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Modeling strong gravitational lenses in order to quantify the distortions in the images of background sources and to reconstruct the mass density in the foreground lenses has traditionally been a difficult computational challenge. As the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-05 Alexandre Adam , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Yashar Hezaveh

We study the problem of extracting accurate correspondences for point cloud registration. Recent keypoint-free methods have shown great potential through bypassing the detection of repeatable keypoints which is difficult to do especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zheng Qin , Hao Yu , Changjian Wang , Yulan Guo , Yuxing Peng , Slobodan Ilic , Dewen Hu , Kai Xu

When learning simulations for modeling physical phenomena in industrial designs, geometrical variabilities are of prime interest. While classical regression techniques prove effective for parameterized geometries, practical scenarios often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Fabien Casenave , Brian Staber , Xavier Roynard

This paper presents Planar Gaussian Splatting (PGS), a novel neural rendering approach to learn the 3D geometry and parse the 3D planes of a scene, directly from multiple RGB images. The PGS leverages Gaussian primitives to model the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Farhad G. Zanjani , Hong Cai , Hanno Ackermann , Leila Mirvakhabova , Fatih Porikli

We present a generic method for assessing the quality of non-rigid registration (NRR) algorithms, that does not depend on the existence of any ground truth, but depends solely on the data itself. The data is a set of images. The output of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Carole J. Twining , Vladimir S. Petrović , Timothy F. Cootes , Roy S. Schestowitz , William R. Crum , Christopher J. Taylor

Learning-based point cloud compression presents superior performance to handcrafted codecs. However, pretrained-based methods, which are based on end-to-end training and expected to generalize to all the potential samples, suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Wenjie Huang , Qi Yang , Shuting Xia , He Huang , Zhu Li , Yiling Xu

Image registration is one important task in many image processing applications. It aims to align two or more images so that useful information can be extracted through comparison, combination or superposition. This is achieved by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-30 Mazlinda Ibrahim , Ke Chen , Carlos Brito-Loeza

Gaussian processes (GPs) are widely used in nonparametric regression, classification and spatio-temporal modeling, motivated in part by a rich literature on theoretical properties. However, a well known drawback of GPs that limits their use…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-06-29 Anjishnu Banerjee , David Dunson , Surya Tokdar

Iterative methods are widely used for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, the difficulty in eliminating global low-frequency errors significantly limits their convergence speed. In recent years, neural networks have…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Daiwei Dong , Wei Suo , Jiaqing Kou , Weiwei Zhang

We introduce Deep Sigma Point Processes, a class of parametric models inspired by the compositional structure of Deep Gaussian Processes (DGPs). Deep Sigma Point Processes (DSPPs) retain many of the attractive features of (variational)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-29 Martin Jankowiak , Geoff Pleiss , Jacob R. Gardner

Current learning-based methods predict NeRF or 3D Gaussians from point clouds to achieve photo-realistic rendering but still depend on categorical priors, dense point clouds, or additional refinements. Hence, we introduce a novel point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ma Changfeng , Bi Ran , Guo Jie , Wang Chongjun , Guo Yanwen

We leverage 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) as a scene representation and propose a novel test-time camera pose refinement (CPR) framework, GS-CPR. This framework enhances the localization accuracy of state-of-the-art absolute pose regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Changkun Liu , Shuai Chen , Yash Bhalgat , Siyan Hu , Ming Cheng , Zirui Wang , Victor Adrian Prisacariu , Tristan Braud

Surface roughness plays a critical role and has effects in, e.g. fluid dynamics or contact mechanics. For example, to evaluate fluid behavior at different roughness properties, real-world or numerical experiments are performed. Numerical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Arsalan Jawaid , Jörg Seewig

The motivation of this paper is to address the problem of registering airborne LiDAR data and optical aerial or satellite imagery acquired from different platforms, at different times, with different points of view and levels of detail. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Thanh Huy Nguyen , Sylvie Daniel , Didier Gueriot , Christophe Sintes , Jean-Marc Le Caillec

Motivated by applications arising from sensor networks and machine learning, we consider the problem of minimizing a finite sum of nondifferentiable convex functions where each component function is associated with an agent and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Harshal D. Kaushik , Farzad Yousefian

Most signal processing problems involve the challenging task of multidimensional probability density function (PDF) estimation. In this work, we propose a solution to this problem by using a family of Rotation-based Iterative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-02 Valero Laparra , Gustavo Camps-Valls , Jesús Malo

Interference prediction and resource allocation are critical challenges in mission-critical applications where stringent latency and reliability constraints must be met. This paper proposes a novel Gaussian process regression (GPR)-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Syed Luqman Shah , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Matti Latva-aho

We implemented a geometry optimizer based on Gaussian process regression (GPR) to find minimum structures on potential energy surfaces. We tested both a two times differentiable form of the Mat\'{e}rn kernel and the squared exponential…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Alexander Denzel , Johannes Kästner

Deformable image registration and regression are important tasks in medical image analysis. However, they are computationally expensive, especially when analyzing large-scale datasets that contain thousands of images. Hence, cluster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Zhipeng Ding , Greg Fleishman , Xiao Yang , Paul Thompson , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer

This manuscript addresses the challenge of designing functionally graded materials (FGMs) for arbitrary-shaped domains. Towards this goal, the present work proposes a generic volume fraction profile generation algorithm based on Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chaitanya Kumar Konda , Piyush Agrawal , Shivansh Srivastava , Manish Agrawal