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Visual localization is the task of accurate camera pose estimation in a known scene. It is a key problem in computer vision and robotics, with applications including self-driving cars, Structure-from-Motion, SLAM, and Mixed Reality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Torsten Sattler , Qunjie Zhou , Marc Pollefeys , Laura Leal-Taixe

Monocular 360 depth estimation is challenging due to the inherent distortion of the equirectangular projection (ERP). This distortion causes a problem: spherical adjacent points are separated after being projected to the ERP plane,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Zidong Cao , Lin Wang

This paper introduces single-image geometric and appearance reconstruction from water reflection photography, i.e., images capturing direct and water-reflected real-world scenes. Water reflection offers an additional viewpoint to the direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Ryo Kawahara , Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

This paper addresses the problem of mirror surface reconstruction, and proposes a solution based on observing the reflections of a moving reference plane on the mirror surface. Unlike previous approaches which require tedious calibration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Kai Han , Miaomiao Liu , Dirk Schnieders , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

This paper provides a comprehensive survey on pioneer and state-of-the-art 3D scene geometry estimation methodologies based on single, two, or multiple images captured under the omnidirectional optics. We first revisit the basic concepts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Thiago Lopes Trugillo da Silveira , Paulo Gamarra Lessa Pinto , Jeffri Erwin Murrugarra Llerena , Claudio Rosito Jung

Visual challenges in underwater environments significantly hinder the accuracy of vision-based localisation and the high-fidelity dense reconstruction. In this paper, we propose VISO, a robust underwater SLAM system that fuses a stereo…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shu Pan , Simon Archieri , Ahmet Cinar , Jonatan Scharff Willners , Ignacio Carlucho , Yvan Petillot

Prior panorama stitching approaches heavily rely on pairwise feature correspondences and are unable to leverage geometric consistency across multiple views. This leads to severe distortion and misalignment, especially in challenging scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zhengdong Zhu , Weiyi Xue , Zuyuan Yang , Wenlve Zhou , Zhiheng Zhou

Robust and accurate camera calibration is essential for 3D reconstruction in light microscopy under circular motion. Conventional methods require either accurate key point matching or precise segmentation of the axial-view images. Both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Yuanhao Guo , Fons J. Verbeek , Ge Yang

This paper presents a novel technique for camera calibration using a single view that incorporates a spherical mirror. Leveraging the distinct characteristics of the sphere's contour visible in the image and its reflections, we showcase the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Nissim Barzilay , Ofek Narinsky , Michael Werman

Orienting surface normals correctly and consistently is a fundamental problem in geometry processing. Applications such as visualization, feature detection, and geometry reconstruction often rely on the availability of correctly oriented…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Sebastian Ochmann , Reinhard Klein

High angular resolution X-ray imaging is always demanded by astrophysics and solar physics, which can be realized by coded-mask imaging with very long mask-detector distance in principle. Previously the diffraction-interference effect has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chen Zhang , Shuang Nan Zhang

In the context of exoplanet detection, the performance of coronagraphs is limited by wavefront errors. To efficiently correct for these aberrations with a deformable mirror, it is mandatory to measure them using the science detector with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Galicher , P. Baudoz , G. Rousset

In this paper, we define a new problem of recovering the 3D geometry of an object confined in a transparent enclosure. We also propose a novel method for solving this challenging problem. Transparent enclosures pose challenges of multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Jinguang Tong , Sundaram Muthu , Fahira Afzal Maken , Chuong Nguyen , Hongdong Li

Quantum optical techniques may yield immersion fluids with high indices of refraction without absorption. We describe one such technique in which a probe field experiences a large index of refraction with amplification rather than…

In this paper, we present DM-Calib, a diffusion-based approach for estimating pinhole camera intrinsic parameters from a single input image. Monocular camera calibration is essential for many 3D vision tasks. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Junyuan Deng , Wei Yin , Xiaoyang Guo , Qian Zhang , Xiaotao Hu , Weiqiang Ren , Xiao-Xiao Long , Ping Tan

Depth sensing is an important problem for 3D vision-based robotics. Yet, a real-world active stereo or ToF depth camera often produces noisy and incomplete depth which bottlenecks robot performances. In this work, we propose D3RoMa, a…

Depth map fusion is an essential part in both stereo and RGB-D based 3-D reconstruction pipelines. Whether produced with a passive stereo reconstruction or using an active depth sensor, such as Microsoft Kinect, the depth maps have noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Markus Ylimäki , Juho Kannala , Janne Heikkilä

This paper addresses the problem of reconstructing the surface shape of transparent objects. The difficulty of this problem originates from the viewpoint dependent appearance of a transparent object, which quickly makes reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-24 Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Miaomiao Liu

The off-axis location of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) is the chief (but not sole) cause of strong geometric distortion in all detectors: the Wide Field Camera (WFC), High Resolution Camera (HRC), and Solar Blind Camera (SBC).…

Refraction is a common physical phenomenon and has long been researched in computer vision. Objects imaged through a refractive object appear distorted in the image as a function of the shape of the interface between the media. This hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Antonin Sulc , Imari Sato , Bastian Goldluecke , Tali Treibitz