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When interacting in a three dimensional world, humans must estimate 3D structure from visual inputs projected down to two dimensional retinal images. It has been shown that humans use the persistence of object shape over motion-induced…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-03 Marissa Connor , Bruno Olshausen , Christopher Rozell

We present a method to learn the 3D surface of objects directly from a collection of images. Previous work achieved this capability by exploiting additional manual annotation, such as object pose, 3D surface templates, temporal continuity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Attila Szabó , Paolo Favaro

Humans can infer the three-dimensional structure of objects from two-dimensional visual inputs. Modeling this ability has been a longstanding goal for the science and engineering of visual intelligence, yet decades of computational methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tyler Bonnen , Jitendra Malik , Angjoo Kanazawa

Trained on internet-scale video data, generative world models are increasingly recognized as powerful world simulators that can generate consistent and plausible dynamics over structure, motion, and physics. This raises a natural question:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kevin Zhang , Kuangzhi Ge , Xiaowei Chi , Renrui Zhang , Shaojun Shi , Zhen Dong , Sirui Han , Shanghang Zhang

The superior performances of pre-trained foundation models in various visual tasks underscore their potential to enhance the 2D models' open-vocabulary ability. Existing methods explore analogous applications in the 3D space. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Dongmei Zhang , Chang Li , Ray Zhang , Shenghao Xie , Wei Xue , Xiaodong Xie , Shanghang Zhang

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding presents a significant challenge in the field. Recent works have sought to transfer knowledge embedded in vision-language models from 2D to 3D domains. However, these approaches often require prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Hanchen Tai , Qingdong He , Jiangning Zhang , Yijie Qian , Zhenyu Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Xiangtai Li , Yabiao Wang , Yong Liu

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have exhibited remarkable generalization capabilities, yet their robustness in dynamic real-world scenarios remains largely unexplored. To systematically evaluate VLMs' robustness to real-world 3D variations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shouwei Ruan , Hanqing Liu , Yao Huang , Xiaoqi Wang , Caixin Kang , Hang Su , Yinpeng Dong , Xingxing Wei

Can one perceive a video's content without seeing its pixels, just from the camera trajectory-the path it carves through space? This paper is the first to systematically investigate this seemingly implausible question. Towards this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zihui Xue , Kristen Grauman , Dima Damen , Andrew Zisserman , Tengda Han

We present SAM 3D, a generative model for visually grounded 3D object reconstruction, predicting geometry, texture, and layout from a single image. SAM 3D excels in natural images, where occlusion and scene clutter are common and visual…

Understanding 3D scenes requires flexible combinations of visual reasoning tasks, including depth estimation, novel view synthesis, and object manipulation, all of which are essential for perception and interaction. Existing approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Wanhee Lee , Klemen Kotar , Rahul Mysore Venkatesh , Jared Watrous , Honglin Chen , Khai Loong Aw , Daniel L. K. Yamins

Future robots are envisioned as versatile systems capable of performing a variety of household tasks. The big question remains, how can we bridge the embodiment gap while minimizing physical robot learning, which fundamentally does not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hanzhi Chen , Boyang Sun , Anran Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Stefan Leutenegger

Video watermarking embeds a message into a cover video in an imperceptible manner, which can be retrieved even if the video undergoes certain modifications or distortions. Traditional watermarking methods are often manually designed for…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Xiyang Luo , Yinxiao Li , Huiwen Chang , Ce Liu , Peyman Milanfar , Feng Yang

The ultimate goal of video generation is to satisfy a fundamental trilemma: achieving high visual quality, maintaining rigorous physical consistency, and enabling precise controllability. While recent models can maintain this balance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tianshuo Xu , Zhifei Chen , Leyi Wu , Hao Lu , Ying-cong Chen

The rapid evolution of video generation has enabled models to simulate complex physical dynamics and long-horizon causalities, positioning them as potential world simulators. However, a critical gap still remains between the theoretical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Muyang He , Hanzhong Guo , Junxiong Lin , Yizhou Yu

Due to the statistical complexity of video, the high degree of inherent stochasticity, and the sheer amount of data, generating natural video remains a challenging task. State-of-the-art video generation models often attempt to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Dirk Weissenborn , Oscar Täckström , Jakob Uszkoreit

Foundation models (FMs) have shown transformative potential in radiology by performing diverse, complex tasks across imaging modalities. Here, we developed CT-FM, a large-scale 3D image-based pre-trained model designed explicitly for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Suraj Pai , Ibrahim Hadzic , Dennis Bontempi , Keno Bressem , Benjamin H. Kann , Andriy Fedorov , Raymond H. Mak , Hugo J. W. L. Aerts

The landscape of video generation is shifting, from a focus on generating visually appealing clips to building virtual environments that support interaction and maintain physical plausibility. These developments point toward the emergence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jingtong Yue , Ziqi Huang , Zhaoxi Chen , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Ziwei Liu

Video segmentation -- partitioning video frames into multiple segments or objects -- plays a critical role in a broad range of practical applications, from enhancing visual effects in movie, to understanding scenes in autonomous driving, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Tianfei Zhou , Fatih Porikli , David Crandall , Luc Van Gool , Wenguan Wang

Recent developments in Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) have demonstrated remarkable capability to generate high-quality video content. Nonetheless, the potential of VDMs for creating transparent videos remains largely uncharted. In this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Menghao Li , Zhenghao Zhang , Junchao Liao , Long Qin , Weizhi Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) struggle with 3D-related tasks such as spatial cognition and physical understanding, which are crucial for real-world applications like robotics and embodied agents. We attribute this to a modality gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yifan Liu , Fangneng Zhan , Kaichen Zhou , Yilun Du , Paul Pu Liang , Hanspeter Pfister