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Solving depth estimation with monocular cameras enables the possibility of widespread use of cameras as low-cost depth estimation sensors in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. However, learning such a scalable depth…

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Surgical scene simulation plays a crucial role in surgical education and simulator-based robot learning. Traditional approaches for creating these environments with surgical scene involve a labor-intensive process where designers hand-craft…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Zhenya Yang , Kai Chen , Yonghao Long , Qi Dou

Dynamic reconstruction of deformable tissues in endoscopic video is a key technology for robot-assisted surgery. Recent reconstruction methods based on neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have achieved remarkable results in the reconstruction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Weixing Xie , Junfeng Yao , Xianpeng Cao , Qiqin Lin , Zerui Tang , Xiao Dong , Xiaohu Guo

3D reconstruction of endoscopic surgery scenes plays a vital role in enhancing scene perception, enabling AR visualization, and supporting context-aware decision-making in image-guided surgery. A critical yet challenging step in this…

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Robotic-assisted surgery allows surgeons to conduct precise surgical operations with stereo vision and flexible motor control. However, the lack of 3D spatial perception limits situational awareness during procedures and hinders mastering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Shang Zhao , Ce Wang , Qiyuan Wang , Yanzhe Liu , S Kevin Zhou

Surgical simulation is essential for medical training, enabling practitioners to develop crucial skills in a risk-free environment while improving patient safety and surgical outcomes. However, conventional methods for building simulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhenya Yang

As a crucial and intricate task in robotic minimally invasive surgery, reconstructing surgical scenes using stereo or monocular endoscopic video holds immense potential for clinical applications. NeRF-based techniques have recently garnered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Mengya Xu , Ziqi Guo , An Wang , Long Bai , Hongliang Ren

Holistic surgical scene segmentation in robot-assisted surgery (RAS) enables surgical residents to identify various anatomical tissues, articulated tools, and critical structures, such as veins and vessels. Given the firm intraoperative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Fatimaelzahraa Ahmed , Muraam Abdel-Ghani , Muhammad Arsalan , Mahmoud Ali , Abdulaziz Al-Ali , Shidin Balakrishnan

Recent advances in data-driven geometric multi-view 3D reconstruction foundation models (e.g., DUSt3R) have shown remarkable performance across various 3D vision tasks, facilitated by the release of large-scale, high-quality 3D datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wenyu Li , Sidun Liu , Peng Qiao , Yong Dou

Reconstructing dynamic, time-varying scenes with computed tomography (4D-CT) is a challenging and ill-posed problem common to industrial and medical settings. Existing 4D-CT reconstructions are designed for sparse sampling schemes that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-26 Albert W. Reed , Hyojin Kim , Rushil Anirudh , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Jingu Kang , Suren Jayasuriya

Accurate 3D scene reconstruction is essential for numerous medical tasks. Given the challenges in obtaining ground truth data, there has been an increasing focus on self-supervised learning (SSL) for endoscopic depth estimation as a basis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Beilei Cui , Long Bai , Mobarakol Islam , An Wang , Zhiqi Ma , Yiming Huang , Feng Li , Zhen Chen , Zhongliang Jiang , Nassir Navab , Hongliang Ren

Traditional high-quality 3D scanning and reconstruction typically relies on human labor to plan the scanning procedure. With the rapid development of embodied systems such as drones and robots, there is a growing demand of performing…

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Advances in surgical video analysis are transforming operating rooms into intelligent, data-driven environments. Computer-assisted systems support full surgical workflow, from preoperative planning to intraoperative guidance and…

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Real-time 3D reconstruction of surgical scenes plays a vital role in computer-assisted surgery, holding a promise to enhance surgeons' visibility. Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have shown great potential for real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jiaxin Guo , Jiangliu Wang , Di Kang , Wenzhen Dong , Wenting Wang , Yun-hui Liu

City-scale 3D surface reconstruction from multiview images for downstream 3D simulation, poses highly challenging problems due to the scale and complexity of urban scenes. Existing city-scale 3D reconstruction methods based on NeRF,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Sayan Paul , Sourav Ghosh , Siddharth Katageri , Soumyadip Maity , Sanjana Sinha , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Reconstruction of the soft tissues in robotic surgery from endoscopic stereo videos is important for many applications such as intra-operative navigation and image-guided robotic surgery automation. Previous works on this task mainly rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yuehao Wang , Yonghao Long , Siu Hin Fan , Qi Dou

Recent advances in vision foundation models have revolutionized geometry reconstruction and semantic understanding. Yet, most of the existing approaches treat these capabilities in isolation, leading to redundant pipelines and compounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chaoyi Zhou , Run Wang , Feng Luo , Mert D. Pesé , Zhiwen Fan , Yiqi Zhong , Siyu Huang

We present Edit3r, a feed-forward framework that reconstructs and edits 3D scenes in a single pass from unposed, view-inconsistent, instruction-edited images. Unlike prior methods requiring per-scene optimization, Edit3r directly predicts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jiageng Liu , Weijie Lyu , Xueting Li , Yejie Guo , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Object-centric scene understanding is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Existing approaches often rely on multi-stage pipelines that first apply pre-trained segmentors to extract individual objects, followed by per-object 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yi Du , Yang You , Xiang Wan , Leonidas Guibas

Current methods for dense 3D point tracking in dynamic scenes typically rely on pairwise processing, require known camera poses, or assume temporal ordering of input frames, thereby constraining their flexibility and applicability.…

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