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The latest advances in computer-assisted precision medicine are making it feasible to move from population-wide models that are useful to discover aggregate patterns that hold for group-based analysis to patient-specific models that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Da Ma , Vincent Chow , Karteek Popuri , Mirza Faisal Beg

Coarse-to-fine 3D instance segmentation methods show weak performances compared to recent Grouping-based, Kernel-based and Transformer-based methods. We argue that this is due to two limitations: 1) Instance size overestimation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Sangyun Shin , Kaichen Zhou , Madhu Vankadari , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

The medial axis transform is a well-known tool for shape recognition. Instead of the object contour, it equivalently describes a binary object in terms of a skeleton containing all centres of maximal inscribed discs. While this shape…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Julia Gierke , Pascal Peter

We introduce Appearance-MAT (AMAT), a generalization of the medial axis transform for natural images, that is framed as a weighted geometric set cover problem. We make the following contributions: i) we extend previous medial point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson

Recent probabilistic methods for 3D triangular meshes capture diverse shapes by differentiable mesh connectivity, but face high computational costs with increased shape details. We introduce a new differentiable mesh processing method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sanghyun Son , Matheus Gadelha , Yang Zhou , Matthew Fisher , Zexiang Xu , Yi-Ling Qiao , Ming C. Lin , Yi Zhou

Traditional explicit 3D representations, such as point clouds and meshes, demand significant storage to capture fine geometric details and require complex indexing systems for surface lookups, making functional representations an efficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Panagiotis Sapoutzoglou , George Terzakis , Georgios Floros , Maria Pateraki

When representing a solid object there are alternatives to the use of traditional explicit (surface meshes) or implicit (zero crossing of implicit functions) methods. Skeletal representations encode shape information in a mixed fashion:…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Andrea Tagliasacchi

The cochlea, the auditory part of the inner ear, is a spiral-shaped organ with large morphological variability. An individualized assessment of its shape is essential for clinical applications related to tonotopy and cochlear implantation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Wilhelm Wimmer , Clair Vandersteen , Nicolas Guevara , Marco Caversaccio , Hervé Delingette

Accurate surface geometry representation is crucial in 3D visual computing. Explicit representations, such as polygonal meshes, and implicit representations, like signed distance functions, each have distinct advantages, making efficient…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Christian Stippel , Felix Mujkanovic , Thomas Leimkühler , Pedro Hermosilla

We propose FaceCom, a method for 3D facial shape completion, which delivers high-fidelity results for incomplete facial inputs of arbitrary forms. Unlike end-to-end shape completion methods based on point clouds or voxels, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yinglong Li , Hongyu Wu , Xiaogang Wang , Qingzhao Qin , Yijiao Zhao , Yong wang , Aimin Hao

We propose a novel neural architecture for representing 3D surfaces, which harnesses two complementary shape representations: (i) an explicit representation via an atlas, i.e., embeddings of 2D domains into 3D; (ii) an implicit-function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Matthew Fisher , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir G. Kim

Real-time 3D reconstruction is crucial for robotics and augmented reality, yet current simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM) approaches often struggle to maintain structural consistency and robust pose estimation in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xu Wang , Boyao Han , Xiaojun Chen , Ying Liu , Ruihui Li

Ultrasound (US) imaging is increasingly used in spinal procedures due to its real-time, radiation-free capabilities; however, its effectiveness is hindered by shadowing artifacts that obscure deeper tissue structures. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Miruna-Alexandra Gafencu , Reem Shaban , Yordanka Velikova , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Nassir Navab

Whole-slide image (WSI) preprocessing, comprising tissue detection followed by patch extraction, is foundational to AI-driven computational pathology but remains a major bottleneck for scaling to large and heterogeneous cohorts. We present…

This research proposes a novel adjustable algorithm for reconstructing 3D body shapes from front and side silhouettes. Most recent silhouette-based approaches use a deep neural network trained by silhouettes and key points to estimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Aref Hemati , Azam Bastanfard

Shape completion, a crucial task in 3D computer vision, involves predicting and filling the missing regions of scanned or partially observed objects. Current methods expect known pose or canonical coordinates and do not perform well under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Burak Bekci , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari , Mahdi Saleh

Skeleton creation is an important phase in the character animation pipeline. However, handcrafting skeleton takes extensive labor time and domain knowledge. Automatic skeletonization provides a solution. However, most of the current…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Jing Ma , Jin Wang , Jituo Li , Dongliang Zhang

Medical images like CT and MRI provide detailed information about the internal structure of the body, and identifying key anatomical structures from these images plays a crucial role in clinical workflows. Current methods treat it as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Xiaoyu Bai , Yong Xia

Curve skeleton extraction from unorganized point cloud is a fundamental task of computer vision and three-dimensional data preprocessing and visualization. A great amount of work has been done to extract skeleton from point cloud. but the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Yan Lin , Ji Liu , Jianlin Zhou

Reducing the complexity of the pipeline of instance segmentation is crucial for real-world applications. This work addresses this issue by introducing an anchor-box free and single-shot instance segmentation framework, termed PolarMask,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Enze Xie , Wenhai Wang , Mingyu Ding , Ruimao Zhang , Ping Luo