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Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qiang Yu , Shenglan Li , Huajin Tang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Kay Chen Tan

Neuromorphic computing systems are set to revolutionize energy-constrained robotics by achieving orders-of-magnitude efficiency gains, while enabling native temporal processing. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) represent a promising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Korneel Van den Berghe , Stein Stroobants , Vijay Janapa Reddi , G. C. H. E. de Croon

Neural Radiance Field training can be accelerated through the use of grid-based representations in NeRF's learned mapping from spatial coordinates to colors and volumetric density. However, these grid-based approaches lack an explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Jonathan T. Barron , Ben Mildenhall , Dor Verbin , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Peter Hedman

The ability to grasp and manipulate transparent objects is a major challenge for robots. Existing depth cameras have difficulty detecting, localizing, and inferring the geometry of such objects. We propose using neural radiance fields…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Jeffrey Ichnowski , Yahav Avigal , Justin Kerr , Ken Goldberg

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have exhibited potential in synthesizing high-fidelity views of 3D scenes but the standard training paradigm of NeRF presupposes an equal importance for each image in the training set. This assumption poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Rongkai Ma , Leo Lebrat , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Gil Avraham , Yan Zuo , Clinton Fookes , Olivier Salvado

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has proven to be remarkably effective in optimizing deep neural networks that employ ever-larger numbers of parameters. Yet, improving the efficiency of large-scale optimization remains a vital and highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Frithjof Gressmann , Zach Eaton-Rosen , Carlo Luschi

Recent advances in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have shown great potential in 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis, particularly for indoor and small-scale scenes. However, extending NeRF to large-scale outdoor environments presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yizhou Li , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi , Yuuichi Tanaka , Seiichi Kataoka , Teruaki Kosiba

Constructing a high-quality dense map in real-time is essential for robotics, AR/VR, and digital twins applications. As Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) greatly improves the mapping performance, in this paper, we propose a NeRF-based mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Chenxing Jiang , Hanwen Zhang , Peize Liu , Zehuan Yu , Hui Cheng , Boyu Zhou , Shaojie Shen

Turning the weights to zero when training a neural network helps in reducing the computational complexity at inference. To progressively increase the sparsity ratio in the network without causing sharp weight discontinuities during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Antoine Vanderschueren , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

The quality of three-dimensional reconstruction is a key factor affecting the effectiveness of its application in areas such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) can generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Qianqiu Tan , Tao Liu , Yinling Xie , Shuwan Yu , Baohua Zhang

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), capable of synthesizing high-quality novel viewpoint images, suffers from issues like artifact occurrence due to its fixed sampling points during rendering. This study proposes a method that optimizes sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Kazuhiro Ohta , Satoshi Ono

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has shown impressive performance in novel view synthesis via implicit scene representation. However, it usually suffers from poor scalability as requiring densely sampled images for each new scene. Several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Muyu Xu , Fangneng Zhan , Jiahui Zhang , Yingchen Yu , Xiaoqin Zhang , Christian Theobalt , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

Neural rendering has garnered substantial attention owing to its capacity for creating realistic 3D scenes. However, its applicability to extensive scenes remains challenging, with limitations in effectiveness. In this work, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Zhihao Jia , Bing Wang , Changhao Chen

Spiking Neural Networks are a recent and new neural network design approach that promises tremendous improvements in power efficiency, computation efficiency, and processing latency. They do so by using asynchronous spike-based data flow,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Sambit Mohapatra , Thomas Mesquida , Mona Hodaei , Senthil Yogamani , Heinrich Gotzig , Patrick Mader

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has recently emerged as a powerful representation to synthesize photorealistic novel views. While showing impressive performance, it relies on the availability of dense input views with highly accurate camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Prune Truong , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Fabian Manhardt , Federico Tombari

In this paper, we propose the first-ever real benchmark thought for evaluating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and, in general, Neural Rendering (NR) frameworks. We design and implement an effective pipeline for scanning real objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Luca De Luigi , Damiano Bolognini , Federico Domeniconi , Daniele De Gregorio , Matteo Poggi , Luigi Di Stefano

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are a widely accepted standard for synthesizing new 3D object views from a small number of base images. However, NeRFs have limited generalization properties, which means that we need to use significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Paweł Batorski , Dawid Malarz , Marcin Przewięźlikowski , Marcin Mazur , Sławomir Tadeja , Przemysław Spurek

Most NeRF-based models are designed for learning the entire scene, and complex scenes can lead to longer learning times and poorer rendering effects. This paper utilizes scene semantic priors to make improvements in fast training, allowing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Yuesong Li , Feng Pan , Helong Yan , Xiuli Xin , Xiaoxue Feng

This paper introduces a novel paradigm for the generalizable neural radiance field (NeRF). Previous generic NeRF methods combine multiview stereo techniques with image-based neural rendering for generalization, yielding impressive results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Jiaxu Wang , Ziyi Zhang , Renjing Xu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have emerged as a groundbreaking paradigm for representing 3D objects and scenes by encoding shape and appearance information into the weights of a neural network. Recent studies have demonstrated that these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Francesco Ballerini , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Luigi Di Stefano , Samuele Salti