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3D reconstruction from a single RGB image is a challenging problem in computer vision. Previous methods are usually solely data-driven, which lead to inaccurate 3D shape recovery and limited generalization capability. In this work, we focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Yichao Zhou , Shichen Liu , Yi Ma

We study the problem of symmetry detection of 3D shapes from single-view RGB-D images, where severely missing data renders geometric detection approach infeasible. We propose an end-to-end deep neural network which is able to predict both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yifei Shi , Junwen Huang , Hongjia Zhang , Xin Xu , Szymon Rusinkiewicz , Kai Xu

Recent advances have shown that symmetry, a structural prior that most objects exhibit, can support a variety of single-view 3D understanding tasks. However, detecting 3D symmetry from an image remains a challenging task. Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Yichao Zhou , Shichen Liu , Yi Ma

Mirror reflections are common in everyday environments and can provide stereo information within a single capture, as the real and reflected virtual views are visible simultaneously. We exploit this property by treating the reflection as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jing Wu , Zirui Wang , Iro Laina , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

Symmetry detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision, and symmetries serve as powerful priors for downstream tasks. However, existing learning-based methods for detecting 3D symmetries from single images have been almost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Hanyu Chen , Ruojin Cai , Steve Marschner , Noah Snavely

Symmetry detection and discrimination are of fundamental meaning in science, technology, and engineering. This paper introduces reflection invariants and defines the directional moment to detect symmetry for shape analysis and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Erbo Li , Hua Li

Symmetry is one of the significant visual properties inside an image plane, to identify the geometrically balanced structures through real-world objects. Existing symmetry detection methods rely on descriptors of the local image features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Mohamed Elawady , Christophe Ducottet , Olivier Alata , Cecile Barat , Philippe Colantoni

In geometry processing, symmetry is a universal type of high-level structural information of 3D models and benefits many geometry processing tasks including shape segmentation, alignment, matching, and completion. Thus it is an important…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Lin Gao , Ling-Xiao Zhang , Hsien-Yu Meng , Yi-Hui Ren , Yu-Kun Lai , Leif Kobbelt

Symmetry is a strong prior present in many object categories, yet standard benchmarks for 3D generative models rarely report whether this prior is preserved. We study symmetry preservation in unconditional point cloud generation. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nicolas Caytuiro , Ivan Sipiran

Many objects are naturally symmetric, and this symmetry can be exploited to infer unseen 3D properties from a single 2D image. Recently, NeRD is proposed for accurate 3D mirror plane estimation from a single image. Despite the unprecedented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Yancong Lin , Silvia-Laura Pintea , Jan van Gemert

In this paper we observe that information theoretical concepts are valuable tools for extracting information from images and, in particular, information on image symmetries. It is shown that the problem of detecting reflectional and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Agata Migalska , JP Lewis

Symmetry is prevalent in nature and a common theme in man-made designs. Both the human visual system and computer vision algorithms can use symmetry to facilitate object recognition and other tasks. Detecting mirror symmetry in images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Marcelo Cicconet , David G. C. Hildebrand , Hunter Elliott

Symmetry is an important composition feature by investigating similar sides inside an image plane. It has a crucial effect to recognize man-made or nature objects within the universe. Recent symmetry detection approaches used a smoothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Mohamed Elawady , Olivier Alata , Christophe Ducottet , Cecile Barat , Philippe Colantoni

Reflective surfaces present a persistent challenge for reliable 3D mapping and perception in robotics and autonomous systems. However, existing reflection datasets and benchmarks remain limited to sparse 2D data. This paper introduces the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xiting Zhao , Sören Schwertfeger

Over-segmentation of an image into superpixels has become a useful tool for solving various problems in image processing and computer vision. Reflection symmetry is quite prevalent in both natural and man-made objects and is an essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Rajendra Nagar , Shanmuganathan Raman

Recent progress in single-image 3D generation highlights the importance of multi-view coherency, leveraging 3D priors from large-scale diffusion models pretrained on Internet-scale images. However, the aspect of novel-view diversity remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sangmin Woo , Byeongjun Park , Hyojun Go , Jin-Young Kim , Changick Kim

Symmetry is a key feature observed in nature (from flowers and leaves, to butterflies and birds) and in human-made objects (from paintings and sculptures, to manufactured objects and architectural design). Rotational, translational, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Felice De Luca , Md Iqbal Hossain , Stephen Kobourov

Symmetry is a fundamental concept that has been extensively studied, yet detecting it in complex scenes remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Recent heatmap-based approaches can localize potential regions of symmetry axes but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Wongyun Yu , Ahyun Seo , Minsu Cho

Taking pictures through glass windows almost always produces undesired reflections that degrade the quality of the photo. The ill-posed nature of the reflection removal problem reached the attention of many researchers for more than…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Andreea Birhala , Ionut Mironica

We propose an algorithm to detect approximate reflection symmetry present in a set of volumetrically distributed points belonging to $\mathbb{R}^d$ containing a distorted reflection symmetry pattern. We pose the problem of detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Rajendra Nagar , Shanmuganathan Raman
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