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Mapping is one of the crucial tasks enabling autonomous navigation of a mobile robot. Conventional mapping methods output a dense geometric map representation, e.g. an occupancy grid, which is not trivial to keep consistent for prolonged…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Kirill Muravyev , Alexander Melekhin , Dmitry Yudin , Konstantin Yakovlev

We present a deployment friendly, fast bottom-up framework for multi-person 3D human pose estimation. We adopt a novel neural representation of multi-person 3D pose which unifies the position of person instances with their corresponding 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Jogendra Nath Kundu , Ambareesh Revanur , Govind Vitthal Waghmare , Rahul Mysore Venkatesh , R. Venkatesh Babu

We propose a new method to obtain landmark-matching transformations between n-dimensional Euclidean spaces with large deformations. Given a set of feature correspondences, our algorithm searches for an optimal folding-free mapping that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Lee Yin Tat , Lam Ka Chun , Lui Lok Ming

Supervised and unsupervised homography estimation methods depend on image pairs tailored to specific modalities to achieve high accuracy. However, their performance deteriorates substantially when applied to unseen modalities. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jinkun You , Jiaxin Cheng , Jie Zhang , Yicong Zhou

Although 3D shape matching and interpolation are highly interrelated, they are often studied separately and applied sequentially to relate different 3D shapes, thus resulting in sub-optimal performance. In this work we present a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Dongliang Cao , Marvin Eisenberger , Nafie El Amrani , Daniel Cremers , Florian Bernard

Blind harmonization has emerged as a promising technique for MR image harmonization to achieve scale-invariant representations, requiring only target domain data (i.e., no source domain data necessary). However, existing methods face…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Hwihun Jeong , Hayeon Lee , Se Young Chun , Jongho Lee

We present a method to match three dimensional shapes under non-isometric deformations, topology changes and partiality. We formulate the problem as matching between a set of pair-wise and point-wise descriptors, imposing a continuity prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Zorah Lähner , Matthias Vestner , Amit Boyarski , Or Litany , Ron Slossberg , Tal Remez , Emanuele Rodolà , Alex Bronstein , Michael Bronstein , Ron Kimmel , Daniel Cremers

Deep learning has attained remarkable success in many 3D visual recognition tasks, including shape classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. However, many of these results rely on manually collecting densely annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Fernando Julio Cendra , Lan Ma , Jiajun Shen , Xiaojuan Qi

Learning-based image matching critically depends on large-scale, diverse, and geometrically accurate training data. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables photorealistic novel-view synthesis and thus is attractive for data generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Juncheng Chen , Chao Xu , Yanjun Cao

The success of current deep saliency detection methods heavily depends on the availability of large-scale supervision in the form of per-pixel labeling. Such supervision, while labor-intensive and not always possible, tends to hinder the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Jing Zhang , Tong Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Mehrtash Harandi , Richard Hartley

The advancement of visual tracking has continuously been brought by deep learning models. Typically, supervised learning is employed to train these models with expensive labeled data. In order to reduce the workload of manual annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ning Wang , Wengang Zhou , Yibing Song , Chao Ma , Wei Liu , Houqiang Li

In many applications, maintaining a consistent dense map of the environment is key to enabling robotic platforms to perform higher level decision making. Several works have addressed the challenge of creating precise dense 3D maps from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Alexander Millane , Zachary Taylor , Helen Oleynikova , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , César Cadena

Deep functional maps have recently emerged as a successful paradigm for non-rigid 3D shape correspondence tasks. An essential step in this pipeline consists in learning feature functions that are used as constraints to solve for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Souhaib Attaiki , Maks Ovsjanikov

In recent years, several efforts have been aimed at improving the robustness of vision models to domains and environments unseen during training. An important practical problem pertains to models deployed in a new geography that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Tarun Kalluri , Wangdong Xu , Manmohan Chandraker

Understanding objects in terms of their individual parts is important, because it enables a precise understanding of the objects' geometrical structure, and enhances object recognition when the object is seen in a novel pose or under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Mengqi Guo , Yutong Bai , Zhishuai Zhang , Adam Kortylewski , Alan Yuille

Machine learning for remote sensing imaging relies on up-to-date and accurate labels for model training and testing. Labelling remote sensing imagery is time and cost intensive, requiring expert analysis. Previous labelling tools rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Tulsi Patel , Mark W. Jones , Thomas Redfern

Recently, there are emerging many stereo matching methods for autonomous driving based on unsupervised learning. Most of them take advantage of reconstruction losses to remove dependency on disparity groundtruth. Occlusion handling is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Liang Peng , Dan Deng , Deng Cai

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

Node embedding is the task of extracting informative and descriptive features over the nodes of a graph. The importance of node embeddings for graph analytics, as well as learning tasks such as node classification, link prediction and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

This article presents a 3D point cloud map-merging framework for egocentric heterogeneous multi-robot exploration, based on overlap detection and alignment, that is independent of a manual initial guess or prior knowledge of the robots'…