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Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Christopher Gebauer , Maren Bennewitz

Flow-based super-resolution (SR) models have demonstrated astonishing capabilities in generating high-quality images. However, these methods encounter several challenges during image generation, such as grid artifacts, exploding inverses,…

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Agents navigating in 3D environments require some form of memory, which should hold a compact and actionable representation of the history of observations useful for decision taking and planning. In most end-to-end learning approaches the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Guillaume Bono , Leonid Antsfeld , Assem Sadek , Gianluca Monaci , Christian Wolf

This research aims to make metaverse characters more realistic by adding lip animations learnt from videos in the wild. To achieve this, our approach is to extend Tacotron 2 text-to-speech synthesizer to generate lip movements together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Qiao Han , Jun Zhao , Kwok-Yan Lam

Shape priors have long been known to be effective when reconstructing 3D shapes from noisy or incomplete data. When using a deep-learning based shape representation, this often involves learning a latent representation, which can be either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Patrick M. Jensen , Udaranga Wickramasinghe , Anders B. Dahl , Pascal Fua , Vedrana A. Dahl

Indoor scene understanding remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, with direct implications for downstream tasks such as navigation and manipulation. Traditional approaches often rely on closed-set recognition or loop closure, limiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hongming Chen , Yiyang Lin , Ziliang Li , Biyu Ye , Yuying Zhang , Ximin Lyu

Reconstructing high-quality 3D objects from sparse, partial observations from a single view is of crucial importance for various applications in computer vision, robotics, and graphics. While recent neural implicit modeling methods show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Shivam Duggal , Zihao Wang , Wei-Chiu Ma , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Justin Liang , Shenlong Wang , Raquel Urtasun

Modeling and forecasting subsurface multiphase fluid flow fields underpin applications ranging from geological CO2 sequestration (GCS) operations to geothermal production. This is essential for ensuring both operational performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Vittoria De Pellegrini , Tariq Alkhalifah

Flow-based models have proven successful for time-series generation, particularly when defined in lower-dimensional latent spaces that enable efficient sampling. However, how to design latent representations with desirable equivariance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Camilo Carvajal Reyes , Felipe Tobar

3D scene flow characterizes how the points at the current time flow to the next time in the 3D Euclidean space, which possesses the capacity to infer autonomously the non-rigid motion of all objects in the scene. The previous methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Chaokang Jiang , Guangming Wang , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng Wang

We present a novel approach to the generation of static and articulated 3D assets that has a 3D autodecoder at its core. The 3D autodecoder framework embeds properties learned from the target dataset in the latent space, which can then be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Evangelos Ntavelis , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Kyle Olszewski , Chaoyang Wang , Luc Van Gool , Sergey Tulyakov

We address the problem of instance-level facial attribute transfer without paired training data, e.g. faithfully transferring the exact mustache from a source face to a target face. This is a more challenging task than the conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Weidong Yin , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Deep learning algorithms have significantly reduced the computational time and improved the spatial resolution of particle image velocimetry~(PIV). However, the models trained on synthetic datasets might have a degraded performance on…

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Learning accurate scene reconstruction without pose priors in neural radiance fields is challenging due to inherent geometric ambiguity. Recent development either relies on correspondence priors for regularization or uses off-the-shelf flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Xunzhi Zheng , Dan Xu

There is a growing interest in the use of latent diffusion models (LDMs) for image restoration (IR) tasks due to their ability to model effectively the distribution of natural images. While significant progress has been made, there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Di You , Daniel Siromani , Pier Luigi Dragotti

Imitation Learning (IL) enables robots to learn complex skills from demonstrations without explicit task modeling, but it typically requires large amounts of demonstrations, creating significant collection costs. Prior work has investigated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Runze Tang , Penny Sweetser

Recent advances in image generation have made diffusion models powerful tools for creating high-quality images. However, their iterative denoising process makes understanding and interpreting their semantic latent spaces more challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 E. Zhixuan Zeng , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong

Modeling and synthesizing image noise is an important aspect in many computer vision applications. The long-standing additive white Gaussian and heteroscedastic (signal-dependent) noise models widely used in the literature provide only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Abdelrahman Abdelhamed , Marcus A. Brubaker , Michael S. Brown

Large-scale diffusion models have achieved remarkable performance in generative tasks. Beyond their initial training applications, these models have proven their ability to function as versatile plug-and-play priors. For instance, 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xiaofeng Yang , Cheng Chen , Xulei Yang , Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin

We present a new latent model of natural images that can be learned on large-scale datasets. The learning process provides a latent embedding for every image in the training dataset, as well as a deep convolutional network that maps the…

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