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Image keypoints and descriptors play a crucial role in many visual measurement tasks. In recent years, deep neural networks have been widely used to improve the performance of keypoint and descriptor extraction. However, the conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Xiaoming Zhao , Xingming Wu , Weihai Chen , Peter C. Y. Chen , Qingsong Xu , Zhengguo Li

Generation of realistic high-resolution videos of human subjects is a challenging and important task in computer vision. In this paper, we focus on human motion transfer - generation of a video depicting a particular subject, observed in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Polina Zablotskaia , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Bo Zhao , Leonid Sigal

This paper introduces a framework for super-resolution of scalable video based on compressive sensing and sparse representation of residual frames in reconnaissance and surveillance applications. We exploit efficient compressive sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Mohammad Hossein Moghaddam , Mohammad Javad Azizipour , Saeed Vahidian , Besma Smida

The development of text-to-video (T2V), i.e., generating videos with a given text prompt, has been significantly advanced in recent years. However, relying solely on text prompts often results in ambiguous frame composition due to spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuwei Guo , Ceyuan Yang , Anyi Rao , Maneesh Agrawala , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

Multi-view visual reasoning is essential for intelligent systems that must understand complex environments from sparse and discrete viewpoints, yet existing research has largely focused on single-image or temporally dense video settings. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Fucai Ke , Zhixi Cai , Boying Li , Long Chen , Beibei Lin , Weiqing Wang , Pari Delir Haghighi , Gholamreza Haffari , Hamid Rezatofighi

Modern video generative models based on diffusion models can produce very realistic clips, but they are computationally inefficient, often requiring minutes of GPU time for just a few seconds of video. This inefficiency poses a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jieying Chen , Jeffrey Hu , Joan Lasenby , Ayush Tewari

This paper introduces Point2Insert, a sparse-point-based framework for flexible and user-friendly object insertion in videos, motivated by the growing popularity of accurate, low-effort object placement. Existing approaches face two major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yu Zhou , Xiaoyan Yang , Bojia Zi , Lihan Zhang , Ruijie Sun , Weishi Zheng , Haibin Huang , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li

In this paper, we propose to compress human body video with interactive semantics, which can facilitate video coding to be interactive and controllable by manipulating semantic-level representations embedded in the coded bitstream. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Bolin Chen , Shanzhi Yin , Hanwei Zhu , Lingyu Zhu , Zihan Zhang , Jie Chen , Ru-Ling Liao , Shiqi Wang , Yan Ye

Recent works favored dense signals (e.g., depth, DensePose), as an alternative to sparse signals (e.g., OpenPose), to provide detailed spatial guidance for pose-guided text-to-image generation. However, dense representations raised new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Wenjie Xuan , Jing Zhang , Juhua Liu , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao

Motion Transfer is a technique that synthesizes videos by transferring motion dynamics from a driving video to a source image. In this work we propose a deep learning-based framework to enable real-time video motion transfer which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Tasmiah Haque , Md. Asif Bin Syed , Byungheon Jeong , Xue Bai , Sumit Mohan , Somdyuti Paul , Imtiaz Ahmed , Srinjoy Das

3D object detection has been widely studied due to its potential applicability to many promising areas such as robotics and augmented reality. Yet, the sparse nature of the 3D data poses unique challenges to this task. Most notably, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 JunYoung Gwak , Christopher Choy , Silvio Savarese

Modern 3D generation methods can rapidly create shapes from sparse or single views, but their outputs often lack geometric detail due to computational constraints. We present DetailGen3D, a generative approach specifically designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Ken Deng , Yuan-Chen Guo , Jingxiang Sun , Zi-Xin Zou , Yangguang Li , Xin Cai , Yan-Pei Cao , Yebin Liu , Ding Liang

Video-to-Video synthesis (Vid2Vid) has achieved remarkable results in generating a photo-realistic video from a sequence of semantic maps. However, this pipeline suffers from high computational cost and long inference latency, which largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Long Zhuo , Guangcong Wang , Shikai Li , Wayne Wu , Ziwei Liu

We develop a new framework for learning variational autoencoders and other deep generative models that balances generative and discriminative goals. Our framework optimizes model parameters to maximize a variational lower bound on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Gabriel Hope , Madina Abdrakhmanova , Xiaoyin Chen , Michael C. Hughes , Michael C. Hughes , Erik B. Sudderth

Semantic segmentation empowers numerous real-world applications, such as autonomous driving and augmented/mixed reality. These applications often operate on high-resolution images (e.g., 8 megapixels) to capture the fine details. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zhijian Liu , Zhuoyang Zhang , Samir Khaki , Shang Yang , Haotian Tang , Chenfeng Xu , Kurt Keutzer , Song Han

Ultrasound (US) is widely used for its advantages of real-time imaging, radiation-free and portability. In clinical practice, analysis and diagnosis often rely on US sequences rather than a single image to obtain dynamic anatomical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Jiamin Liang , Xin Yang , Yuhao Huang , Kai Liu , Xinrui Zhou , Xindi Hu , Zehui Lin , Huanjia Luo , Yuanji Zhang , Yi Xiong , Dong Ni

Dense semantic forecasting anticipates future events in video by inferring pixel-level semantics of an unobserved future image. We present a novel approach that is applicable to various single-frame architectures and tasks. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Josip Šarić , Sacha Vražić , Siniša Šegvić

In compressed sensing, a small number of linear measurements can be used to reconstruct an unknown signal. Existing approaches leverage assumptions on the structure of these signals, such as sparsity or the availability of a generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-02 Manik Dhar , Aditya Grover , Stefano Ermon

We present Dense-SfM, a novel Structure from Motion (SfM) framework designed for dense and accurate 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. Sparse keypoint matching, which traditional SfM methods often rely on, limits both accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 JongMin Lee , Sungjoo Yoo

We propose a sparse end-to-end multi-person pose regression framework, termed QueryPose, which can directly predict multi-person keypoint sequences from the input image. The existing end-to-end methods rely on dense representations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Yabo Xiao , Kai Su , Xiaojuan Wang , Dongdong Yu , Lei Jin , Mingshu He , Zehuan Yuan