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Establishing dense correspondence across 3D shapes is crucial for fundamental downstream tasks, including texture transfer, shape interpolation, and robotic manipulation. However, learning these mappings without manual supervision remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Qinfeng Xiao , Guofeng Mei , Qilong Liu , Chenyuan Yi , Fabio Poiesi , Jian Zhang , Bo Yang , Yick Kit-lun

We leverage increasingly popular three-dimensional neural representations in order to construct a unified and consistent explanation of a collection of uncalibrated images of the human face. Our approach utilizes Gaussian Splatting, since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Haodi He , Jihun Yu , Ronald Fedkiw

Reconstructing 3D scenes and synthesizing novel views has seen rapid progress in recent years. Neural Radiance Fields demonstrated that continuous volumetric radiance fields can achieve high-quality image synthesis, but their long training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jan Held , Renaud Vandeghen , Sanghyun Son , Daniel Rebain , Matheus Gadelha , Yi Zhou , Ming C. Lin , Marc Van Droogenbroeck , Andrea Tagliasacchi

SLAM is a fundamental component of modern autonomous systems, providing robots and their operators with a deeper understanding of their environment. SLAM systems often encounter challenges due to the dynamic nature of robotic motion,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Leon Davies , Baihua Li , Mohamad Saada , Simon Sølvsten , Qinggang Meng

We present the Semantic Robot Programming (SRP) paradigm as a convergence of robot programming by demonstration and semantic mapping. In SRP, a user can directly program a robot manipulator by demonstrating a snapshot of their intended goal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Zhen Zeng , Zheming Zhou , Zhiqiang Sui , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are widely used for modeling continuous 2D images, enabling high-fidelity reconstruction, super-resolution, and compression. Architectures such as SIREN, WIRE, and FINER demonstrate their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Weronika Jakubowska , Mikołaj Zieliński , Rafał Tobiasz , Krzysztof Byrski , Maciej Zięba , Dominik Belter , Przemysław Spurek

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have advanced 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis, but remain heavily dependent on accurate camera poses and dense viewpoint coverage. These requirements limit their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiahui Lu , Haihong Xiao , Xueyan Zhao , Wenxiong Kang

State-of-the-art 3D point cloud registration methods rely on labeled 3D datasets for training, which limits their practical applications in real-world scenarios and often hinders generalization to unseen scenes. Leveraging the zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Weijie Wang , Wenqi Ren , Guofeng Mei , Bin Ren , Xiaoshui Huang , Fabio Poiesi , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri

This paper presents GGRt, a novel approach to generalizable novel view synthesis that alleviates the need for real camera poses, complexity in processing high-resolution images, and lengthy optimization processes, thus facilitating stronger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Hao Li , Yuanyuan Gao , Chenming Wu , Dingwen Zhang , Yalun Dai , Chen Zhao , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Junwei Han

Empowering 3D Gaussian Splatting with generalization ability is appealing. However, existing generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting methods are largely confined to narrow-range interpolation between stereo images due to their heavy backbones,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yunsong Wang , Tianxin Huang , Hanlin Chen , Gim Hee Lee

As an essential processing step before the fusing of infrared and visible images, the performance of image registration determines whether the two images can be fused at correct spatial position. In the actual scenario, the varied imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Housheng Xie , Junhui Qiu , Yuan Dai , Yang Yang , Changcheng Xiang , Yukuan Zhang

Understanding the geometric and semantic structure of environments is essential for embodied navigation and reasoning. Existing semantic mapping methods trade off between explicit geometry and multi-scale semantics, and lack a native…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sixian Zhang , Yiyao Wang , Xinhang Song , Keming Zhang , Zijian Xu , Shuqiang Jiang

We present SGS-SLAM, the first semantic visual SLAM system based on Gaussian Splatting. It incorporates appearance, geometry, and semantic features through multi-channel optimization, addressing the oversmoothing limitations of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mingrui Li , Shuhong Liu , Heng Zhou , Guohao Zhu , Na Cheng , Tianchen Deng , Hongyu Wang

Building home assistant robots has long been a pursuit for vision and robotics researchers. To achieve this task, a simulated environment with physically realistic simulation, sufficient articulated objects, and transferability to the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Fanbo Xiang , Yuzhe Qin , Kaichun Mo , Yikuan Xia , Hao Zhu , Fangchen Liu , Minghua Liu , Hanxiao Jiang , Yifu Yuan , He Wang , Li Yi , Angel X. Chang , Leonidas J. Guibas , Hao Su

Sparse-view synthesis remains a challenging problem due to the difficulty of recovering accurate geometry and appearance from limited observations. While recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled real-time rendering with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yi-Hsin Li , Thomas Sikora , Sebastian Knorr , Mårten Sjöström

Localization is an essential task for mobile autonomous robotic systems that want to use pre-existing maps or create new ones in the context of SLAM. Today, many robotic platforms are equipped with high-accuracy 3D LiDAR sensors, which…

Gaussian splatting has gained attention for its efficient representation and rendering of 3D scenes using continuous Gaussian primitives. However, it struggles with sparse-view inputs due to limited geometric and photometric information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jianing Zhang , Yuchao Zheng , Ziwei Li , Qionghai Dai , Xiaoyun Yuan

This paper presents a novel system designed for 3D mapping and visual relocalization using 3D Gaussian Splatting. Our proposed method uses LiDAR and camera data to create accurate and visually plausible representations of the environment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Peng Jiang , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

The goal of image registration is to establish spatial correspondence between two or more images, traditionally through dense displacement fields (DDFs) or parametric transformations (e.g., rigid, affine, and splines). Rethinking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Shiqi Huang , Tingfa Xu , Ziyi Shen , Shaheer Ullah Saeed , Wen Yan , Dean Barratt , Yipeng Hu

Image registration with deep neural networks has become an active field of research and exciting avenue for a long standing problem in medical imaging. The goal is to learn a complex function that maps the appearance of input image pairs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Matthew C. H. Lee , Ozan Oktay , Andreas Schuh , Michiel Schaap , Ben Glocker