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Depth completion, the technique of estimating a dense depth image from sparse depth measurements, has a variety of applications in robotics and autonomous driving. However, depth completion faces 3 main challenges: the irregularly spaced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Fangchang Ma , Guilherme Venturelli Cavalheiro , Sertac Karaman

The emergence of deep-learning-based methods to solve image-reconstruction problems has enabled a significant increase in reconstruction quality. Unfortunately, these new methods often lack reliability and explainability, and there is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Alexis Goujon , Sebastian Neumayer , Pakshal Bohra , Stanislas Ducotterd , Michael Unser

Regularization is often used in high-dimensional regression settings to generate a sparse model, which can save tremendous computing resources and identify predictors that are most strongly associated with the response. When the predictors…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-07 Jia Wei He , R. Ayesha Ali , Gerarda Darlington

We propose to learn non-convex regularizers with a prescribed upper bound on their weak-convexity modulus. Such regularizers give rise to variational denoisers that minimize a convex energy. They rely on few parameters (less than 15,000)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Alexis Goujon , Sebastian Neumayer , Michael Unser

Deep speaker embedding has achieved state-of-the-art performance in speaker recognition. A potential problem of these embedded vectors (called `x-vectors') are not Gaussian, causing performance degradation with the famous PLDA back-end…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yang Zhang , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

In this paper, we propose a new self-supervised method, which is called Denoising Masked AutoEncoders (DMAE), for learning certified robust classifiers of images. In DMAE, we corrupt each image by adding Gaussian noises to each pixel value…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Quanlin Wu , Hang Ye , Yuntian Gu , Huishuai Zhang , Liwei Wang , Di He

This work presents an approach for image reconstruction in clinical low-dose tomography that combines principles from sparse signal processing with ideas from deep learning. First, we describe sparse signal representation in terms of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-27 Jevgenija Rudzusika , Thomas Koehler , Ozan Öktem

Accurate segmentation of heart structures imaged by cardiac MR is key for the quantitative analysis of pathology. High-resolution 3D MR sequences enable whole-heart structural imaging but are time-consuming, expensive to acquire and they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Carlo Biffi , Juan J. Cerrolaza , Giacomo Tarroni , Antonio de Marvao , Stuart A. Cook , Declan P. O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert

Spatial transformations are enablers in a variety of medical image analysis applications that entail aligning images to a common coordinate systems. Population analysis of such transformations is expected to capture the underlying image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Riddhish Bhalodia , Shireen Y. Elhabian , Ladislav Kavan , Ross T. Whitaker

While deep neural networks have been shown to perform remarkably well in many machine learning tasks, labeling a large amount of ground truth data for supervised training is usually very costly to scale. Therefore, learning robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jianbo Jiao , Linchao Bao , Yunchao Wei , Shengfeng He , Honghui Shi , Rynson Lau , Thomas S. Huang

Depth estimation is a crucial step for image-guided intervention in robotic surgery and laparoscopic imaging system. Since per-pixel depth ground truth is difficult to acquire for laparoscopic image data, it is rarely possible to apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Baoru Huang , Jian-Qing Zheng , Anh Nguyen , Chi Xu , Ioannis Gkouzionis , Kunal Vyas , David Tuch , Stamatia Giannarou , Daniel S. Elson

Recent state-of-the-art autoencoder based generative models have an encoder-decoder structure and learn a latent representation with a pre-defined distribution that can be sampled from. Implementing the encoder networks of these models in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 D. T. Braithwaite , M. O'Connor , W. B. Kleijn

Recovering continuous-time dynamics from discrete observations is difficult because local supervision (e.g., pointwise regression targets, derivative approximations, or equation residuals) loses fidelity as the observation interval grows.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yuxiang Luo , Andrew Perrault

Differentiable 3D Gaussian splatting has emerged as an efficient and flexible rendering technique for representing complex scenes from a collection of 2D views and enabling high-quality real-time novel-view synthesis. However, its reliance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Meenakshi Krishnan , Liam Fowl , Ramani Duraiswami

A novel, fast and practical way of enhancing images is introduced in this paper. Our approach builds on Laplacian operators of well-known edge-aware kernels, such as bilateral and nonlocal means, and extends these filter's capabilities to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Hossein Talebi , Peyman Milanfar

Implicit neural representation has paved the way for new approaches to dynamic scene reconstruction and rendering. Nonetheless, cutting-edge dynamic neural rendering methods rely heavily on these implicit representations, which frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Ziyi Yang , Xinyu Gao , Wen Zhou , Shaohui Jiao , Yuqing Zhang , Xiaogang Jin

Compressed Sensing using $\ell_1$ regularization is among the most powerful and popular sparsification technique in many applications, but why has it not been used to obtain sparse deep learning model such as convolutional neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Juncai He , Xiaodong Jia , Jinchao Xu , Lian Zhang , Liang Zhao

We present DRACO, a method for Dense Reconstruction And Canonicalization of Object shape from one or more RGB images. Canonical shape reconstruction, estimating 3D object shape in a coordinate space canonicalized for scale, rotation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Rahul Sajnani , AadilMehdi Sanchawala , Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula , Srinath Sridhar , K. Madhava Krishna

Autoencoders represent an effective approach for computing the underlying factors characterizing datasets of different types. The latent representation of autoencoders have been studied in the context of enabling interpolation between data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Alon Oring , Zohar Yakhini , Yacov Hel-Or

3D scene reconstruction is fundamental for spatial intelligence applications such as AR, robotics, and digital twins. Traditional multi-view stereo struggles with sparse viewpoints or low-texture regions, while neural rendering approaches,…

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