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Accurate depth estimation from images is a fundamental task in many applications including scene understanding and reconstruction. Existing solutions for depth estimation often produce blurry approximations of low resolution. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Ibraheem Alhashim , Peter Wonka

Depth sensing is crucial for 3D reconstruction and scene understanding. Active depth sensors provide dense metric measurements, but often suffer from limitations such as restricted operating ranges, low spatial resolution, sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Chao Liu , Jinwei Gu , Kihwan Kim , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Jan Kautz

Depth imaging is a crucial area in Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS), as it plays a key role in detecting and measuring objects in the vehicle's surroundings. However, a significant challenge in this domain arises from missing information in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mohamad Mofeed Chaar , Jamal Raiyn , Galia Weidl

Deep learning based methods have achieved remarkable success in image restoration and enhancement, but most such methods rely on RGB input images. These methods fail to take into account the rich spectral distribution of natural images. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Harsh Sinha , Aditya Mehta , Murari Mandal , Pratik Narang

We present a CNN-based technique to estimate high-dynamic range outdoor illumination from a single low dynamic range image. To train the CNN, we leverage a large dataset of outdoor panoramas. We fit a low-dimensional physically-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Sunil Hadap , Emiliano Gambaretto , Jean-François Lalonde

With the rapid development of Remote Sensing acquisition techniques, there is a need to scale and improve processing tools to cope with the observed increase of both data volume and richness. Among popular techniques in remote sensing, Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 A Hamida , A. Benoît , P. Lambert , L Klein , C Amar , N. Audebert , S. Lefèvre

Previous image based relighting methods require capturing multiple images to acquire high frequency lighting effect under different lighting conditions, which needs nontrivial effort and may be unrealistic in certain practical use…

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A common task in Earth Sciences is to infer climate information at local and regional scales from global climate models. Dynamical downscaling requires running expensive numerical models at high resolution which can be prohibitive due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Carlos Alberto Gomez Gonzalez

We propose a physically-motivated deep learning framework to solve a general version of the challenging indoor lighting estimation problem. Given a single LDR image with a depth map, our method predicts spatially consistent lighting at any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zhengqin Li , Li Yu , Mikhail Okunev , Manmohan Chandraker , Zhao Dong

Outdoor lighting has extremely high dynamic range. This makes the process of capturing outdoor environment maps notoriously challenging since special equipment must be used. In this work, we propose an alternative approach. We first capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Jinsong Zhang , Jean-François Lalonde

Visual localization is critical to many applications in computer vision and robotics. To address single-image RGB localization, state-of-the-art feature-based methods match local descriptors between a query image and a pre-built 3D model.…

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Robust three-dimensional scene understanding is now an ever-growing area of research highly relevant in many real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotic navigation. In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Deep learning (DL) methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in the task of single image rain removal. Most of current DL architectures, however, are still lack of sufficient interpretability and not fully integrated with physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Hong Wang , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

Buildings' segmentation is a fundamental task in the field of earth observation and aerial imagery analysis. Most existing deep learning-based methods in the literature can be applied to a fixed or narrow-range spatial resolution imagery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Hasan Nasrallah , Mustafa Shukor , Ali J. Ghandour

Trees inside cities are important for the urban microclimate, contributing positively to the physical and mental health of the urban dwellers. Despite their importance, often only limited information about city trees is available. Therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Hui Zhang , Ankit Kariryaa , Venkanna Babu Guthula , Christian Igel , Stefan Oehmcke

Recent times have seen an increase in demand of high quality Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) for the lunar surface, because they are highly important for studying the moon and planning future missions. However, there is an evident lack of…

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The development of remote sensing and deep learning techniques has enabled building semantic segmentation with high accuracy and efficiency. Despite their success in different tasks, the discussions on the impact of spatial resolution on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zhiling Guo , Xiaodan Shi , Haoran Zhang , Dou Huang , Xiaoya Song , Jinyue Yan , Ryosuke Shibasaki

We review solutions to the problem of depth estimation, arguably the most important subtask in scene understanding. We focus on the single image depth estimation problem. Due to its properties, the single image depth estimation problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Alican Mertan , Damien Jade Duff , Gozde Unal

Accurate forest canopy height estimation is essential for evaluating aboveground biomass and carbon stock dynamics, supporting ecosystem monitoring services like timber provisioning, climate change mitigation, and biodiversity conservation.…

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