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Inferring a meaningful geometric scene representation from a single image is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Approaches based on traditional depth map prediction can only reason about areas that are visible in the image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Felix Wimbauer , Nan Yang , Christian Rupprecht , Daniel Cremers

Direct volume rendering (DVR) aims to help users identify and examine regions of interest (ROIs) within volumetric data, and feature representations that support effective ROI classification and clustering play a fundamental role in volume…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Haill An , Suhyeon Kim , Donghyuk Choo , Younhyun Jung

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) rely on volume rendering to synthesize novel views. Volume rendering requires evaluating an integral along each ray, which is numerically approximated with a finite sum that corresponds to the exact integral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Mikaela Angelina Uy , Kiyohiro Nakayama , Guandao Yang , Rahul Krishna Thomas , Leonidas Guibas , Ke Li

Direct optimization of interpolated features on multi-resolution voxel grids has emerged as a more efficient alternative to MLP-like modules. However, this approach is constrained by higher memory expenses and limited representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Xiangyu Xu , Lichang Chen , Changjiang Cai , Huangying Zhan , Qingan Yan , Pan Ji , Junsong Yuan , Heng Huang , Yi Xu

Indoor scenes typically exhibit complex, spatially-varying appearance from global illumination, making inverse rendering a challenging ill-posed problem. This work presents an end-to-end, learning-based inverse rendering framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jingsen Zhu , Fujun Luan , Yuchi Huo , Zihao Lin , Zhihua Zhong , Dianbing Xi , Jiaxiang Zheng , Rui Tang , Hujun Bao , Rui Wang

We present a novel methodology that utilizes 4-Dimensional (4D) space deformation to simulate a magnification lens on versatile volume datasets and textured solid models. Compared with other magnification methods (e.g., geometric optics,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Bo Li , Xin Zhao , Hong Qin

Mobile robots operating indoors must be prepared to navigate challenging scenes that contain transparent surfaces. This paper proposes a novel method for the fusion of acoustic and visual sensing modalities through implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Advaith V. Sethuraman , Onur Bagoren , Harikrishnan Seetharaman , Dalton Richardson , Joseph Taylor , Katherine A. Skinner

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently employed to solve problems from both the computer vision and medical image analysis fields. Despite their popularity, most approaches are only able to process 2D images while most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Fausto Milletari , Nassir Navab , Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi

In this work, we address the lack of 3D understanding of generative neural networks by introducing a persistent 3D feature embedding for view synthesis. To this end, we propose DeepVoxels, a learned representation that encodes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Vincent Sitzmann , Justus Thies , Felix Heide , Matthias Nießner , Gordon Wetzstein , Michael Zollhöfer

We propose a differentiable sphere tracing algorithm to bridge the gap between inverse graphics methods and the recently proposed deep learning based implicit signed distance function. Due to the nature of the implicit function, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Shaohui Liu , Yinda Zhang , Songyou Peng , Boxin Shi , Marc Pollefeys , Zhaopeng Cui

We present a method to estimate dense depth by optimizing a sparse set of points such that their diffusion into a depth map minimizes a multi-view reprojection error from RGB supervision. We optimize point positions, depths, and weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Numair Khan , Min H. Kim , James Tompkin

Single image super-resolution traditionally assumes spatially-invariant degradation models, yet real-world imaging systems exhibit complex distance-dependent effects including atmospheric scattering, depth-of-field variations, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Tianhao Guo , Bingjie Lu , Feng Wang , Zhengyang Lu

Vision Transformers rely on fixed patch tokens that ignore the spatial and semantic structure of images. In this work, we introduce an end-to-end differentiable tokenizer that adapts to image content with pixel-level granularity while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Marius Aasan , Martine Hjelkrem-Tan , Nico Catalano , Changkyu Choi , Adín Ramírez Rivera

Numerical integration is a foundational technique in scientific computing and is at the core of many computer vision applications. Among these applications, neural volume rendering has recently been proposed as a new paradigm for view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 David B. Lindell , Julien N. P. Martel , Gordon Wetzstein

We present a suite of techniques for jointly optimizing triangle meshes and shading models to match the appearance of reference scenes. This capability has a number of uses, including appearance-preserving simplification of extremely…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Jon Hasselgren , Jacob Munkberg , Jaakko Lehtinen , Miika Aittala , Samuli Laine

Simultaneous reconstruction of geometry and reflectance properties in uncontrolled environments remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an efficient method to reconstruct the scene's 3D geometry and reflectance from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Rui Li , Guangmin Zang , Miao Qi , Wolfgang Heidrich

To reconstruct a 3D scene from a set of calibrated views, traditional multi-view stereo techniques rely on two distinct stages: local depth maps computation and global depth maps fusion. Recent studies concentrate on deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Jaesung Choe , Sunghoon Im , Francois Rameau , Minjun Kang , In So Kweon

Compared with full volume rendering, isosurface rendering has several well recognized advantages in efficiency and accuracy. However, standard isosurface rendering has some limitations in effectiveness. First, it uses a monotone colored…

Graphics · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Fei Yang , Yong Cao , Jie Tian

Super-resolution is widely used in medical imaging to enhance low-quality data, reducing scan time and improving abnormality detection. Conventional super-resolution approaches typically rely on paired datasets of downsampled and original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiaoyi Wen , Fei Jiang

Existing time-resolved non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging methods reconstruct hidden scenes by inverting the optical paths of indirect illumination measured at visible relay surfaces. These methods are prone to reconstruction artifacts due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Kiseok Choi , Inchul Kim , Dongyoung Choi , Julio Marco , Diego Gutierrez , Min H. Kim