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Depth maps are widely used in feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) pipelines by unprojecting them into 3D point clouds for novel view synthesis. This approach offers advantages such as efficient training, the use of known camera poses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Duochao Shi , Weijie Wang , Donny Y. Chen , Zeyu Zhang , Jia-Wang Bian , Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen

According to the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme, every day, 2 million tons of sewage and industrial and agricultural waste are discharged into the worlds water. In order to address this pervasive issue of increasing water…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Ankit Gupta , Elliott Ruebush

We propose a real-time dynamic LiDAR odometry pipeline for mobile robots in Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) scenarios. Existing approaches to dynamic object detection often rely on pretrained learned networks or computationally expensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jonathan Lichtenfeld , Kevin Daun , Oskar von Stryk

Small-scale liquid flows on solid surfaces provide convincing details in liquid animation, but they are difficult to be simulated with efficiency and fidelity, mostly due to the complex nature of the surface tension at the contact front…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Rajaditya Mukherjee , Qingyang Li , Zhili Chen , Shicheng Chu , Huamin Wang

We investigate the propagation of high-speed solar wind streams from their origin near the Sun to 1 AU using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. By tracking both global stream structure and individual plasma parcels, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Stefan J. Hofmeister

Many applications in robotics and human-computer interaction can benefit from understanding 3D motion of points in a dynamic environment, widely noted as scene flow. While most previous methods focus on stereo and RGB-D images as input, few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xingyu Liu , Charles R. Qi , Leonidas J. Guibas

Successful flood recovery and evacuation require access to reliable flood depth information. Most existing flood mapping tools do not provide real-time flood maps of inundated streets in and around residential areas. In this paper, a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Bahareh Alizadeh , Amir H. Behzadan

Since rainy weather always degrades image quality and poses significant challenges to most computer vision-based intelligent systems, image de-raining has been a hot research topic. Fortunately, in a rainy light field (LF) image, background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Tao Yan , Weijiang He , Chenglong Wang , Cihang Wei , Xiangjie Zhu , Yinghui Wang , Rynson W. H. Lau

Several passive microwave satellites orbit the Earth and measure rainfall. These measurements have the advantage of almost full global coverage when compared to surface rain gauges. However, these satellites have low temporal revisit and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Seyed Hamed Alemohammad , Dara Entekhabi

Earth observation is a fundamental tool for monitoring the evolution of land use in specific areas of interest. Observing and precisely defining change, in this context, requires both time-series data and pixel-wise segmentations. To that…

We present two novel generative geometric deep learning frameworks, termed Flow Matching PointNet and Diffusion PointNet, for predicting fluid flow variables on irregular geometries by incorporating PointNet into flow matching and diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Kashefi

Anthropogenic pollution of hydrological systems affects diverse communities and ecosystems around the world. Data analytics and modeling tools play a key role in fighting this challenge, as they can help identify key sources as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 David L. Cole , Gerardo J. Ruiz-Mercado , Victor M. Zavala

Few researches have been proposed specifically for real-time semantic segmentation in rainy environments. However, the demand in this area is huge and it is challenging for lightweight networks. Therefore, this paper proposes a lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Fanyi Wang , Yihui Zhang

Lidars are depth measuring sensors widely used in autonomous driving and augmented reality. However, the large volume of data produced by lidars can lead to high costs in data storage and transmission. While lidar data can be represented as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Xuanyu Zhou , Charles R. Qi , Yin Zhou , Dragomir Anguelov

This paper tackles the unsupervised depth estimation task in indoor environments. The task is extremely challenging because of the vast areas of non-texture regions in these scenes. These areas could overwhelm the optimization process in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Zehao Yu , Lei Jin , Shenghua Gao

A data model to store and retrieve surface watershed boundaries using graph theoretic approaches is proposed. This data model integrates output from a standard digital elevation models (DEM) derived stream catchment boundaries, and vector…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Scott Haag , Ali Shokoufandeh

Constructing HD semantic maps is a central component of autonomous driving. However, traditional pipelines require a vast amount of human efforts and resources in annotating and maintaining the semantics in the map, which limits its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Qi Li , Yue Wang , Yilun Wang , Hang Zhao

Accurate and timely water level monitoring is critical for flood prevention, environmental management, and emerging smart infrastructure systems. Traditional water sensing methods often rely on dedicated sensors, which can be costly to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Khawaja Fahad Masood , Kai Wu , Zhongqin Wang , J. Andrew Zhang , Shu-Lin Chen , Y. Jay Guo

We introduce IrrMap, the first large-scale dataset (1.1 million patches) for irrigation method mapping across regions. IrrMap consists of multi-resolution satellite imagery from LandSat and Sentinel, along with key auxiliary data such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Nibir Chandra Mandal , Oishee Bintey Hoque , Abhijin Adiga , Samarth Swarup , Mandy Wilson , Lu Feng , Yangfeng Ji , Miaomiao Zhang , Geoffrey Fox , Madhav Marathe

LiDAR point cloud maps are extensively utilized on roads for robot navigation due to their high consistency. However, dense point clouds face challenges of high memory consumption and reduced maintainability for long-term operations. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zehuan Yu , Zhijian Qiao , Wenyi Liu , Huan Yin , Shaojie Shen