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Maintaining stable and accurate localization during fast motion or on rough terrain remains highly challenging for mobile robots with onboard resources. Currently, multi-sensor fusion methods based on continuous-time representation offer a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Lei Zhao , Xingyi Li , Tianchen Deng , Chuan Cao , Han Zhang , Weidong Chen

We define a representation framework for extracting spatial information from radiology reports (Rad-SpRL). We annotated a total of 2000 chest X-ray reports with 4 spatial roles corresponding to the common radiology entities. Our focus is on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Surabhi Datta , Yuqi Si , Laritza Rodriguez , Sonya E Shooshan , Dina Demner-Fushman , Kirk Roberts

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have been successfully used to compress a variety of 3D surface representations such as Signed Distance Functions (SDFs), voxel grids, and also other forms of structured data such as images, videos,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sai Karthikey Pentapati , Gregoire Phillips , Alan C. Bovik

Medical image segmentation has been so far achieving promising results with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, it is arguable that in traditional CNNs, its pooling layer tends to discard important information such as positions.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Tan Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Ngan Le

Open-vocabulary 3D occupancy is vital for embodied agents, which need to understand complex indoor environments where semantic categories are abundant and evolve beyond fixed taxonomies. While recent work has explored open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Changqing Zhou , Yueru Luo , Han Zhang , Zeyu Jiang , Changhao Chen

Occupancy prediction plays a pivotal role in autonomous driving. Previous methods typically construct dense 3D volumes, neglecting the inherent sparsity of the scene and suffering from high computational costs. To bridge the gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Haisong Liu , Yang Chen , Haiguang Wang , Zetong Yang , Tianyu Li , Jia Zeng , Li Chen , Hongyang Li , Limin Wang

Occupancy estimation has become a prominent task in 3D computer vision, particularly within the autonomous driving community. In this paper, we present a novel approach to occupancy estimation, termed GaussianFlowOcc, which is inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Simon Boeder , Fabian Gigengack , Benjamin Risse

Automatic quantification of intramyocardial motion and strain from tagging MRI remains an important but challenging task. We propose a method using implicit neural representations (INRs), conditioned on learned latent codes, to predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Andrew Bell , Yan Kit Choi , Steffen E Petersen , Andrew King , Muhummad Sohaib Nazir , Alistair A Young

The safe operation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is highly dependent on their understanding of the surroundings. For this, the task of 3D semantic occupancy prediction divides the space around the sensors into voxels, and labels each voxel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zhenxing Ming , Julie Stephany Berrio , Mao Shan , Yaoqi Huang , Hongyu Lyu , Nguyen Hoang Khoi Tran , Tzu-Yun Tseng , Stewart Worrall

Reconstruction of 3D open surfaces (e.g., non-watertight meshes) is an underexplored area of computer vision. Recent learning-based implicit techniques have removed previous barriers by enabling reconstruction in arbitrary resolutions. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammad Samiul Arshad , William J. Beksi

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs), characterized by neural network-encoded signed distance fields, provide a powerful means to represent complex geometries continuously and efficiently. While successful in computer vision and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Samundra Karki , Ming-Chen Hsu , Adarsh Krishnamurthy , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Semantic occupancy has recently gained significant traction as a prominent 3D scene representation. However, most existing methods rely on large and costly datasets with fine-grained 3D voxel labels for training, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Simon Boeder , Fabian Gigengack , Benjamin Risse

Modern incarnations of tactile sensors produce high-dimensional raw sensory feedback such as images, making it challenging to efficiently store, process, and generalize across sensors. To address these concerns, we introduce a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Sikai Li , Samanta Rodriguez , Yiming Dou , Andrew Owens , Nima Fazeli

Reconstructing continuous environmental fields from sparse and irregular observations remains a central challenge in environmental modelling and biodiversity informatics. Many ecological datasets are heterogeneous in space and time, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Agnieszka Pregowska , Hazem M. Kalaji

Neural implicit functions have demonstrated significant importance in various areas such as computer vision, graphics. Their advantages include the ability to represent complex shapes and scenes with high fidelity, smooth interpolation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qi Ma , Danda Pani Paudel , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

Voxels are a geometric representation used for rendering volumes, multi-resolution models, and indirect lighting effects. Since the memory consumption of uncompressed voxel volumes scales cubically with resolution, past works have…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Russel Arbore , Jeffrey Liu , Aidan Wefel , Steven Gao , Eric Shaffer

The goal of this paper is to learn dense 3D shape correspondence for topology-varying objects in an unsupervised manner. Conventional implicit functions estimate the occupancy of a 3D point given a shape latent code. Instead, our novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Feng Liu , Xiaoming Liu

Longitudinal image registration enables studying temporal changes in brain morphology which is useful in applications where monitoring the growth or atrophy of specific structures is important. However this task is challenging due to;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Aisha L. Shuaibu , Kieran A. Gibb , Peter A. Wijeratne , Ivor J. A. Simpson

Some forms of novel visual media enable the viewer to explore a 3D scene from arbitrary viewpoints, by interpolating between a discrete set of original views. Compared to 2D imagery, these types of applications require much larger amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Thomas Bird , Johannes Ballé , Saurabh Singh , Philip A. Chou

Robotic manipulation requires accurate perception of the environment, which poses a significant challenge due to its inherent complexity and constantly changing nature. In this context, RGB image and point-cloud observations are two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Boshi An , Yiran Geng , Kai Chen , Xiaoqi Li , Qi Dou , Hao Dong