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Learning deformable 3D object models from single-view in-the-wild images has enabled impressive 3D shape reconstruction without supervision. However, it remains unclear whether these models capture the semantic structure required for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sky Cen , Wufei Ma , Guofeng Zhang , Alan Yuille , Adam Kortylewski

To endow machines with the ability to perceive the real-world in a three dimensional representation as we do as humans is a fundamental and long-standing topic in Artificial Intelligence. Given different types of visual inputs such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bo Yang

We propose TaxaDiffusion, a taxonomy-informed training framework for diffusion models to generate fine-grained animal images with high morphological and identity accuracy. Unlike standard approaches that treat each species as an independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Mridul Khurana , Rajiv Ramnath , Anuj Karpatne , Wei-Lun Chao , Cheng Zhang

The task of shape abstraction with semantic part consistency is challenging due to the complex geometries of natural objects. Recent methods learn to represent an object shape using a set of simple primitives to fit the target.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Di Liu , Long Zhao , Qilong Zhangli , Yunhe Gao , Ting Liu , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Unsustainable trade in wildlife is one of the major threats affecting the global biodiversity crisis. An important part of the trade now occurs on the internet, especially on digital marketplaces and social media. Automated methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ritwik Kulkarni , Enrico Di Minin

Modeling the 3D world from sensor data for simulation is a scalable way of developing testing and validation environments for robotic learning problems such as autonomous driving. However, manually creating or re-creating real-world-like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Bokui Shen , Xinchen Yan , Charles R. Qi , Mahyar Najibi , Boyang Deng , Leonidas Guibas , Yin Zhou , Dragomir Anguelov

3D shapes captured by scanning devices are often incomplete due to occlusion. 3D shape completion methods have been explored to tackle this limitation. However, most of these methods are only trained and tested on a subset of categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lintai Wu , Junhui Hou , Linqi Song , Yong Xu

User generated 3D shapes in online repositories contain rich information about surfaces, primitives, and their geometric relations, often arranged in a hierarchy. We present a framework for learning representations of 3D shapes that reflect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Gopal Sharma , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Subhransu Maji

How can we find interpretable, domain-appropriate models of natural phenomena given some complex, raw data such as images? Can we use such models to derive scientific insight from the data? In this paper, we propose some methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Christopher J. Soelistyo , Alan R. Lowe

We present Farm3D, a method for learning category-specific 3D reconstructors for articulated objects, relying solely on "free" virtual supervision from a pre-trained 2D diffusion-based image generator. Recent approaches can learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Tomas Jakab , Ruining Li , Shangzhe Wu , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Most 3D face reconstruction methods rely on 3D morphable models, which disentangle the space of facial deformations into identity geometry, expressions and skin reflectance. These models are typically learned from a limited number of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Mallikarjun B R , Ayush Tewari , Hans-Peter Seidel , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

We propose an end-to-end unified 3D mesh recovery of humans and quadruped animals trained in a weakly-supervised way. Unlike recent work focusing on a single target class only, we aim to recover 3D mesh of broader classes with a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Kim Youwang , Kim Ji-Yeon , Kyungdon Joo , Tae-Hyun Oh

Reconstructing the underlying 3D surface of an object from a single image is a challenging problem that has received extensive attention from the computer vision community. Many learning-based approaches tackle this problem by learning a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Nicolai Häni , Jun-Jee Chao , Volkan Isler

Our goal is to recover the 3D shape and pose of dogs from a single image. This is a challenging task because dogs exhibit a wide range of shapes and appearances, and are highly articulated. Recent work has proposed to directly regress the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Nadine Rueegg , Silvia Zuffi , Konrad Schindler , Michael J. Black

Fast and robust three-dimensional reconstruction of facial geometric structure from a single image is a challenging task with numerous applications. Here, we introduce a learning-based approach for reconstructing a three-dimensional face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Elad Richardson , Matan Sela , Ron Kimmel

Automated capture of animal pose is transforming how we study neuroscience and social behavior. Movements carry important social cues, but current methods are not able to robustly estimate pose and shape of animals, particularly for social…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Marc Badger , Yufu Wang , Adarsh Modh , Ammon Perkes , Nikos Kolotouros , Bernd G. Pfrommer , Marc F. Schmidt , Kostas Daniilidis

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 propose a simple, yet effective approach for spatiotemporal feature learning using deep 3-dimensional convolutional networks (3D ConvNets) trained on a large scale supervised video dataset. Our findings are three-fold: 1) 3D ConvNets are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-08 Du Tran , Lubomir Bourdev , Rob Fergus , Lorenzo Torresani , Manohar Paluri

Humans perceive the 3D world as a set of distinct objects that are characterized by various low-level (geometry, reflectance) and high-level (connectivity, adjacency, symmetry) properties. Recent methods based on convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Despoina Paschalidou , Luc van Gool , Andreas Geiger

In the proposed SEHybridSN model, a dense block was used to reuse shallow feature and aimed at better exploiting hierarchical spatial spectral feature. Subsequent depth separable convolutional layers were used to discriminate the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Jiaxin Cao , Xiaoyan Li