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In many applications, maintaining a consistent map of the environment is key to enabling robotic platforms to perform higher-level decision making. Detection of already visited locations is one of the primary ways in which map consistency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Alexander Millane , Helen Oleynikova , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , César Cadena

We present a novel online depth map fusion approach that learns depth map aggregation in a latent feature space. While previous fusion methods use an explicit scene representation like signed distance functions (SDFs), we propose a learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Silvan Weder , Johannes L. Schönberger , Marc Pollefeys , Martin R. Oswald

We present a method for fast biomedical image atlas construction using neural fields. Atlases are key to biomedical image analysis tasks, yet conventional and deep network estimation methods remain time-intensive. In this preliminary work,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Zeen Chi , Zhongxiao Cong , Clinton J. Wang , Yingcheng Liu , Esra Abaci Turk , P. Ellen Grant , S. Mazdak Abulnaga , Polina Golland , Neel Dey

High-fidelity sensor simulation of light-based sensors such as cameras and LiDARs is critical for safe and accurate autonomy testing. Neural radiance field (NeRF)-based methods that reconstruct sensor observations via ray-casting of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yun Chen , Matthew Haines , Jingkang Wang , Sahil Jain , Krzysztof Baron-Lis , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Ze Yang , Raquel Urtasun

Perceptual aliasing and weak textures pose significant challenges to the task of place recognition, hindering the performance of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems. This paper presents a novel model, called UMF (standing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Alberto García-Hernández , Riccardo Giubilato , Klaus H. Strobl , Javier Civera , Rudolph Triebel

We introduce a new task, novel view synthesis for LiDAR sensors. While traditional model-based LiDAR simulators with style-transfer neural networks can be applied to render novel views, they fall short of producing accurate and realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Tang Tao , Longfei Gao , Guangrun Wang , Yixing Lao , Peng Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Dayang Hao , Xiaodan Liang , Mathieu Salzmann , Kaicheng Yu

Large-scale multi-session LiDAR mapping is essential for a wide range of applications, including surveying, autonomous driving, crowdsourced mapping, and multi-agent navigation. However, existing approaches often struggle with data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Xiangcheng Hu , Jin Wu , Jianhao Jiao , Binqian Jiang , Wei Zhang , Wenshuo Wang , Ping Tan

Photo-realistic free-viewpoint rendering of real-world scenes using classical computer graphics techniques is challenging, because it requires the difficult step of capturing detailed appearance and geometry models. Recent studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Lingjie Liu , Jiatao Gu , Kyaw Zaw Lin , Tat-Seng Chua , Christian Theobalt

Recently the dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on neural implicit representation has shown impressive progress in hole filling and high-fidelity mapping. Nevertheless, existing methods either heavily rely on known…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jiahui Wang , Yinan Deng , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

We introduce an improved solution to the neural image-based rendering problem in computer vision. Given a set of images taken from a freely moving camera at train time, the proposed approach could synthesize a realistic image of the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Nishant Jain , Suryansh Kumar , Luc Van Gool

Graph neural networks aim to learn representations for graph-structured data and show impressive performance, particularly in node classification. Recently, many methods have studied the representations of GNNs from the perspective of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jiaqi Sun , Lin Zhang , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang , Peng XU , Yujiu Yang

Neural encoding models aim to predict fMRI-measured brain responses to natural images. fMRI data is acquired as a 3D volume of voxels, where each voxel has a defined spatial location in the brain. However, conventional encoding models often…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-11 Haomiao Chen , Keith W Jamison , Mert R. Sabuncu , Amy Kuceyeski

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a popular method in representing 3D scenes by optimising a continuous volumetric scene function. Its large success which lies in applying volumetric rendering (VR) is also its Achilles' heel in producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zhe Jun Tang , Tat-Jen Cham , Haiyu Zhao

Recent advances have enabled a single neural network to serve as an implicit scene representation, establishing the mapping function between spatial coordinates and scene properties. In this paper, we make a further step towards continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Zike Yan , Yuxin Tian , Xuesong Shi , Ping Guo , Peng Wang , Hongbin Zha

Though visual and repeat navigation is a convenient solution for mobile robot self-navigation, achieving balance between efficiency and robustness in task environment still remains challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel visual and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jikai Wang , Yunqi Cheng , Zonghai Chen

Machine Learning surrogates for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Transformers, have become a new important approach for accelerating physics simulations. However, we identify a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Paul Garnier , Vincent Lannelongue , Elie Hachem

Neural field-based SLAM methods typically employ a single, monolithic field as their scene representation. This prevents efficient incorporation of loop closure constraints and limits scalability. To address these shortcomings, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Leonard Bruns , Jun Zhang , Patric Jensfelt

Geometry problem solving (GPS) is a challenging mathematical reasoning task requiring multi-modal understanding, fusion, and reasoning. Existing neural solvers take GPS as a vision-language task but are short in the representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Zhong-Zhi Li , Ming-Liang Zhang , Fei Yin , Cheng-Lin Liu

The complexity of high-dimensional datasets presents significant challenges for machine learning models, including overfitting, computational complexity, and difficulties in interpreting results. To address these challenges, it is essential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Gaurav Srivastava , Mahesh Jangid

We introduce DyNFL, a novel neural field-based approach for high-fidelity re-simulation of LiDAR scans in dynamic driving scenes. DyNFL processes LiDAR measurements from dynamic environments, accompanied by bounding boxes of moving objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Hanfeng Wu , Xingxing Zuo , Stefan Leutenegger , Or Litany , Konrad Schindler , Shengyu Huang