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The row-column addressed array is an emerging probe for ultrafast 3-D ultrasound imaging. It achieves this with far fewer independent electronic channels and a wider field of view than traditional 2-D matrix arrays, of the same channel…

Photorealistic rendering effects are common in films, but most real time graphics today still rely on scan-line based multi-pass rendering to deliver rich visual experiences. While there have been prior works in distributed path tracing for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Feng Xie , Petro Mishchuk , Warren Hunt

We present a real-time neural radiance caching method for path-traced global illumination. Our system is designed to handle fully dynamic scenes, and makes no assumptions about the lighting, geometry, and materials. The data-driven nature…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Thomas Müller , Fabrice Rousselle , Jan Novák , Alexander Keller

3D reconstruction techniques such as LiDAR scanning and photogrammetry have made it practical to build detailed geometric models of real-world environments. Such reconstructed models can potentially serve as the foundation for wireless…

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Simulation-based ultrasound training can be an essential educational tool. Realistic ultrasound image appearance with typical speckle texture can be modeled as convolution of a point spread function with point scatterers representing tissue…

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3D Gaussian Splatting showcases notable advancements in photo-realistic and real-time novel view synthesis. However, it faces challenges in modeling mirror reflections, which exhibit substantial appearance variations from different…

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Ultrasound (US) imaging is increasingly used in spinal procedures due to its real-time, radiation-free capabilities; however, its effectiveness is hindered by shadowing artifacts that obscure deeper tissue structures. Traditional…

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Ultrasonic imaging is being used to obtain information about the acoustic properties of a medium by emitting waves into it and recording their interaction using ultrasonic transducer arrays. The Delay-And-Sum (DAS) algorithm forms images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Georgios Pilikos , Lars Horchens , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Lucka

Ultrasonography is a vital component of modern clinical care, with handheld probes routinely used for diagnostic imaging and procedural guidance. However, handheld ultrasound imaging is limited by factors such as the partial-cross-sectional…

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State-of-the-art supervised stereo matching methods have achieved remarkable performance on various benchmarks. However, their generalization to real-world scenarios remains challenging due to the scarcity of annotated real-world stereo…

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Perceiving and reconstructing objects from images are critical for real-to-sim transfer tasks, which are widely used in the robotics community. Existing methods rely on multiple submodules such as detection, segmentation, shape…

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Reconstructing physically valid 3D scenes from single-view observations is a prerequisite for bridging the gap between visual perception and robotic control. However, in scenarios requiring precise contact reasoning, such as robotic…

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Curving beams are a promising new method for bypassing obstacles in future millimeter-wave to sub-terahertz (sub-THz) networks but lack a general predictive model for their reflections from arbitrary surfaces. We show that, unfortunately,…

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For many of the physical phenomena around us, we have developed sophisticated models explaining their behavior. Nevertheless, inferring specifics from visual observations is challenging due to the high number of causally underlying physical…

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Digital waveguide physical modeling offers efficient simulation of acoustic wave propagation as compared to general finite-difference schemes commonly used in computational physics. This efficiency has enabled the real-time implementation…

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