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Spine segmentation, based on ultrasound volume projection imaging (VPI), plays a vital role for intelligent scoliosis diagnosis in clinical applications. However, this task faces several significant challenges. Firstly, the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hao Xie , Zixun Huang , Yushen Zuo , Yakun Ju , Frank H. F. Leung , N. F. Law , Kin-Man Lam , Yong-Ping Zheng , Sai Ho Ling

We introduce Point2Skeleton, an unsupervised method to learn skeletal representations from point clouds. Existing skeletonization methods are limited to tubular shapes and the stringent requirement of watertight input, while our method aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Cheng Lin , Changjian Li , Yuan Liu , Nenglun Chen , Yi-King Choi , Wenping Wang

Recent advances in large-scale pretrained vision models have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of downstream tasks, including cross-modal and multi-modal scenarios. However, their direct application to 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Siyuan Yang , Jun Liu , Hao Cheng , Chong Wang , Shijian Lu , Hedvig Kjellstrom , Weisi Lin , Alex C. Kot

In this paper, we present a simple yet effective formulation called Coverage Axis for 3D shape skeletonization. Inspired by the set cover problem, our key idea is to cover all the surface points using as few inside medial balls as possible.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Zhiyang Dou , Cheng Lin , Rui Xu , Lei Yang , Shiqing Xin , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Human shape spaces have been extensively studied, as they are a core element of human shape and pose inference tasks. Classic methods for creating a human shape model register a surface template mesh to a database of 3D scans and use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Stephan Wenninger , Fabian Kemper , Ulrich Schwanecke , Mario Botsch

Whole slide images (WSIs) pose fundamental computational challenges due to their gigapixel resolution and the sparse distribution of informative regions. Existing approaches often treat image patches independently or reshape them in ways…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Weiyi Wu , Xingjian Diao , Chunhui Zhang , Chongyang Gao , Xinwen Xu , Siting Li , Jiang Gui

Object Skeletonization is the process of extracting skeletal, line-like representations of shapes. It provides a very useful tool for geometric shape understanding and minimal shape representation. It also has a wide variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Mohamed A. Ghanem , Alaa A. Anani

Statistical shape models (SSMs) are state-of-the-art medical image analysis tools for extracting and explaining features across a set of biological structures. However, a principled and robust way to combine shape and pose features has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Jean-Rassaire Fouefack , Bhushan Borotikar , Tania S. Douglas , Valérie Burdin , Tinashe E. M. Mutsvangwa

We propose a new algorithm for curve skeleton computation which differs from previous algorithms by being based on the notion of local separators. The main benefits of this approach are that it is able to capture relatively fine details and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Andreas Bærentzen , Eva Rotenberg

We introduce a new regression framework designed to deal with large-scale, complex data that lies around a low-dimensional manifold with noises. Our approach first constructs a graph representation, referred to as the skeleton, to capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zeyu Wei , Yen-Chi Chen

Statistical shape analysis of slabular objects like groups of hippocampi is highly useful for medical researchers as it can be useful for diagnoses and understanding diseases. This work proposes a novel object representation based on…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-09 Mohsen Taheri , Stephen M. Pizer , Jörn Schulz

Hyperspectral images provide abundant spatial and spectral information that is very valuable for material detection in diverse areas of practical science. The high-dimensions of data lead to many processing challenges that can be addressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Saeideh Ghanbari Azar , Saeed Meshgini , Tohid Yousefi Rezaii , Soosan Beheshti

Dictionary learning is a challenge topic in many image processing areas. The basic goal is to learn a sparse representation from an overcomplete basis set. Due to combining the advantages of generic multiscale representations with learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Rui Chen , Huizhu Jia , Xiaodong Xie , Wen Gao

We describe a skeletonization of the spherical harmonic connection problem that reduces the storage and pre-computation to superoptimal complexities at the cost of increasing the execution time by the modest multiplicative factor of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Richard Mikael Slevinsky

Object skeleton is a useful cue for object detection, complementary to the object contour, as it provides a structural representation to describe the relationship among object parts. While object skeleton extraction in natural images is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Wei Shen , Kai Zhao , Yuan Jiang , Yan Wang , Zhijiang Zhang , Xiang Bai

Skeletonization has been a popular shape analysis technique that models both the interior and exterior of an object. Existing template-based calculations of skeletal models from anatomical structures are a time-consuming manual process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Ninad Khargonkar , Beatriz Paniagua , Jared Vicory

We introduce Coverage Axis++, a novel and efficient approach to 3D shape skeletonization. The current state-of-the-art approaches for this task often rely on the watertightness of the input or suffer from substantial computational costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Zimeng Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Rui Xu , Cheng Lin , Yuan Liu , Xiaoxiao Long , Shiqing Xin , Taku Komura , Xiaoming Yuan , Wenping Wang

The core challenge of hyperspectral image denoising is striking the right balance between data fidelity and noise prior modeling. Most existing methods place too much emphasis on the intrinsic priors of the image while overlooking diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xuelin Xie , Xiliang Lu , Zhengshan Wang , Yang Zhang , Long Chen

We consider the problem of extracting curve skeletons of three-dimensional, elongated objects given a noisy surface, which has applications in agricultural contexts such as extracting the branching structure of plants. We describe an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Amy Tabb , Henry Medeiros

A robust algorithm is proposed to reconstruct the spatial support and the Lam\'e parameters of multiple inclusions in a homogeneous background elastic material using a few measurements of the displacement field over a finite collection of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Jaejun Yoo , Younghoon Jung , Mikyoung Lim , Jong Chul Ye , Abdul Wahab