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Cross-View Geo-localisation (CVGL) matches ground imagery against satellite tiles to give absolute position fixes, an alternative to GNSS where signals are occluded, jammed, or spoofed. Recent fine-grained CVGL methods regress sub-tile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Tavis Shore , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield

Novel view synthesis (NVS) and surface reconstruction (SR) are essential tasks in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS). Despite recent progress, these tasks are often addressed independently, with GS-based rendering methods struggling under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Qingyuan Zhou , Yuehu Gong , Weidong Yang , Jiaze Li , Yeqi Luo , Baixin Xu , Shuhao Li , Ben Fei , Ying He

Reconstructing real-world objects from multi-view images is essential for applications in 3D editing, AR/VR, and digital content creation. Existing methods typically prioritize either geometric accuracy (Multi-View Stereo) or photorealistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zhejia Cai , Puhua Jiang , Shiwei Mao , Hongkun Cao , Ruqi Huang

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has shown promising results in image rendering and surface reconstruction. However, its potential in volumetric reconstruction tasks, such as X-ray computed tomography, remains under-explored. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Ruyi Zha , Tao Jun Lin , Yuanhao Cai , Jiwen Cao , Yanhao Zhang , Hongdong Li

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated excellent ability in small-scale 3D surface reconstruction. However, extending 3DGS to large-scale scenes remains a significant challenge. To address this gap, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 YuanZheng Wu , Jin Liu , Shunping Ji

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) estimates a camera's location by matching a street-view image to geo-referenced overhead imagery, enabling GPS-denied localization and navigation. Existing methods almost universally formulate CVGL as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yunus Talha Erzurumlu , Jiyong Kwag , Alper Yilmaz

We propose a geometry constrained network, termed GC-Net, for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL). GC-Net consists of three modules: a detector, a generator and a classifier. The detector predicts the object location defined by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Weizeng Lu , Xi Jia , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen , Yicong Zhou , Jinming Duan

Industrial quality inspection plays a critical role in modern manufacturing by identifying defective products during production. While single-modality approaches using either 3D point clouds or 2D RGB images suffer from information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Chengyu Tao , Xuanming Cao , Juan Du

Metric Cross-View Geo-Localization (MCVGL) aims to estimate the 3-DoF camera pose (position and heading) by matching ground and satellite images. In this work, instead of pinhole and satellite images, we study robust MCVGL using holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junwei Zheng , Ruize Dai , Ruiping Liu , Zichao Zeng , Yufan Chen , Fangjinhua Wang , Kunyu Peng , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) in remote sensing aims to locate a drone-view query by matching it to geo-tagged satellite images. Although supervised methods have achieved strong results on closeset benchmarks, they often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jun Lu , Zehao Sang , Haoqi Wei , Xiangyun Liu , Kun Zhu , Haitao Guo , Zhihui Gong , Lei Ding

Most existing 3D referring expression segmentation (3DRES) methods rely on dense, high-quality point clouds, while real-world agents such as robots and mobile phones operate with only a few sparse RGB views and strict latency constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Changli Wu , Haodong Wang , Jiayi Ji , Yutian Yao , Chunsai Du , Jihua Kang , Yanwei Fu , Liujuan Cao

Image retrieval-based cross-view geo-localization (IRCVGL) aims to match images captured from significantly different viewpoints, such as satellite and street-level images. Existing methods predominantly rely on learning robust global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xianwei Cao , Dou Quan , Shuang Wang , Ning Huyan , Wei Wang , Yunan Li , Licheng Jiao

Cross-view geo-localization aims to estimate the location of a query ground image by matching it to a reference geo-tagged aerial images database. As an extremely challenging task, its difficulties root in the drastic view changes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Xiaohan Zhang , Xingyu Li , Waqas Sultani , Yi Zhou , Safwan Wshah

Recent advances in Gaussian Splatting based 3D scene representation have shown two major trends: semantics-oriented approaches that focus on high-level understanding but lack explicit 3D geometry modeling, and structure-oriented approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yuhang Ming , Chenxin Fang , Xingyuan Yu , Fan Zhang , Weichen Dai , Wanzeng Kong , Guofeng Zhang

Motivated by the goal of achieving long-term drift-free camera pose estimation in complex scenarios, we propose a global positioning framework fusing visual, inertial and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) measurements in multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Bing Han , Zhongyang Xiao , Shuai Huang , Tao Zhang

In-the-wild photo collections often contain limited volumes of imagery and exhibit multiple appearances, e.g., taken at different times of day or seasons, posing significant challenges to scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Deming Li , Kaiwen Jiang , Yutao Tang , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Rama Chellappa , Cheng Peng

Sparse-view novel view synthesis is fundamentally ill-posed due to severe geometric ambiguity. Current methods are caught in a trade-off: regressive models are geometrically faithful but incomplete, whereas generative models can complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Atakan Topaloglu , Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Nassir Navab , A. Murat Tekalp , Federico Tombari

Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction showcases advanced Image-to-3D content creation but requires substantial computational resources and large datasets, posing challenges to training models from scratch. Current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Xiufeng Huang , Ka Chun Cheung , Runmin Cong , Simon See , Renjie Wan

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently emerged as an efficient solution for high-quality and real-time novel view synthesis. However, its capability for accurate surface reconstruction remains underexplored. Due to the discrete and unstructured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Xun Gong , Yu-Shen Liu

Image-to-point cloud registration methods typically follow a coarse-to-fine pipeline, extracting patch-level correspondences and refining them into dense pixel-to-point matches. However, in scenes with repetitive patterns, images often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhixin Cheng , Jiacheng Deng , Xinjun Li , Bohao Liao , Li Liu , Xiaotian Yin , Baoqun Yin , Tianzhu Zhang