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The visual inspection of aerial drone footage is an integral part of land search and rescue (SAR) operations today. Since this inspection is a slow, tedious and error-prone job for humans, we propose a novel deep learning algorithm to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Pasi Pyrrö , Hassan Naseri , Alexander Jung

Detecting changes on the Earth, such as urban development, deforestation, or natural disaster, is one of the research fields that is attracting a great deal of attention. One promising tool to solve these problems is satellite imagery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Waku Hatakeyama , Shirou Kawakita , Ryohei Izawa , Masanari Kimura

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are widely used for modeling continuous 2D images, enabling high-fidelity reconstruction, super-resolution, and compression. Architectures such as SIREN, WIRE, and FINER demonstrate their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Weronika Jakubowska , Mikołaj Zieliński , Rafał Tobiasz , Krzysztof Byrski , Maciej Zięba , Dominik Belter , Przemysław Spurek

We present FastAvatar, a fast and robust algorithm for single-image 3D face reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Given a single input image from an arbitrary pose, FastAvatar recovers a high-quality, full-head 3DGS avatar in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hao Liang , Zhixuan Ge , Soumendu Majee , Ashish Tiwari , G. M. Dilshan Godaliyadda , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Deep learning technologies have significantly improved performance in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image target recognition compared to traditional methods. However, the inherent ``black box" property of deep learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhuoxuan Li , Xu Zhang , Shumeng Yu , Haipeng Wang

This paper tackles the challenge of real-time 3D trajectory prediction for UAVs, which is critical for applications such as aerial surveillance and defense. Existing prediction models that rely primarily on position data struggle with…

We present an algorithm, Fourier Activity Recognition (FAR), for UAV video activity recognition. Our formulation uses a novel Fourier object disentanglement method to innately separate out the human agent (which is typically small) from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Divya Kothandaraman , Tianrui Guan , Xijun Wang , Sean Hu , Ming Lin , Dinesh Manocha

This paper presents a generative adversarial network (GAN) based approach for radar image enhancement. Although radar sensors remain robust for operations under adverse weather conditions, their application in autonomous vehicles (AVs) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Thakshila Thilakanayake , Oscar De Silva , Thumeera R. Wanasinghe , George K. Mann , Awantha Jayasiri

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled real-time, photorealistic scene reconstruction. However, conventional 3DGS frameworks typically rely on sparse point clouds derived from Structure-from-Motion (SfM), which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yan Fang , Jianfei Ge , Jiangjian Xiao

Monocular visual SLAM has become an attractive practical approach for robot localization and 3D environment mapping, since cameras are small, lightweight, inexpensive, and produce high-rate, high-resolution data streams. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hasnain Vohra , Maxim Bazik , Matthew Antone , Joseph Mundy , William Stephenson

The joint interpretation of very high resolution SAR and optical images in dense urban area are not trivial due to the distinct imaging geometry of the two types of images. Especially, the inevitable layover caused by the side-looking SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-24 Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) is of considerable importance in marine navigation and disaster monitoring. However, the coherent speckle noise inherent in SAR imagery often obscures salient target features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yansong Lin , Zihan Cheng , Jielei Wang , Guoming Lua , Zongyong Cui

With the rapid development of ultra-high resolution (UHR) remote sensing technology, the demand for accurate and efficient semantic segmentation has increased significantly. However, existing methods face challenges in computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Chen Yi , Shan LianLei

We introduce GRay, a massively parallel integrator designed to trace the trajectories of billions of photons in a curved spacetime. This GPU-based integrator employs the stream processing paradigm, is implemented in CUDA C/C++, and runs on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Chi-kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

In this paper, we propose an effective and efficient method for Human-Gaze-Target (HGT) detection, i.e., gaze following. Current approaches decouple the HGT detection task into separate branches of salient object detection and human gaze…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Danyang Tu , Xiongkuo Min , Huiyu Duan , Guodong Guo , Guangtao Zhai , Wei Shen

The field of remote sensing is nowadays faced with huge amounts of data. While this offers a variety of exciting research opportunities, it also yields significant challenges regarding both computation time and space requirements. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Malte von Mehren , Fabian Gieseke , Jan Verbesselt , Sabina Rosca , Stéphanie Horion , Achim Zeileis

The acquisition of large-scale physical interaction data, a critical prerequisite for modern robot learning, is severely bottlenecked by the prohibitive cost and scalability limits of human-in-the-loop collection paradigms. To break this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yongzhong Wang , Keyu Zhu , Yong Zhong , Liqiong Wang , Jinyu Yang , Feng Zheng

As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) become popular, libraries like PyTorch-Geometric (PyG) and Deep Graph Library (DGL) are proposed; these libraries have emerged as the de facto standard for implementing GNNs because they provide…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yi-Chien Lin , Yuyang Chen , Sameh Gobriel , Nilesh Jain , Gopi Krishna Jha , Viktor Prasanna

A retinal trait, or phenotype, summarises a specific aspect of a retinal image in a single number. This can then be used for further analyses, e.g. with statistical methods. However, reducing an aspect of a complex image to a single,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-14 Justin Engelmann , Ana Villaplana-Velasco , Amos Storkey , Miguel O. Bernabeu

AXTAR is an X-ray observatory mission concept, currently under study in the U.S., that combines very large collecting area, broadband spectral coverage, high time resolution, highly flexible scheduling, and an ability to respond promptly to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Deepto Chakrabarty , Paul S. Ray , Tod E. Strohmayer