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The recent advances in 3D sensing technology have made possible the capture of point clouds in significantly high resolution. However, increased detail usually comes at the expense of high storage, as well as computational costs in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Giorgos Bouritsas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Scene flow estimation, which extracts point-wise motion between scenes, is becoming a crucial task in many computer vision tasks. However, all of the existing estimation methods utilize only the unidirectional features, restricting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Wencan Cheng , Jong Hwan Ko

State-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms generally consist of at least two successive and distinct computations: a boundary detection process that uses local image information to classify image locations as boundaries between objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Michał Januszewski , Jeremy Maitin-Shepard , Peter Li , Jörgen Kornfeld , Winfried Denk , Viren Jain

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental problem in computer vision, yet the reliance on expensive ground-truth annotations limits the scalability of supervised approaches. Although unsupervised and semi-supervised methods alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yixuan Luo , Feng Qiao , Zhexiao Xiong , Yanjing Li , Nathan Jacobs

3D object recognition has successfully become an appealing research topic in the real-world. However, most existing recognition models unreasonably assume that the categories of 3D objects cannot change over time in the real-world. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jiahua Dong , Yang Cong , Gan Sun , Lixu Wang , Lingjuan Lyu , Jun Li , Ender Konukoglu

Deep generative models such as diffusion and flow matching are powerful machine learning tools capable of learning and sampling from high-dimensional distributions. They are particularly useful when the training data appears to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Zachary Bogorad , Ibrahim Elsharkawy , Yonatan Kahn , Andrew J. Larkoski , Noam Levi

Mesh plays an indispensable role in dense real-time reconstruction essential in robotics. Efforts have been made to maintain flexible data structures for 3D data fusion, yet an efficient incremental framework specifically designed for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Wei Dong , Jieqi Shi , Weijie Tang , Xin Wang , Hongbin Zha

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) are able to reconstruct scenes with unprecedented fidelity, and various recent works have extended NeRF to handle dynamic scenes. A common approach to reconstruct such non-rigid scenes is through the use of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Keunhong Park , Utkarsh Sinha , Peter Hedman , Jonathan T. Barron , Sofien Bouaziz , Dan B Goldman , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Steven M. Seitz

Generative machine learning models have been demonstrated to be able to learn low dimensional representations of data that preserve information required for downstream tasks. In this work, we demonstrate that flow matching based generative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Sidharth Kannan , Tian Qiu , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Haewon Jeong

We present a novel deep neural network architecture for end-to-end scene flow estimation that directly operates on large-scale 3D point clouds. Inspired by Bilateral Convolutional Layers (BCL), we propose novel DownBCL, UpBCL, and CorrBCL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Xiuye Gu , Yijie Wang , Chongruo wu , Yong-Jae lee , Panqu Wang

In this paper, we propose Continuous Graph Flow, a generative continuous flow based method that aims to model complex distributions of graph-structured data. Once learned, the model can be applied to an arbitrary graph, defining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Zhiwei Deng , Megha Nawhal , Lili Meng , Greg Mori

We have recently seen tremendous progress in the neural advances for photo-real human modeling and rendering. However, it's still challenging to integrate them into an existing mesh-based pipeline for downstream applications. In this paper,…

Generative models have gained popularity for their potential applications in imaging science, such as image reconstruction, posterior sampling and data sharing. Flow-based generative models are particularly attractive due to their ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Varun A. Kelkar , Rucha Deshpande , Arindam Banerjee , Mark A. Anastasio

We introduce a method for learning to generate the surface of 3D shapes. Our approach represents a 3D shape as a collection of parametric surface elements and, in contrast to methods generating voxel grids or point clouds, naturally infers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Thibault Groueix , Matthew Fisher , Vladimir G. Kim , Bryan C. Russell , Mathieu Aubry

As 3D point clouds become the prevailing shape representation in computer vision, generating high-quality point clouds remains a challenging problem. Flow-based models have shown strong potential due to exact likelihood estimation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Linhao Wang , Qichang Zhang , Yifan Yang , Ye Su , Hao Wang

Generating high-quality 3D objects from textual descriptions remains a challenging problem due to computational cost, the scarcity of 3D data, and complex 3D representations. We introduce Geometry Image Diffusion (GIMDiffusion), a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Slava Elizarov , Ciara Rowles , Simon Donné

We present an end-to-end framework for generating artist-style meshes from noisy or incomplete point clouds, such as those captured by real-world sensors like LiDAR or mobile RGB-D cameras. Artist-created meshes are crucial for commercial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yao He , Youngjoong Kwon , Wenxiao Cai , Ehsan Adeli

Existing diffusion-based 3D scene generation methods primarily operate in 2D image/video latent spaces, which makes maintaining cross-view appearance and geometric consistency inherently challenging. To bridge this gap, we present OneWorld,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sensen Gao , Zhaoqing Wang , Qihang Cao , Dongdong Yu , Changhu Wang , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong , Jiawang Bian

Hypernetworks mitigate forgetting in continual learning (CL) by generating task-dependent weights and penalizing weight changes at a meta-model level. Unfortunately, generating all weights is not only computationally expensive for larger…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hamed Hemati , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Davide Bacciu , Damian Borth

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative framework, with recent few-step methods achieving remarkable inference acceleration. However, we identify a critical yet overlooked limitation: these models suffer from severe diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yexiong Lin , Jia Shi , Shanshan Ye , Wanyu Wang , Yu Yao , Tongliang Liu