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Accurate 3D reconstruction from multi-view images is essential for downstream robotic tasks such as navigation, manipulation, and environment understanding. However, obtaining precise camera poses in real-world settings remains challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sriram Srinivasan , Gautam Ramachandra

This paper addresses outdoor terrain mapping using overhead images obtained from an unmanned aerial vehicle. Dense depth estimation from aerial images during flight is challenging. While feature-based localization and mapping techniques can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Qiaojun Feng , Nikolay Atanasov

We introduce a novel method to obtain high-quality 3D reconstructions from consumer RGB-D sensors. Our core idea is to simultaneously optimize for geometry encoded in a signed distance field (SDF), textures from automatically-selected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Robert Maier , Kihwan Kim , Daniel Cremers , Jan Kautz , Matthias Nießner

Achieving high-fidelity 3D surface reconstruction while preserving fine details remains challenging, especially in the presence of materials with complex reflectance properties and without a dense-view setup. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Robin Bruneau , Baptiste Brument , Yvain Quéau , Jean Mélou , François Bernard Lauze , Jean-Denis Durou , Lilian Calvet

City-scale 3D surface reconstruction from multiview images for downstream 3D simulation, poses highly challenging problems due to the scale and complexity of urban scenes. Existing city-scale 3D reconstruction methods based on NeRF,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Sayan Paul , Sourav Ghosh , Siddharth Katageri , Soumyadip Maity , Sanjana Sinha , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Satellites are widely used to estimate and monitor ground cover, providing critical information to address the challenges posed by climate change. High-resolution satellite images help to identify smaller features on the ground and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Jhanavi Hegde

This paper aims to develop an accurate 3D geometry representation of satellite images using satellite-ground image pairs. Our focus is on the challenging problem of 3D-aware ground-views synthesis from a satellite image. We draw inspiration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Ming Qian , Jincheng Xiong , Gui-Song Xia , Nan Xue

Recovering the shape and appearance of real-world objects from natural 2D images is a long-standing and challenging inverse rendering problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid differentiable rendering method to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiangyang Zhu , Yiling Pan , Bailin Deng , Bin Wang

Recovering the 3D geometry of a purely texture-less object with generally unknown surface reflectance (e.g. non-Lambertian) is regarded as a challenging task in multi-view reconstruction. The major obstacle revolves around establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Ziang Cheng , Hongdong Li , Yuta Asano , Yinqiang Zheng , Imari Sato

3D reconstruction is a core task in many applications such as robot navigation or sites inspections. Finding the best poses to capture part of the scene is one of the most challenging topic that goes under the name of Next Best View.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Luca Morreale , Andrea Romanoni , Matteo Matteucci

This paper presents a novel method for the reconstruction of images from samples located at non-integer positions, called mesh. This is a common scenario for many image processing applications, such as super-resolution, warping or virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Ján Koloda , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Camera pose refinement aims at improving the accuracy of initial pose estimation for applications in 3D computer vision. Most refinement approaches rely on 2D-3D correspondences with specific descriptors or dedicated networks, requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Lulu Hao , Lipu Zhou , Zhenzhong Wei , Xu Wang

We introduce a novel learning-based method to reconstruct the high-quality geometry and complex, spatially-varying BRDF of an arbitrary object from a sparse set of only six images captured by wide-baseline cameras under collocated point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Differentiable 3D Gaussian splatting has emerged as an efficient and flexible rendering technique for representing complex scenes from a collection of 2D views and enabling high-quality real-time novel-view synthesis. However, its reliance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Meenakshi Krishnan , Liam Fowl , Ramani Duraiswami

We present a method to jointly refine the geometry and semantic segmentation of 3D surface meshes. Our method alternates between updating the shape and the semantic labels. In the geometry refinement step, the mesh is deformed with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Maros Blaha , Mathias Rothermel , Martin R. Oswald , Torsten Sattler , Audrey Richard , Jan D. Wegner , Marc Pollefeys , Konrad Schindler

Recent advances in deep-learning based methods for image matching have demonstrated their superiority over traditional algorithms, enabling correspondence estimation in challenging scenes with significant differences in viewing angles,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Rahul Deshmukh , Avinash Kak

A simple method of constructing the 3D surface of non-transparent micro-objects by extending the depth-of-field on the whole attainable surface is presented. The series of images of a sample are recorded by the sequential movement of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-04-15 V. V. Berejnov

City-scale 3D reconstruction from satellite imagery presents the challenge of extreme viewpoint extrapolation, where our goal is to synthesize ground-level novel views from sparse orbital images with minimal parallax. This requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Fei Yu , Yu Liu , Luyang Tang , Mingchao Sun , Zengye Ge , Rui Bu , Yuchao Jin , Haisen Zhao , He Sun , Yangyan Li , Mu Xu , Wenzheng Chen , Baoquan Chen

What's the most accurate 3D model of your face you can obtain while sitting at your desk? We attempt to answer this question in our work. High fidelity face reconstructions have so far been limited to either studio settings or through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Shubham Agrawal , Anuj Pahuja , Simon Lucey

In this paper, we propose several mathematical models for 3D surface reconstruction and volume estimation from a set of scattered cloud data. Three meshless methods including the interpolation-based method by RBF, PDE-based approach by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-12 T. Li , M. Lei , James Snead , C. S. Chen