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Vision foundation models (FMs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in medical imaging. However, they encode information in abstract latent representations that clinicians cannot interrogate or verify. The goal of this study is to…

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Real-time three dimensional (3D) ultrasound provides complete visualization of inner body organs and blood vasculature, which is crucial for diagnosis and treatment of diverse diseases. However, 3D systems require massive hardware due to…

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Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models capable of learning compact latent representations. However, conventional VAEs often generate relatively blurry images due to their assumption of an isotropic Gaussian latent…

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Rigged 3D assets are fundamental to 3D deformation and animation. However, existing 3D generation methods face challenges in generating animatable geometry, while rigging techniques lack fine-grained structural control over skeleton…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ruisi Zhao , Haoren Zheng , Zongxin Yang , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

In this work, we present SpaRC, a novel Sparse fusion transformer for 3D perception that integrates multi-view image semantics with Radar and Camera point features. The fusion of radar and camera modalities has emerged as an efficient…

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We present ShapeFormer, a transformer-based network that produces a distribution of object completions, conditioned on incomplete, and possibly noisy, point clouds. The resultant distribution can then be sampled to generate likely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xingguang Yan , Liqiang Lin , Niloy J. Mitra , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

Variational autoencoders (VAE) encode data into lower-dimensional latent vectors before decoding those vectors back to data. Once trained, decoding a random latent vector from the prior usually does not produce meaningful data, at least…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Alejandro Ascarate , Leo Lebrat , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Clinton Fookes , Olivier Salvado

Scientific measurements are often bottlenecked by suboptimal conditions, whether that be noise, incomplete spatial coverage, or limited resolution, rendering accurate field reconstruction a difficult task. We introduce LatentPDE, a latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Valerie Tsao , Nathaniel Chaney , Manolis Veveakis

Generating high-fidelity 3D contents remains a fundamental challenge due to the complexity of representing arbitrary topologies-such as open surfaces and intricate internal structures-while preserving geometric details. Prevailing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xinran Yang , Shuichang Lai , Jiangjing Lyu , Hongjie Li , Bowen Pan , Yuanqi Li , Jie Guo , Zhengkang Zhou , Yanwen Guo

Recovering 3D information from scenes via multi-view stereo reconstruction (MVS) and novel view synthesis (NVS) is inherently challenging, particularly in scenarios involving sparse-view setups. The advent of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Shubhendu Jena , Shishir Reddy Vutukur , Adnane Boukhayma

3D scene reconstruction under unposed sparse viewpoints is a highly challenging yet practically important problem, especially in outdoor scenes due to complex lighting and scale variation. With extremely limited input views, directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Beizhen Zhao , Sicheng Yu , Guanzhi Ding , Yu Hu , Hao Wang

Recent advances in optimizing Gaussian Splatting for scene geometry have enabled efficient reconstruction of detailed surfaces from images. However, when input views are sparse, such optimization is prone to overfitting, leading to…

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Cooperative perception is critical for autonomous driving, overcoming the inherent limitations of a single vehicle, such as occlusions and constrained fields-of-view. However, current approaches sharing dense Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jiahao Wang , Zhongwei Jiang , Wenchao Sun , Jiaru Zhong , Haibao Yu , Yuner Zhang , Chenyang Lu , Chuang Zhang , Lei He , Shaobing Xu , Jianqiang Wang

This paper advocates the use of implicit surface representation in autoencoder-based self-supervised 3D representation learning. The most popular and accessible 3D representation, i.e., point clouds, involves discrete samples of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Siming Yan , Zhenpei Yang , Haoxiang Li , Chen Song , Li Guan , Hao Kang , Gang Hua , Qixing Huang

We aim to tackle sparse-view reconstruction of a 360 3D scene using priors from latent diffusion models (LDM). The sparse-view setting is ill-posed and underconstrained, especially for scenes where the camera rotates 360 degrees around a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Soumava Paul , Christopher Wewer , Bernt Schiele , Jan Eric Lenssen

We present Deep Compression Autoencoder (DC-AE), a new family of autoencoder models for accelerating high-resolution diffusion models. Existing autoencoder models have demonstrated impressive results at a moderate spatial compression ratio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Junyu Chen , Han Cai , Junsong Chen , Enze Xie , Shang Yang , Haotian Tang , Muyang Li , Yao Lu , Song Han

Generative modeling aims to generate new data samples that resemble a given dataset, with diffusion models recently becoming the most popular generative model. One of the main challenges of diffusion models is solving the problem in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Wonjun Lee , Riley C. W. O'Neill , Dongmian Zou , Jeff Calder , Gilad Lerman

In this report, we introduce UltraShape 1.0, a scalable 3D diffusion framework for high-fidelity 3D geometry generation. The proposed approach adopts a two-stage generation pipeline: a coarse global structure is first synthesized and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Tanghui Jia , Dongyu Yan , Dehao Hao , Yang Li , Kaiyi Zhang , Xianyi He , Lanjiong Li , Yuhan Wang , Jinnan Chen , Lutao Jiang , Qishen Yin , Long Quan , Ying-Cong Chen , Li Yuan

Learning a robust video Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is essential for reducing video redundancy and facilitating efficient video generation. Directly applying image VAEs to individual frames in isolation can result in temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yazhou Xing , Yang Fei , Yingqing He , Jingye Chen , Jiaxin Xie , Xiaowei Chi , Qifeng Chen

Understanding how different AI models encode the same high-level concepts, such as objects or attributes, remains challenging because each model typically produces its own isolated representation. Existing interpretability methods like…

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