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Autonomous Vehicle (AV) perception systems have advanced rapidly in recent years, providing vehicles with the ability to accurately interpret their environment. Perception systems remain susceptible to errors caused by overly-confident…

Modern convolutional networks such as ResNet and NASNet have achieved state-of-the-art results in many computer vision applications. These architectures consist of stages, which are sets of layers that operate on representations in the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Artur Jordao , Fernando Akio , Maiko Lie , William Robson Schwartz

Many applications utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) require the use of computer vision algorithms to analyze the information captured from their on-board camera. Recent advances in deep learning have made it possible to use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 George Plastiras , Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

Vision Language Models (VLMs) excel at visual question answering (VQA) but remain limited to snapshot vision, reasoning from static images. In contrast, embodied agents require ambulatory vision, actively moving to obtain more informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Juil Koo , Daehyeon Choi , Sangwoo Youn , Phillip Y. Lee , Minhyuk Sung

Novel View Synthesis (NVS) aims to generate unseen views of a 3D object given a limited number of known views. Existing methods often struggle to synthesize plausible views for unobserved regions, particularly under single-view input, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jinglin Liang , Zijian Zhou , Rui Huang , Shuangping Huang , Yichen Gong

This paper addresses the problem of 3D human pose estimation from single images. While for a long time human skeletons were parameterized and fitted to the observation by satisfying a reprojection error, nowadays researchers directly use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Bastian Wandt , Bodo Rosenhahn

Most of the achievements in artificial intelligence so far were accomplished by supervised learning which requires numerous annotated training data and thus costs innumerable manpower for labeling. Unsupervised learning is one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Mingxiang Chen , Zhanguo Chang , Haonan Lu , Bitao Yang , Zhuang Li , Liufang Guo , Zhecheng Wang

We consider the problem of planning views for a robot to acquire images of an object for visual inspection and reconstruction. In contrast to offline methods which require a 3D model of the object as input or online methods which rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Selim Engin , Eric Mitchell , Daewon Lee , Volkan Isler , Daniel D. Lee

With the advent of deep neural networks, learning-based approaches for 3D reconstruction have gained popularity. However, unlike for images, in 3D there is no canonical representation which is both computationally and memory efficient yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Lars Mescheder , Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Sebastian Nowozin , Andreas Geiger

Existing state-of-the-art novel view synthesis methods rely on either fairly accurate 3D geometry estimation or sampling of the entire space for neural volumetric rendering, which limit the overall efficiency. In order to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Yuemei Zhou , Tao Yu , Zerong Zheng , Ying Fu , Yebin Liu

Most real-world 3D sensors such as LiDARs perform fixed scans of the entire environment, while being decoupled from the recognition system that processes the sensor data. In this work, we propose a method for 3D object recognition using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Siddharth Ancha , Yaadhav Raaj , Peiyun Hu , Srinivasa G. Narasimhan , David Held

Recently, methods for neural surface representation and rendering, for example NeuS, have shown that learning neural implicit surfaces through volume rendering is becoming increasingly popular and making good progress. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hanqi Jiang , Cheng Zeng , Runnan Chen , Shuai Liang , Yinhe Han , Yichao Gao , Conglin Wang

Visual explanation enables human to understand the decision making of Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), but it is insufficient to contribute the performance improvement. In this paper, we focus on the attention map for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hiroshi Fukui , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

The task of semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) has been greatly advanced and state-of-the-art performance has been made by dense matching-based methods. The recent methods leverage space-time memory (STM) networks and learn to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jiadai Sun , Yuxin Mao , Yuchao Dai , Yiran Zhong , Jianyuan Wang

Visualizing surgical scenes is crucial for revealing internal anatomical structures during minimally invasive procedures. Novel View Synthesis is a vital technique that offers geometry and appearance reconstruction, enhancing understanding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiaxin Guo , Jiangliu Wang , Ruofeng Wei , Di Kang , Qi Dou , Yun-hui Liu

3D reconstruction is a fundamental task in robotics that gained attention due to its major impact in a wide variety of practical settings, including agriculture, underwater, and urban environments. This task can be carried out via view…

This paper studies the problem of 3D volumetric reconstruction from two views of a scene with an unknown camera. While seemingly easy for humans, this problem poses many challenges for computers since it requires simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shengyi Qian , Linyi Jin , David F. Fouhey

Determining the relative pose of a previously unseen object between two images is pivotal to the success of generalizable object pose estimation. Existing approaches typically predict 3D translation utilizing the ground-truth object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chen Zhao , Tong Zhang , Zheng Dang , Mathieu Salzmann

Unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) aims at automatically separating the primary foreground object(s) from the background in a video sequence. Existing UVOS methods either lack robustness when there are visually similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Lin Xi , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhong Liu , Zhengguo Li

Multi-view stereopsis (MVS) tries to recover the 3D model from 2D images. As the observations become sparser, the significant 3D information loss makes the MVS problem more challenging. Instead of only focusing on densely sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Mengqi Ji , Jinzhi Zhang , Qionghai Dai , Lu Fang