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Random sampling has become a critical tool in solving massive matrix problems. For linear regression, a small, manageable set of data rows can be randomly selected to approximate a tall, skinny data matrix, improving processing time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-22 Michael B. Cohen , Yin Tat Lee , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Richard Peng , Aaron Sidford

In this paper, we address the problem of efficient point searching and sampling for volume neural rendering. Within this realm, two typical approaches are employed: rasterization and ray tracing. The rasterization-based methods enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Jiahao Ma , Miaomiao Liu , David Ahmedt-Aristizaba , Chuong Nguyen

We study the problem of proper discretizing and sampling issues related to geodesic X-ray transforms on simple surfaces, and illustrate the theory on simple geodesic disks of constant curvature. Given a notion of band limit on a function,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-07 François Monard , Plamen Stefanov

Marching surfaces is a method for isosurface extraction and approximation based on a $G^1$ multi-sided patch interpolation scheme. Given a 3D grid of scalar values, an underlying curve network is formed using second order information and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Gustavo Chávez , Alyn Rockwood

Increasing spatial image resolution is an often required, yet challenging task in image acquisition. Recently, it has been shown that it is possible to obtain a high resolution image by covering a low resolution sensor with a non-regular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Markus Jonscher , Jürgen Seiler , Thomas Richter , André Kaup

Many compelling video processing effects can be achieved if per-pixel depth information and 3D camera calibrations are known. However, the success of such methods is highly dependent on the accuracy of this "scene-space" information. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Felix Klose , Oliver Wang , Jean-Charles Bazin , Marcus Magnor , Alexander Sorkine-Hornung

Stochastic sampling techniques are ubiquitous in real-time rendering, where performance constraints force the use of low sample counts, leading to noisy intermediate results. To remove this noise, the post-processing step of temporal and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-25 William Donnelly , Alan Wolfe , Judith Bütepage , Jon Valdés

We introduce SparseNeuS, a novel neural rendering based method for the task of surface reconstruction from multi-view images. This task becomes more difficult when only sparse images are provided as input, a scenario where existing neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Peng Wang , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

The question of representation of 3D geometry is of vital importance when it comes to leveraging the recent advances in the field of machine learning for geometry processing tasks. For common unstructured surface meshes state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Isaak Lim , Alexander Dielen , Marcel Campen , Leif Kobbelt

Given the necessity of connecting the unconnected, covering blind spots has emerged as a critical task in the next-generation wireless communication network. A direct solution involves obtaining a coverage manifold that visually showcases…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ruibo Wang , Washim Uddin Mondal , Mustafa A. Kishk , Vaneet Aggarwal , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Point clouds upsampling is a challenging issue to generate dense and uniform point clouds from the given sparse input. Most existing methods either take the end-to-end supervised learning based manner, where large amounts of pairs of sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Wenbo Zhao , Xianming Liu , Zhiwei Zhong , Junjun Jiang , Wei Gao , Ge Li , Xiangyang Ji

Implicit 3D surface reconstruction of an object from its partial and noisy 3D point cloud scan is the classical geometry processing and 3D computer vision problem. In the literature, various 3D shape representations have been developed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Atharva Pandey , Vishal Yadav , Rajendra Nagar , Santanu Chaudhury

The task of automatically segmenting 3-D surfaces representing boundaries of objects is important for quantitative analysis of volumetric images, and plays a vital role in biomedical image analysis. Recently, graph-based methods with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Abhay Shah , Michael Abramoff , Xiaodong Wu

The sampling of graph signals has recently drawn much attention due to the wide applications of graph signal processing. While a lot of efficient methods and interesting results have been reported to the sampling of band-limited or smooth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-01 Yingcheng Lai , Li Chai , Jinming Xu

We introduce a new implicit shape representation called Primary Ray-based Implicit Function (PRIF). In contrast to most existing approaches based on the signed distance function (SDF) which handles spatial locations, our representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Brandon Yushan Feng , Yinda Zhang , Danhang Tang , Ruofei Du , Amitabh Varshney

Many automated manufacturing processes rely on industrial robot arms to move process-specific tools along workpiece surfaces. In applications like grinding, sanding, spray painting, or inspection, they need to cover a workpiece fully while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Robert Wilbrandt , Rüdiger Dillmann

We present a diffusion-based image morphing approach with perceptually-uniform sampling (IMPUS) that produces smooth, direct and realistic interpolations given an image pair. The embeddings of two images may lie on distinct conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zhaoyuan Yang , Zhengyang Yu , Zhiwei Xu , Jaskirat Singh , Jing Zhang , Dylan Campbell , Peter Tu , Richard Hartley

Learning neural implicit fields of 3D shapes is a rapidly emerging field that enables shape representation at arbitrary resolutions. Due to the flexibility, neural implicit fields have succeeded in many research areas, including shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yifei Shi , Boyan Wan , Xin Xu , Kai Xu

Light rays incident on a transparent object of uniform refractive index undergo deflections, which uniquely characterize the surface geometry of the object. Associated with each point on the surface is a deflection map (or spectrum) which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Prasad Sudhakar , Laurent Jacques , Xavier Dubois , Philippe Antoine , Luc Joannes

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