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We introduce a method for high-quality 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. Our method uses a new point-based representation, the regularized dipole sum, which generalizes the winding number to allow for interpolation of per-point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Hanyu Chen , Bailey Miller , Ioannis Gkioulekas

LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for interpreting 3D environments in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Recent methods achieve strong performance by exploiting different point cloud representations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Simone Mosco , Daniel Fusaro , Wanmeng Li , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

Large-scale point cloud generated from 3D sensors is more accurate than its image-based counterpart. However, it is seldom used in visual pose estimation due to the difficulty in obtaining 2D-3D image to point cloud correspondences. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Mengdan Feng , Sixing Hu , Marcelo Ang , Gim Hee Lee

In modern computer vision, the optimal representation of 3D shape continues to be task-dependent. One fundamental operation applied to such representations is differentiable rendering, as it enables inverse graphics approaches in learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

Precise 6D pose estimation of rigid objects from RGB images is a critical but challenging task in robotics, augmented reality and human-computer interaction. To address this problem, we propose DeepRM, a novel recurrent network architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Alexander Avery , Andreas Savakis

Multi-view 3D reconstruction remains a core challenge in computer vision, particularly in applications requiring accurate and scalable representations across diverse perspectives. Current leading methods such as DUSt3R employ a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jianing Yang , Alexander Sax , Kevin J. Liang , Mikael Henaff , Hao Tang , Ang Cao , Joyce Chai , Franziska Meier , Matt Feiszli

3D motion estimation including scene flow and point cloud registration has drawn increasing interest. Inspired by 2D flow estimation, recent methods employ deep neural networks to construct the cost volume for estimating accurate 3D flow.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xiaodong Gu , Chengzhou Tang , Weihao Yuan , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan

Acquiring 3D geometry of real world objects has various applications in 3D digitization, such as navigation and content generation in virtual environments. Image remains one of the most popular media for such visual tasks due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Shuai Du , Youyi Zheng

Dense 3D reconstruction from continuous image streams requires both accurate geometric aggregation and stable long-term memory management. Recent feed-forward reconstruction frameworks integrate observations through persistent memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Feifei Li , Qi Song , Chi Zhang , Rui Huang

Retrieval in 3D point clouds is a challenging task that consists in retrieving the most similar point clouds to a given query within a reference of 3D points. Current methods focus on comparing descriptors of point clouds in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Chahine-Nicolas Zede , Laurent Carrafa , Valérie Gouet-Brunet

Recent geometric methods need reliable estimates of 3D motion parameters to procure accurate dense depth map of a complex dynamic scene from monocular images \cite{kumar2017monocular, ranftl2016dense}. Generally, to estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Suryansh Kumar , Ram Srivatsav Ghorakavi , Yuchao Dai , Hongdong Li

3D spatial perception is fundamental to generalizable robotic manipulation, yet obtaining reliable, high-quality 3D geometry remains challenging. Depth sensors suffer from noise and material sensitivity, while existing reconstruction models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sizhe Yang , Linning Xu , Hao Li , Juncheng Mu , Jia Zeng , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

Novel view synthesis from monocular videos of dynamic scenes with unknown camera poses remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision and graphics. While recent advances in 3D representations such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mengqi Guo , Bo Xu , Yanyan Li , Gim Hee Lee

3D reconstruction from images is a core problem in computer vision. With recent advances in deep learning, it has become possible to recover plausible 3D shapes even from single RGB images for the first time. However, obtaining detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Tao Hu , Geng Lin , Zhizhong Han , Matthias Zwicker

Recent advances in dense 3D reconstruction have led to significant progress, yet achieving accurate unified geometric prediction remains a major challenge. Most existing methods are limited to predicting a single geometry quantity from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xianze Fang , Jingnan Gao , Zhe Wang , Zhuo Chen , Xingyu Ren , Jiangjing Lyu , Qiaomu Ren , Zhonglei Yang , Xiaokang Yang , Yichao Yan , Chengfei Lyu

For robotic interaction in environments shared with other agents, access to volumetric and semantic maps of the scene is crucial. However, such environments are inevitably subject to long-term changes, which the map needs to account for. We…

Autonomous vehicles operate in highly dynamic environments necessitating an accurate assessment of which aspects of a scene are moving and where they are moving to. A popular approach to 3D motion estimation, termed scene flow, is to employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Philipp Jund , Chris Sweeney , Nichola Abdo , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathon Shlens

We consider the problem of reconstructing the paths of a set of points over time, where, at each of a finite set of moments in time the current positions of points in space are only accessible through some small number of their X-rays. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Andreas Alpers , Peter Gritzmann

Learning accurate and parsimonious point cloud representations of scene surfaces from scratch remains a challenge in 3D representation learning. Existing point-based methods often suffer from the vanishing gradient problem or require a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yanshu Zhang , Shichong Peng , Alireza Moazeni , Ke Li

Dynamic 3D point cloud sequences serve as one of the most common and practical representation modalities of dynamic real-world environments. However, their unstructured nature in both spatial and temporal domains poses significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yiming Zeng , Junhui Hou , Qijian Zhang , Siyu Ren , Wenping Wang