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The gold-standard for robustly estimating relative pose through image matching is RANSAC. While RANSAC is powerful, it requires setting the inlier threshold that determines whether the error of a correspondence under an estimated model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Johan Edstedt

Video frame interpolation (VFI) aims to improve the temporal resolution of a video sequence. Most of the existing deep learning based VFI methods adopt off-the-shelf optical flow algorithms to estimate the bidirectional flows and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Tao Yang , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie , Xiansheng Hua , Lei Zhang

As the quality of synthetic images improves, identifying the underlying concepts of model-generated images is becoming increasingly crucial for copyright protection and ensuring model transparency. Existing methods achieve this attribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zongfang Liu , Guangyi Chen , Boyang Sun , Tongliang Liu , Kun Zhang

We propose an efficient pipeline for large-scale landmark image retrieval that addresses the diversity of the dataset through two-stage discriminative re-ranking. Our approach is based on embedding the images in a feature-space using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Shuhei Yokoo , Kohei Ozaki , Edgar Simo-Serra , Satoshi Iizuka

Image stitching synthesizes images captured from multiple perspectives into a single image with a broader field of view. The significant variations in object depth often lead to large parallax, resulting in ghosting and misalignment in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhiying Jiang , Ruhao Yan , Zengxi Zhang , Bowei Zhang , Jinyuan Liu

The goal of this paper is to create a new framework for dense SLAM that is light enough for micro-robot systems based on depth camera and inertial sensor. Feature-based and direct methods are two mainstreams in visual SLAM. Both methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Chen Wang , Junsong Yuan , Lihua Xie

Face alignment is a classic problem in the computer vision field. Previous works mostly focus on sparse alignment with a limited number of facial landmark points, i.e., facial landmark detection. In this paper, for the first time, we aim at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Yaojie Liu , Amin Jourabloo , William Ren , Xiaoming Liu

In dense foggy scenes, existing optical flow methods are erroneous. This is due to the degradation caused by dense fog particles that break the optical flow basic assumptions such as brightness and gradient constancy. To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Wending Yan , Aashish Sharma , Robby T. Tan

Parametric human models capture global pose but cannot represent the non-rigid surface dynamics of clothing and soft tissue. Generic scene flow estimates dense motion but breaks down on articulated bodies, where pixel-level supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhanbo Huang , Xiaoming Liu , Yu Kong

Hyperspectral image produces high spectral resolution at the sacrifice of spatial resolution. Without reducing the spectral resolution, improving the resolution in the spatial domain is a very challenging problem. Motivated by the discovery…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Qiang Li , Yuan Yuan , Xiuping Jia , Qi Wang

We present a unified formulation and model for three motion and 3D perception tasks: optical flow, rectified stereo matching and unrectified stereo depth estimation from posed images. Unlike previous specialized architectures for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Haofei Xu , Jing Zhang , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Fisher Yu , Dacheng Tao , Andreas Geiger

This paper proposes the first non-flow-based deep framework for high dynamic range (HDR) imaging of dynamic scenes with large-scale foreground motions. In state-of-the-art deep HDR imaging, input images are first aligned using optical flows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Shangzhe Wu , Jiarui Xu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

In this work, we tackle the essential problem of scale inconsistency for self-supervised joint depth-pose learning. Most existing methods assume that a consistent scale of depth and pose can be learned across all input samples, which makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Wang Zhao , Shaohui Liu , Yezhi Shu , Yong-Jin Liu

We present FoundationSLAM, a learning-based monocular dense SLAM system that addresses the absence of geometric consistency in previous flow-based approaches for accurate and robust tracking and mapping. Our core idea is to bridge flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yuchen Wu , Jiahe Li , Fabio Tosi , Matteo Poggi , Jin Zheng , Xiao Bai

We propose a novel representation for dense pixel-wise estimation tasks using CNNs that boosts accuracy and reduces training time, by explicitly exploiting joint coarse-and-fine reasoning. The coarse reasoning is performed over a discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Victor Vaquero , German Ros , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Antonio M. Lopez , Alberto Sanfeliu

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative modeling approach with flexible choices of source distribution. While Gaussian distributions are commonly used, the potential for better alternatives in high-dimensional data generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Junho Lee , Kwanseok Kim , Joonseok Lee

Camera pose estimation for two-view geometry traditionally relies on RANSAC. Normally, a multitude of image correspondences leads to a pool of proposed hypotheses, which are then scored to find a winning model. The inlier count is generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Axel Barroso-Laguna , Eric Brachmann , Victor Adrian Prisacariu , Gabriel J. Brostow , Daniyar Turmukhambetov

Image denoising is the process of removing noise from noisy images, which is an image domain transferring task, i.e., from a single or several noise level domains to a photo-realistic domain. In this paper, we propose an effective image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Xianxu Hou , Hongming Luo , Jingxin Liu , Bolei Xu , Ke Sun , Yuanhao Gong , Bozhi Liu , Guoping Qiu

Synthesizing a densely sampled light field from a single image is highly beneficial for many applications. Moreover, jointly solving both angular and spatial super-resolution problem also introduces new possibilities in light field imaging.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Andre Ivan , Williem , In Kyu Park

Reasoning-based approaches have demonstrated their powerful ability for the task of image-text matching. In this work, two issues are addressed for image-text matching. First, for reasoning processing, conventional approaches have no…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Ran Chen , Hanli Wang , Lei Wang , Sam Kwong