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We describe how hierarchical concepts can be represented in three types of layered neural networks. The aim is to support recognition of the concepts when partial information about the concepts is presented, and also when some of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Nancy A. Lynch

Structuring latent representations in a hierarchical manner enables models to learn patterns at multiple levels of abstraction. However, most prevalent image understanding models focus on visual similarity, and learning visual hierarchies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ziwei Wang , Sameera Ramasinghe , Chenchen Xu , Julien Monteil , Loris Bazzani , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) are able to reconstruct scenes with unprecedented fidelity, and various recent works have extended NeRF to handle dynamic scenes. A common approach to reconstruct such non-rigid scenes is through the use of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Keunhong Park , Utkarsh Sinha , Peter Hedman , Jonathan T. Barron , Sofien Bouaziz , Dan B Goldman , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Steven M. Seitz

This study presents a multisensory machine learning architecture for object recognition by employing a novel dataset that was constructed with the iCub robot, which is equipped with three cameras and a depth sensor. The proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Murat Kirtay , Guido Schillaci , Verena V. Hafner

This paper aims to recover the intrinsic reflectance layer and shading layer given a single image. Though this intrinsic image decomposition problem has been studied for decades, it remains a significant challenge in cases of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaodong Wang , Zijun He , Xin Yuan

We present a neural rendering-based method called NeRO for reconstructing the geometry and the BRDF of reflective objects from multiview images captured in an unknown environment. Multiview reconstruction of reflective objects is extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yuan Liu , Peng Wang , Cheng Lin , Xiaoxiao Long , Jiepeng Wang , Lingjie Liu , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Neutron reflectometry (NR) has emerged as a unique technique for the investigation of structure and magnetism of thin films of both biologically relevant and magnetic materials. The advantage of NR with respect to many other…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-24 Surendra Singh

We present neural radiance fields (NeRF) with templates, dubbed Template-NeRF, for modeling appearance and geometry and generating dense shape correspondences simultaneously among objects of the same category from only multi-view posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Jianfei Guo , Zhiyuan Yang , Xi Lin , Qingfu Zhang

In domains where computational resources and labeled data are limited, such as in robotics, deep networks with millions of weights might not be the optimal solution. In this paper, we introduce a connectivity scheme for pyramidal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Henrique Siqueira , Pablo Barros , Sven Magg , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

Retinal image of surrounding objects varies tremendously due to the changes in position, size, pose, illumination condition, background context, occlusion, noise, and nonrigid deformations. But despite these huge variations, our visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Mohammad Ganjtabesh , Timothée Masquelier

Implicit representations like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) showed impressive results for photorealistic rendering of complex scenes with fine details. However, ideal or near-perfectly specular reflecting objects such as mirrors, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Leif Van Holland , Ruben Bliersbach , Jan U. Müller , Patrick Stotko , Reinhard Klein

Recently, significant progress has been made in the study of methods for 3D reconstruction from multiple images using implicit neural representations, exemplified by the neural radiance field (NeRF) method. Such methods, which are based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Wooseok Kim , Taiki Fukiage , Takeshi Oishi

In this paper, we propose a data representation model that demonstrates hierarchical feature learning using nsNMF. We extend unit algorithm into several layers. Experiments with document and image data successfully discovered feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Hyun Ah Song , Soo-Young Lee

Inverse rendering aims at recovering both geometry and materials of objects. It provides a more compatible reconstruction for conventional rendering engines, compared with the neural radiance fields (NeRFs). On the other hand, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Haoyuan Wang , Wenbo Hu , Lei Zhu , Rynson W. H. Lau

We introduce Multi-Object Generative Perception (MultiGP), a generative inverse rendering method for stochastic sampling of all radiometric constituents -- reflectance, texture, and illumination -- underlying object appearance from a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Nobuo Yoshii , Xinran Nicole Han , Ryo Kawahara , Todd Zickler , Ko Nishino

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have shown impressive performance in novel view synthesis, but challenges remain in rendering scenes with complex specular reflections and highlights. Existing approaches may produce blurry reflections due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenpeng Xing , Jie Chen , Zaifeng Yang , Tiancheng Zhao , Gaolei Li , Changting Lin , Yike Guo , Meng Han

Constructing a high-quality dense map in real-time is essential for robotics, AR/VR, and digital twins applications. As Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) greatly improves the mapping performance, in this paper, we propose a NeRF-based mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Chenxing Jiang , Hanwen Zhang , Peize Liu , Zehuan Yu , Hui Cheng , Boyu Zhou , Shaojie Shen

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) provide a high fidelity, continuous scene representation that can realistically represent complex behaviour of light. Despite works like Ref-NeRF improving geometry through physics-inspired models, the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jack Naylor , Viorela Ila , Donald G. Dansereau

The reflection superposition phenomenon is complex and widely distributed in the real world, which derives various simplified linear and nonlinear formulations of the problem. In this paper, based on the investigation of the weaknesses of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Qiming Hu , Xiaojie Guo

This paper presents a method, namely NeuS-PIR, for recovering relightable neural surfaces using pre-integrated rendering from multi-view images or video. Unlike methods based on NeRF and discrete meshes, our method utilizes implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Shi Mao , Chenming Wu , Zhelun Shen , Yifan Wang , Dayan Wu , Liangjun Zhang