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Object detection is a fundamental task in computer vision and has many applications in image processing. This paper proposes a new approach for object detection by applying scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) in an automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Reza Oji , Farshad Tajeripour

Aims. Our goal is to find the relation between the two-point correlation functions (CFs) of projected and spatial density fields of galaxies in the context of the cosmic web. Methods. To investigate relations between spatial (3D) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 J. Einasto , G. Hütsi , M. Einasto

Segment matching is an important intermediate task in computer vision that establishes correspondences between semantically or geometrically coherent regions across images. Unlike keypoint matching, which focuses on localized features,…

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Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) aims to jointly infer semantics and occupancies of 3D scenes. Truncated Signed Distance Function (TSDF), a 3D encoding of depth, has been a common input for SSC. Furthermore, RGB-TSDF fusion, seems promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Laiyan Ding , Panwen Hu , Jie Li , Rui Huang

Tactile recognition of 3D objects remains a challenging task. Compared to 2D shapes, the complex geometry of 3D surfaces requires richer tactile signals, more dexterous actions, and more advanced encoding techniques. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Jingxi Xu , Han Lin , Shuran Song , Matei Ciocarlie

We propose and investigate a new algorithm for quantifying the topological properties of cosmological density fluctuations. We first motivate this algorithm by drawing a formal distinction between two definitions of relevant topological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Coles , Andrew G. Davies , Russell C. Pearson

The aim of Shape From Shading (SFS) problem is to reconstruct the relief of an object from a single gray level image. In this paper we present a new method to solve the problem of SFS using Machine learning method. Our approach belongs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Lyes Abada , Saliha Aouat

One of the essential tasks in connectomics is the morphology analysis of neurons and organelles like mitochondria to shed light on their biological properties. However, these biological objects often have tangled parts or complex branching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Abhimanyu Talwar , Zudi Lin , Donglai Wei , Yuesong Wu , Bowen Zheng , Jinglin Zhao , Won-Dong Jang , Xueying Wang , Jeff W. Lichtman , Hanspeter Pfister

Subgraph matching is a core task in graph analytics, widely used in domains such as biology, finance, and social networks. Existing top-k diversified methods typically focus on maximizing vertex coverage, but often return results in the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Liuyi Chen , Yuchen Hu , Zhengyi Yang , Xu Zhou , Wenjie Zhang , Kenli Li

Visual spatial description (VSD) aims to generate texts that describe the spatial relations of the given objects within images. Existing VSD work merely models the 2D geometrical vision features, thus inevitably falling prey to the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Yu Zhao , Hao Fei , Wei Ji , Jianguo Wei , Meishan Zhang , Min Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

LiDAR-based 3D object detection is a critical technology for the development of autonomous driving and robotics. However, the high cost of data annotation limits its advancement. We propose a novel and effective active learning (AL) method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Huang-Yu Chen , Jia-Fong Yeh , Jia-Wei Liao , Pin-Hsuan Peng , Winston H. Hsu

Popular representation learning methods encourage feature invariance under transformations applied at the input. However, in 3D perception tasks like object localization and segmentation, outputs are naturally equivariant to some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Deepti Hegde , Suhas Lohit , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Michael J. Jones , Vishal M. Patel

3D point clouds of natural environments relevant to problems in geomorphology often require classification of the data into elementary relevant classes. A typical example is the separation of riparian vegetation from ground in fluvial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-25 Nicolas Brodu , Dimitri Lague

2. In Section 3, we used some vague statements to affirm the training process of the neural network, which cannot support others to reproduce the results of the paper. In addition, this section does not show the difference between this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Liang Xue , Jie Liu , Guilin Wen , Hongxin Wang

We consider the problem of localizing relevant subsets of non-rigid geometric shapes given only a partial 3D query as the input. Such problems arise in several challenging tasks in 3D vision and graphics, including partial shape similarity,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Arianna Rampini , Irene Tallini , Maks Ovsjanikov , Alex M. Bronstein , Emanuele Rodolà

Automated surface segmentation of retinal layer is important and challenging in analyzing optical coherence tomography (OCT). Recently, many deep learning based methods have been developed for this task and yield remarkable performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Hong Liu , Dong Wei , Donghuan Lu , Yuexiang Li , Kai Ma , Liansheng Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Whilst the availability of 3D LiDAR point cloud data has significantly grown in recent years, annotation remains expensive and time-consuming, leading to a demand for semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods with application domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Li Li , Hubert P. H. Shum , Toby P. Breckon

Tubular structure segmentation in medical images, e.g., segmenting vessels in CT scans, serves as a vital step in the use of computers to aid in screening early stages of related diseases. But automatic tubular structure segmentation in CT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yan Wang , Xu Wei , Fengze Liu , Jieneng Chen , Yuyin Zhou , Wei Shen , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) uses insights from topology to create representations of data able to capture global and local geometric and topological properties. Its methods have successfully been used to develop estimations of fractal…

Semantic segmentation of large-scale 3D point clouds is crucial for applications such as autonomous driving and urban digital twins. However, the sparse sampling pattern of LiDAR and the view-dependent geometric distortion in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shuai Zhang , Zhecheng Shi , Zhuxiao Li , Jing Ou , Tengxi Wang , Yuan Liu , Wufan Zhao