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In the fields of computer graphics, computer vision and photogrammetry, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) are a major topic driving current research and development. However, the quality of NeRF-generated 3D scene reconstructions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Miriam Jäger , Steven Landgraf , Boris Jutzi

We propose the Uncertainty Contrastive Framework (UCF), a Positive-Unlabeled (PU) representation learning framework that integrates uncertainty-aware contrastive loss, adaptive temperature scaling, and a self-attention-guided LSTM encoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Elias Hossain , Umesh Biswas , Charan Gudla , Sai Phani Parsa

Implicit functions such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), occupancy networks, and signed distance functions (SDFs) have become pivotal in computer vision for reconstructing detailed object shapes from sparse views. Achieving optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Anna Susmelj , Mael Macuglia , Nataša Tagasovska , Reto Sutter , Sebastiano Caprara , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Ender Konukoglu

Image-based environment perception is an important component especially for driver assistance systems or autonomous driving. In this scope, modern neuronal networks are used to identify multiple objects as well as the according position and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Fabian Küppers

Accurate surface estimation is critical for downstream tasks in scientific simulation, and quantifying uncertainty in implicit neural 3D representations still remains a substantial challenge due to computational inefficiencies, scalability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Rushil Desai

Latest methods represent shapes with open surfaces using unsigned distance functions (UDFs). They train neural networks to learn UDFs and reconstruct surfaces with the gradients around the zero level set of the UDF. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely applied for nowadays 3D surface reconstruction tasks and such methods can be further divided into two categories, which respectively warp templates explicitly by moving vertices or represent 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xianghui Yang , Guosheng Lin , Zhenghao Chen , Luping Zhou

Autonomous robotic tasks require actively perceiving the environment to achieve application-specific goals. In this paper, we address the problem of positioning an RGB camera to collect the most informative images to represent an unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Liren Jin , Xieyuanli Chen , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

Normal estimation for unstructured point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Current methods achieve encouraging results by mapping local patches to normal vectors or learning local surface fitting using neural networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shujuan Li , Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We present a deep learning framework for probabilistic pixel-wise semantic segmentation, which we term Bayesian SegNet. Semantic segmentation is an important tool for visual scene understanding and a meaningful measure of uncertainty is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Alex Kendall , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Roberto Cipolla

Visualizing surgical scenes is crucial for revealing internal anatomical structures during minimally invasive procedures. Novel View Synthesis is a vital technique that offers geometry and appearance reconstruction, enhancing understanding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiaxin Guo , Jiangliu Wang , Ruofeng Wei , Di Kang , Qi Dou , Yun-hui Liu

The inability of artificial neural networks to assess the uncertainty of their predictions is an impediment to their widespread use. We distinguish two types of learnable uncertainty: model uncertainty due to a lack of training data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Hans Weytjens , Jochen De Weerdt

3D object reconstruction is important for semantic scene understanding. It is challenging to reconstruct detailed 3D shapes from monocular images directly due to a lack of depth information, occlusion and noise. Most current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ziwei Liao , Steven L. Waslander

Understanding sources of uncertainty is fundamental to trustworthy three-dimensional scene modeling. While recent advances in neural radiance fields (NeRFs) achieve impressive accuracy in scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ruxiao Duan , Alex Wong

Quantifying uncertainty in a model's predictions is important as it enables the safety of an AI system to be increased by acting on the model's output in an informed manner. This is crucial for applications where the cost of an error is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Aria Khoshsirat

Neural networks predictions are unreliable when the input sample is out of the training distribution or corrupted by noise. Being able to detect such failures automatically is fundamental to integrate deep learning algorithms into robotics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Antonio Loquercio , Mattia Segù , Davide Scaramuzza

Recent research that combines implicit 3D representation with semantic information, like Semantic-NeRF, has proven that NeRF model could perform excellently in rendering 3D structures with semantic labels. This research aims to extend the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ruibo Wang , Song Zhang , Ping Huang , Donghai Zhang , Wei Yan

Deep learning (DL) has shown great potential in medical image enhancement problems, such as super-resolution or image synthesis. However, to date, little consideration has been given to uncertainty quantification over the output image. Here…

This work proposes a semantic segmentation network that produces high-quality uncertainty estimates in a single forward pass. We exploit general representations from foundation models and unlabelled datasets through a Masked Image Modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 David S. W. Williams , Matthew Gadd , Paul Newman , Daniele De Martini

Deep neural networks are often ignorant about what they do not know and overconfident when they make uninformed predictions. Some recent approaches quantify classification uncertainty directly by training the model to output high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Murat Sensoy , Lance Kaplan , Federico Cerutti , Maryam Saleki