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For speech research, ultrasound tongue imaging provides a non-invasive means for visualizing tongue position and movement during articulation. Extracting tongue contours from ultrasound images is a basic step in analyzing ultrasound data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-25 Jian Zhu , Will Styler , Ian Calloway

Rectifying the orientation of images represents a daily task for every photographer. This task may be complicated even for the human eye, especially when the horizon or other horizontal and vertical lines in the image are missing. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Ionut Mironica , Andrei Zugravu

Fetal motion discernment utilizing spectral images extracted from accelerometric data incident on pregnant mothers abdomen has gained substantial attention in the state-of-the-art research. It is an essential practice to avoid adverse…

Previous deep image registration methods that employ single homography, multi-grid homography, or thin-plate spline often struggle with real scenes containing depth disparities due to their inherent limitations. To address this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Haokai Zhu , Bo Qu , Si-Yuan Cao , Runmin Zhang , Shujie Chen , Bailin Yang , Hui-Liang Shen

Monocular dense 3D reconstruction of deformable objects is a hard ill-posed problem in computer vision. Current techniques either require dense correspondences and rely on motion and deformation cues, or assume a highly accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Vladislav Golyanik , Soshi Shimada , Kiran Varanasi , Didier Stricker

Deformable medical image registration is a crucial aspect of medical image analysis. In recent years, researchers have begun leveraging auxiliary tasks (such as supervised segmentation) to provide anatomical structure information for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Hongchao Zhou , Shunbo Hu

In this paper, we present a novel deep-learning model for deformable registration of ultrasound images and an unsupervised approach to training this model. Our network employs recurrent all-pairs field transforms (RAFT) and a spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 FNU Abhimanyu , Andrew L. Orekhov , John Galeotti , Howie Choset

Conventional deformable registration methods aim at solving an optimization model carefully designed on image pairs and their computational costs are exceptionally high. In contrast, recent deep learning based approaches can provide fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Risheng Liu , Zi Li , Xin Fan , Chenying Zhao , Hao Huang , Zhongxuan Luo

Manipulating deformable objects is a ubiquitous task in household environments, demanding adequate representation and accurate dynamics prediction due to the objects' infinite degrees of freedom. This work proposes DeformNet, which utilizes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chenchang Li , Zihao Ai , Tong Wu , Xiaosa Li , Wenbo Ding , Huazhe Xu

U-Net style networks are commonly utilized in unsupervised image registration to predict dense displacement fields, which for high-resolution volumetric image data is a resource-intensive and time-consuming task. To tackle this challenge,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-07 Xi Jia , Alexander Thorley , Alberto Gomez , Wenqi Lu , Dipak Kotecha , Jinming Duan

In this work we present a novel approach for computing correspondences between non-rigid objects, by exploiting a reduced representation of deformation fields. Different from existing works that represent deformation fields by training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ramana Sundararaman , Riccardo Marin , Emanuele Rodola , Maks Ovsjanikov

Deformable shapes provide important and complex geometric features of objects presented in images. However, such information is oftentimes missing or underutilized as implicit knowledge in many image analysis tasks. This paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Jian Wang , Miaomiao Zhang

We present Neural Shape Deformation Priors, a novel method for shape manipulation that predicts mesh deformations of non-rigid objects from user-provided handle movements. State-of-the-art methods cast this problem as an optimization task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Jiapeng Tang , Lev Markhasin , Bi Wang , Justus Thies , Matthias Nießner

In recent years, the widespread use of deep neural networks (DNNs) has facilitated great improvements in performance for computer vision tasks like image classification and object recognition. In most realistic computer vision applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tejas Borkar , Lina Karam

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to input deformations in the form of vector fields of pixel displacements and to other parameterized geometric deformations e.g. translations, rotations, etc. Current input deformation certification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Motasem Alfarra , Adel Bibi , Naeemullah Khan , Philip H. S. Torr , Bernard Ghanem

This work focuses on mitigating two limitations in the joint learning of local feature detectors and descriptors. First, the ability to estimate the local shape (scale, orientation, etc.) of feature points is often neglected during dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Zixin Luo , Lei Zhou , Xuyang Bai , Hongkai Chen , Jiahui Zhang , Yao Yao , Shiwei Li , Tian Fang , Long Quan

PET imaging is an invaluable tool in clinical settings as it captures the functional activity of both healthy anatomy and cancerous lesions. Developing automatic lesion segmentation methods for PET images is crucial since manual lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Tanya Gatsak , Kumar Abhishek , Hanene Ben Yedder , Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Ghassan Hamarneh

Non-linear spectral decompositions of images based on one-homogeneous functionals such as total variation have gained considerable attention in the last few years. Due to their ability to extract spectral components corresponding to objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Tamara G. Grossmann , Yury Korolev , Guy Gilboa , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Recent successes in deep learning based deformable image registration (DIR) methods have demonstrated that complex deformation can be learnt directly from data while reducing computation time when compared to traditional methods. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Sharib Ali , Jens Rittscher

Defocus deblurring is a challenging task due to the spatially varying nature of defocus blur. While deep learning approach shows great promise in solving image restoration problems, defocus deblurring demands accurate training data that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Lingyan Ruan , Bin Chen , Jizhou Li , Miuling Lam