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Generating 3D shapes from single RGB images is essential in various applications such as robotics. Current approaches typically target images containing clear and complete visual descriptions of the object, without considering common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yiheng Xiong , Angela Dai

Direct mesh fitting for 3D hand shape reconstruction is highly accurate. However, the reconstructed meshes are prone to artifacts and do not appear as plausible hand shapes. Conversely, parametric models like MANO ensure plausible hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ziwei Yu , Chen Li , Linlin Yang , Xiaoxu Zheng , Michael Bi Mi , Gim Hee Lee , Angela Yao

Computational imaging plays a pivotal role in determining hidden information from sparse measurements. A robust inverse solver is crucial to fully characterize the uncertainty induced by these measurements, as it allows for the estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Sirui Bi , Victor Fung , Jiaxin Zhang

3D human pose estimation has been a long-standing challenge in computer vision and graphics, where multi-view methods have significantly progressed but are limited by the tedious calibration processes. Existing multi-view methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Boyuan Jiang , Lei Hu , Shihong Xia

Event camera shows great potential in 3D hand pose estimation, especially addressing the challenges of fast motion and high dynamic range in a low-power way. However, due to the asynchronous differential imaging mechanism, it is challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jianping Jiang , Jiahe Li , Baowen Zhang , Xiaoming Deng , Boxin Shi

In this work, we investigate the use of normalizing flows to model conditional distributions. In particular, we use our proposed method to analyze inverse problems with invertible neural networks by maximizing the posterior likelihood. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Zhisheng Xiao , Qing Yan , Yali Amit

In this paper, we propose a novel method for joint recovery of camera pose, object geometry and spatially-varying Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (svBRDF) of 3D scenes that exceed object-scale and hence cannot be captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Carolin Schmitt , Božidar Antić , Andrei Neculai , Joo Ho Lee , Andreas Geiger

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in generative tasks, such as image and video synthesis. However, they still often produce hallucinated samples (hallucinations) that conflict with real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shuai Fu , Jian Zhou , Qi Chen , Huang Jing , Huy Anh Nguyen , Xiaohan Liu , Zhixiong Zeng , Lin Ma , Quanshi Zhang , Qi Wu

In natural conversation and interaction, our hands often overlap or are in contact with each other. Due to the homogeneous appearance of hands, this makes estimating the 3D pose of interacting hands from images difficult. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Zicong Fan , Adrian Spurr , Muhammed Kocabas , Siyu Tang , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

This paper addresses the 3D point cloud reconstruction and 3D pose estimation of the human hand from a single RGB image. To that end, we present a novel pipeline for local and global point cloud reconstruction using a 3D hand template while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ziwei Yu , Linlin Yang , Shicheng Chen , Angela Yao

Recent successes in image synthesis are powered by large-scale diffusion models. However, most methods are currently limited to either text- or image-conditioned generation for synthesizing an entire image, texture transfer or inserting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yufei Ye , Xueting Li , Abhinav Gupta , Shalini De Mello , Stan Birchfield , Jiaming Song , Shubham Tulsiani , Sifei Liu

Sampling-based motion planning is the predominant paradigm in many real-world robotic applications, but its performance is immensely dependent on the quality of the samples. The majority of traditional planners are inefficient as they use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Tin Lai , Fabio Ramos

Hand motion plays a central role in human interaction, yet modeling realistic 4D hand motion (i.e., 3D hand pose sequences over time) remains challenging. Research in this area is typically divided into two tasks: (1) Estimation approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhihao Sun , Tong Wu , Ruirui Tu , Daoguo Dong , Zuxuan Wu

We present a method for reconstructing accurate and consistent 3D hands from a monocular video. We observe that detected 2D hand keypoints and the image texture provide important cues about the geometry and texture of the 3D hand, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zhigang Tu , Zhisheng Huang , Yujin Chen , Di Kang , Linchao Bao , Bisheng Yang , Junsong Yuan

Single-view 3D shape reconstruction is an important but challenging problem, mainly for two reasons. First, as shape annotation is very expensive to acquire, current methods rely on synthetic data, in which ground-truth 3D annotation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Pedro O. Pinheiro , Negar Rostamzadeh , Sungjin Ahn

Single image pose estimation is a fundamental problem in many vision and robotics tasks, and existing deep learning approaches suffer by not completely modeling and handling: i) uncertainty about the predictions, and ii) symmetric objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Kieran Murphy , Carlos Esteves , Varun Jampani , Srikumar Ramalingam , Ameesh Makadia

We address unsupervised optical flow estimation for ego-centric motion. We argue that optical flow can be cast as a geometrical warping between two successive video frames and devise a deep architecture to estimate such transformation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Stefano Alletto , Davide Abati , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara , Luca Rigazio

Data heterogeneity hinders clinical deployment of medical image analysis models, and generative data augmentation helps mitigate this issue. However, recent diffusion-based methods that synthesize image-mask pairs often ignore distribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Jie Yang , Ziqi Ye , Aihua Ke , Jian Luo , Bo Cai , Xiaosong Wang

Super-resolution (SR) is an ill-posed inverse problem with a large set of feasible solutions that are consistent with a given low-resolution image. Various deterministic algorithms aim to find a single solution that balances fidelity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Cansu Korkmaz , Ege Cirakman , A. Murat Tekalp , Zafer Dogan

Manual assembly workers face increasing complexity in their work. Human-centered assistance systems could help, but object recognition as an enabling technology hinders sophisticated human-centered design of these systems. At the same time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Christian Jauch , Timo Leitritz , Marco F. Huber