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Multi-view stereo (MVS) is the golden mean between the accuracy of active depth sensing and the practicality of monocular depth estimation. Cost volume based approaches employing 3D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have considerably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Ayan Sinha , Zak Murez , James Bartolozzi , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Andrew Rabinovich

Lidar is a vital sensor for estimating the depth of a scene. Typical spinning lidars emit pulses arranged in several horizontal lines and the monetary cost of the sensor increases with the number of these lines. In this work, we present the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Kamil Adamczewski , Christos Sakaridis , Vaishakh Patil , Luc Van Gool

We introduce a novel learning-based method to reconstruct the high-quality geometry and complex, spatially-varying BRDF of an arbitrary object from a sparse set of only six images captured by wide-baseline cameras under collocated point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Underwater infrastructure requires frequent inspection and maintenance due to harsh marine conditions. Current reliance on human divers or remotely operated vehicles is limited by perceptual and operational challenges, especially around…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hongjie Zhang , Gideon Billings , Stefan B. Williams

Sparse-LiDAR-prompted depth foundation models (PromptDA, Prior Depth Anything, DMD3C) have shown strong results on indoor scenes or within KITTI's standard 80-meter evaluation cap. However, two limitations remain: (i) systematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kai Zheng , Qiang Feng , Xingjian Liu , Wenquan Tan , Yuan Li

In this work, we propose a novel learning-based method to jointly estimate the shape and subsurface scattering (SSS) parameters of translucent objects by utilizing polarization cues. Although polarization cues have been used in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Chenhao Li , Trung Thanh Ngo , Hajime Nagahara

In this letter, we propose a sparsity promoting feedback acquisition and reconstruction scheme for sensing, encoding and subsequent reconstruction of spectrally sparse signals. In the proposed scheme, the spectral components are estimated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Saeed Gazor , Nazanin Rahnavard , Farokh Marvasti

Signal models formed as linear combinations of few atoms from an over-complete dictionary or few frame vectors from a redundant frame have become central to many applications in high dimensional signal processing and data analysis. A core…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Xuemei Chen , Christian Kümmerle , Rongrong Wang

Recently, significant progress has been made in sequential recommendation with deep learning. Existing neural sequential recommendation models usually rely on the item prediction loss to learn model parameters or data representations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Kun Zhou , Hui Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yutao Zhu , Sirui Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

We present a fast and accurate method for dense depth reconstruction from sparsely sampled light fields obtained using a synchronized camera array. In our method, the source images are over-segmented into non-overlapping compact superpixels…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-18 Aleksandra Chuchvara , Attila Barsi , Atanas Gotchev

In autonomous driving perception systems, 3D detection and tracking are the two fundamental tasks. This paper delves deeper into this field, building upon the Sparse4D framework. We introduce two auxiliary training tasks (Temporal Instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Xuewu Lin , Zixiang Pei , Tianwei Lin , Lichao Huang , Zhizhong Su

In the past few years, deep learning (DL) techniques have been introduced for designing sparse arrays. These methods offer the advantages of feature engineering and low prediction-stage complexity, which is helpful in tackling the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Kumar Vijay Mishra , Ahmet M. Elbir , Koichi Ichige

Guided sparse depth upsampling aims to upsample an irregularly sampled sparse depth map when an aligned high-resolution color image is given as guidance. Many neural networks have been designed for this task. However, they often ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Yi Guo , Ji Liu

The rise of portable Lidar instruments, including their adoption in smartphones, opens the door to novel computational imaging techniques. Being an active sensing instrument, Lidar can provide complementary data to passive optical sensors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Ziyao Yi , Diego Valsesia , Tiziano Bianchi , Enrico Magli

This paper considers sequential adaptive estimation of sparse signals under a constraint on the total sensing effort. The advantage of adaptivity in this context is the ability to focus more resources on regions of space where signal…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-04-03 Dennis Wei , Alfred O. Hero

Conventional compressed sensing theory assumes signals have sparse representations in a known, finite dictionary. Nevertheless, in many practical applications such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation and line spectral estimation, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Jing Li , Hongbin Li , Rick S. Blum

Deep learning has attained remarkable success in many 3D visual recognition tasks, including shape classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. However, many of these results rely on manually collecting densely annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Fernando Julio Cendra , Lan Ma , Jiajun Shen , Xiaojuan Qi

This paper as technology report is focusing on evaluation and performance about depth estimations based on lidar data and stereo images(front left and front right). The lidar 3d cloud data and stereo images are provided by ford. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Fei Wu , Luoyu Chen

Sparse annotation in remote sensing object detection poses significant challenges due to dense object distributions and category imbalances. Although existing Dense Pseudo-Label methods have demonstrated substantial potential in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wei Liao , Chunyan Xu , Chenxu Wang , Zhen Cui

We present an imaging framework which converts three images from a gated camera into high-resolution depth maps with depth accuracy comparable to pulsed lidar measurements. Existing scanning lidar systems achieve low spatial resolution at…

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