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The absolute depth values of surrounding environments provide crucial cues for various assistive technologies, such as localization, navigation, and 3D structure estimation. We propose that accurate depth estimated from panoramic images can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Junho Kim , Eun Sun Lee , Young Min Kim

We present a method for dynamic surface reconstruction of large-scale urban scenes from LiDAR. Depth-based reconstructions tend to focus on small-scale objects or large-scale SLAM reconstructions that treat moving objects as outliers. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Nathaniel Chodosh , Anish Madan , Simon Lucey , Deva Ramanan

We present a novel method for single image depth estimation using surface normal constraints. Existing depth estimation methods either suffer from the lack of geometric constraints, or are limited to the difficulty of reliably capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Lingjie Liu , Wei Li , Christian Theobalt , Ruigang Yang , Wenping Wang

Neural implicit surfaces have become an important technique for multi-view 3D reconstruction but their accuracy remains limited. In this paper, we argue that this comes from the difficulty to learn and render high frequency textures with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 François Darmon , Bénédicte Bascle , Jean-Clément Devaux , Pascal Monasse , Mathieu Aubry

Self-supervised depth estimation has drawn much attention in recent years as it does not require labeled data but image sequences. Moreover, it can be conveniently used in various applications, such as autonomous driving, robotics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Shaocheng Jia , Xin Pei , Wei Yao , S. C. Wong

Depth acquisition, based on active illumination, is essential for autonomous and robotic navigation. LiDARs (Light Detection And Ranging) with mechanical, fixed, sampling templates are commonly used in today's autonomous vehicles. An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Adam Wolff , Shachar Praisler , Ilya Tcenov , Guy Gilboa

Instance segmentation of planar regions in indoor scenes benefits visual SLAM and other applications such as augmented reality (AR) where scene understanding is required. Existing methods built upon two-stage frameworks show satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yaxu Xie , Jason Rambach , Fangwen Shu , Didier Stricker

Feature matching dominates the time costs in structure from motion (SfM). The primary contribution of this study is a GPU data schedule algorithm for efficient feature matching of Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images. The core idea is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 San Jiang , Kan You , Ruqin Zhou , Xing Zhang , Zhijun Wang , Qingquan Li

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms estimate drone poses and build a 3D map using a single camera. Current algorithms include sparse methods that lack detailed geometry, while learning-driven approaches produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jeryes Danial , Yosi Ben Asher , Itzik Klein

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves high-fidelity rendering with fast real-time performance, but existing methods rely on offline training after full Structure-from-Motion (SfM) processing. In contrast, this work introduces Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yiwei Xu , Yifei Yu , Wentian Gan , Tengfei Wang , Zongqian Zhan , Hao Cheng , Xin Wang

Feature matching between image pairs is a fundamental problem in computer vision that drives many applications, such as SLAM. Recently, semi-dense matching approaches have achieved substantial performance enhancements and established a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Xiaolong Wang , Lei Yu , Yingying Zhang , Jiangwei Lao , Lixiang Ru , Liheng Zhong , Jingdong Chen , Yu Zhang , Ming Yang

Sparse-view satellite image surface reconstruction remains highly challenging, fundamentally because the reliability of multi-view matching under satellite imaging conditions is strongly spatially heterogeneous. Affected by large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Min Chen , Wei Guo , Bin Wang , Wen Li , Tong Fang , Jinbo Zhang , Junqi Zhao , Hong Kuang , Han Hu , Xuming Ge , Qing Zhu , Bo Xu

With the technological advancements of aerial imagery and accurate 3d reconstruction of urban environments, more and more attention has been paid to the automated analyses of urban areas. In our work, we examine two important aspects that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Boitumelo Ruf , Laurenz Thiel , Martin Weinmann

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is one of the most widely used techniques for online optimization in machine learning. In this work, we accelerate SGD by adaptively learning how to sample the most useful training examples at each time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Guillaume Bouchard , Théo Trouillon , Julien Perez , Adrien Gaidon

Feature matching is a challenging computer vision task that involves finding correspondences between two images of a 3D scene. In this paper we consider the dense approach instead of the more common sparse paradigm, thus striving to find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Johan Edstedt , Ioannis Athanasiadis , Mårten Wadenbäck , Michael Felsberg

A novel multi-focus image fusion algorithm performed in spatial domain based on similarity characteristics is proposed incorporating with region segmentation. In this paper, a new similarity measure is developed based on the structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ya-Qiong Zhang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Hui Li

Learning-based image matching critically depends on large-scale, diverse, and geometrically accurate training data. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables photorealistic novel-view synthesis and thus is attractive for data generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Juncheng Chen , Chao Xu , Yanjun Cao

Feature matching is a fundamental and crucial process in visual SLAM, and precision has always been a challenging issue in feature matching. In this paper, based on a multi-level fine matching strategy, we propose a new feature matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Shaojie Zhang , Yinghui Wang , Jiaxing Ma , Wei Li , Jinlong Yang , Tao Yan , Yukai Wang , Liangyi Huang , Mingfeng Wang , Ibragim R. Atadjanov

We present self-supervised geometric perception (SGP), the first general framework to learn a feature descriptor for correspondence matching without any ground-truth geometric model labels (e.g., camera poses, rigid transformations). Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Heng Yang , Wei Dong , Luca Carlone , Vladlen Koltun

Surface normal integration is a fundamental problem in computer vision, dealing with the objective of reconstructing a surface from its corresponding normal map. Existing approaches require an iterative global optimization to jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Francesco Milano , Jen Jen Chung , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart