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The Sentinel-2 satellite mission delivers multi-spectral imagery with 13 spectral bands, acquired at three different spatial resolutions. The aim of this research is to super-resolve the lower-resolution (20 m and 60 m Ground Sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Charis Lanaras , José Bioucas-Dias , Silvano Galliani , Emmanuel Baltsavias , Konrad Schindler

We focus on estimating the 3D orientation of the ground plane from a single image. We formulate the problem as an inter-mingled multi-task prediction problem by jointly optimizing for pixel-wise surface normal direction, ground plane…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Yunze Man , Xinshuo Weng , Xi Li , Kris Kitani

This paper considers the problem of single image depth estimation. The employment of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has recently brought about significant advancements in the research of this problem. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Junjie Hu , Mete Ozay , Yan Zhang , Takayuki Okatani

A model based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) is designed to reconstruct the three-dimensional turbulent flows beneath a free surface using surface measurements, including the surface elevation and surface velocity. Trained on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-12 Anqing Xuan , Lian Shen

In this paper, we propose a geometric neural network with edge-aware refinement (GeoNet++) to jointly predict both depth and surface normal maps from a single image. Building on top of two-stream CNNs, GeoNet++ captures the geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaojuan Qi , Zhengzhe Liu , Renjie Liao , Philip H. S. Torr , Raquel Urtasun , Jiaya Jia

Ternary Neural Networks (TNNs) have received much attention due to being potentially orders of magnitude faster in inference, as well as more power efficient, than full-precision counterparts. However, 2 bits are required to encode the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Peng Chen , Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen

Reconstructing a 3D surface from colonoscopy video is challenging due to illumination and reflectivity variation in the video frame that can cause defective shape predictions. Aiming to overcome this challenge, we utilize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Shuxian Wang , Yubo Zhang , Sarah K. McGill , Julian G. Rosenman , Jan-Michael Frahm , Soumyadip Sengupta , Stephen M. Pizer

Surface reconstruction from multi-view images is a challenging task, with solutions often requiring a large number of sampled images with high overlap. We seek to develop a method for few-view reconstruction, for the case of the human foot.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Oliver Boyne , Gwangbin Bae , James Charles , Roberto Cipolla

Current multi-view 3D reconstruction methods rely on accurate camera calibration and pose estimation, requiring complex and time-intensive pre-processing that hinders their practical deployment. To address this challenge, we introduce…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Haodong Zhu , Changbai Li , Yangyang Ren , Zichao Feng , Xuhui Liu , Hanlin Chen , Xiantong Zhen , Baochang Zhang

Noise in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) can obscure important diagnostic details. While deep learning offers powerful denoising, supervised methods require impractical paired data, and self-supervised alternatives often use opaque,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Yipeng Sun , Linda-Sophie Schneider , Siyuan Mei , Jinhua Wang , Ge Hu , Mingxuan Gu , Chengze Ye , Fabian Wagner , Lan Song , Siming Bayer , Andreas Maier

Rendering and reconstruction are long-standing topics in computer vision and graphics. Achieving both high rendering quality and accurate geometry is a challenge. Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled…

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This paper presents an end-to-end differentiable algorithm for robust and detail-preserving surface normal estimation on unstructured point-clouds. We utilize graph neural networks to iteratively parameterize an adaptive anisotropic kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Jan Eric Lenssen , Christian Osendorfer , Jonathan Masci

In this paper, we present a spatial rectifier to estimate surface normals of tilted images. Tilted images are of particular interest as more visual data are captured by arbitrarily oriented sensors such as body-/robot-mounted cameras.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Tien Do , Khiem Vuong , Stergios I. Roumeliotis , Hyun Soo Park

Single image surface normal estimation and depth estimation are closely related problems as the former can be calculated from the latter. However, the surface normals computed from the output of depth estimation methods are significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Gwangbin Bae , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Cipolla

Normal integration reconstructs 3D surfaces from normal maps obtained e.g. by photometric stereo. These normal maps capture surface details down to the pixel level but require large computational resources for integration at high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Moritz Heep , Sven Behnke , Eduard Zell

In this work we present a self-supervised learning framework to simultaneously train two Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to predict depth and surface normals from a single image. In contrast to most existing frameworks which represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Huangying Zhan , Chamara Saroj Weerasekera , Ravi Garg , Ian Reid

In this paper we address three different computer vision tasks using a single basic architecture: depth prediction, surface normal estimation, and semantic labeling. We use a multiscale convolutional network that is able to adapt easily to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-18 David Eigen , Rob Fergus

Neural implicit reconstruction via volume rendering has demonstrated its effectiveness in recovering dense 3D surfaces. However, it is non-trivial to simultaneously recover meticulous geometry and preserve smoothness across regions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ziyu Tang , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Di Huang , Hujun Bao , Tong He , Guofeng Zhang

Underwater optical imaging is severely hindered by scattering, but polarization imaging offers the unique dual advantages of descattering and shape-from-polarization (SfP) 3D reconstruction. To exploit these advantages, this paper proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Puyun Wang , Kaimin Yu , Huayang He , Feng Huang , Xianyu Wu , Yating Chen

Recent research has explored using neural networks to reconstruct undersampled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. Because of the complexity of the artifacts in the reconstructed images, there is a need to develop task-based approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Joshua D. Herman , Rachel E. Roca , Alexandra G. O'Neill , Marcus L. Wong , Sajan G. Lingala , Angel R. Pineda