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Stereo depth estimation relies on optimal correspondence matching between pixels on epipolar lines in the left and right images to infer depth. In this work, we revisit the problem from a sequence-to-sequence correspondence perspective to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Zhaoshuo Li , Xingtong Liu , Nathan Drenkow , Andy Ding , Francis X. Creighton , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath

Ultrasound imaging is a cost-effective and radiation-free modality for visualizing anatomical structures in real-time, making it ideal for guiding surgical interventions. However, its limited field-of-view, speckle noise, and imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Remi Delaunay , Ruisi Zhang , Filipe C. Pedrosa , Navid Feizi , Dianne Sacco , Rajni Patel , Jayender Jagadeesan

To achieve accurate 3D object detection at a low cost for autonomous driving, many multi-camera methods have been proposed and solved the occlusion problem of monocular approaches. However, due to the lack of accurate estimated depth,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Ching-Yu Tseng , Yi-Rong Chen , Hsin-Ying Lee , Tsung-Han Wu , Wen-Chin Chen , Winston H. Hsu

Current few-shot learning models capture visual object relations in the so-called meta-learning setting under a fixed-resolution input. However, such models have a limited generalization ability under the scale and location mismatch between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hongguang Zhang , Philip H. S. Torr , Piotr Koniusz

Vision transformers have been successfully applied to image recognition tasks due to their ability to capture long-range dependencies within an image. However, there are still gaps in both performance and computational cost between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jianyuan Guo , Kai Han , Han Wu , Yehui Tang , Xinghao Chen , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu

We present a minimalistic but effective neural network that computes dense facial correspondences in highly unconstrained RGB images. Our network learns a per-pixel flow and a matchability mask between 2D input photographs of a person and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Ronald Yu , Shunsuke Saito , Haoxiang Li , Duygu Ceylan , Hao Li

This research presents a novel depth estimation algorithm based on a Transformer-encoder architecture, tailored for the NYU and KITTI Depth Dataset. This research adopts a transformer model, initially renowned for its success in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Linhan Xia , Junbang Liu , Tong Wu

Transformer-based deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success across various computer vision tasks, largely attributed to their long-range self-attention mechanism and scalability. However, most transformer architectures embed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Muyi Bao , Changyu Zeng , Yifan Wang , Zhengni Yang , Zimu Wang , Guangliang Cheng , Jun Qi , Wei Wang

Template matching by normalized cross correlation (NCC) is widely used for finding image correspondences. We improve the robustness of this algorithm by preprocessing images with "siamese" convolutional networks trained to maximize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Davit Buniatyan , Thomas Macrina , Dodam Ih , Jonathan Zung , H. Sebastian Seung

Most existing methods for depth estimation from a focal stack of images employ convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using 2D or 3D convolutions over a fixed set of images. However, their effectiveness is constrained by the local properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xueyang Kang , Fengze Han , Abdur R. Fayjie , Patrick Vandewalle , Kourosh Khoshelham , Dong Gong

Conventional techniques to establish dense correspondences across visually or semantically similar images focused on designing a task-specific matching prior, which is difficult to model. To overcome this, recent learning-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Sunghwan Hong , Seungryong Kim

Semi-dense detector-free approaches (SDF), such as LoFTR, are currently among the most popular image matching methods. While SDF methods are trained to establish correspondences between two images, their performances are almost exclusively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Matthieu Vilain , Rémi Giraud , Hugo Germain , Guillaume Bourmaud

We propose a direct, regression-based approach to 2D human pose estimation from single images. We formulate the problem as a sequence prediction task, which we solve using a Transformer network. This network directly learns a regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Weian Mao , Yongtao Ge , Chunhua Shen , Zhi Tian , Xinlong Wang , Zhibin Wang , Anton van den Hengel

We address the problem of finding reliable dense correspondences between a pair of images. This is a challenging task due to strong appearance differences between the corresponding scene elements and ambiguities generated by repetitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Ignacio Rocco , Mircea Cimpoi , Relja Arandjelović , Akihiko Torii , Tomas Pajdla , Josef Sivic

This paper introduces VMatcher, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer network for semi-dense feature matching between image pairs. Learning-based feature matching methods, whether detector-based or detector-free, achieve state-of-the-art performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ali Youssef

Object detection is a main task in computer vision. Template matching is the reference method for detecting objects with arbitrary templates. However, template matching computational complexity depends on the rotation accuracy, being a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Antonio Martinez-Sanchez , Ulrike Homberg , José María Almira , Harold Phelippeau

Keypoint-based detectors have achieved pretty-well performance. However, incorrect keypoint matching is still widespread and greatly affects the performance of the detector. In this paper, we propose CentripetalNet which uses centripetal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Zhiwei Dong , Guoxuan Li , Yue Liao , Fei Wang , Pengju Ren , Chen Qian

The problem of testing whether a signal lies within a given subspace, also named matched subspace detection, has been well studied when the signal is represented as a vector. However, the matched subspace detection methods based on vectors…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Cuiping Li , Xiao-Yang Liu , Yue Sun

Recent camera-based 3D object detection is limited by the precision of transforming from image to 3D feature spaces, as well as the accuracy of object localization within the 3D space. This paper aims to address such a fundamental problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Chaoqun Wang , Yiran Qin , Zijian Kang , Ningning Ma , Ruimao Zhang

In industrial inspection and component alignment tasks, template matching requires efficient estimation of a target's position and geometric state (rotation and scaling) under complex backgrounds to support precise downstream operations.…

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