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In this paper we address three different computer vision tasks using a single basic architecture: depth prediction, surface normal estimation, and semantic labeling. We use a multiscale convolutional network that is able to adapt easily to…

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Robotic-assisted surgery allows surgeons to conduct precise surgical operations with stereo vision and flexible motor control. However, the lack of 3D spatial perception limits situational awareness during procedures and hinders mastering…

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We present a novel method for single image depth estimation using surface normal constraints. Existing depth estimation methods either suffer from the lack of geometric constraints, or are limited to the difficulty of reliably capturing…

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Reflective and textureless surfaces remain a challenge in multi-view 3D reconstruction. Both camera pose calibration and shape reconstruction often fail due to insufficient or unreliable cross-view visual features. To address these issues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mingzhi Pei , Xu Cao , Xiangyi Wang , Heng Guo , Zhanyu Ma

3D geometry is a very informative cue when interacting with and navigating an environment. This writing proposes a new approach to 3D reconstruction and scene understanding, which implicitly learns 3D geometry from depth maps pairing a deep…

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This paper explores convolutional generative networks as an alternative to iterative reconstruction algorithms in medical image reconstruction. The task of medical image reconstruction involves mapping of projection main data collected from…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 V. S. S. Kandarpa , Alexandre Bousse , Didier Benoit , Dimitris Visvikis

This paper presents a unified surface reconstruction and rendering framework for LiDAR-visual systems, integrating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Neural Distance Fields (NDF) to recover both appearance and structural information from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jianheng Liu , Chunran Zheng , Yunfei Wan , Bowen Wang , Yixi Cai , Fu Zhang

Automated surface segmentation of retinal layer is important and challenging in analyzing optical coherence tomography (OCT). Recently, many deep learning based methods have been developed for this task and yield remarkable performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Hong Liu , Dong Wei , Donghuan Lu , Yuexiang Li , Kai Ma , Liansheng Wang , Yefeng Zheng

3D reconstruction of endoscopic surgery scenes plays a vital role in enhancing scene perception, enabling AR visualization, and supporting context-aware decision-making in image-guided surgery. A critical yet challenging step in this…

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Recovering a 3D surface from its surface normal map, a problem known as normal integration, is a key component for photometric shape reconstruction techniques such as shape-from-shading and photometric stereo. The vast majority of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Francesco Milano , Manuel López-Antequera , Naina Dhingra , Roland Siegwart , Robert Thiel

Novel view synthesis and 3D modeling using implicit neural field representation are shown to be very effective for calibrated multi-view cameras. Such representations are known to benefit from additional geometric and semantic supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Nikola Popovic , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Lensless cameras provide a framework to build thin imaging systems by replacing the lens in a conventional camera with an amplitude or phase mask near the sensor. Existing methods for lensless imaging can recover the depth and intensity of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-19 Yucheng Zheng , Yi Hua , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , M. Salman Asif

Neural implicit 3D reconstruction can reproduce shapes without 3D supervision, and it learns the 3D scene through volume rendering methods and neural implicit representations. Current neural surface reconstruction methods tend to randomly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Shikun Zhang , Yiqun Wang , Cunjian Chen , Yong Li , Qiuhong Ke

Recent works on 3D reconstruction from posed images have demonstrated that direct inference of scene-level 3D geometry without test-time optimization is feasible using deep neural networks, showing remarkable promise and high efficiency.…

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In the past few years, significant advancements were made in reconstruction of observed natural images from fMRI brain recordings using deep-learning tools. Here, for the first time, we show that dense 3D depth maps of observed 2D natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Guy Gaziv , Michal Irani

Tomographic imaging reveals internal structures of 3D objects and is crucial for medical diagnoses. Visualizing the morphology and appearance of non-planar sparse anatomical structures that extend over multiple 2D slices in tomographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Leonhard Rist , Pluvio Stephan , Noah Maul , Linda Vorberg , Hendrik Ditt , Michael Sühling , Andreas Maier , Bernhard Egger , Oliver Taubmann

Reconstruction of deformable scenes from endoscopic videos is important for many applications such as intraoperative navigation, surgical visual perception, and robotic surgery. It is a foundational requirement for realizing autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Shreya Saha , Zekai Liang , Shan Lin , Jingpei Lu , Michael Yip , Sainan Liu

This paper presents a new variational inference framework for image restoration and a convolutional neural network (CNN) structure that can solve the restoration problems described by the proposed framework. Earlier CNN-based image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

3D decomposition/segmentation still remains a challenge as large-scale 3D annotated data is not readily available. Contemporary approaches typically leverage 2D machine-generated segments, integrating them for 3D consistency. While the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Tianhao Wu , Chuanxia Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham , Qianyi Wu

We introduce a novel approach to learn geometries such as depth and surface normal from images while incorporating geometric context. The difficulty of reliably capturing geometric context in existing methods impedes their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiaoxiao Long , Yuhang Zheng , Yupeng Zheng , Beiwen Tian , Cheng Lin , Lingjie Liu , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou , Wenping Wang