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We consider the problem of detecting robotic grasps in an RGB-D view of a scene containing objects. In this work, we apply a deep learning approach to solve this problem, which avoids time-consuming hand-design of features. This presents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-22 Ian Lenz , Honglak Lee , Ashutosh Saxena

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision that aims to estimate the transformation between corresponding sets of points. Non-rigid registration, in particular, involves addressing challenges including various…

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Recently, scene text recognition methods based on deep learning have sprung up in computer vision area. The existing methods achieved great performances, but the recognition of irregular text is still challenging due to the various shapes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Linjie Deng , Yanxiang Gong , Xinchen Lu , Xin Yi , Zheng Ma , Mei Xie

Human decision-making often relies on visual information from multiple perspectives or views. In contrast, machine learning-based object recognition utilizes information from a single image of the object. However, the information conveyed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mona Alzahrani , Muhammad Usman , Salma Kammoun , Saeed Anwar , Tarek Helmy

Deformable image registration is a critical technology in medical image analysis, with broad applications in clinical practice such as disease diagnosis, multi-modal fusion, and surgical navigation. Traditional methods often rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Zhengyong Huang , Xingwen Sun , Xuting Chang , Ning Jiang , Yao Wang , Jianfei Sun , Hongbin Han , Yao Sui

The main challenge for small object detection algorithms is to ensure accuracy while pursuing real-time performance. The RT-DETR model performs well in real-time object detection, but performs poorly in small object detection accuracy. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ji Huang , Hui Wang

Shape is an important physical property of natural and manmade 3D objects that characterizes their external appearances. Understanding differences between shapes and modeling the variability within and across shape classes, hereinafter…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Hamid Laga

The enhancement of 3D object detection is pivotal for precise environmental perception and improved task execution capabilities in autonomous driving. LiDAR point clouds, offering accurate depth information, serve as a crucial information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Leichao Cui , Xiuxian Li , Min Meng , Guangyu Jia

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) plays a critical role in autonomous robotic systems, especially where accurate and reliable measurements are essential for navigation and sensing. In feature-based SLAM, the quantityand…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Haolan Zhang , Chenghao Li , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Lijun Wang , Nak Young Chong

The goal of text spotting is to perform text detection and recognition in an end-to-end manner. Although the diversity of luminosity and orientation in scene texts has been widely studied, the font diversity and shape variance of the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Xixuan Hao , Aozhong Zhang , Xianze Meng , Bin Fu

Fine-grained action detection is an important task with numerous applications in robotics and human-computer interaction. Existing methods typically utilize a two-stage approach including extraction of local spatio-temporal features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Khoi-Nguyen C. Mac , Dhiraj Joshi , Raymond A. Yeh , Jinjun Xiong , Rogerio S. Feris , Minh N. Do

Automatic detecting anomalous regions in images of objects or textures without priors of the anomalies is challenging, especially when the anomalies appear in very small areas of the images, making difficult-to-detect visual variations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jie Yang , Yong Shi , Zhiquan Qi

Tiny object detection is one of the key challenges in the field of object detection. The performance of most generic detectors dramatically decreases in tiny object detection tasks. The main challenge lies in extracting effective features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bing Cao , Haiyu Yao , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu

Recent advances in deep learning architectures have enabled efficient and accurate classification of pre-trained targets in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Nevertheless, the presence of unknown targets in real battlefield scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Kyung-hwan Lee , Kyung-tae Kim

Identifying predictive world models for robots in novel environments from sparse online observations is essential for robot task planning and execution in novel environments. However, existing methods that leverage differentiable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yifan Zhu , Tianyi Xiang , Aaron Dollar , Zherong Pan

This paper focuses on motion prediction for point cloud sequences in the challenging case of deformable 3D objects, such as human body motion. First, we investigate the challenges caused by deformable shapes and complex motions present in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Pedro Gomes , Silvia Rossi , Laura Toni

LiDAR and camera are two important sensors for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Despite the increasing popularity of sensor fusion in this field, the robustness against inferior image conditions, e.g., bad illumination and sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Xuyang Bai , Zeyu Hu , Xinge Zhu , Qingqiu Huang , Yilun Chen , Hongbo Fu , Chiew-Lan Tai

Automatically measuring lesion/tumor size with RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors) diameters and segmentation is important for computer-aided diagnosis. Although it has been studied in recent years, there is still space to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Youbao Tang , Ning Zhang , Yirui Wang , Shenghua He , Mei Han , Jing Xiao , Ruei-Sung Lin

The majority of deep learning (DL) based deformable image registration methods use convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to estimate displacement fields from pairs of moving and fixed images. This, however, requires the convolutional kernels…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Yihao Liu , Lianrui Zuo , Shuo Han , Yuan Xue , Jerry L. Prince , Aaron Carass

The precise control of soft and continuum robots requires knowledge of their shape, which has, in contrast to classical rigid robots, infinite degrees of freedom. To partially reconstruct the shape, proprioceptive techniques use built-in…