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Multilevel Image thresholding is an important preprocessing algorithm in computer vision applications nowadays. Since most common thresholding methods take the desired count of thresholds as input by the user, thresholding methods that…

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We propose a novel approach for image segmentation that combines Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) and the Level Set method. Our approach parametrizes the evolution of an initial contour with a NODE that implicitly learns from…

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Text-motion retrieval aims to learn a semantically aligned latent space between natural language descriptions and 3D human motion skeleton sequences, enabling bidirectional search across the two modalities. Most existing methods use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yao Zhang , Zhuchenyang Liu , Yanlan He , Thomas Ploetz , Yu Xiao

In recent years, implicit functions have drawn attention in the field of 3D reconstruction and have successfully been applied with Deep Learning. However, for incremental reconstruction, implicit function-based registrations have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yijun Yuan , Andreas Nuechter

We propose a visual SLAM method by predicting and updating line flows that represent sequential 2D projections of 3D line segments. While feature-based SLAM methods have achieved excellent results, they still face problems in challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Qiuyuan Wang , Zike Yan , Junqiu Wang , Fei Xue , Wei Ma , Hongbin Zha

Image segmentation is an essential component in many image processing and computer vision tasks. The primary goal of image segmentation is to simplify an image for easier analysis, and there are two broad approaches for achieving this: edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 J. N. Mueller , J. N. Corcoran

Digital image processing techniques have wide applications in different scientific fields including the medicine. By use of image processing algorithms, physicians have been more successful in diagnosis of different diseases and have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Sara Mardanisamani , Zahra Karimi , Akram Jamshidzadeh , Mehran Yazdi , Melika Farshad , Amirmehdi Farshad

This paper proposes LONER, the first real-time LiDAR SLAM algorithm that uses a neural implicit scene representation. Existing implicit mapping methods for LiDAR show promising results in large-scale reconstruction, but either require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Seth Isaacson , Pou-Chun Kung , Mani Ramanagopal , Ram Vasudevan , Katherine A. Skinner

We propose a novel method to enhance the accuracy of the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm by integrating altitude constraints from a barometric pressure sensor. While ICP is widely used in mobile robotics for Simultaneous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 William Dubois , Nicolas Samson , Effie Daum , Johann Laconte , François Pomerleau

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are proving to be a powerful paradigm in unifying task modeling across diverse data domains, offering key advantages such as memory efficiency and resolution independence. Conventional deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Amirhossein Kazerouni , Soroush Mehraban , Michael Brudno , Babak Taati

We present an approach for mobile robots to recognize scenes in object arrangements distributed across cluttered environments. Recognition is enabled by intertwining the robot's search for objects and the assignment of found objects to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Pascal Meißner , Rüdiger Dillmann

In automated driving systems (ADS) and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), an efficient road segmentation is necessary to perceive the drivable region and build an occupancy map for path planning. The existing algorithms implement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Yecheng Lyu , Lin Bai , Xinming Huang

Robotic applications require a comprehensive understanding of the scene. In recent years, neural fields-based approaches that parameterize the entire environment have become popular. These approaches are promising due to their continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Evgenii Kruzhkov , Alena Savinykh , Sven Behnke

We introduce a novel generative smoothness regularization on manifolds (SToRM) model for the recovery of dynamic image data from highly undersampled measurements. The proposed generative framework represents the image time series as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-01 Qing Zou , Abdul Haseeb Ahmed , Prashant Nagpal , Stanley Kruger , Mathews Jacob

Reconstructing coherent 3D geometry and appearance from unposed multi-view images is a fundamental yet challenging problem in computer vision. Most existing visual geometry foundation models predict explicit geometry by regressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yuqi Wu , Tianyu Hu , Wenzhao Zheng , Yuanhui Huang , Haowen Sun , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Remote sensing semantic segmentation aims to assign automatically each pixel on aerial images with specific label. In this letter, we proposed a new module, called improved-flow warp module (IFWM), to adjust semantic feature maps across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yinjie Zhang , Yi Liu , Wei Guo

The objective of this paper is to learn dense 3D shape correspondence for topology-varying generic objects in an unsupervised manner. Conventional implicit functions estimate the occupancy of a 3D point given a shape latent code. Instead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Feng Liu , Xiaoming Liu

We develop a new optimisation technique that combines multiresolution subdivision surfaces for boundary description with immersed finite elements for the discretisation of the primal and adjoint problems of optimisation. Similar to wavelets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kosala Bandara , Thomas Rüberg , Fehmi Cirak

Density-equalizing map (DEM) serves as a powerful technique for creating shape deformations with the area changes reflecting an underlying density function. In recent decades, DEM has found widespread applications in fields such as data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yanwen Huang , Lok Ming Lui , Gary P. T. Choi

This letter describes an incremental multimodal surface mapping methodology, which represents the environment as a continuous probabilistic model. This model enables high-resolution reconstruction while simultaneously compressing spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Kshitij Goel , Wennie Tabib