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In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to implicitly encode precise robot morphology using forward kinematics based on a configuration space signed distance function. Our proposed Robot Neural Distance Function (RNDF) optimizes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yiting Chen , Xiao Gao , Kunpeng Yao , Loïc Niederhauser , Yasemin Bekiroglu , Aude Billard

Spatially aligning medical images from different modalities remains a challenging task, especially for intraoperative applications that require fast and robust algorithms. We propose a weakly-supervised, label-driven formulation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Yipeng Hu , Marc Modat , Eli Gibson , Nooshin Ghavami , Ester Bonmati , Caroline M. Moore , Mark Emberton , J. Alison Noble , Dean C. Barratt , Tom Vercauteren

Late Gadolinium Enhancement Magnetic Resonance Imaging (LGE MRI) emerged as a routine scan for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, due to the low image quality automating the quantification and analysis of the atrial scars is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Lei Li , Fuping Wu , Guang Yang , Tom Wong , Raad Mohiaddin , David Firmin , Jenny Keegan , Lingchao Xu , Xiahai Zhuang

It is vital to recover 3D geometry from multi-view RGB images in many 3D computer vision tasks. The latest methods infer the geometry represented as a signed distance field by minimizing the rendering error on the field through volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Sijia Jiang , Tong Wu , Jing Hua , Zhizhong Han

Intraoperative 2D/3D registration aligns preoperative 3D volumes with real-time 2D radiographs, enabling accurate localization of instruments and implants. A recent fully differentiable similarity learning framework approximates geodesic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Minheng Chen , Youyong Kong

Recently, deep learning enabled the accurate segmentation of various diseases in medical imaging. These performances, however, typically demand large amounts of manual voxel annotations. This tedious process for volumetric data becomes more…

Extracting surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) can be accomplished using traditional algorithms, such as Marching Cubes. However, since they rely on sign flips across the surface, these algorithms cannot be used directly on Unsigned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Federico Stella , Nicolas Talabot , Hieu Le , Pascal Fua

Existing learning-based methods to automatically trace axons in 3D brain imagery often rely on manually annotated segmentation labels. Labeling is a labor-intensive process and is not scalable to whole-brain analysis, which is needed for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Tzofi Klinghoffer , Peter Morales , Young-Gyun Park , Nicholas Evans , Kwanghun Chung , Laura J. Brattain

Segmenting left atrium in MR volume holds great potentials in promoting the treatment of atrial fibrillation. However, the varying anatomies, artifacts and low contrasts among tissues hinder the advance of both manual and automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Xin Yang , Na Wang , Yi Wang , Xu Wang , Reza Nezafat , Dong Ni , Pheng-Ann Heng

This paper introduces a network for volumetric segmentation that learns from sparsely annotated volumetric images. We outline two attractive use cases of this method: (1) In a semi-automated setup, the user annotates some slices in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Özgün Çiçek , Ahmed Abdulkadir , Soeren S. Lienkamp , Thomas Brox , Olaf Ronneberger

High-level shape understanding and technique evaluation on large repositories of 3D shapes often benefit from additional information known about the shapes. One example of such information is the semantic segmentation of a shape into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 David George , Xianguha Xie , Yu-Kun Lai , Gary KL Tam

Graph embedding techniques are useful to characterize spectral signature relations for hyperspectral images. However, such images consists of disjoint classes due to spatial details that are often ignored by existing graph computing tools.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-29 Dalton Lunga 'and' Okan Ersoy

We present a novel method, called NeuralUDF, for reconstructing surfaces with arbitrary topologies from 2D images via volume rendering. Recent advances in neural rendering based reconstruction have achieved compelling results. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Lingjie Liu , Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Deep learning techniques have successfully been employed in numerous computer vision tasks including image segmentation. The techniques have also been applied to medical image segmentation, one of the most critical tasks in computer-aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Titinunt Kitrungrotsakul , Iwamoto Yutaro , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Jingsong Li , Yen-Wei Chen

Although the preservation of shape continuity and physiological anatomy is a natural assumption in the segmentation of medical images, it is often neglected by deep learning methods that mostly aim for the statistical modeling of input data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yousef Yeganeh , Azade Farshad , Goktug Guevercin , Amr Abu-zer , Rui Xiao , Yongjian Tang , Ehsan Adeli , Nassir Navab

Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Cosmin Ciausu , Deepa Krishnaswamy , Benjamin Billot , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Andrey Fedorov

We propose a fully automatic method for fitting a 3D morphable model to single face images in arbitrary pose and lighting. Our approach relies on geometric features (edges and landmarks) and, inspired by the iterated closest point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Anil Bas , William A. P. Smith , Timo Bolkart , Stefanie Wuhrer

Recent advances in learning 3D shapes using neural implicit functions have achieved impressive results by breaking the previous barrier of resolution and diversity for varying topologies. However, most of such approaches are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Weikai Chen , Cheng Lin , Weiyang Li , Bo Yang

Reverse Engineering a CAD shape from other representations is an important geometric processing step for many downstream applications. In this work, we introduce a novel neural network architecture to solve this challenging task and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Joseph G. Lambourne , Karl D. D. Willis , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Longfei Zhang , Aditya Sanghi , Kamal Rahimi Malekshan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely applied for nowadays 3D surface reconstruction tasks and such methods can be further divided into two categories, which respectively warp templates explicitly by moving vertices or represent 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xianghui Yang , Guosheng Lin , Zhenghao Chen , Luping Zhou