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In this work, we focus on boosting the feature extraction to improve the performance of Structure-from-Motion (SfM) in endoscopy videos. We present SuperPoint-E, a new local feature extraction method that, using our proposed Tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 O. Leon Barbed , José M. M. Montiel , Pascal Fua , Ana C. Murillo

Expectation Maximization (EM) is among the most popular algorithms for estimating parameters of statistical models. However, EM, which is an iterative algorithm based on the maximum likelihood principle, is generally only guaranteed to find…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Ji Xu , Daniel Hsu , Arian Maleki

Deep metric learning maps visually similar images onto nearby locations and visually dissimilar images apart from each other in an embedding manifold. The learning process is mainly based on the supplied image negative and positive training…

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We present three multi-scale similarity learning architectures, or DeepSim networks. These models learn pixel-level matching with a contrastive loss and are agnostic to the geometry of the considered scene. We establish a middle ground…

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The Structure from Motion (SfM) challenge in computer vision is the process of recovering the 3D structure of a scene from a series of projective measurements that are calculated from a collection of 2D images, taken from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Joseph Rowell

Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention in medical image segmentation due to challenges in acquiring pixel-wise image annotations, which is a crucial step for building high-performance deep learning methods. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Shuailin Li , Chuyu Zhang , Xuming He

Modern deep neural networks achieved remarkable progress in medical image segmentation tasks. However, it has recently been observed that they tend to produce overconfident estimates, even in situations of high uncertainty, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Agostina Larrazabal , Cesar Martinez , Jose Dolz , Enzo Ferrante

Expectation Propagation (EP)-based Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) detector is regarded as a state-of-the-art MIMO detector because of its exceptional performance. However, we find that the EP MIMO detector cannot guarantee to achieve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Hang Chen , Guoqiang Yao , Jianhao Hu

The Expectation Maximisation (EM) algorithm is widely used to optimise non-convex likelihood functions with latent variables. Many authors modified its simple design to fit more specific situations. For instance, the Expectation (E) step…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Thomas Lartigue , Stanley Durrleman , Stéphanie Allassonnière

Structure-from-motion (SfM) is a long-standing problem in the computer vision community, which aims to reconstruct the camera poses and 3D structure of a scene from a set of unconstrained 2D images. Classical frameworks solve this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Jianyuan Wang , Nikita Karaev , Christian Rupprecht , David Novotny

In this paper, we explore a novel method for tomographic image reconstruction in the field of SPECT imaging. Deep Learning methodologies and more specifically deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) are employed in the new reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Charalambos Chrysostomou , Loizos Koutsantonis , Christos Lemesios , Costas N. Papanicolas

Text-conditional image editing is a very useful task that has recently emerged with immeasurable potential. Most current real image editing methods first need to complete the reconstruction of the image, and then editing is carried out by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Songyan Chen , Jiancheng Huang

Online augmentation of an oblique aerial image sequence with structural information is an essential aspect in the process of 3D scene interpretation and analysis. One key aspect in this is the efficient dense image matching and depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Boitumelo Ruf , Thomas Pollok , Martin Weinmann

Long-term multi-agent systems inevitably generate vast amounts of trajectories and historical interactions, which makes efficient memory management essential for both performance and scalability. Existing methods typically depend on vector…

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In speech emotion recognition (SER), using predefined features without considering their practical importance may lead to high dimensional datasets, including redundant and irrelevant information. Consequently, high-dimensional learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Alaa Nfissi , Wassim Bouachir , Nizar Bouguila , Brian Mishara

How does the choice of optimization algorithm shape a model's ability to learn features? To address this question for steepest descent methods --including sign descent, which is closely related to Adam --we introduce steepest mirror flows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tom Jacobs , Chao Zhou , Rebekka Burkholz

3D semantic scene completion and 2D semantic segmentation are two tightly correlated tasks that are both essential for indoor scene understanding, because they predict the same semantic classes, using positively correlated high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Jie Li , Laiyan Ding , Rui Huang

3D foundation models (3DFMs) have recently transformed 3D vision, enabling joint prediction of depths, poses, and point maps directly from images. Yet their ability to reason under extreme, non-overlapping views remains largely unexplored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yiwen Zhang , Joseph Tung , Ruojin Cai , David Fouhey , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

We propose spatial semantic embedding network (SSEN), a simple, yet efficient algorithm for 3D instance segmentation using deep metric learning. The raw 3D reconstruction of an indoor environment suffers from occlusions, noise, and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Dongsu Zhang , Junha Chun , Sang Kyun Cha , Young Min Kim

We aim to infer 3D shape and pose of object from a single image and propose a learning-based approach that can train from unstructured image collections, supervised by only segmentation outputs from off-the-shelf recognition systems (i.e.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Yufei Ye , Shubham Tulsiani , Abhinav Gupta