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Given dense image feature correspondences of a non-rigidly moving object across multiple frames, this paper proposes an algorithm to estimate its 3D shape for each frame. To solve this problem accurately, the recent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Suryansh Kumar

Deep neural network (DNN) generally takes thousands of iterations to optimize via gradient descent and thus has a slow convergence. In addition, softmax, as a decision layer, may ignore the distribution information of the data during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Rui Zhang , Ziheng Jiao , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

We present a technique for estimating the shape and reflectance of an object in terms of its surface normals and spatially-varying BRDF. We assume that multiple images of the object are obtained under fixed view-point and varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Zhuo Hui , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

We propose DeepMapping, a novel registration framework using deep neural networks (DNNs) as auxiliary functions to align multiple point clouds from scratch to a globally consistent frame. We use DNNs to model the highly non-convex mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Li Ding , Chen Feng

Estimating consistently oriented normals for point clouds enables a number of important applications in computer graphics. While local normal estimation is possible with simple techniques like PCA, orienting them to be globally consistent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Siyou Lin , Zuoqiang Shi , Yebin Liu

Estimating tissue parameter maps with high accuracy and precision from highly undersampled measurements presents one of the major challenges in MR fingerprinting (MRF). Many existing works project the recovered voxel fingerprints onto the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Peng Li , Yuping Ji , Yue Hu

We present surface normal estimation using a single near infrared (NIR) image. We are focusing on fine-scale surface geometry captured with an uncalibrated light source. To tackle this ill-posed problem, we adopt a generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Youngjin Yoon , Gyeongmin Choe , Namil Kim , Joon-Young Lee , In So Kweon

A regularized version of Mixture Models is proposed to learn a principal graph from a distribution of $D$-dimensional data points. In the particular case of manifold learning for ridge detection, we assume that the underlying manifold can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Tony Bonnaire , Aurélien Decelle , Nabila Aghanim

In this paper, we extend the Generalized Finite Difference Method (GFDM) on unknown compact submanifolds of the Euclidean domain, identified by randomly sampled data that (almost surely) lie on the interior of the manifolds. Theoretically,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Shixiao W. Jiang , Rongji Li , Qile Yan , John Harlim

Neural fields have emerged as a powerful framework for representing continuous multidimensional signals such as images and videos, 3D and 4D objects and scenes, and radiance fields. While efficient, achieving high-quality representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Abdelaziz Bouzidi , Hamid Laga , Hazem Wannous , Ferdous Sohel

This paper introduces a new conceptual framework that recasts surface roughness effects as a "ray deflection function" (RDF) which can be statistically represented through a modified Zernike-Fourier hybrid approach that directly connects…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-12 Netzer Moriya

Recent advancements in generalizable novel view synthesis have achieved impressive quality through interpolation between nearby views. However, rendering high-resolution images remains computationally intensive due to the need for dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Li Fang , Hao Zhu , Longlong Chen , Fei Hu , Long Ye , Zhan Ma

Despite the recent success of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), it is still challenging to render large-scale driving scenes with long trajectories, particularly when the rendering quality and efficiency are in high demand. Existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhuopeng Li , Chenming Wu , Liangjun Zhang , Jianke Zhu

In this paper, we first propose a novel method for transferring material transformations across different scenes. Building on disentangled Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) representations, our approach learns to map Bidirectional Reflectance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Ivan Lopes , Jean-François Lalonde , Raoul de Charette

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated the remarkable potential of neural networks to capture the intricacies of 3D objects. By encoding the shape and color information within neural network weights, NeRFs excel at producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Dawid Malarz , Weronika Smolak , Jacek Tabor , Sławomir Tadeja , Przemysław Spurek

By chaining a sequence of differentiable invertible transformations, normalizing flows (NF) provide an expressive method of posterior approximation, exact density evaluation, and sampling. The trend in normalizing flow literature has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Robert Giaquinto , Arindam Banerjee

High-dimensional images, known for their rich semantic information, are widely applied in remote sensing and other fields. The spatial information in these images reflects the object's texture features, while the spectral information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Daixun Li , Weiying Xie , Jiaqing Zhang , Yunsong Li

Recent development of neural implicit function has shown tremendous success on high-quality 3D shape reconstruction. However, most works divide the space into inside and outside of the shape, which limits their representing power to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianglong Ye , Yuntao Chen , Naiyan Wang , Xiaolong Wang

It is vital to infer a signed distance function (SDF) in multi-view based surface reconstruction. 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) provides a novel perspective for volume rendering, and shows advantages in rendering efficiency and quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Neural models learn data representations that lie on low-dimensional manifolds, yet modeling the relation between these representational spaces is an ongoing challenge. By integrating spectral geometry principles into neural modeling, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Marco Fumero , Marco Pegoraro , Valentino Maiorca , Francesco Locatello , Emanuele Rodolà