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We introduce Equivariant Neural Field Expectation Maximization (EFEM), a simple, effective, and robust geometric algorithm that can segment objects in 3D scenes without annotations or training on scenes. We achieve such unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jiahui Lei , Congyue Deng , Karl Schmeckpeper , Leonidas Guibas , Kostas Daniilidis

The Expectation--Maximization (EM) algorithm is a simple meta-algorithm that has been used for many years as a methodology for statistical inference when there are missing measurements in the observed data or when the data is composed of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-15 Hideitsu Hino , Shotaro Akaho , Noboru Murata

We introduce the first learning-based dense matching algorithm, termed Equirectangular Projection-Oriented Dense Kernelized Feature Matching (EDM), specifically designed for omnidirectional images. Equirectangular projection (ERP) images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Dongki Jung , Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Somi Jeong , Taejae Lee , Dinesh Manocha , Suyong Yeon

Matching-based methods, especially those based on space-time memory, are significantly ahead of other solutions in semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). However, continuously growing and redundant template features lead to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Zhihui Lin , Tianyu Yang , Maomao Li , Ziyu Wang , Chun Yuan , Wenhao Jiang , Wei Liu

Recent feature matching methods have achieved remarkable performance but lack efficiency consideration. In this paper, we revisit the mainstream detector-free matching pipeline and improve all its stages considering both accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Xi Li , Tong Rao , Cihui Pan

This paper presents an entirely unsupervised interest point training framework by jointly learning detector and descriptor, which takes an image as input and outputs a probability and a description for every image point. The objective of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Pei Yan , Yihua Tan , Yuan Xiao , Yuan Tai , Cai Wen

We address a core problem of computer vision: Detection and description of 2D feature points for image matching. For a long time, hand-crafted designs, like the seminal SIFT algorithm, were unsurpassed in accuracy and efficiency. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Aritra Bhowmik , Stefan Gumhold , Carsten Rother , Eric Brachmann

Image-based 3D reconstruction is one of the most important tasks in Computer Vision with many solutions proposed over the last few decades. The objective is to extract metric information i.e. the geometry of scene objects directly from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Qiao Chen , Charalambos Poullis

The Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm is a key reference for inference in latent variable models; unfortunately, its computational cost is prohibitive in the large scale learning setting. In this paper, we propose an extension of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-26 Gersende Fort , Eric Moulines , Hoi-To Wai

In this report, we applied expectation and maximization (EM) method described by Philips et al [1] to recover two-dimensional (2D) structure from multiple sparse signal images in random orientation. The detailed derivation of EM algorithm…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-01-12 Yun Zhao

In this paper, we presented an efficient algorithm to implement the regularization reconstruction of SPECT. Image reconstruction with priori assumptions is usually modeled as a constrained optimization problem. However, there is no…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Shousheng Luo , Tie Zhou

The Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm is the default algorithm for inference in latent variable models. As in any other field of machine learning, applications of latent variable models to very large datasets make the use of advanced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Aymeric Dieuleveut , Gersende Fort , Eric Moulines , Geneviève Robin

Expectation maximization (EM) is a technique for estimating maximum-likelihood parameters of a latent variable model given observed data by alternating between taking expectations of sufficient statistics, and maximizing the expected log…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-10 Donna Henderson , Gerton Lunter

Diffusion models excel in solving imaging inverse problems due to their ability to model complex image priors. However, their reliance on large, clean datasets for training limits their practical use where clean data is scarce. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Weimin Bai , Yifei Wang , Wenzheng Chen , He Sun

Feature matching is a fundamental problem in computer vision with wide-ranging applications, including simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), image stitching, and 3D reconstruction. While recent advances in deep learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ronald Nap , Andy Xiao

3D reconstruction is a fundamental issue in many applications and the feature point matching problem is a key step while reconstructing target objects. Conventional algorithms can only find a small number of feature points from two images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Zhihao Fang , He Ma , Xuemin Zhu , Xutao Guo , Ruixin Zhou

Semantic edge detection (SED), which aims at jointly extracting edges as well as their category information, has far-reaching applications in domains such as semantic segmentation, object proposal generation, and object recognition. SED…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Yun Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Deng-Ping Fan , Le Zhang , JiaWang Bian , Dacheng Tao

In computer vision, estimating the six-degree-of-freedom pose from an RGB image is a fundamental task. However, this task becomes highly challenging in multi-object scenes. Currently, the best methods typically employ an indirect strategy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Xin Liu , Hao Wang , Shibei Xue , Dezong Zhao

In this work, we investigate several methods and strategies to learn deep embeddings for face recognition, using joint sample- and set-based optimization. We explain our framework that expands traditional learning with set-based supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Baris Gecer , Vassileios Balntas , Tae-Kyun Kim

In this paper we study the expectation maximization (EM) technique for one-bit MIMO-OFDM detection (OMOD). Arising from the recent interest in massive MIMO with one-bit analog-to-digital converters, OMOD is a massive-scale problem. EM is an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Mingjie Shao , Wing-Kin Ma , Junbin Liu , Zihao Huang
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