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Reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) structures from two-dimensional (2D) X-ray images is a valuable and efficient technique in medical applications that requires less radiation exposure than computed tomography scans. Recent approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Chengrui Zhu , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Masataka Kagesawa , Tomohisa Yuzawa , Toru Watsuji , Takeshi Oishi

3D image reconstruction from a set of X-ray projections is an important image reconstruction problem, with applications in medical imaging, industrial inspection and airport security. The innovation of X-ray emitter arrays allows for a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Maria Klodt , Raphael Hauser

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical image registration is essential for remote sensing data fusion, with applications in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. However, challenges arise from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenfei Zhang , Ruipeng Zhao , Yongxiang Yao , Yi Wan , Peihao Wu , Jiayuan Li , Yansheng Li , Yongjun Zhang

The Large-scale 3D reconstruction, texturing and semantic mapping are nowadays widely used for automated driving vehicles, virtual reality and automatic data generation. However, most approaches are developed for RGB-D cameras with colored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Haohao Hu , Hexing Yang , Jian Wu , Xiao Lei , Frank Bieder , Jan-Hendrik Pauls , Christoph Stiller

This paper presents a non-parametric method for 3-D imaging of natural volumes using Synthetic Aperture Radar tomography. This array processing-based technique aims at characterizing a spatially distributed density of incoherent sources,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Colin Cros , Laurent Ferro-Famil

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging plays a critical role in all-weather, day-and-night remote sensing, yet reconstruction is often challenged by noise, undersampling, and complex scattering scenarios. Conventional methods, including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Hefei Gao , Tianyao Huang , Letian Guo , Jie He , Yonina C. Eldar

High-resolution LiDAR data plays a critical role in 3D semantic segmentation for autonomous driving, but the high cost of advanced sensors limits large-scale deployment. In contrast, low-cost sensors such as 16-channel LiDAR produce sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alexandros Gkillas , Nikos Piperigkos , Aris S. Lalos

Higher spatial resolution and larger imaging scene are always the goals pursued by advanced space-borne SAR system.High resolution and wide swath SAR imaging can provide more information about the illuminated scene of interest on one…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Xinhua Mao

Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) millimeter-wave (mmWave) sensors for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and inverse SAR (ISAR) address the fundamental challenges of cost-effectiveness and scalability inherent to near-field imaging. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Josiah W. Smith , Muhammet Emin Yanik , Murat Torlak

In this paper, we introduce an innovative super resolution approach to emerging modes of near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. Recent research extends convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures from the optical to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Christos Vasileiou , Josiah W. Smith , Shiva Thiagarajan , Matthew Nigh , Yiorgos Makris , Murat Torlak

Depth estimation is an essential component in understanding the 3D geometry of a scene, with numerous applications in urban and indoor settings. These scenes are characterized by a prevalence of human made structures, which in most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Mattia Rossi , Mireille El Gheche , Andreas Kuhn , Pascal Frossard

Layover separation has been fundamental to many synthetic aperture radar applications, such as building reconstruction and biomass estimation. Retrieving the scattering profile along the mixed dimension (elevation) is typically solved by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Reconstructing 3D shapes from planar cross-sections is a challenge inspired by downstream applications like medical imaging and geographic informatics. The input is an in/out indicator function fully defined on a sparse collection of planes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Haim Sawdayee , Amir Vaxman , Amit H. Bermano

Modeling 3D articulated objects with realistic geometry, textures, and kinematics is essential for a wide range of applications. However, existing optimization-based reconstruction methods often require dense multi-view inputs and expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sylvia Yuan , Ruoxi Shi , Xinyue Wei , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Hao Su , Minghua Liu

We present a technique for dense 3D reconstruction of objects using an imaging sonar, also known as forward-looking sonar (FLS). Compared to previous methods that model the scene geometry as point clouds or volumetric grids, we represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mohamad Qadri , Michael Kaess , Ioannis Gkioulekas

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides valuable information about the Earth's surface under all weather and illumination conditions. However, the inherent phenomenon of speckle and the presence of sidelobes around bright targets pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Antoine De Paepe , Pascal Nguyen , Michael Mabelle , Cédric Saleun , Antoine Jouadé , Jean-Christophe Louvigne

Image alignment and image restoration are classical computer vision tasks. However, there is still a lack of datasets that provide enough data to train and evaluate end-to-end deep learning models. Obtaining ground-truth data for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Monika Kwiatkowski , Simon Matern , Olaf Hellwich

Recent advances in optimizing Gaussian Splatting for scene geometry have enabled efficient reconstruction of detailed surfaces from images. However, when input views are sparse, such optimization is prone to overfitting, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Meiying Gu , Jiawei Zhang , Jiahe Li , Xiaohan Yu , Haonan Luo , Jin Zheng , Xiao Bai

Understanding the extent of urban flooding is crucial for assessing building damage, casualties and economic losses. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology offers significant advantages for mapping flooded urban areas due to its ability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Jie Zhao , Ming Li , Yu Li , Patrick Matgen , Marco Chini

Recent developments in 3D Gaussian Splatting have made significant advances in surface reconstruction. However, scaling these methods to large-scale scenes remains challenging due to high computational demands and the complex dynamic…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shihan Chen , Zhaojin Li , Zeyu Chen , Qingsong Yan , Gaoyang Shen , Ran Duan