray per pixel, without considering the spatial area covered by each pixel, which varies with camera intrinsics and the camera-to-object distance. Consequently, when…

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The problem of estimating a surface shape from its observed reflectance properties still remains a challenging task in computer vision. The presence of global illumination effects such as inter-reflections or cast shadows makes the task…

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This paper presents an uncalibrated deep neural network framework for the photometric stereo problem. For training models to solve the problem, existing neural network-based methods either require exact light directions or ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

We study data-driven representations for three-dimensional triangle meshes, which are one of the prevalent objects used to represent 3D geometry. Recent works have developed models that exploit the intrinsic geometry of manifolds and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-19 Ilya Kostrikov , Zhongshi Jiang , Daniele Panozzo , Denis Zorin , Joan Bruna

We present a new technique that achieves a significant reduction in the quantity of measurements required for a fusion based dense 3D mapping system to converge to an accurate, de-noised surface reconstruction. This is achieved through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Louis Gallagher , John B. McDonald

Many modern imaging and remote sensing applications require reconstructing a function from spherical averages (mean values). Examples include photoacoustic tomography, ultrasound imaging or SONAR. Several formulas of the back-projection…

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The reconstruction of cerebral cortex surfaces from brain MRI scans is instrumental for the analysis of brain morphology and the detection of cortical thinning in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease (AD). Moreover, for a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-05 Anne-Marie Rickmann , Fabian Bongratz , Sebastian Pölsterl , Ignacio Sarasua , Christian Wachinger

Reconstructing a continuous surface from an unoritented 3D point cloud is a fundamental task in 3D shape processing. In recent years, several methods have been proposed to address this problem using implicit neural representations (INRs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ryutaro Yamauchi , Jinya Sakurai , Ryo Furukawa , Tatsushi Matsubayashi

Registration is an essential tool in image analysis. Deep learning based alternatives have recently become popular, achieving competitive performance at a faster speed. However, many contemporary techniques are limited to volumetric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Balder Croquet , Daan Christiaens , Seth M. Weinberg , Michael Bronstein , Dirk Vandermeulen , Peter Claes

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), which lead to high-quality novel view synthesis and accelerated rendering, have remarkably improved the quality of radiance field reconstruction. However, the extraction of mesh from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Shengchao Zhao , Yundong Li

We have shown that the vector of the point spread function (PSF) lexicographical presentation belongs to the left side conjugated null space (NS) of the autoregression (AR) matrix operator on condition the AR parameters are common for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Yuriy A. Bunyak , Roman N. Kvetnyy , Olga Yu. Sofina

The advancements in neural rendering have increased the need for techniques that enable intuitive editing of 3D objects represented as neural implicit surfaces. This paper introduces a novel neural algorithm for parameterizing neural…

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We compute precise asymptotic expressions for the learning curves of least squares random feature (RF) models with either a separable strongly convex regularization or the $\ell_1$ regularization. We propose a novel multi-level application…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-02 David Bosch , Ashkan Panahi , Ayca Özcelikkale , Devdatt Dubhash

Harmonic decomposition of surfaces, such as spherical and spheroidal harmonics, is used to analyze morphology, reconstruct, and generate surface inclusions of particulate microstructures. However, obtaining high-quality meshes of…

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Computing sample means on Riemannian manifolds is typically computationally costly as exemplified by computation of the Fr\'echet mean which often requires finding minimizing geodesics to each data point for each step of an iterative…

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In this paper, a novel approach via embedded tensor manifold regularization for 2D+3D facial expression recognition (FERETMR) is proposed. Firstly, 3D tensors are constructed from 2D face images and 3D face shape models to keep the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yunfang Fu , Qiuqi Ruan , Ziyan Luo , Gaoyun An , Yi Jin , Jun Wan

Reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) scenes with semantic understanding is vital in many robotic applications. Robots need to identify which objects, along with their positions and shapes, to manipulate them precisely with given tasks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Khang Nguyen , Tuan Dang , Manfred Huber

Mesh deformation plays a pivotal role in many 3D vision tasks including dynamic simulations, rendering, and reconstruction. However, defining an efficient discrepancy between predicted and target meshes remains an open problem. A prevalent…

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