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Videos typically record the streaming and continuous visual data as discrete consecutive frames. Since the storage cost is expensive for videos of high fidelity, most of them are stored in a relatively low resolution and frame rate. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Zeyuan Chen , Yinbo Chen , Jingwen Liu , Xingqian Xu , Vidit Goel , Zhangyang Wang , Humphrey Shi , Xiaolong Wang

Efficiently reconstructing complex and intricate surfaces at scale is a long-standing goal in machine perception. To address this problem we introduce Deep Local Shapes (DeepLS), a deep shape representation that enables encoding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Rohan Chabra , Jan Eric Lenssen , Eddy Ilg , Tanner Schmidt , Julian Straub , Steven Lovegrove , Richard Newcombe

Recently Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) gained attention as a novel and effective representation for various data types. Thus far, prior work mostly focused on optimizing their reconstruction performance. This work investigates INRs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-05 Yannick Strümpler , Janis Postels , Ren Yang , Luc van Gool , Federico Tombari

Robust local feature representations are essential for spatial intelligence tasks such as robot navigation and augmented reality. Establishing reliable correspondences requires descriptors that provide both high discriminative power and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Haodi Yao , Fenghua He , Ning Hao , Yao Su

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) provide a powerful continuous framework for modeling complex visual and geometric signals, but spectral bias remains a fundamental challenge, limiting their ability to capture high-frequency details.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yesom Park , Kelvin Kan , Thomas Flynn , Yi Huang , Shinjae Yoo , Stanley Osher , Xihaier Luo

Vision encoders are increasingly used in modern applications, from vision-only models to multimodal systems such as vision-language models. Despite their remarkable success, it remains unclear how these architectures represent features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Eduard Allakhverdov , Dmitrii Tarasov , Elizaveta Goncharova , Andrey Kuznetsov

We present a generative model of images that explicitly reasons over the set of objects they show. Our model learns a structured latent representation that separates objects from each other and from the background; unlike prior works, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Titas Anciukevicius , Christoph H. Lampert , Paul Henderson

In recent years, neural implicit representations have made remarkable progress in modeling of 3D shapes with arbitrary topology. In this work, we address two key limitations of such representations, in failing to capture local 3D geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yunlu Chen , Basura Fernando , Hakan Bilen , Matthias Nießner , Efstratios Gavves

Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Intrinsic imaging or intrinsic image decomposition has traditionally been described as the problem of decomposing an image into two layers: a reflectance, the albedo invariant color of the material; and a shading, produced by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Elena Garces , Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo , Dan Casas , Jorge Lopez-Moreno

Modeling scene geometry using implicit neural representation has revealed its advantages in accuracy, flexibility, and low memory usage. Previous approaches have demonstrated impressive results using color or depth images but still have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Dongyu Yan , Xiaoyang Lyu , Jieqi Shi , Yi Lin

Iterative refinement -- start with a random guess, then iteratively improve the guess -- is a useful paradigm for representation learning because it offers a way to break symmetries among equally plausible explanations for the data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Michael Chang , Thomas L. Griffiths , Sergey Levine

LiDAR based place recognition is popular for loop closure detection and re-localization. In recent years, deep learning brings improvements to place recognition by learnable feature extraction. However, these methods degenerate when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Sha Lu , Xuecheng Xu , Li Tang , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

We present a comprehensive overview of the Deep Image Prior (DIP) framework and its applications to image reconstruction in computed tomography. Unlike conventional deep learning methods that rely on large, supervised datasets, the DIP…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Simon Arridge , Riccardo Barbano , Alexander Denker , Zeljko Kereta

Discrete and continuous representations of content (e.g., of language or images) have interesting properties to be explored for the understanding of or reasoning with this content by machines. This position paper puts forward our opinion on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Ruben Cartuyvels , Graham Spinks , Marie-Francine Moens

This paper addresses the problem of single view 3D human reconstruction. Recent implicit function based methods have shown impressive results, but they fail to recover fine face details in their reconstructions. This largely degrades user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yukang Cao , Guanying Chen , Kai Han , Wenqi Yang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Recently, continuous representation methods emerge as novel paradigms that characterize the intrinsic structures of real-world data through function representations that map positional coordinates to their corresponding values in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yisi Luo , Xile Zhao , Deyu Meng

Understanding how deep neural networks learn useful internal representations from data remains a central open problem in the theory of deep learning. We introduce Neural Low-Degree Filtering (Neural LoFi), a stylized limit of gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yatin Dandi , Matteo Vilucchio , Luca Arnaboldi , Hugo Tabanelli , Florent Krzakala

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

Neural implicit functions have demonstrated significant importance in various areas such as computer vision, graphics. Their advantages include the ability to represent complex shapes and scenes with high fidelity, smooth interpolation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qi Ma , Danda Pani Paudel , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool