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We introduce CVNets, a high-performance open-source library for training deep neural networks for visual recognition tasks, including classification, detection, and segmentation. CVNets supports image and video understanding tools,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Sachin Mehta , Farzad Abdolhosseini , Mohammad Rastegari

Visual parsing of images and videos is critical for a wide range of real-world applications. However, progress in this field is constrained by limitations of existing datasets: (1) insufficient annotation granularity, which impedes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Minghao Zou , Qingtian Zeng , Yongping Miao , Shangkun Liu , Zilong Wang , Hantao Liu , Wei Zhou

We present a novel architecture for accelerating PIV calculations. An optical flow hardware accelerator does the brunt of the work, with cross-correlation only providing quick corrections. The result is RapidPIV: a free-to-download software…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-28 Scott A. Bollt , Samuel H. Foxman , Morteza Gharib

In the following paper, we have combined the various basic functionalities provided by the NumPy library and OpenCv library, which is an open source for Computer Vision applications, like conversion of colored images to grayscale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Ayushe Gangal , Peeyush Kumar , Sunita Kumari

Humans are continuously exposed to a stream of visual data with a natural temporal structure. However, most successful computer vision algorithms work at image level, completely discarding the precious information carried by motion. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Alessandro Betti , Marco Gori , Stefano Melacci

Humans are able to make rich predictions about the future dynamics of physical objects from a glance. On the other hand, most existing computer vision approaches require strong assumptions about the underlying system, ad-hoc modeling, or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Zhihua Wang , Stefano Rosa , Yishu Miao , Zihang Lai , Linhai Xie , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

This work presents Kornia -- an open source computer vision library which consists of a set of differentiable routines and modules to solve generic computer vision problems. The package uses PyTorch as its main backend both for efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Edgar Riba , Dmytro Mishkin , Daniel Ponsa , Ethan Rublee , Gary Bradski

The current method for forensic analysis of bullet comparison relies on manual examination by forensic examiners to determine if bullets were discharged from the same firearm. This process is highly subjective, prompting the development of…

Applications · Statistics 2025-03-11 Nathan Rethwisch , Heike Hofmann

Humans can naturally identify, reason about, and explain anomalies in their environment. In computer vision, this long-standing challenge remains limited to industrial defects or unrealistic, synthetically generated anomalies, failing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Rishika Bhagwatkar , Syrielle Montariol , Angelika Romanou , Beatriz Borges , Irina Rish , Antoine Bosselut

The aim of this paper is to propose new algorithms for Field of Vision (FOV) computation which improve on existing work at high resolutions. FOV refers to the set of locations that are visible from a specific position in a scene of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Evan R. M. Debenham , Roberto Solis-Oba

In High Energy Physics experiments Particle Flow (PFlow) algorithms are designed to provide an optimal reconstruction of the nature and kinematic properties of the particles produced within the detector acceptance during collisions. At the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-02-10 Francesco Armando Di Bello , Sanmay Ganguly , Eilam Gross , Marumi Kado , Michael Pitt , Lorenzo Santi , Jonathan Shlomi

Computer vision techniques have immense potential for materials design applications. In this work, we introduce an integrated and general-purpose AtomVision library that can be used to generate, curate scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-06 Kamal Choudhary , Ramya Gurunathan , Brian DeCost , Adam Biacchi

Particle image velocimetry (PIV) is essential in experimental fluid dynamics. In the current work, we propose a new velocity field estimation paradigm, which achieves a synergetic combination of the deep learning method and the traditional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-12 Qi Gao , Hongtao Lin , Han Tu , Haoran Zhu , Runjie Wei , Guoping Zhang , Xueming Shao

Distilling interpretable physical laws from videos has led to expanded interest in the computer vision community recently thanks to the advances in deep learning, but still remains a great challenge. This paper introduces an end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Lele Luan , Yang Liu , Hao Sun

System identification from videos aims to recover object geometry and governing physical laws. Existing methods integrate differentiable rendering with simulation but rely on predefined material priors, limiting their ability to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yizhou Zhao , Haoyu Chen , Chunjiang Liu , Zhenyang Li , Charles Herrmann , Junhwa Hur , Yinxiao Li , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Bhiksha Raj , Min Xu

Operator learning, which aims to approximate maps between infinite-dimensional function spaces, is an important area in scientific machine learning with applications across various physical domains. Here we introduce the Continuous Vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sifan Wang , Jacob H Seidman , Shyam Sankaran , Hanwen Wang , George J. Pappas , Paris Perdikaris

Conventional vision backbones, despite their success, often construct features through a largely uniform cascade of operations, offering limited explicit pathways for adaptive, iterative refinement. This raises a compelling question: can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Bin Guo , John H. L. Hansen

As the availability of imagery data continues to swell, so do the demands on transmission, storage and processing power. Processing requirements to handle this plethora of data is quickly outpacing the utility of conventional processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Artyom M. Grigoryan , Sos S. Agaian , Karen Panetta

Deep learning has had remarkable success in robotic perception, but its data-centric nature suffers when it comes to generalizing to ever-changing environments. By contrast, physics-based optimization generalizes better, but it does not…

Scientific data processing often requires task-specific algorithms or AI models, creating a barrier for domain scientists who need to analyze their data but may not have extensive computing or image-processing expertise. This barrier is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ming Du , Xiangyu Yin , Yanqi Luo , Dishant Beniwal , Songyuan Tang , Hemant Sharma , Mathew J. Cherukara