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Due to the Internet of Things (IoT) proliferation, Radio Frequency (RF) channels are increasingly congested with new kinds of devices, which carry unique and diverse communication needs. This poses complex challenges in modern digital…

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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have shown impressive performance in novel view synthesis, but challenges remain in rendering scenes with complex specular reflections and highlights. Existing approaches may produce blurry reflections due to…

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Ray tracing is increasingly utilized in wireless system simulations to estimate channel paths. In large-scale simulations with complex environments, ray tracing at high resolution can be computationally demanding. To reduce the computation,…

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Predicting scene dynamics from visual observations is challenging. Existing methods capture dynamics only within observed boundaries failing to extrapolate far beyond the training sequence. Node-RF (Neural ODE-based NeRF) overcomes this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hiran Sarkar , Liming Kuang , Yordanka Velikova , Benjamin Busam

Face parsing is an important problem in computer vision that finds numerous applications including recognition and editing. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been applied to image parsing and segmentation with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Sifei Liu , Jianping Shi , Ji Liang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Remote sensing change detection (RSCD) is a complex task, where changes often appear at different scales and orientations. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are good at capturing local spatial patterns but cannot model global semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Humza Naveed , Xina Zeng , Mitch Bryson , Nagita Mehrseresht

The task of radio map estimation aims to generate a dense representation of electromagnetic spectrum quantities, such as the received signal strength at each grid point within a geographic region, based on measurements from a subset of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zheng Fang , Kangjun Liu , Ke Chen , Qingyu Liu , Jianguo Zhang , Lingyang Song , Yaowei Wang

This work tackles the challenging task of achieving real-time novel view synthesis for reflective surfaces across various scenes. Existing real-time rendering methods, especially those based on meshes, often have subpar performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Chaojie Ji , Yufeng Li , Yiyi Liao

The physical world consists of spatially varying media, such as the atmosphere and the ocean, in which light and sound propagates along non-linear trajectories. This presents a challenge to existing ray-tracing based methods, which are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Qi Mo , Hengchin Yeh , Dinesh Manocha

View synthesis methods using implicit continuous shape representations learned from a set of images, such as the Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) method, have gained increasing attention due to their high quality imagery and scalability to high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Guo-Wei Yang , Wen-Yang Zhou , Hao-Yang Peng , Dun Liang , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

This paper demonstrates human synthesis based on the Radio Frequency (RF) signals, which leverages the fact that RF signals can record human movements with the signal reflections off the human body. Different from existing RF sensing works…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Cong Yu , Zhi Wu , Dongheng Zhang , Zhi Lu , Yang Hu , Yan Chen

Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement (Structured AMR) enables simulations to adapt the domain resolution to save computation and storage, and has become one of the dominant data representations used by scientific simulations; however,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ingo Wald , Stefan Zellmann , Will Usher , Nate Morrical , Ulrich Lang , Valerio Pascucci

Compositional representations of the world are a promising step towards enabling high-level scene understanding and efficient transfer to downstream tasks. Learning such representations for complex scenes and tasks remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Matthew Wallingford , Aditya Kusupati , Alex Fang , Vivek Ramanujan , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Ali Farhadi

Particle-based representations of radiance fields such as 3D Gaussian Splatting have found great success for reconstructing and re-rendering of complex scenes. Most existing methods render particles via rasterization, projecting them to…

Monte Carlo rendering of translucent objects with heterogeneous scattering properties is often expensive both in terms of memory and computation. If we do path tracing and use a high dynamic range lighting environment, the rendering becomes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Thomson TG , Jeppe Revall Frisvad , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Henrik Wann Jensen

We present a neural rendering framework that maps a voxelized scene into a high quality image. Highly-textured objects and scene element interactions are realistically rendered by our method, despite having a rough representation as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Konstantinos Rematas , Vittorio Ferrari

We introduce an improved solution to the neural image-based rendering problem in computer vision. Given a set of images taken from a freely moving camera at train time, the proposed approach could synthesize a realistic image of the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Nishant Jain , Suryansh Kumar , Luc Van Gool

With the introduction of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), novel view synthesis has recently made a big leap forward. At the core, NeRF proposes that each 3D point can emit radiance, allowing to conduct view synthesis using differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Fabian Manhardt , Diego Martin Arroyo , Michael Niemeyer , Abhijit Kundu , Federico Tombari

Neural fields excel in computer vision and robotics due to their ability to understand the 3D visual world such as inferring semantics, geometry, and dynamics. Given the capabilities of neural fields in densely representing a 3D scene from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Sergey Zakharov , Vitor Guizilini , Adrien Gaidon , Zsolt Kira , Rares Ambrus

Research on neural radiance fields (NeRFs) for novel view generation is exploding with new models and extensions. However, a question that remains unanswered is what happens in underwater or foggy scenes where the medium strongly influences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Deborah Levy , Amit Peleg , Naama Pearl , Dan Rosenbaum , Derya Akkaynak , Simon Korman , Tali Treibitz