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This paper does not attempt to design a state-of-the-art method for visual recognition but investigates a more efficient way to make use of convolutions to encode spatial features. By comparing the design principles of the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Qibin Hou , Cheng-Ze Lu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng

M\"obius transformations play an important role in both geometry and spherical image processing - they are the group of conformal automorphisms of 2D surfaces and the spherical equivalent of homographies. Here we present a novel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Thomas W. Mitchel , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir G. Kim , Michael Kazhdan

The presence of spherical distortion in equirectangular projection (ERP) images presents a persistent challenge in dense regression tasks such as surface normal estimation. Although it may appear straightforward to repurpose architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Kun Huang , Fanglue Zhang , Neil Dodgson

Differentiable rendering is a technique to connect 3D scenes with corresponding 2D images. Since it is differentiable, processes during image formation can be learned. Previous approaches to differentiable rendering focus on mesh-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Cong Gao , Xingtong Liu , Wenhao Gu , Benjamin Killeen , Mehran Armand , Russell Taylor , Mathias Unberath

We present ShapeFormer, a transformer-based network that produces a distribution of object completions, conditioned on incomplete, and possibly noisy, point clouds. The resultant distribution can then be sampled to generate likely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xingguang Yan , Liqiang Lin , Niloy J. Mitra , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

Disconnectivity and distortion are the two problems which must be coped with when processing 360 degrees equirectangular images. In this paper, we propose a method of estimating the depth of monocular panoramic image with a teacher-student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jingguo Liu , Yijun Xu , Shigang Li , Jianfeng Li

As 360{\deg} cameras become prevalent in many autonomous systems (e.g., self-driving cars and drones), efficient 360{\deg} perception becomes more and more important. We propose a novel self-supervised learning approach for predicting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Fu-En Wang , Hou-Ning Hu , Hsien-Tzu Cheng , Juan-Ting Lin , Shang-Ta Yang , Meng-Li Shih , Hung-Kuo Chu , Min Sun

Self-supervised methods have showed promising results on depth estimation task. However, previous methods estimate the target depth map and camera ego-motion simultaneously, underusing multi-frame correlation information and ignoring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Songchun Zhang , Chunhui Zhao

Computer-aided medical image segmentation has been applied widely in diagnosis and treatment to obtain clinically useful information of shapes and volumes of target organs and tissues. In the past several years, convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yixuan Wu , Kuanlun Liao , Jintai Chen , Jinhong Wang , Danny Z. Chen , Honghao Gao , Jian Wu

It is well believed that Transformer performs better in semantic segmentation compared to convolutional neural networks. Nevertheless, the original Vision Transformer may lack of inductive biases of local neighborhoods and possess a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Wentao Shi , Jing Xu , Pan Gao

Monocular 360 depth estimation is challenging due to the inherent distortion of the equirectangular projection (ERP). This distortion causes a problem: spherical adjacent points are separated after being projected to the ERP plane,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Zidong Cao , Lin Wang

360{\deg} depth estimation is a challenging research problem due to the difficulty of finding a representation that both preserves global continuity and avoids distortion in spherical images. Existing methods attempt to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kun Huang , Fang-Lue Zhang , Neil Dodgson

Transformers are a popular choice for classification tasks and as backbones for object detection tasks. However, their high latency brings challenges in their adaptation to lightweight object detection systems. We present an approximation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Dharma KC , Venkata Ravi Kiran Dayana , Meng-Lin Wu , Venkateswara Rao Cherukuri , Hau Hwang

Developing effective 360-degree (spherical) image compression techniques is crucial for technologies like virtual reality and automated driving. This paper advances the state-of-the-art in on-the-sphere learning (OSLO) for omnidirectional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Paul Wawerek-López , Navid Mahmoudian Bidgoli , Pascal Frossard , André Kaup , Thomas Maugey

3D occupancy, an advanced perception technology for driving scenarios, represents the entire scene without distinguishing between foreground and background by quantifying the physical space into a grid map. The widely adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jinke Li , Xiao He , Chonghua Zhou , Xiaoqiang Cheng , Yang Wen , Dan Zhang

We address the problem of generating a 360-degree image from a single image with a narrow field of view by estimating its surroundings. Previous methods suffered from overfitting to the training resolution and deterministic generation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Naofumi Akimoto , Yuhi Matsuo , Yoshimitsu Aoki

In the field of image fusion, promising progress has been made by modeling data from different modalities as linear subspaces. However, in practice, the source images are often located in a non-Euclidean space, where the Euclidean methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Huan Kang , Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu , Rui Wang , Chunyang Cheng , Josef Kittler

This study proposes a 3D semantic segmentation method for the spine based on the improved SwinUNETR to improve segmentation accuracy and robustness. Aiming at the complex anatomical structure of spinal images, this paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yanlin Xiang , Qingyuan He , Ting Xu , Ran Hao , Jiacheng Hu , Hanchao Zhang

Transformers have made remarkable progress towards modeling long-range dependencies within the medical image analysis domain. However, current transformer-based models suffer from several disadvantages: (1) existing methods fail to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Chenyu You , Ruihan Zhao , Fenglin Liu , Siyuan Dong , Sandeep Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu , Lawrence Staib , James S. Duncan

Recently, deep-learning-based approaches have been widely studied for deformable image registration task. However, most efforts directly map the composite image representation to spatial transformation through the convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Jiashun Chen , Donghuan Lu , Yu Zhang , Dong Wei , Munan Ning , Xinyu Shi , Zhe Xu , Yefeng Zheng