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This paper investigates both biomechanical-constrained non-rigid medical image registrations and accurate identifications of material properties for soft tissues, using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). The complex nonlinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Zhe Min , Zachary M. C. Baum , Shaheer U. Saeed , Mark Emberton , Dean C. Barratt , Zeike A. Taylor , Yipeng Hu

This paper presents an end-to-end differentiable algorithm for robust and detail-preserving surface normal estimation on unstructured point-clouds. We utilize graph neural networks to iteratively parameterize an adaptive anisotropic kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Jan Eric Lenssen , Christian Osendorfer , Jonathan Masci

In this paper, we present an automatic 3D face recognition system. This system is based on the representation of human faces surfaces as collections of Iso-Geodesic Curves (IGC) using 3D Fast Marching algorithm. To compare two facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Rachid Ahdid , El Mahdi Barrah , Said Safi , Bouzid Manaut

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive kernel for the radial basis function (RBF) neural networks. The proposed kernel adaptively fuses the Euclidean and cosine distance measures to exploit the reciprocating properties of the two. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-10 Shujaat Khan , Imran Naseem , Roberto Togneri , Mohammed Bennamoun

Non-rigid cortical registration is an important and challenging task due to the geometric complexity of the human cortex and the high degree of inter-subject variability. A conventional solution is to use a spherical representation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Jieyu Cheng , Adrian V. Dalca , Bruce Fischl , Lilla Zollei

In this paper, we develop an approach to exploiting kernel methods with manifold-valued data. In many computer vision problems, the data can be naturally represented as points on a Riemannian manifold. Due to the non-Euclidean geometry of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Sadeep Jayasumana , Richard Hartley , Mathieu Salzmann , Hongdong Li , Mehrtash Harandi

We present a theoretically grounded Gaussian process framework that leverages neural feature maps to construct expressive kernels. We show that the learned feature map can be interpreted as an optimal low-rank approximation to a Gram matrix…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Anthony Stephenson

Signature kernels have emerged as a powerful tool within kernel methods for sequential data. In the paper "The Signature Kernel is the solution of a Goursat PDE", the authors identify a kernel trick that demonstrates that, for continuously…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Thomas Cass , Francesco Piatti , Jeffrey Pei

Gaussian processes offers a convenient way to perform nonparametric reconstructions of observational data assuming only a kernel which describes the covariance between neighbouring points in a data set. We approach the ambiguity in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-17 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Jackson Levi Said

This article presents a novel approach to construct Intrinsic Gaussian Processes for regression on unknown manifolds with probabilistic metrics (GPUM) in point clouds. In many real world applications, one often encounters high dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Mu Niu , Zhenwen Dai , Pokman Cheung , Yizhu Wang

We present a geometric algorithm to compute the geometric kernel of a generic polyhedron. The geometric kernel (or simply kernel) is definedas the set of points from which the whole polyhedron is visible. Whilst the computation of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Tommaso Sorgente , Silvia Biasotti , Michela Spagnuolo

This paper presents a framework for rigid point-set registration and merging using a robust continuous data representation. Our point-set representation is constructed by training a one-class support vector machine with a Gaussian radial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Dylan Campbell , Lars Petersson

Nonlinear extensions to the active subspaces method have brought remarkable results for dimension reduction in the parameter space and response surface design. We further develop a kernel-based nonlinear method. In particular we introduce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Francesco Romor , Marco Tezzele , Andrea Lario , Gianluigi Rozza

The Gaussian process (GP) is a widely used probabilistic machine learning method with implicit uncertainty characterization for stochastic function approximation, stochastic modeling, and analyzing real-world measurements of nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-14 Mark D. Risser , Marcus M. Noack , Hengrui Luo , Ronald Pandolfi

This study presents a high-accuracy, efficient, and physically induced method for 3D point cloud registration, which is the core of many important 3D vision problems. In contrast to existing physics-based methods that merely consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Zhao Mingyang , Ma Lei , Jia Xiaohong , Yan Dong-Ming , Huang Tiejun

3D face dense tracking aims to find dense inter-frame correspondences in a sequence of 3D face scans and constitutes a powerful tool for many face analysis tasks, e.g., 3D dynamic facial expression analysis. The majority of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Huaxiong Ding , Liming Chen

Point cloud registration is a fundamental technique in 3-D computer vision with applications in graphics, autonomous driving, and robotics. However, registration tasks under challenging conditions, under which noise or perturbations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Rui She , Qiyu Kang , Sijie Wang , Wee Peng Tay , Kai Zhao , Yang Song , Tianyu Geng , Yi Xu , Diego Navarro Navarro , Andreas Hartmannsgruber

This paper establishes a kernel-based framework for reconstructing data on manifolds, tailored to fit the dynamic-(d)MRI-data recovery problem. The proposed methodology exploits simple tangent-space geometries of manifolds in reproducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Gaurav N. Shetty , Konstantinos Slavakis , Ukash Nakarmi , Gesualdo Scutari , Leslie Ying

In recent years, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS)-based scene representation demonstrates significant potential in real-time rendering and training efficiency. However, most existing methods primarily focus on single-map reconstruction, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shiyang Liu , Dianyi Yang , Yu Gao , Bohan Ren , Yi Yang , Mengyin Fu

Gaussian Process (GP) models are widely utilized as surrogate models in scientific and engineering fields. However, standard GP models are limited to continuous variables due to the difficulties in establishing correlation structures for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-05 Mingyu Pu , Songhao Wang , Haowei Wang , Szu Hui Ng