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Reconstructing the 3D geometry, pose, and motion of animals is a long-standing problem, which has a wide range of applications, from biology, livestock management, and animal conservation and welfare to content creation in digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ziqi Li , Abderraouf Amrani , Shri Rai , Hamid Laga

Detecting slender, overlapping structures remains a challenge in computational microscopy. While recent coordinate-based approaches improve detection, they often produce less accurate splines than pixel-based methods. We introduce a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Frans Zdyb , Albert Alonso , Julius B. Kirkegaard

Limbless animals such as snakes, limbless lizards, worms, eels, and lampreys move their slender, long bodies in three dimensions to traverse diverse environments. Accurately quantifying their continuous body's 3-D shape and motion is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Qiyuan Fu , Thomas W. Mitchel , Jin Seob Kim , Gregory S. Chirikjian , Chen Li

The 3D shapes of faces are well known to be discriminative. Yet despite this, they are rarely used for face recognition and always under controlled viewing conditions. We claim that this is a symptom of a serious but often overlooked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Anh Tuan Tran , Tal Hassner , Iacopo Masi , Gerard Medioni

Many robotic tasks involving some form of 3D visual perception greatly benefit from a complete knowledge of the working environment. However, robots often have to tackle unstructured environments and their onboard visual sensors can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Andrea Rosasco , Stefano Berti , Fabrizio Bottarel , Michele Colledanchise , Lorenzo Natale

Numerous techniques have been proposed for reconstructing 3D models for opaque objects in past decades. However, none of them can be directly applied to transparent objects. This paper presents a fully automatic approach for reconstructing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Bojian Wu , Yang Zhou , Yiming Qian , Minglun Gong , Hui Huang

Recovering textured 3D models of non-rigid human body shapes is challenging due to self-occlusions caused by complex body poses and shapes, clothing obstructions, lack of surface texture, background clutter, sparse set of cameras with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Abbhinav Venkat , Sai Sagar Jinka , Avinash Sharma

Three-dimensional shape reconstruction of 2D landmark points on a single image is a hallmark of human vision, but is a task that has been proven difficult for computer vision algorithms. We define a feed-forward deep neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Ruiqi Zhao , Yan Wang , Aleix Martinez

We learn a self-supervised, single-view 3D reconstruction model that predicts the 3D mesh shape, texture and camera pose of a target object with a collection of 2D images and silhouettes. The proposed method does not necessitate 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xueting Li , Sifei Liu , Kihwan Kim , Shalini De Mello , Varun Jampani , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jan Kautz

We are witnessing an explosion of neural implicit representations in computer vision and graphics. Their applicability has recently expanded beyond tasks such as shape generation and image-based rendering to the fundamental problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Jiaming Sun , Xi Chen , Qianqian Wang , Zhengqi Li , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Xiaowei Zhou , Noah Snavely

Tracking and reconstructing 3D objects from cluttered scenes are the key components for computer vision, robotics and autonomous driving systems. While recent progress in implicit function has shown encouraging results on high-quality 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianglong Ye , Yuntao Chen , Naiyan Wang , Xiaolong Wang

In this work we address the challenging problem of multiview 3D surface reconstruction. We introduce a neural network architecture that simultaneously learns the unknown geometry, camera parameters, and a neural renderer that approximates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Lior Yariv , Yoni Kasten , Dror Moran , Meirav Galun , Matan Atzmon , Ronen Basri , Yaron Lipman

The availability of affordable and portable depth sensors has made scanning objects and people simpler than ever. However, dealing with occlusions and missing parts is still a significant challenge. The problem of reconstructing a (possibly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Or Litany , Alex Bronstein , Michael Bronstein , Ameesh Makadia

One challenge that remains open in 3D deep learning is how to efficiently represent 3D data to feed deep networks. Recent works have relied on volumetric or point cloud representations, but such approaches suffer from a number of issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Jhony K. Pontes , Chen Kong , Sridha Sridharan , Simon Lucey , Anders Eriksson , Clinton Fookes

Reconstructing detailed 3D scenes from single-view images remains a challenging task due to limitations in existing approaches, which primarily focus on geometric shape recovery, overlooking object appearances and fine shape details. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yixin Chen , Junfeng Ni , Nan Jiang , Yaowei Zhang , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

We consider the problem of 3D shape reconstruction from multi-modal data, given uncertain calibration parameters. Typically, 3D data modalities can be in diverse forms such as sparse point sets, volumetric slices, 2D photos and so on. To…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Moshe Eliasof , Andrei Sharf , Eran Treister

Humans perceive and construct the world as an arrangement of simple parametric models. In particular, we can often describe man-made environments using volumetric primitives such as cuboids or cylinders. Inferring these primitives is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Florian Kluger , Eric Brachmann , Michael Ying Yang , Bodo Rosenhahn

Learning-based 3D reconstruction methods have shown impressive results. However, most methods require 3D supervision which is often hard to obtain for real-world datasets. Recently, several works have proposed differentiable rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Michael Niemeyer , Lars Mescheder , Michael Oechsle , Andreas Geiger

The 3D localisation of an object and the estimation of its properties, such as shape and dimensions, are challenging under varying degrees of transparency and lighting conditions. In this paper, we propose a method for jointly localising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Alessio Xompero , Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla , Apostolos Modas , Pascal Frossard , Andrea Cavallaro

Reconstructing high-quality 3D objects from sparse, partial observations from a single view is of crucial importance for various applications in computer vision, robotics, and graphics. While recent neural implicit modeling methods show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Shivam Duggal , Zihao Wang , Wei-Chiu Ma , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Justin Liang , Shenlong Wang , Raquel Urtasun