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With the launch of Carto2S series of satellites, high resolution images (0.6-1.0 meters) are acquired and available for use. High resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with better accuracies can be generated using C2S multi-view and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jai G Singla

Multi-view mesh reconstruction remains a core challenge in computer graphics and vision, especially for recovering high-frequency geometry from sparse observations. Recent methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Nandhana Sunil , Abhirami R Iyer , Avirup Mandal

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense and uniformly distributed point sets from a sparse point cloud, which plays a critical role in 3D computer vision. Previous methods typically split a sparse point cloud into several local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Shujuan Li , Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

3D reconstruction of indoor and urban environments is a prominent research topic with various downstream applications. However, existing geometric priors for addressing low-texture regions in indoor and urban settings often lack global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Xiyu Zhang , Chong Bao , Yipeng Chen , Hongjia Zhai , Yitong Dong , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang

Neural implicit surfaces can be used to recover accurate 3D geometry from imperfect point clouds. In this work, we show that state-of-the-art techniques work by minimizing an approximation of a one-sided Chamfer distance. This shape metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Linus Härenstam-Nielsen , Lu Sang , Abhishek Saroha , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers

Large-scale semantic mapping is crucial for outdoor autonomous agents to fulfill high-level tasks such as planning and navigation. This paper proposes a novel method for large-scale 3D semantic reconstruction through implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jianyuan Zhang , Zhiliu Yang , Meng Zhang

Accurate building segmentation and height estimation from single-view RGB satellite imagery are fundamental for urban analytics, yet remain ill-posed due to structural variability and the high computational cost of global context modeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sinan U. Ulu , A. Enes Doruk , I. Can Yagmur , Bahadir K. Gunturk , Oguz Hanoglu , Hasan F. Ates

Learning a dense 3D model with fine-scale details from a single facial image is highly challenging and ill-posed. To address this problem, many approaches fit smooth geometries through facial prior while learning details as additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Xingyu Ren , Alexandros Lattas , Baris Gecer , Jiankang Deng , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang , Stefanos Zafeiriou

As we begin to consider modeling large, realistic 3D building scenes, it becomes necessary to consider a more compact representation over the polygonal mesh model. Due to the large amounts of annotated training data, which is costly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Xia Li , Yen-Liang Lin , James Miller , Alex Cheon , Walt Dixon

Existing point cloud modeling datasets primarily express the modeling precision by pose or trajectory precision rather than the point cloud modeling effect itself. Under this demand, we first independently construct a set of LiDAR system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Changjie Qiu , Zhiyong Wang , Xiuhong Lin , Yu Zang , Cheng Wang , Weiquan Liu

Surface topography refers to the geometric micro-structure of a surface and defines its tactile characteristics (typically in the sub-millimeter range). High-resolution 3D scanning techniques developed recently enable the 3D reconstruction…

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Generalizable 3D object reconstruction from single-view RGB-D images remains a challenging task, particularly with real-world data. Current state-of-the-art methods develop Transformer-based implicit field learning, necessitating an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yushuang Wu , Luyue Shi , Junhao Cai , Weihao Yuan , Lingteng Qiu , Zilong Dong , Liefeng Bo , Shuguang Cui , Xiaoguang Han

Airborne laser scanning and photogrammetry are two main techniques to obtain 3D data representing the object surface. Due to the high cost of laser scanning, we want to explore the potential of using point clouds derived by dense image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Zhenchao Zhang , Markus Gerke , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Point clouds are characterized by irregularity and unstructuredness, which pose challenges in efficient data exploitation and discriminative feature extraction. In this paper, we present an unsupervised deep neural architecture called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yue Qian , Yiming Zeng , Juyong Zhang , Ying He

Point clouds produced by 3D sensors are often sparse and noisy, posing challenges for tasks requiring dense and high-fidelity 3D representations. Prior work has explored both implicit feature-based upsampling and distance-function learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mahmoud Khater , Mona Strauss , Philipp von Olshausen , Alexander Reiterer

Dense 3D visual mapping estimates as many as possible pixel depths, for each image. This results in very dense point clouds that often contain redundant and noisy information, especially for surfaces that are roughly planar, for instance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Luca Morreale , Andrea Romanoni , Matteo Matteucci

In this paper, a complete pipeline for image-based 3D reconstruction of urban scenarios is proposed, based on PatchMatch Multi-View Stereo (MVS). Input images are firstly fed into an off-the-shelf visual SLAM system to extract camera poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Marco Orsingher , Paolo Zani , Paolo Medici , Massimo Bertozzi

Point set is a flexible and lightweight representation widely used for 3D deep learning. However, their discrete nature prevents them from representing continuous and fine geometry, posing a major issue for learning-based shape generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Shi-Lin Liu , Hao-Xiang Guo , Hao Pan , Peng-Shuai Wang , Xin Tong , Yang Liu

Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

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