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Modeling scene geometry using implicit neural representation has revealed its advantages in accuracy, flexibility, and low memory usage. Previous approaches have demonstrated impressive results using color or depth images but still have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Dongyu Yan , Xiaoyang Lyu , Jieqi Shi , Yi Lin

3D semantic occupancy has rapidly become a research focus in the fields of robotics and autonomous driving environment perception due to its ability to provide more realistic geometric perception and its closer integration with downstream…

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Parallel imaging is a commonly used technique to accelerate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data acquisition. Mathematically, parallel MRI reconstruction can be formulated as an inverse problem relating the sparsely sampled k-space…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Ruimin Feng , Qing Wu , Jie Feng , Huajun She , Chunlei Liu , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei

Automatic 3D neuron reconstruction is critical for analysing the morphology and functionality of neurons in brain circuit activities. However, the performance of existing tracing algorithms is hinged by the low image quality. Recently, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Heng Wang , Chaoyi Zhang , Jianhui Yu , Yang Song , Siqi Liu , Wojciech Chrzanowski , Weidong Cai

Neural implicit functions have emerged as a powerful representation for surfaces in 3D. Such a function can encode a high quality surface with intricate details into the parameters of a deep neural network. However, optimizing for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wang Yifan , Shihao Wu , Cengiz Oztireli , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

The storage of medical images is one of the challenges in the medical imaging field. There are variable works that use implicit neural representation (INR) to compress volumetric medical images. However, there is room to improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Armin Sheibanifard , Hongchuan Yu

Active soft bodies can affect their shape through an internal actuation mechanism that induces a deformation. Similar to recent work, this paper utilizes a differentiable, quasi-static, and physics-based simulation layer to optimize for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Lingchen Yang , Byungsoo Kim , Gaspard Zoss , Baran Gözcü , Markus Gross , Barbara Solenthaler

Neural implicit representations have become a popular choice for modeling surfaces due to their adaptability in resolution and support for complex topology. While previous works have achieved impressive reconstruction quality by training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Lu Sang , Abhishek Saroha , Maolin Gao , Daniel Cremers

Efficient and scalable 3D occupancy mapping is essential for autonomous robot applications in unknown environments. However, traditional occupancy grid representations suffer from two fundamental limitations. First, explicitly storing all…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Benxu Tang , Yixi Cai , Fanze Kong , Longji Yin , Fu Zhang

Generalizable neural surface reconstruction has become a compelling technique to reconstruct from few images without per-scene optimization, where dense 3D feature volume has proven effective as a global representation of scenes. However,…

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Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used in diagnosing and staging abdominal diseases due to its lack of non-ionizing radiation and prevalent availability. However, significant inter-operator variability and inconsistent image acquisition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yordanka Velikova , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Walter Simson , Marco Esposito , Nassir Navab

We introduce a dual contouring method that provides state-of-the-art performance for occupancy functions while achieving computation times of a few seconds. Our method is learning-free and carefully designed to maximize the use of GPU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jisung Hwang , Minhyuk Sung

Occupancy prediction, aiming at predicting the occupancy status within voxelized 3D environment, is quickly gaining momentum within the autonomous driving community. Mainstream occupancy prediction works first discretize the 3D environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jiabao Wang , Zhaojiang Liu , Qiang Meng , Liujiang Yan , Ke Wang , Jie Yang , Wei Liu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

We are witnessing an explosion of neural implicit representations in computer vision and graphics. Their applicability has recently expanded beyond tasks such as shape generation and image-based rendering to the fundamental problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Jiaming Sun , Xi Chen , Qianqian Wang , Zhengqi Li , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Xiaowei Zhou , Noah Snavely

3D occupancy prediction is an emerging task that aims to estimate the occupancy states and semantics of 3D scenes using multi-view images. However, image-based scene perception encounters significant challenges in achieving accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Haiming Zhang , Xu Yan , Dongfeng Bai , Jiantao Gao , Pan Wang , Bingbing Liu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Implicit Neural Representation (INR) is an innovative approach for representing complex shapes or objects without explicitly defining their geometry or surface structure. Instead, INR represents objects as continuous functions. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Hanqiu Chen , Hang Yang , Stephen Fitzmeyer , Cong Hao

Neural implicit functions have achieved impressive results for reconstructing 3D shapes from single images. However, the image features for describing 3D point samplings of implicit functions are less effective when significant variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yixin Zhuang , Yunzhe Liu , Yujie Wang , Baoquan Chen

Manual rib inspections in computed tomography (CT) scans are clinically critical but labor-intensive, as 24 ribs are typically elongated and oblique in 3D volumes. Automatic rib segmentation methods can speed up the process through rib…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Jiancheng Yang , Shixuan Gu , Donglai Wei , Hanspeter Pfister , Bingbing Ni

In this work, we present a dense tracking and mapping system named Vox-Fusion, which seamlessly fuses neural implicit representations with traditional volumetric fusion methods. Our approach is inspired by the recently developed implicit…

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