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Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) gained tremendous attention in recent years. Autonomous flight in indoor requires a dense depth map for navigable space detection which is the fundamental component for autonomous navigation. In this…

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Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from severe noise and quantitative degradation. Diffusion-based denoising models achieve strong final reconstructions, yet their reverse trajectories are…

Depth imaging is a crucial area in Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS), as it plays a key role in detecting and measuring objects in the vehicle's surroundings. However, a significant challenge in this domain arises from missing information in…

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We introduce an integrodifferential extension of the edge-enhancing anisotropic diffusion model for image denoising. By accumulating weighted structural information on multiple scales, our model is the first to create anisotropy through…

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Self-supervised monocular depth prediction provides a cost-effective solution to obtain the 3D location of each pixel. However, the existing approaches usually lead to unsatisfactory accuracy, which is critical for autonomous robots. In…

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Transparent objects are common in our daily life and frequently handled in the automated production line. Robust vision-based robotic grasping and manipulation for these objects would be beneficial for automation. However, the majority of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Hongjie Fang , Hao-Shu Fang , Sheng Xu , Cewu Lu

Diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable performance in image super-resolution (SR), but their high computational cost limits practical deployment in remote sensing applications. To address this issue, we propose SlimDiffSR, a…

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In this work, we investigate the diffusive optical tomography (DOT) problem in the case that limited boundary measurements are available. Motivated by the direct sampling method (DSM), we develop a deep direct sampling method (DDSM) to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Jiahua Jiang , Yi Li , Ruchi Guo

Unsupervised video object segmentation has often been tackled by methods based on recurrent neural networks and optical flow. Despite their complexity, these kinds of approaches tend to favour short-term temporal dependencies and are thus…

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Image denoising is an important problem in low-level vision and serves as a critical module for many image recovery tasks. Anisotropic diffusion is a wide family of image denoising approaches with promising performance. However, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xinran Qin , Yuhui Quan , Ruotao Xu , Hui Ji

We propose a method that combines sparse depth (LiDAR) measurements with an intensity image and to produce a dense high-resolution depth image. As there are few, but accurate, depth measurements from the scene, our method infers the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-01 Alireza Ahrabian , Joao F. C. Mota , Andrew M. Wallace

We present a deep learning system to infer the posterior distribution of a dense depth map associated with an image, by exploiting sparse range measurements, for instance from a lidar. While the lidar may provide a depth value for a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Yanchao Yang , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

We propose an approach for 3D reconstruction and segmentation of a single object placed on a flat surface from an input video. Our approach is to perform dense depth map estimation for multiple views using a proposed objective function that…

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Estimating a dense and accurate depth map is the key requirement for autonomous driving and robotics. Recent advances in deep learning have allowed depth estimation in full resolution from a single image. Despite this impressive result,…

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This paper explores the problem of reconstructing temporally consistent surfaces from a 3D point cloud sequence without correspondence. To address this challenging task, we propose DynoSurf, an unsupervised learning framework integrating a…

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Depth completion aims at predicting dense pixel-wise depth from an extremely sparse map captured from a depth sensor, e.g., LiDARs. It plays an essential role in various applications such as autonomous driving, 3D reconstruction, augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Junjie Hu , Chenyu Bao , Mete Ozay , Chenyou Fan , Qing Gao , Honghai Liu , Tin Lun Lam

Discrete diffusion models are a new class of text generators that offer advantages such as bidirectional context use, parallelizable generation, and flexible prompting compared to autoregressive models. However, a critical limitation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Andrew Zhang , Anushka Sivakumar , Chiawei Tang , Chris Thomas

Depth completion involves recovering a dense depth map from a sparse map and an RGB image. Recent approaches focus on utilizing color images as guidance images to recover depth at invalid pixels. However, color images alone are not enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Danish Nazir , Marcus Liwicki , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Inspired by non-equilibrium thermodynamics, diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generative modeling. However, their iterative sampling nature results in high inference latency. While recent distillation techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Cherish Puniani , Tushar Kumar , Arnav Bendre , Gaurav Kumar , Shree Singhi

Image guided depth completion aims to recover per-pixel dense depth maps from sparse depth measurements with the help of aligned color images, which has a wide range of applications from robotics to autonomous driving. However, the 3D…

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