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Long-range active imaging has a variety of applications in remote sensing and target recognition. Single-photon LiDAR (light detection and ranging) offers single-photon sensitivity and picosecond timing resolution, which is desirable for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Zheng-Ping Li , Xin Huang , Yuan Cao , Bin Wang , Yu-Huai Li , Weijie Jin , Chao Yu , Jun Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Cheng-Zhi Peng , Feihu Xu , Jian-Wei Pan

We introduce a novel sketch-to-image tool that aligns with the iterative refinement process of artists. Our tool lets users sketch blocking strokes to coarsely represent the placement and form of objects and detail strokes to refine their…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Vishnu Sarukkai , Lu Yuan , Mia Tang , Maneesh Agrawala , Kayvon Fatahalian

Single-photon Lidar (SPL) offers unprecedented sensitivity and time resolution, which enables Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) systems to identify space debris from distances spanning thousands of kilometers. However, existing SPL systems face…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-01-10 Xialin Liu , Jia Qiang , Genghua Huang , Liang Zhang , Zheng Zhao , Rong Shu

Vision Transformer (ViT)-based sparse multi-view 3D object detectors have achieved remarkable accuracy but still suffer from high inference latency due to heavy token processing. To accelerate these models, token compression has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Mingqian Ji , Shanshan Zhang , Jian Yang

Stream monitoring is fundamental in many data stream applications, such as financial data trackers, security, anomaly detection, and load balancing. In that respect, quantiles are of particular interest, as they often capture the user's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Rana Shahout , Roy Friedman , Ran Ben Basat

The rapid proliferation of modified images on social networks that are driven by widely accessible editing tools demands robust forensic tools for digital governance. Image provenance analysis, which filters various query image variants and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiewei Lai , Lan Zhang , Chen Tang , Pengcheng Sun

A variety of techniques such as light field, structured illumination, and time-of-flight (TOF) are commonly used for depth acquisition in consumer imaging, robotics and many other applications. Unfortunately, each technique suffers from its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Suren Jayasuriya , Adithya Pediredla , Sriram Sivaramakrishnan , Alyosha Molnar , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Lidars are depth measuring sensors widely used in autonomous driving and augmented reality. However, the large volume of data produced by lidars can lead to high costs in data storage and transmission. While lidar data can be represented as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Xuanyu Zhou , Charles R. Qi , Yin Zhou , Dragomir Anguelov

Skeletonization extracts thin representations from images that compactly encode their geometry and topology. These representations have become an important topological prior for preserving connectivity in curvilinear structures, aiding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Luis D. Reyes Vargas , Martin J. Menten , Johannes C. Paetzold , Nassir Navab , Mohammad Farid Azampour

With the development of numerous 3D sensing technologies, object registration on cross-source point cloud has aroused researchers' interests. When the point clouds are captured from different kinds of sensors, there are large and different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Xiaoshui Huang , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu , Lixin Fan , Chun Yuan

This paper presents a novel and fast approach for ground plane segmentation in a LiDAR point cloud, specifically optimized for processing speed and hardware efficiency on FPGA hardware platforms. Our approach leverages a channel-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Xiao Zhang , Zhanhong Huang , Garcia Gonzalez Antony , Witek Jachimczyk , Xinming Huang

Deploying 3D single-photon Lidar imaging in real world applications faces multiple challenges including imaging in high noise environments. Several algorithms have been proposed to address these issues based on statistical or learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Jakeoung Koo , Abderrahim Halimi , Stephen McLaughlin

The Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Optical Reconnaissance (SPIDER) is an optical interferometric imaging device that aims to offer an alternative to the large space telescope designs of today with reduced size, weight and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Matthijs Mars , Marta M. Betcke , Jason D. McEwen

Recent research has begun exploring novel view synthesis (NVS) for LiDAR point clouds, aiming to generate realistic LiDAR scans from unseen viewpoints. However, most existing approaches do not reconstruct semantic labels, which are crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yi Chen , Tianchen Deng , Wentao Zhao , Xiaoning Wang , Wenqian Xi , Weidong Chen , Jingchuan Wang

Imaging across both the full transverse spatial and temporal dimensions of a scene with high precision in all three coordinates is key to applications ranging from LIDAR to fluorescence lifetime imaging. However, compromises that sacrifice,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 C. Callenberg , A. Lyons , D. den Brok , A. Fatima , A. Turpin , V. Zickus , L. Machesky , J. Whitelaw , D. Faccio , M. B. Hullin

We propose a new operator-sketching paradigm for designing efficient iterative data-driven reconstruction (IDR) schemes, e.g. Plug-and-Play algorithms and deep unrolling networks. These IDR schemes are currently the state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Junqi Tang , Guixian Xu , Subhadip Mukherjee , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this work, we propose a method for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of wide crime scene, based on a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) approach. We used a Kinect V2 Time-of-Flight (TOF) RGB-D camera to provide colored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Silvio Giancola , Daniele Piron , Pasquale Poppa , Remo Sala

A piecewise Chebyshevian spline space is good for design when it possesses a B-spline basis and this property is preserved under knot insertion. The interest in such kind of spaces is justified by the fact that, similarly as for polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Carolina Vittoria Beccari , Giulio Casciola , Lucia Romani

Modeling scene geometry using implicit neural representation has revealed its advantages in accuracy, flexibility, and low memory usage. Previous approaches have demonstrated impressive results using color or depth images but still have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Dongyu Yan , Xiaoyang Lyu , Jieqi Shi , Yi Lin

Face photo sketch synthesis has got some researchers' attention in recent years because of its potential applications in digital entertainment and law enforcement. Some patches based methods have been proposed to solve this problem. These…

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