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Ocean exploration using acoustical 3D imaging is gaining popularity as it provides information about the 3D geometry of the targets even under mild turbid conditions. A major challenge in underwater 3D imaging is the high cost of the planar…

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In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-level convolution architecture for 3D visual grounding. Conventional methods are difficult to meet the requirements of real-time inference due to the two-stage or point-based architecture.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Wenxuan Guo , Xiuwei Xu , Ziwei Wang , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

We propose SparseFusion, a sparse view 3D reconstruction approach that unifies recent advances in neural rendering and probabilistic image generation. Existing approaches typically build on neural rendering with re-projected features but…

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Diagnostic imaging plays a critical role in healthcare, serving as a fundamental asset for timely diagnosis, disease staging and management as well as for treatment choice, planning, guidance, and follow-up. Among the diagnostic imaging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Ruud JG van Sloun , Jong Chul Ye , Yonina C Eldar

Sparse representation of 3D images is considered within the context of data reduction. The goal is to produce high quality approximations of 3D images using fewer elementary components than the number of intensity points in the 3D array.…

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Millimeter-scale implants using ultrasound for power and communication have been proposed for a range of deep-tissue applications, including neural recording and stimulation. However, published implementations have shown high sensitivity to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Braeden C. Benedict , Mohammad Meraj Ghanbari , Rikky Muller

Ultrasound imaging is a cost-effective and radiation-free modality for visualizing anatomical structures in real-time, making it ideal for guiding surgical interventions. However, its limited field-of-view, speckle noise, and imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Remi Delaunay , Ruisi Zhang , Filipe C. Pedrosa , Navid Feizi , Dianne Sacco , Rajni Patel , Jayender Jagadeesan

Ultrasound is widely used in medical diagnostics allowing for accessible and powerful imaging but suffers from resolution limitations due to diffraction and the finite aperture of the imaging system, which restricts diagnostic use. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Felix Duelmer , Walter Simson , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab

Wireless ultrasound (US) systems that produce high-quality images can improve current clinical diagnosis capabilities by making the imaging process much more efficient, affordable, and accessible to users. The most common technique for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Alon Mamistvalov , Yonina C. Eldar

Reconstructing 3D objects from extremely sparse views is a long-standing and challenging problem. While recent techniques employ image diffusion models for generating plausible images at novel viewpoints or for distilling pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zi-Xin Zou , Weihao Cheng , Yan-Pei Cao , Shi-Sheng Huang , Ying Shan , Song-Hai Zhang

In this paper, a novel robust beamforming scheme is proposed in three dimensional multi-input multi-output (3D-MIMO) systems. As one of the typical deployments of massive MIMO, a 3D-MIMO system owns sparse channels in angular domain. Thus,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-19 Kai Liu , Hui Feng , Tao Yang , Bo Hu

As a basic component of SE(3)-equivariant deep feature learning, steerable convolution has recently demonstrated its advantages for 3D semantic analysis. The advantages are, however, brought by expensive computations on dense, volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jiehong Lin , Hongyang Li , Ke Chen , Jiangbo Lu , Kui Jia

The application that motivates this paper is molecular imaging at the atomic level. When discretized at sub-atomic distances, the volume is inherently sparse. Noiseless measurements from an imaging technology can be modeled by convolution…

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We investigate the problem of estimating the 3D shape of an object defined by a set of 3D landmarks, given their 2D correspondences in a single image. A successful approach to alleviating the reconstruction ambiguity is the 3D deformable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Xiaowei Zhou , Menglong Zhu , Spyridon Leonardos , Kostas Daniilidis

Three-dimensional ultrasound enables real-time volumetric visualization of anatomical structures. Unlike traditional 2D ultrasound, 3D imaging reduces reliance on precise probe orientation, potentially making ultrasound more accessible to…

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With the emergence of wireless applications in three-dimensional environments, such as the low-altitude airspace and 3D heterogeneous networks, radio map estimation is increasingly required to characterize signal propagation across both…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) offers high-resolution \emph{in vivo} imaging and rich functional and anatomical multimodality tissue contrast. In practice, however, there are challenges associated with considerations of scanning costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Yawen Huang , Ling Shao , Alejandro F. Frangi

Two-dimensional terahertz spectroscopy (2DTS) is a low-frequency analogue of two-dimensional optical spectroscopy that is rapidly maturing as a probe of a wide variety of condensed matter systems. However, a persistent problem of 2DTS is…

Ultrasound (US) is widely used for clinical imaging applications thanks to its real-time and non-invasive nature. However, its lesion detectability is often limited in many applications due to the phase aberration artefact caused by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

Topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as one of the most promising techniques to reconstruct the unknown shapes of high-dimensional spaces from observed data samples. TDA, thus, yields key shape descriptors in the form of persistent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Wei Guo , Krithika Manohar , Steven L. Brunton , Ashis G. Banerjee