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When used by autonomous vehicles for trajectory planning or obstacle avoidance, depth estimation methods need to be reliable. Therefore, estimating the quality of the depth outputs is critical. In this paper, we show how M4Depth, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Michaël Fonder , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Multi-view pose estimation is essential for quantifying animal behavior in scientific research, yet current methods struggle to achieve accurate tracking with limited labeled data and suffer from poor uncertainty estimates. We address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Lenny Aharon , Keemin Lee , Karan Sikka , Selmaan Chettih , Cole Hurwitz , Liam Paninski , Matthew R Whiteway

Feed-forward 3D reconstruction has advanced rapidly, but current models remain unreliable in UAV photogrammetric acquisition. We argue that this failure is caused not only by appearance-domain shift, but also by UAV-specific camera-geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xiang Yang , Yongli Wang , HaiFeng Li , Yunsheng Zhang

Unsupervised image transfer enables intra- and inter-modality image translation in applications where a large amount of paired training data is not abundant. To ensure a structure-preserving mapping from the input to the target domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Christoph Angermann , Markus Haltmeier , Ahsan Raza Siyal

We present a new uncertainty estimation method for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), that uses the correlation plane as a model for the probability density function (PDF) of displacements and calculates the second order moment of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-01 Sayantan Bhattacharya , John J. Charonko , Pavlos P. Vlachos

The determination of accurate bathymetric information is a key element for near offshore activities, hydrological studies such as coastal engineering applications, sedimentary processes, hydrographic surveying as well as archaeological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Panagiotis Agrafiotis , Dimitrios Skarlatos , Andreas Georgopoulos , Konstantinos Karantzalos

Uncertainty quantification in text-to-image (T2I) generative models is crucial for understanding model behavior and improving output reliability. In this paper, we are the first to quantify and evaluate the uncertainty of T2I models with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Gianni Franchi , Dat Nguyen Trong , Nacim Belkhir , Guoxuan Xia , Andrea Pilzer

We propose a novel two-stage framework for sensor depth enhancement, called Perfecting Depth. This framework leverages the stochastic nature of diffusion models to automatically detect unreliable depth regions while preserving geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jinyoung Jun , Lei Chu , Jiahao Li , Yan Lu , Chang-Su Kim

Despite the recent improvements in overall accuracy, deep learning systems still exhibit low levels of robustness. Detecting possible failures is critical for a successful clinical integration of these systems, where each data point…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-14 Alain Jungo , Mauricio Reyes

This paper proposes a novel approach for uncertainty quantification in dense Conditional Random Fields (CRFs). The presented approach, called Perturb-and-MPM, enables efficient, approximate sampling from dense multi-label CRFs via random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Raphael Meier , Urspeter Knecht , Alain Jungo , Roland Wiest , Mauricio Reyes

Platforms such as robots, security cameras, drones and satellites are used in multi-view imaging for three-dimensional (3D) recovery by stereoscopy or tomography. Each camera in the setup has a field of view (FOV). Multi-view analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Vadim Holodovsky , Masada Tzabari , Yoav Schechner , Alex Frid , Klaus Schilling

Image-to-point cloud registration aims to determine the relative camera pose between an RGB image and a reference point cloud, serving as a general solution for locating 3D objects from 2D observations. Matching individual points with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Gongxin Yao , Yixin Xuan , Yiwei Chen , Yu Pan

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting have enabled impressive photorealistic novel view synthesis. However, to transition from a pure rendering engine to a reliable spatial map for autonomous agents and safety-critical applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chamuditha Jayanga Galappaththige , Thomas Gottwald , Peter Stehr , Edgar Heinert , Niko Suenderhauf , Dimity Miller , Matthias Rottmann

Advanced Aerial Mobility (AAM) operations require strategic flight planning services that predict both spatial and temporal uncertainties to safely validate flight plans against hazards such as weather cells, restricted airspaces, and CNS…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Balram Kandoria , Aryaman Singh Samyal

This paper investigates methods for estimating uncertainty in semantic segmentation predictions derived from satellite imagery. Estimating uncertainty for segmentation presents unique challenges compared to standard image classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Melanie Rey , Andriy Mnih , Maxim Neumann , Matt Overlan , Drew Purves

In this paper, we present a case study that performs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based fine-scale 3D change detection and monitoring of progressive collapse performance of a building during a demolition event. Multi-temporal oblique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Ningli Xu , Debao Huang , Shuang Song , Xiao Ling , Chris Strasbaugh , Alper Yilmaz , Halil Sezen , Rongjun Qin

This paper presents a nonparametric statistical modeling method for quantifying uncertainty in stochastic gradient systems with isotropic diffusion. The central idea is to apply the diffusion maps algorithm to a training data set to produce…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Tyrus Berry , John Harlim

Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is crucial for ensuring the reliability of machine learning models deployed in real-world autonomous systems. However, existing approaches typically quantify task-level output prediction uncertainty without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Luke Chen , Junyao Wang , Trier Mortlock , Pramod Khargonekar , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Image-based simulation, the use of 3D images to calculate physical quantities, fundamentally relies on image segmentation to create the computational geometry. However, this process introduces image segmentation uncertainty because there is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Michael C. Krygier , Tyler LaBonte , Carianne Martinez , Chance Norris , Krish Sharma , Lincoln N. Collins , Partha P. Mukherjee , Scott A. Roberts

Efficient and accurate 3D reconstruction is crucial for various applications, including augmented and virtual reality, medical imaging, and cinematic special effects. While traditional Multi-View Stereo (MVS) systems have been fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Umair Haroon , Ahmad AlMughrabi , Ricardo Marques , Petia Radeva