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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Daniel Panangian , Ksenia Bittner

Estimating building height from satellite imagery poses significant challenges, especially when monocular images are employed, resulting in a loss of essential 3D information during imaging. This loss of spatial depth further complicates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Mahd Qureshi , Shayaan Chaudhry , Sana Jabba , Murtaza Taj

Neural implicit surface reconstruction using volume rendering techniques has recently achieved significant advancements in creating high-fidelity surfaces from multiple 2D images. However, current methods primarily target scenes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lintao Xiang , Hongpei Zheng , Bailin Deng , Hujun Yin

A 3D point cloud is often synthesized from depth measurements collected by sensors at different viewpoints. The acquired measurements are typically both coarse in precision and corrupted by noise. To improve quality, previous works denoise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Xue Zhang , Gene Cheung , Jiahao Pang , Dong Tian

In this paper, we propose Neural Points, a novel point cloud representation and apply it to the arbitrary-factored upsampling task. Different from traditional point cloud representation where each point only represents a position or a local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wanquan Feng , Jin Li , Hongrui Cai , Xiaonan Luo , Juyong Zhang

Point cloud obtained from 3D scanning is often sparse, noisy, and irregular. To cope with these issues, recent studies have been separately conducted to densify, denoise, and complete inaccurate point cloud. In this paper, we advocate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jaesung Choe , Byeongin Joung , Francois Rameau , Jaesik Park , In So Kweon

Many remote sensing applications employ masking of pixels in satellite imagery for subsequent measurements. For example, estimating water quality variables, such as Suspended Sediment Concentration (SSC) requires isolating pixels depicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Rangel Daroya , Luisa Vieira Lucchese , Travis Simmons , Punwath Prum , Tamlin Pavelsky , John Gardner , Colin J. Gleason , Subhransu Maji

The human brain can effortlessly recognize and localize objects, whereas current 3D object detection methods based on LiDAR point clouds still report inferior performance for detecting occluded and distant objects: the point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Liang Du , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiao Tan , Edward Johns , Bo Chen , Errui Ding , Xiangyang Xue , Jianfeng Feng

This paper addresses the problem of generating dense point clouds from given sparse point clouds to model the underlying geometric structures of objects/scenes. To tackle this challenging issue, we propose a novel end-to-end learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yue Qian , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Ying He

Freehand 3D ultrasound enables volumetric imaging by tracking a conventional ultrasound probe during freehand scanning, offering enriched spatial information that improves clinical diagnosis. However, the quality of reconstructed volumes is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Sheng Song , Yiting Chen , Duo Xu , Songhan Ge , Yunqian Huang , Junni Shi , Man Chen , Hongbo Chen , Rui Zheng

Point clouds have gained prominence across numerous applications due to their ability to accurately represent 3D objects and scenes. However, efficiently compressing unstructured, high-precision point cloud data remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hongning Ruan , Yulin Shao , Qianqian Yang , Liang Zhao , Zhaoyang Zhang , Dusit Niyato

3D object detection has seen quick progress thanks to advances in deep learning on point clouds. A few recent works have even shown state-of-the-art performance with just point clouds input (e.g. VoteNet). However, point cloud data have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Charles R. Qi , Xinlei Chen , Or Litany , Leonidas J. Guibas

Creating large-scale virtual urban scenes with variant styles is inherently challenging. To facilitate prototypes of virtual production and bypass the need for complex materials and lighting setups, we introduce the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yingshu Chen , Huajian Huang , Tuan-Anh Vu , Ka Chun Shum , Sai-Kit Yeung

We are interested in reconstructing the mesh representation of object surfaces from point clouds. Surface reconstruction is a prerequisite for downstream applications such as rendering, collision avoidance for planning, animation, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Minghua Liu , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Hao Su

With the recent availability and affordability of commercial depth sensors and 3D scanners, an increasing number of 3D (i.e., RGBD, point cloud) datasets have been publicized to facilitate research in 3D computer vision. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Qingyong Hu , Bo Yang , Sheikh Khalid , Wen Xiao , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

When 3D-point clouds from overhead sensors are used as input to remote sensing data exploitation pipelines, a large amount of effort is devoted to data preparation. Among the multiple stages of the preprocessing chain, estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Mohammed Yousefhussien , David J. Kelbe , Carl Salvaggio

Multi-beam LiDAR sensors, as used on autonomous vehicles and mobile robots, acquire sequences of 3D range scans ("frames"). Each frame covers the scene sparsely, due to limited angular scanning resolution and occlusion. The sparsity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Shengyu Huang , Zan Gojcic , Jiahui Huang , Andreas Wieser , Konrad Schindler

We propose an approach to reconstruct dense three-dimensional (3D) model of tissue surface from stereo optical videos in real-time, the basic idea of which is to first extract 3D information from video frames by using stereo matching, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Haoyin Zhou , Jagadeesan Jayender

Capturing real-world 3D spaces as point clouds is efficient and descriptive, but it comes with sensor errors and lacks object parametrization. These limitations render point clouds unsuitable for various real-world applications, such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Krzysztof Zieliński , Bruce Blumberg , Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard

Rendering high-fidelity images from sparse point clouds is still challenging. Existing learning-based approaches suffer from either hole artifacts, missing details, or expensive computations. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jiaxu Wang , Ziyi Zhang , Junhao He , Renjing Xu