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Autonomous safe navigation in unstructured and novel environments poses significant challenges, especially when environment information can only be provided through low-cost vision sensors. Although safe reactive approaches have been…

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Simultaneously odometry and mapping using LiDAR data is an important task for mobile systems to achieve full autonomy in large-scale environments. However, most existing LiDAR-based methods prioritize tracking quality over reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Junyuan Deng , Xieyuanli Chen , Songpengcheng Xia , Zhen Sun , Guoqing Liu , Wenxian Yu , Ling Pei

This paper presents a unified surface reconstruction and rendering framework for LiDAR-visual systems, integrating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Neural Distance Fields (NDF) to recover both appearance and structural information from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jianheng Liu , Chunran Zheng , Yunfei Wan , Bowen Wang , Yixi Cai , Fu Zhang

A robot self-model is a task-agnostic representation of the robot's physical morphology that can be used for motion planning tasks in the absence of a classical geometric kinematic model. In particular, when the latter is hard to engineer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Lennart Schulze , Hod Lipson

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have emerged as a groundbreaking paradigm for representing 3D objects and scenes by encoding shape and appearance information into the weights of a neural network. Recent studies have demonstrated that these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Francesco Ballerini , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Luigi Di Stefano , Samuele Salti

Multi-view shape reconstruction has achieved impressive progresses thanks to the latest advances in neural implicit surface rendering. However, existing methods based on signed distance function (SDF) are limited to closed surfaces, failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yu-Tao Liu , Li Wang , Jie yang , Weikai Chen , Xiaoxu Meng , Bo Yang , Lin Gao

While neural radiance fields (NeRF) led to a breakthrough in photorealistic novel view synthesis, handling mirroring surfaces still denotes a particular challenge as they introduce severe inconsistencies in the scene representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Leif Van Holland , Michael Weinmann , Jan U. Müller , Patrick Stotko , Reinhard Klein

Recent advances in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have shown great potential in 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis, particularly for indoor and small-scale scenes. However, extending NeRF to large-scale outdoor environments presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yizhou Li , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi , Yuuichi Tanaka , Seiichi Kataoka , Teruaki Kosiba

Real-time motion generation -- which is essential for achieving reactive and adaptive behavior -- under kinodynamic constraints for high-dimensional systems is a crucial yet challenging problem. We address this with a two-step approach:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yonghyeon Lee

Diffusion and flow models have become the dominant paradigm for generative modeling on Riemannian manifolds, with successful applications in protein backbone generation and DNA sequence design. However, these methods require tens to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Dongyeop Woo , Marta Skreta , Seonghyun Park , Kirill Neklyudov , Sungsoo Ahn

A variety of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) methods have recently achieved remarkable success in high render speed. However, current accelerating methods are specialized and incompatible with various implicit methods, preventing real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Xinyu Gao , Ziyi Yang , Yunlu Zhao , Yuxiang Sun , Xiaogang Jin , Changqing Zou

We propose a novel framework for training neural networks which is capable of learning 3D information of non-rigid objects when only 2D annotations are available as ground truths. Recently, there have been some approaches that incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Sungheon Park , Minsik Lee , Nojun Kwak

Traditional approaches for manipulation planning rely on an explicit geometric model of the environment to formulate a given task as an optimization problem. However, inferring an accurate model from raw sensor input is a hard problem in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Phillip Grote , Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Marc Toussaint , Ozgur S. Oguz

We introduce NeRF-GS, a novel framework that jointly optimizes Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). This framework leverages the inherent continuous spatial representation of NeRF to mitigate several limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shuangkang Fang , I-Chao Shen , Takeo Igarashi , Yufeng Wang , ZeSheng Wang , Yi Yang , Wenrui Ding , Shuchang Zhou

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have proven to be powerful 3D representations, capable of high quality novel view synthesis of complex scenes. While NeRFs have been applied to graphics, vision, and robotics, problems with slow rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Ashkan Mirzaei , Marcus A. Brubaker , Jonathan Kelly , Alex Levinshtein , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Igor Gilitschenski

Humanoid robots require diverse motor skills to integrate into complex environments, but bridging the kinematic and dynamic embodiment gap from human data remains a major bottleneck. We demonstrate through Hessian analysis that traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Qingrui Zhao , Kaiyue Yang , Xiyu Wang , Shiqi Zhao , Yi Lu , Xinfang Zhang , Qiu Shen , Xiao-Xiao Long , Xun Cao

Obtaining a better knowledge of the current state and behavior of objects orbiting Earth has proven to be essential for a range of applications such as active debris removal, in-orbit maintenance, or anomaly detection. 3D models represent a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Clément Forray , Pauline Delporte , Nicolas Delaygue , Florence Genin , Dawa Derksen

Human motion prediction aims to forecast future human poses given a prior pose sequence. The discontinuity of the predicted motion and the performance deterioration in long-term horizons are still the main challenges encountered in current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Baptiste Chopin , Naima Otberdout , Mohamed Daoudi , Angela Bartolo

An open problem in mobile manipulation is how to represent objects and scenes in a unified manner so that robots can use both for navigation and manipulation. The latter requires capturing intricate geometry while understanding fine-grained…

Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion (NRSfM) problem aims to recover 3D geometry of a deforming object from its 2D feature correspondences across multiple frames. Classical approaches to this problem assume a small number of feature points and,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Suryansh Kumar , Luc Van Gool , Carlos E. P. de Oliveira , Anoop Cherian , Yuchao Dai , Hongdong Li