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Place recognition is one of the most challenging problems in computer vision, and has become a key part in mobile robotics and autonomous driving applications for performing loop closure in visual SLAM systems. Moreover, the difficulty of…

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For domains that are easily represented by structured meshes, robust geometric multigrid solvers can quickly provide the numerical solution to many discretized elliptic PDEs. However, for complicated domains with unstructured meshes,…

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Learning structures of 3D shapes is a fundamental problem in the field of computer graphics and geometry processing. We present a simple yet interpretable unsupervised method for learning a new structural representation in the form of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Nenglun Chen , Lingjie Liu , Zhiming Cui , Runnan Chen , Duygu Ceylan , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

There is a growing interest in designing models that can deal with images from different visual domains. If there exists a universal structure in different visual domains that can be captured via a common parameterization, then we can use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Yunhui Guo , Yandong Li , Rogerio Feris , Liqiang Wang , Tajana Rosing

To what extent are two images picturing the same 3D surfaces? Even when this is a known scene, the answer typically requires an expensive search across scale space, with matching and geometric verification of large sets of local features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Anita Rau , Guillermo Garcia-Hernando , Danail Stoyanov , Gabriel J. Brostow , Daniyar Turmukhambetov

Despite variations in architecture and pretraining strategies, recent studies indicate that large-scale AI models often converge toward similar internal representations that also align with neural activity. We propose that scale-invariance,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-17 Junjie Yu , Wenxiao Ma , Jianyu Zhang , Haotian Deng , Zihan Deng , Yi Guo , Quanying Liu

Establishing a correspondence between two non-rigidly deforming shapes is one of the most fundamental problems in visual computing. Existing methods often show weak resilience when presented with challenges innate to real-world data such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ramana Sundararaman , Gautam Pai , Maks Ovsjanikov

Previous multi-view normal integration methods typically sample a single ray per pixel, without considering the spatial area covered by each pixel, which varies with camera intrinsics and the camera-to-object distance. Consequently, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tongyu Yang , Heng Guo , Yasuyuki Matsushita , Fumio Okura , Yu Luo , Xin Fan

Unsupervised image transfer enables intra- and inter-modality image translation in applications where a large amount of paired training data is not abundant. To ensure a structure-preserving mapping from the input to the target domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Christoph Angermann , Markus Haltmeier , Ahsan Raza Siyal

Infrared small target detection still faces two persistent challenges: training instability from non-monotonic scale loss functions, and inadequate spatial attention due to generic convolution kernels that ignore the physical imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hao Li , Man Fung Zhuo

In biomedical imaging reliable segmentation of objects (e.g. from small cells up to large organs) is of fundamental importance for automated medical diagnosis. New approaches for multi-scale segmentation can considerably improve performance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Leonie Zeune , Guus van Dalum , Leon W. M. M. Terstappen , S. A. van Gils , Christoph Brune

Statistical shape models (SSMs) are an established way to represent the anatomy of a population with various clinically relevant applications. However, they typically require domain expertise, and labor-intensive landmark annotations to…

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We introduce Joint Multidimensional Scaling, a novel approach for unsupervised manifold alignment, which maps datasets from two different domains, without any known correspondences between data instances across the datasets, to a common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-17 Dexiong Chen , Bowen Fan , Carlos Oliver , Karsten Borgwardt

In this work we present a novel approach for computing correspondences between non-rigid objects, by exploiting a reduced representation of deformation fields. Different from existing works that represent deformation fields by training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ramana Sundararaman , Riccardo Marin , Emanuele Rodola , Maks Ovsjanikov

Though unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) has achieved very impressive progress recently, it remains a great challenge due to missing target annotations and the rich discrepancy between source and target distributions. We propose Spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jingyi Zhang , Jiaxing Huang , Zichen Tian , Shijian Lu

We tackle the problem of object-centric learning on point clouds, which is crucial for high-level relational reasoning and scalable machine intelligence. In particular, we introduce a framework, SPAIR3D, to factorize a 3D point cloud into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tianyu Wang , Miaomiao Liu , Kee Siong Ng

Recently, cross domain transfer has been applied for unsupervised image restoration tasks. However, directly applying existing frameworks would lead to domain-shift problems in translated images due to lack of effective supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Hongyu Yang

Multivariate time series (MTS) forecasting has attracted much attention in many intelligent applications. It is not a trivial task, as we need to consider both intra-variable dependencies and inter-variable dependencies. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Donghui Chen , Ling Chen , Zongjiang Shang , Youdong Zhang , Bo Wen , Chenghu Yang

Unsupervised evaluation of segmentation quality is a crucial step in image segmentation applications. Previous unsupervised evaluation methods usually lacked the adaptability to multi-scale segmentation. A scale-constrained evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Yuhang Lu , Youchuan Wan , Gang Li

Neural net classifiers trained on data with annotated class labels can also capture apparent visual similarity among categories without being directed to do so. We study whether this observation can be extended beyond the conventional…

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