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Open-vocabulary panoptic reconstruction is essential for advanced robotics perception and simulation. However, existing methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) often struggle to simultaneously achieve geometric accuracy, coherent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xuan Yu , Yuxuan Xie , Changjian Jiang , Shichao Zhai , Rong Xiong , Yu Zhang , Yue Wang

We present a real-time, non-learning depth estimation method that fuses Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data with stereo camera input. Our approach comprises three key techniques: Semi-Global Matching (SGM) stereo with Discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yasuhiro Yao , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Takeshi Oishi

Deep learning (DL) methods are widely investigated for stereo image matching tasks due to their reported high accuracies. However, their transferability/generalization capabilities are limited by the instances seen in the training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Hessah Albanwan , Rongjun Qin

Many man-made objects are characterised by a shape that is symmetric along one or more planar directions. Estimating the location and orientation of such symmetry planes can aid many tasks such as estimating the overall orientation of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Mihaela Cătălina Stoian , Tommaso Cavallari

Achieving real-time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) in large-scale real-world environments remains challenging, as existing methods still struggle to jointly achieve low-latency pose…

In this paper, we propose a novel dense surfel mapping system that scales well in different environments with only CPU computation. Using a sparse SLAM system to estimate camera poses, the proposed mapping system can fuse intensity images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Kaixuan Wang , Fei Gao , Shaojie Shen

In this paper, we propose a novel method to precisely match two aerial images that were obtained in different environments via a two-stream deep network. By internally augmenting the target image, the network considers the two-stream with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Jae-Hyun Park , Woo-Jeoung Nam , Seong-Whan Lee

Recent studies have shown the benefits of using additional elevation data (e.g., DSM) for enhancing the performance of the semantic segmentation of aerial images. However, previous methods mostly adopt 3D elevation information as additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Xiang Li , Lingjing Wang , Yi Fang

Integration of aerial and ground images has been proved as an efficient approach to enhance the surface reconstruction in urban environments. However, as the first step, the feature point matching between aerial and ground images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Qing Zhu , Zhendong Wang , Han Hu , Linfu Xie , Xuming Ge , Yeting Zhang

Finding corresponding pixels within a pair of images is a fundamental computer vision task with various applications. Due to the specific requirements of different tasks like optical flow estimation and local feature matching, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Songyan Zhang , Xinyu Sun , Hao Chen , Bo Li , Chunhua Shen

We present three multi-scale similarity learning architectures, or DeepSim networks. These models learn pixel-level matching with a contrastive loss and are agnostic to the geometry of the considered scene. We establish a middle ground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Mohamed Ali Chebbi , Ewelina Rupnik , Marc Pierrot-Deseilligny , Paul Lopes

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a prominent research direction owing to its ultrarapid training speed and high-fidelity rendering capabilities. However, the unstructured and irregular nature of Gaussian point clouds poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xiao Ren , Yu Liu , Ning An , Jian Cheng , Xin Qiao , He Kong

This article presents GLIM, a 3D range-inertial localization and mapping framework with GPU-accelerated scan matching factors. The odometry estimation module of GLIM employs a combination of fixed-lag smoothing and keyframe-based point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Kenji Koide , Masashi Yokozuka , Shuji Oishi , Atsuhiko Banno

In this paper, we introduce Semi-SMD, a novel metric depth estimation framework tailored for surrounding cameras equipment in autonomous driving. In this work, the input data consists of adjacent surrounding frames and camera parameters. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yusen Xie , Zhengmin Huang , Shaojie Shen , Jun Ma

We present a fast and accurate method for dense depth reconstruction from sparsely sampled light fields obtained using a synchronized camera array. In our method, the source images are over-segmented into non-overlapping compact superpixels…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-18 Aleksandra Chuchvara , Attila Barsi , Atanas Gotchev

Achieving high-fidelity 3D reconstruction from monocular video remains challenging due to the inherent limitations of traditional methods like Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and monocular SLAM in accurately capturing scene details. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yue Hu , Rong Liu , Meida Chen , Peter Beerel , Andrew Feng

A Semi-supervised Segmentation Fusion algorithm is proposed using consensus and distributed learning. The aim of Unsupervised Segmentation Fusion (USF) is to achieve a consensus among different segmentation outputs obtained from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Mete Ozay

While Gaussian Splatting (GS) demonstrates efficient and high-quality scene rendering and small area surface extraction ability, it falls short in handling large-scale aerial image surface extraction tasks. To overcome this, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhuoxiao Li , Shanliang Yao , Taoyu Wu , Yong Yue , Wufan Zhao , Rongjun Qin , Angel F. Garcia-Fernandez , Andrew Levers , Xiaohui Zhu

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has wide robotic applications such as autonomous driving and unmanned aerial vehicles. Both computational efficiency and localization accuracy are of great importance towards a good SLAM system.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Chun-Lin Chen , Lihua Xie

Automatic reconstruction of 3D models from images using multi-view Structure-from-Motion methods has been one of the most fruitful outcomes of computer vision. These advances combined with the growing popularity of Micro Aerial Vehicles as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shreyansh Daftry , Christof Hoppe , Horst Bischof