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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) implicitly model continuous three-dimensional scenes using a set of images with known camera poses, enabling the rendering of photorealistic novel views. However, existing NeRF-based methods encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhengyu Zou , Jingfeng Li , Hao Li , Xiaolei Hou , Jinwen Hu , Jingkun Chen , Lechao Cheng , Dingwen Zhang

We present a new method for estimating the Neural Reflectance Field (NReF) of an object from a set of posed multi-view images under unknown lighting. NReF represents 3D geometry and appearance of objects in a disentangled manner, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xiu Li , Xiao Li , Yan Lu

We present a novel approach to online multi-target tracking based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Tracking multiple objects in real-world scenes involves many challenges, including a) an a-priori unknown and time-varying number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Anton Milan , Seyed Hamid Rezatofighi , Anthony Dick , Ian Reid , Konrad Schindler

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) are gaining significant interest for online active object reconstruction due to their exceptional memory efficiency and requirement for only posed RGB inputs. Previous NeRF-based view planning methods exhibit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Sicong Pan , Liren Jin , Hao Hu , Marija Popović , Maren Bennewitz

This study addresses the challenging problem of active view selection and uncertainty quantification within the domain of Radiance Fields. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have greatly advanced image rendering and reconstruction, but the cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wen Jiang , Boshu Lei , Kostas Daniilidis

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for 3D scene representation and rendering. These data-driven models can learn to synthesize high-quality images from sparse 2D observations, enabling realistic and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Andras Horvath , Csaba M. Jozsa

NeRF is a popular model that efficiently represents 3D objects from 2D images. However, vanilla NeRF has some important limitations. NeRF must be trained on each object separately. The training time is long since we encode the object's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Dominik Zimny , Artur Kasymov , Adam Kania , Jacek Tabor , Maciej Zięba , Marcin Mazur , Przemysław Spurek

Radio applications are increasingly being used in urban environments for cellular radio systems and safety applications that use vehicle-vehicle, and vehicle-to-infrastructure. We present a novel ray tracing-based radio propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Ruichen Wang , Dinesh Manocha

In the context of visual navigation in unknown scenes, both "exploration" and "exploitation" are equally crucial. Robots must first establish environmental cognition through exploration and then utilize the cognitive information to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yichen Wang , Qiming Liu , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Transmittance estimators such as Occupancy Grid (OG) can accelerate the training and rendering of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) by predicting important samples that contributes much to the generated image. However, OG manages occupied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Yoshio Kato , Shuhei Tarashima

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) significantly degrades when only a limited number of views are available. To complement the lack of 3D information, depth-based models, such as DSNeRF and MonoSDF, explicitly assume the availability of accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Guangcong Wang , Zhaoxi Chen , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

In this work, we propose the use of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) as a scene representation for visual localization. Recently, NeRF has been employed to enhance pose regression and scene coordinate regression models by augmenting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Qunjie Zhou , Maxim Maximov , Or Litany , Laura Leal-Taixé

Photo-realistic rendering and novel view synthesis play a crucial role in human-computer interaction tasks, from gaming to path planning. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) model scenes as continuous volumetric functions and achieve remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Iryna Repinetska , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as a popular option for photo-realistic object capture due to their ability to faithfully capture high-fidelity volumetric content even from handheld video input. Although much research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Binglun Wang , Niladri Shekhar Dutt , Niloy J. Mitra

Active target sensing is the task of discovering and classifying an unknown number of targets in an environment and is critical in search-and-rescue missions. This paper develops a deep reinforcement learning approach to plan informative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Harsh Goel , Laura Jarin Lipschitz , Saurav Agarwal , Sandeep Manjanna , Vijay Kumar

Mobile robot platforms are increasingly being used to automate information gathering tasks such as environmental monitoring. Efficient target tracking in dynamic environments is critical for applications such as search and rescue and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Sanjeev Ramkumar Sudha , Marija Popović , Erlend M. Coates

The rendering procedure used by neural radiance fields (NeRF) samples a scene with a single ray per pixel and may therefore produce renderings that are excessively blurred or aliased when training or testing images observe scene content at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Jonathan T. Barron , Ben Mildenhall , Matthew Tancik , Peter Hedman , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Pratul P. Srinivasan

In this study, we propose a multi branched network approach to predict the dynamics of a physics attractor characterized by intricate and chaotic behavior. We introduce a unique neural network architecture comprised of Radial Basis Function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Aarush Sinha

Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based motion planning has recently shown the potential to outperform traditional approaches from autonomous navigation to robot manipulation. In this work, we focus on a motion planning task for an evasive target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zixuan Wu , Sean Ye , Manisha Natarajan , Matthew C. Gombolay

Neural Radiance Field(NeRF) is an novel implicit method to achieve the 3D reconstruction and representation with a high resolution. After the first research of NeRF is proposed, NeRF has gained a robust developing power and is booming in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jinwei Lin