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We present an efficient approach of Finite Element Method (FEM)-based nonrigid image registration, in which the spatial transformation is constructed using truncated hierarchical B-splines (THB-splines). The image registration framework…
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Light field (LF) representations aim to provide photo-realistic, free-viewpoint viewing experiences. However, the most popular LF representations are images from multiple views. Multi-view image-based representations generally need to…
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The boundary representation (B-Rep) models a 3D solid as its explicit boundaries: trimmed corners, edges, and faces. Recovering B-Rep representation from unstructured data is a challenging and valuable task of computer vision and graphics.…
We propose a method to efficiently compute tomographic projections of a 3D volume represented by a linear combination of shifted B-splines. To do so, we propose a ray-tracing algorithm that computes 3D line integrals with arbitrary…