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We propose a scene-level inverse rendering framework that uses multi-view images to decompose the scene into geometry, a SVBRDF, and 3D spatially-varying lighting. Because multi-view images provide a variety of information about the scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 JunYong Choi , SeokYeong Lee , Haesol Park , Seung-Won Jung , Ig-Jae Kim , Junghyun Cho

Retrieving the missing dimension information in acoustic images from 2D forward-looking sonar is a well-known problem in the field of underwater robotics. There are works attempting to retrieve 3D information from a single image which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yusheng Wang , Yonghoon Ji , Hiroshi Tsuchiya , Hajime Asama , Atsushi Yamashita

Human movement is goal-directed and influenced by the spatial layout of the objects in the scene. To plan future human motion, it is crucial to perceive the environment -- imagine how hard it is to navigate a new room with lights off.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Zhe Cao , Hang Gao , Karttikeya Mangalam , Qi-Zhi Cai , Minh Vo , Jitendra Malik

Humans can covertly track the position of an object, even if the object is temporarily occluded. What are the neural mechanisms underlying our capacity to track moving objects when there is no physical stimulus for the brain to track? One…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-13 Amanda K. Robinson , Tijl Grootswagers , Sophia M. Shatek , Jack Gerboni , Alex Holcombe , Thomas A. Carlson

A method for particle orientation tracking is developed and demonstrated specifically for anisotropic particles. Using (high-speed) multi-camera recordings of anisotropic particles from different viewpoints, we reconstruct the 3D location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mees M. Flapper , Elian Bernard , Sander G. Huisman

Given a sound field generated by a sparse distribution of impulse image sources, can the continuous 3D positions and amplitudes of these sources be recovered from discrete, bandlimited measurements of the field at a finite set of locations,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Tom Sprunck , Yannick Privat , Cédric Foy , Antoine Deleforge

We introduce a solution for a specific case of Indoor Localization which involves a directed signal, a reflected signal from the wall and the time difference between them. This solution includes robust localization with a given wall,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sneha Mohanty , Milan Müller , Christian Schindelhauer

Medical imaging is an invaluable resource in medicine as it enables to peer inside the human body and provides scientists and physicians with a wealth of information indispensable for understanding, modelling, diagnosis, and treatment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Hanene Ben Yedder , Ben Cardoen , Ghassan Hamarneh

A microphone array can provide a mobile robot with the capability of localizing, tracking and separating distant sound sources in 2D, i.e., estimating their relative elevation and azimuth. To combine acoustic data with visual information in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Simon Michaud , Samuel Faucher , François Grondin , Jean-Samuel Lauzon , Mathieu Labbé , Dominic Létourneau , François Ferland , François Michaud

5G mmWave technology can turn multipath into a friend, as multipath components become highly resolvable in the time and angle domains. Multipath signals have not only been used in the literature to position the user equipment (UE) but also…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Qamar Bader , Sharief Saleh , Mohamed Elhabiby , Aboelmagd Noureldin

To endow machines with the ability to perceive the real-world in a three dimensional representation as we do as humans is a fundamental and long-standing topic in Artificial Intelligence. Given different types of visual inputs such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bo Yang

Our brain has an inner global positioning system which enables us to sense and navigate 3D spaces in real time. Can mobile robots replicate such a biological feat in a dynamic environment? We introduce the first spatial reasoning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Pengdi Huang , Mingyang Wang , Huan Tian , Minglun Gong , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

Robots equipped with situational awareness can help humans efficiently find their lost objects by leveraging spatial and temporal structure. Existing approaches to video and image retrieval do not take into account the unique constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Ifrah Idrees , Zahid Hasan , Steven P. Reiss , Stefanie Tellex

Accurate perception of objects in the environment is important for improving the scene understanding capability of SLAM systems. In robotic and augmented reality applications, object maps with semantic and metric information show attractive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Xiao Han , Houxuan Liu , Yunchao Ding , Lu Yang

Efficient representations of multivariate functions are critical for the design of state-of-the-art methods of data restoration and image reconstruction. In this work, we consider the representation of spatio-temporal data such as temporal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Tatiana A. Bubba , Glenn Easley , Tommi Heikkilä , Demetrio Labate , Jose P. Rodriguez Ayllon

Echo protocols provide a means to investigate the arrow of time in macroscopic processes. Starting from a nonequilibrium state, the many-body quantum system under study is evolved for a certain period of time $\tau$. Thereafter, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-11 Lennart Dabelow , Peter Reimann

In this paper, we address the problem of how automated situation-awareness can be achieved by learning real-world situations from ubiquitously generated mobility data. Without semantic input about the time and space where situations take…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Mitra Baratchi , Geert Heijenk , Maarten van Steen

A ray-tracing (RT) enhanced back-projection algorithm (RT-BPA) for microwave imaging in multipath environments is presented. By tightly incorporating the concept of ray-tracing into a generalized version of traditional BPA, this method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Han Na , Quanfeng Wang , Matthias Saurer , Meisong Tong , Thomas F. Eibert

Localization and Mapping is an essential component to enable Autonomous Vehicles navigation, and requires an accuracy exceeding that of commercial GPS-based systems. Current odometry and mapping algorithms are able to provide this accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Victor Vaquero , Kai Fischer , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Alberto Sanfeliu , Stefan Milz

In optical diffraction tomography (ODT), a sample's 3D refractive-index (RI) is often reconstructed after illuminating it from multiple angles, with the assumption that the sample remains static throughout data collection. When the sample…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-13 Jeongsoo Kim , Shwetadwip Chowdhury