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Deep learning technologies have demonstrated their effectiveness in removing cloud cover from optical remote-sensing images. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) exert dominance in the cloud removal tasks. However, constrained by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Meilin Wang , Yexing Song , Pengxu Wei , Xiaoyu Xian , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

Imaging of optical Galactic cirrus, the spatially resolved form of diffuse Galactic light, provides important insights into the properties of the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) in the Milky Way. While previous investigations have focused…

This paper presents a novel framework for robust 3D object detection from point clouds via cross-modal hallucination. Our proposed approach is agnostic to either hallucination direction between LiDAR and 4D radar. We introduce multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Jianning Deng , Gabriel Chan , Hantao Zhong , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

About half of all optical observations collected via spaceborne satellites are affected by haze or clouds. Consequently, cloud coverage affects the remote sensing practitioner's capabilities of a continuous and seamless monitoring of our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Patrick Ebel , Yajin Xu , Michael Schmitt , Xiaoxiang Zhu

Commercial off the shelf (COTS) 3D scanners are capable of generating point clouds covering visible portions of a face with sub-millimeter accuracy at close range, but lack the coverage and specialized anatomic registration provided by more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Maxim Bazik , Daniel Crispell

We present a comparative study of several molecular lines and of the dust contiunuum at 1.2mm in a pre-stellar core that is embedded in the Galactic cirrus cloud MCLD123.5+24.9. Previous studies found that the core is gravitationally stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andreas Heithausen , Christoph Boettner , Fabian Walter

We present 3DeepCT, a deep neural network for computed tomography, which performs 3D reconstruction of scattering volumes from multi-view images. Our architecture is dictated by the stationary nature of atmospheric cloud fields. The task of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Yael Sde-Chen , Yoav Y. Schechner , Vadim Holodovsky , Eshkol Eytan

We introduce new adjustments and advances in space-borne 3D volumetric scattering-tomography of cloud micro-physics. The micro-physical properties retrieved are the liquid water content and effective radius within a cloud. New adjustments…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Masada Tzabari , Vadim Holodovsky , Omer Shubi , Eitan Eshkol , Yoav Y. Schechner

LiDAR is an important method for autonomous driving systems to sense the environment. The point clouds obtained by LiDAR typically exhibit sparse and irregular distribution, thus posing great challenges to the detection of 3D objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Tai Wang , Xinge Zhu , Dahua Lin

We decipher intrinsic three-dimensional shape distributions of molecular clouds, cloud cores, Bok globules, and condensations using recently compiled catalogues of observed axis ratios for these objects mapped in carbon monoxide, ammonia,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. E. Jones , Shantanu Basu

3D detection is a critical task that enables machines to identify and locate objects in three-dimensional space. It has a broad range of applications in several fields, including autonomous driving, robotics and augmented reality. Monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Aakash Kumar , Chen Chen , Ajmal Mian , Neils Lobo , Mubarak Shah

Cloud is critical for planetary climate and habitability, but it is also one of the most challenging parts of studying planets in and beyond the solar system. Here we use a cloud-resolving model (CRM) with high resolution (2 km) in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Qiyu Song , Jun Yang , Hang Luo , Cheng Li , Shizuo Fu

In recent years, point cloud perception tasks have been garnering increasing attention. This paper presents the first attempt to estimate 3D human body mesh from sparse LiDAR point clouds. We found that the major challenge in estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Bohao Fan , Wenzhao Zheng , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

LiDAR point clouds can effectively depict the motion and posture of objects in three-dimensional space. Many studies accomplish the 3D object detection by voxelizing point clouds. However, in autonomous driving scenarios, the sparsity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yongxin Shao , Aihong Tan , Binrui Wang , Tianhong Yan , Zhetao Sun , Yiyang Zhang , Jiaxin Liu

Cloud based medical image analysis has become popular recently due to the high computation complexities of various deep neural network (DNN) based frameworks and the increasingly large volume of medical images that need to be processed. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Zihao Liu , Xiaowei Xu , Tao Liu , Qi Liu , Yanzhi Wang , Yiyu Shi , Wujie Wen , Meiping Huang , Haiyun Yuan , Jian Zhuang

A set of diffuse interstellar clouds in the inner Galaxy within a few hundred pc of the Galactic plane has been observed at an angular resolution of ~1 arcmin combining data from the NRAO Green Bank Telescope and the Very Large Array. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yurii Pidopryhora , Felix J. Lockman , John M. Dickey , Michael P. Rupen

Low-mass stars like our Sun begin their evolution within cold (10 K) and dense ($\sim 10^5$ cm$^{-3}$) cores of gas and dust. The physical structure of starless cores is best probed by thermal emission of dust grains. We present a high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Samantha Scibelli , Yancy Shirley , Anika Schmiedeke , Brian Svoboda , Ayushi Singh , James Lilly , Paola Caselli

Occluded and long-range objects are ubiquitous and challenging for 3D object detection. Point cloud sequence data provide unique opportunities to improve such cases, as an occluded or distant object can be observed from different viewpoints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yingwei Li , Charles R. Qi , Yin Zhou , Chenxi Liu , Dragomir Anguelov

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) is a self-supervised learning technique that involves masking portions of an image, such as pixels, patches, or latent representations, and training models to predict the missing information using the visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shabnam Choudhury , Akhil Vasim , Michael Schmitt , Biplab Banerjee

Reconstructing hand-held objects in 3D from monocular images remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches rely on implicit 3D representations, which produce overly smooth reconstructions and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zerui Chen , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid