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This paper studies path synthesis for nonholonomic mobile robots moving in two-dimensional space. We first address the problem of interpolating paths expressed as sequences of straight line segments, such as those produced by some planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-08-12 Stéphane Lens , Bernard Boigelot

Recent techniques for real-time view synthesis have rapidly advanced in fidelity and speed, and modern methods are capable of rendering near-photorealistic scenes at interactive frame rates. At the same time, a tension has arisen between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Daniel Duckworth , Peter Hedman , Christian Reiser , Peter Zhizhin , Jean-François Thibert , Mario Lučić , Richard Szeliski , Jonathan T. Barron

Matting with a static background, often referred to as ``Background Matting" (BGM), has garnered significant attention within the computer vision community due to its pivotal role in various practical applications like webcasting and photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Hanxi Li , Guofeng Li , Bo Li , Lin Wu , Yan Cheng

We present a novel, hardware rasterized rendering approach for ray-based 3D Gaussian Splatting (RayGS), obtaining both fast and high-quality results for novel view synthesis. Our work contains a mathematically rigorous and geometrically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Samuel Rota Bulò , Nemanja Bartolovic , Lorenzo Porzi , Peter Kontschieder

While neural 3D reconstruction has advanced substantially, its performance significantly degrades with sparse-view data, which limits its broader applicability, since SfM is often unreliable in sparse-view scenarios where feature matches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhiwen Fan , Wenyan Cong , Kairun Wen , Kevin Wang , Jian Zhang , Xinghao Ding , Danfei Xu , Boris Ivanovic , Marco Pavone , Georgios Pavlakos , Zhangyang Wang , Yue Wang

Real-time path tracing is rapidly becoming the standard for rendering in entertainment and professional applications. In scientific visualization, volume rendering plays a crucial role in helping researchers analyze and interpret complex 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 David Bauer , Qi Wu , Hamid Gadirov , Kwan-Liu Ma

Modern methods mainly regard lane detection as a problem of pixel-wise segmentation, which is struggling to address the problem of challenging scenarios and speed. Inspired by human perception, the recognition of lanes under severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Zequn Qin , Huanyu Wang , Xi Li

Recent focus on robustness to adversarial attacks for deep neural networks produced a large variety of algorithms for training robust models. Most of the effective algorithms involve solving the min-max optimization problem for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Yasaman Esfandiari , Aditya Balu , Keivan Ebrahimi , Umesh Vaidya , Nicola Elia , Soumik Sarkar

Radiance fields produce high fidelity images with high rendering speed, but are difficult to manipulate. We effectively perform avatar texture transfer across different appearances by combining benefits from radiance fields and mesh…

Reconstructing object geometry and material from multiple views typically requires optimization. Differentiable path tracing is an appealing framework as it can reproduce complex appearance effects. However, it is difficult to use due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Purvi Goel , Loudon Cohen , James Guesman , Vikas Thamizharasan , James Tompkin , Daniel Ritchie

Neural implicit representations have recently shown promising progress in dense Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). However, existing works have shortcomings in terms of reconstruction quality and real-time performance, mainly due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhen Hong , Bowen Wang , Haoran Duan , Yawen Huang , Xiong Li , Zhenyu Wen , Xiang Wu , Wei Xiang , Yefeng Zheng

Computing the gradients of a rendering process is paramount for diverse applications in computer vision and graphics. However, accurate computation of these gradients is challenging due to discontinuities and rendering approximations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Stanislav Pidhorskyi , Tomas Simon , Gabriel Schwartz , He Wen , Yaser Sheikh , Jason Saragih

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) typically struggle to reconstruct and render highly specular objects, whose appearance varies quickly with changes in viewpoint. Recent works have improved NeRF's ability to render detailed specular appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Dor Verbin , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Benjamin Attal , Richard Szeliski , Jonathan T. Barron

Object detection in radar imagery with neural networks shows great potential for improving autonomous driving. However, obtaining annotated datasets from real radar images, crucial for training these networks, is challenging, especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Oded Bialer , Yuval Haitman

In x-ray microscopy, traditional raster-scanning techniques are used to acquire a microscopic image in a series of step-scans. Alternatively, scanning the x-ray probe along a continuous path, called a fly-scan, reduces scan time and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Yu Lu , Thomas F. Lynn , Ming Du , Zichao Di , Sven Leyffer

Volume rendering using neural fields has shown great promise in capturing and synthesizing novel views of 3D scenes. However, this type of approach requires querying the volume network at multiple points along each viewing ray in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Martin Piala , Ronald Clark

N-body simulations are the most powerful method to study the non-linear evolution of large-scale structure. However, they require large amounts of computational resources, making unfeasible their direct adoption in scenarios that require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-14 Miguel Conceição , Alberto Krone-Martins , Antonio da Silva , Ángeles Moliné

Wave equation techniques have been an integral part of geophysical imaging workflows to investigate the Earth's subsurface. Least-squares reverse time migration (LSRTM) is a linearized inversion problem that iteratively minimizes a misfit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Janaki Vamaraju , Jeremy Vila , Mauricio Araya-Polo , Debanjan Datta , Mohamed Sidahmed , Mrinal Sen

Recent advances in 3D deep learning have shown that it is possible to train highly effective deep models for 3D shape generation, directly from 2D images. This is particularly interesting since the availability of 3D models is still limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Shichen Liu , Shunsuke Saito , Weikai Chen , Hao Li

Recent work done on lane detection has been able to detect lanes accurately in complex scenarios, yet many fail to deliver real-time performance specifically with limited computational resources. In this work, we propose SwiftLane: a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Oshada Jayasinghe , Damith Anhettigama , Sahan Hemachandra , Shenali Kariyawasam , Ranga Rodrigo , Peshala Jayasekara