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Given sparse views of a 3D object, estimating their camera poses is a long-standing and intractable problem. Toward this goal, we consider harnessing the pre-trained diffusion model of novel views conditioned on viewpoints (Zero-1-to-3). We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Weihao Cheng , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan

Ultrasound imaging faces a trade-off between image quality and hardware complexity caused by dense transducers. Sparse arrays are one popular solution to mitigate this challenge. This work proposes an end-to-end optimization framework that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Sergio Urrea , Adrian Basarab , Hervé Liebgott , Henry Arguello

Accurate localization in autonomous driving is critical for successful missions including environmental mapping and survivor searches. In visually challenging environments, including low-light conditions, overexposure, illumination changes,…

3D occupancy infers fine-grained 3D geometry and semantics which is critical for autonomous driving. Most existing approaches carry high compute costs, requiring dense 3D feature volume and cross-attention to effectively aggregate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yunxiao Shi , Hong Cai , Jisoo Jeong , Yinhao Zhu , Shizhong Han , Amin Ansari , Fatih Porikli

Most previous works of outdoor instance segmentation for images only use color information. We explore a novel direction of sensor fusion to exploit stereo cameras. Geometric information from disparities helps separate overlapping objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Cho-Ying Wu , Xiaoyan Hu , Michael Happold , Qiangeng Xu , Ulrich Neumann

Stereo Matching is one of the classical problems in computer vision for the extraction of 3D information but still controversial for accuracy and processing costs. The use of matching techniques and cost functions is crucial in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Hamid Fsian , Vahid Mohammadi , Pierre Gouton , Saeid Minaei

With the explosive 3D data growth, the urgency of utilizing zero-shot learning to facilitate data labeling becomes evident. Recently, methods transferring language or language-image pre-training models like Contrastive Language-Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Weiguang Zhao , Guanyu Yang , Rui Zhang , Chenru Jiang , Chaolong Yang , Yuyao Yan , Amir Hussain , Kaizhu Huang

Relative pose estimation is crucial for various computer vision applications, including Robotic and Autonomous Driving. Current methods primarily depend on selecting and matching feature points prone to incorrect matches, leading to poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zherong Zhang , Chunyu Lin , Shujuan Huang , Shangrong Yang , Yao Zhao

We address the non-convex optimisation problem of finding a sparse matrix on the Stiefel manifold (matrices with mutually orthogonal columns of unit length) that maximises (or minimises) a quadratic objective function. Optimisation problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers , Johan Thunberg

We present a unified formulation and model for three motion and 3D perception tasks: optical flow, rectified stereo matching and unrectified stereo depth estimation from posed images. Unlike previous specialized architectures for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Haofei Xu , Jing Zhang , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Fisher Yu , Dacheng Tao , Andreas Geiger

Optimal Transport, a theory for optimal allocation of resources, is widely used in various fields such as astrophysics, machine learning, and imaging science. However, many applications impose elementwise constraints on the transport plan…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Zixuan Cang , Qing Nie , Yanxiang Zhao

For autonomous vehicles (AVs), visual perception techniques based on sensors like cameras play crucial roles in information acquisition and processing. In various computer perception tasks for AVs, it may be helpful to match landmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Rui She , Qiyu Kang , Sijie Wang , Yuan-Rui Yang , Kai Zhao , Yang Song , Wee Peng Tay

An image super-resolution method from multiple observation of low-resolution images is proposed. The method is based on sub-pixel accuracy block matching for estimating relative displacements of observed images, and sparse signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Toshiyuki Kato , Hideitsu Hino , Noboru Murata

Estimating the 6-DoF pose of a camera from a single image relative to a pre-computed 3D point-set is an important task for many computer vision applications. Perspective-n-Point (PnP) solvers are routinely used for camera pose estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Dylan Campbell , Lars Petersson , Laurent Kneip , Hongdong Li

We present the POLAR Traverse Dataset: a dataset of high-fidelity stereo pair images of lunar-like terrain under polar lighting conditions designed to simulate a straight-line traverse. Images from individual traverses with different camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Margaret Hansen , Uland Wong , Terrence Fong

We present a stereo-based dense mapping algorithm for large-scale dynamic urban environments. In contrast to other existing methods, we simultaneously reconstruct the static background, the moving objects, and the potentially moving but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Ioan Andrei Bârsan , Peidong Liu , Marc Pollefeys , Andreas Geiger

Pose tracking of uncooperative spacecraft is an essential technology for space exploration and on-orbit servicing, which remains an open problem. Event cameras possess numerous advantages, such as high dynamic range, high temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zibin Liu , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Yifei Bian , Pengju Sun , Qifeng Yu

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used technique for distribution alignment, with applications throughout the machine learning, graphics, and vision communities. Without any additional structural assumptions on trans-port, however, OT can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Chi-Heng Lin , Mehdi Azabou , Eva L. Dyer

The goal of this paper is to estimate directly the rotation and translation between two stereoscopic images with the help of five homologous points. The methodology presented does not mix the rotation and translation parameters, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-07-16 Mahzad Kalantari , Franck Jung , JeanPierre Guedon , Nicolas Paparoditis

Image segmentation is an inherently ill-posed problem and thus requires regularization in order to limit the search space to reasonable solutions. A majority of segmentation methods integrates these regularization terms in one way or the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Uri Nahum , Philippe C. Cattin