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In this paper, we proposed a new deep learning based dense monocular SLAM method. Compared to existing methods, the proposed framework constructs a dense 3D model via a sparse to dense mapping using learned surface normals. With single view…

In practical applications of human pose estimation, low-resolution inputs frequently occur, and existing state-of-the-art models perform poorly with low-resolution images. This work focuses on boosting the performance of low-resolution…

Deep learning is overwhelmingly dominant in the field of computer vision and image/video processing for the last decade. However, for image and video compression, it lags behind the traditional techniques based on discrete cosine transform…

We consider the problem of simultaneously estimating a dense depth map and camera pose for a large set of images of an indoor scene. While classical SfM pipelines rely on a two-step approach where cameras are first estimated using a bundle…

The state-of-the-art dimensionality reduction approaches largely rely on complicated optimization procedures. On the other hand, closed-form approaches requiring merely eigen-decomposition do not have enough sophistication and nonlinearity.…

The accurate estimation of six degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) object poses is essential for many applications in robotics and augmented reality. However, existing methods for 6DoF pose estimation often depend on CAD templates or dense support…

Odometry estimation is crucial for every autonomous system requiring navigation in an unknown environment. In modern mobile robots, 3D LiDAR-inertial systems are often used for this task. By fusing LiDAR scans and IMU measurements, these…

Existing methods for instance-level 6D pose estimation typically rely on neural networks that either directly regress the pose in $\mathrm{SE}(3)$ or estimate it indirectly via local feature matching. The former struggle with object…

Pose estimation of 3D objects in monocular images is a fundamental and long-standing problem in computer vision. Existing deep learning approaches for 6D pose estimation typically rely on the assumption of availability of 3D object models…

Pose estimation-guided unseen object 6-DoF robotic manipulation is a key task in robotics. However, the scalability of current pose estimation methods to unseen objects remains a fundamental challenge, as they generally rely on CAD models…

This work aims to estimate 6Dof (6D) object pose in background clutter. Considering the strong occlusion and background noise, we propose to utilize the spatial structure for better tackling this challenging task. Observing that the 3D mesh…

We propose a keypoint-based object-level SLAM framework that can provide globally consistent 6DoF pose estimates for symmetric and asymmetric objects alike. To the best of our knowledge, our system is among the first to utilize the camera…

In this paper, we propose a novel 3D graph convolution based pipeline for category-level 6D pose and size estimation from monocular RGB-D images. The proposed method leverages an efficient 3D data augmentation and a novel vector-based…

The design of the optimal inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) to compensate the quantization error is proposed for effective lossy image compression in this work. The forward and inverse DCTs are designed in pair in current image/video…

A densely-sampled light field (LF) is highly desirable in various applications, such as 3-D reconstruction, post-capture refocusing and virtual reality. However, it is costly to acquire such data. Although many computational methods have…

Global visual localization estimates the absolute pose of a camera using a single image, in a previously mapped area. Obtaining the pose from a single image enables many robotics and augmented/virtual reality applications. Inspired by…

6 DoF poses estimation problem aims to estimate the rotation and translation parameters between two coordinates, such as object world coordinate and camera world coordinate. Although some advances are made with the help of deep learning,…

Object pose estimation is a fundamental problem in robotics and computer vision, yet it remains challenging due to partial observability, occlusions, and object symmetries, which inevitably lead to pose ambiguity and multiple hypotheses…

Learning based 6D object pose estimation methods rely on computing large intermediate pose representations and/or iteratively refining an initial estimation with a slow render-compare pipeline. This paper introduces a novel method we call…

This paper presents a robust 6-DoF localization framework based on a direct, CPU-based scan-to-map registration pipeline. The system leverages G-EDF, a novel continuous and memory-efficient 3D distance field representation. The approach…