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The spike camera, with its high temporal resolution, low latency, and high dynamic range, addresses high-speed imaging challenges like motion blur. It captures photons at each pixel independently, creating binary spike streams rich in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Liangyan Jiang , Chuang Zhu , Yanxu Chen

This paper presents a neural incremental Structure-from-Motion (SfM) approach, Level-S$^2$fM, which estimates the camera poses and scene geometry from a set of uncalibrated images by learning coordinate MLPs for the implicit surfaces and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuxi Xiao , Nan Xue , Tianfu Wu , Gui-Song Xia

Recovering the 3D structure of the surrounding environment is an essential task in any vision-controlled Structure-from-Motion (SfM) scheme. This paper focuses on the theoretical properties of the SfM, known as the incremental active depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Romulo T. Rodrigues , Pedro Miraldo , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , A. Pedro Aguiar

Empowered by deep learning, recent methods for material capture can estimate a spatially-varying reflectance from a single photograph. Such lightweight capture is in stark contrast with the tens or hundreds of pictures required by…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Valentin Deschaintre , Miika Aittala , Fredo Durand , George Drettakis , Adrien Bousseau

Structure from Motion (SfM) and visual localization in indoor texture-less scenes and industrial scenarios present prevalent yet challenging research topics. Existing SfM methods designed for natural scenes typically yield low accuracy or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yusen Xie , Zhenmin Huang , Kai Chen , Lei Zhu , Jun Ma

Focus stacking is widely used in micro, macro, and landscape photography to reconstruct all-in-focus images from multiple frames obtained with focus bracketing, that is, with shallow depth of field and different focus planes. Existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Alexandre Araujo , Jean Ponce , Julien Mairal

In this paper we tackle the problem of learning Structure-from-Motion (SfM) through the use of graph attention networks. SfM is a classic computer vision problem that is solved though iterative minimization of reprojection errors, referred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Lucas Brynte , José Pedro Iglesias , Carl Olsson , Fredrik Kahl

An image captured with a wide-aperture camera exhibits a finite depth-of-field, with focused and defocused pixels. A compact and robust representation of focus and defocus helps analyze and manipulate such images. In this work, we study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Parikshit Sakurikar , P. J. Narayanan

Structure-from-Motion is a technology used to obtain scene structure through image collection, which is a fundamental problem in computer vision. For unordered Internet images, SfM is very slow due to the lack of prior knowledge about image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zhichao Ye , Chong Bao , Xin Zhou , Haomin Liu , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

Monocular depth estimation is a crucial task to measure distance relative to a camera, which is important for applications, such as robot navigation and self-driving. Traditional frame-based methods suffer from performance drops due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Tianbo Pan , Zidong Cao , Lin Wang

Reconstructing the surfaces of deformable objects from correspondences between a 3D template and a 2D image is well studied under Shape-from-Template (SfT) methods; however, existing approaches break down when topological changes accompany…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Kevin Manogue , Tomasz M Schang , Dilara Kuş , Jonas Müller , Stefan Zachow , Agniva Sengupta

Depth from Defocus (DfD) is the task of estimating a dense metric depth map from a focus stack. Unlike previous works overfitting to a certain dataset, this paper focuses on the challenging and practical setting of zero-shot generalization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yiming Zuo , Hongyu Wen , Venkat Subramanian , Patrick Chen , Karhan Kayan , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide , Jia Deng

Shape-from-Template (SfT) refers to the class of methods that reconstruct the 3D shape of a deforming object from images/videos using a 3D template. Traditional SfT methods require point correspondences between images and the texture of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Thuy Tran , Ruochen Chen , Shaifali Parashar

Existing deep methods produce highly accurate 3D reconstructions in stereo and multiview stereo settings, i.e., when cameras are both internally and externally calibrated. Nevertheless, the challenge of simultaneous recovery of camera poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Dror Moran , Hodaya Koslowsky , Yoni Kasten , Haggai Maron , Meirav Galun , Ronen Basri

Structure-from-Motion (SfM) is a fundamental technique for recovering camera poses and scene structure from multi-view imagery, serving as a critical upstream component for applications ranging from 3D reconstruction to modern neural scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiankun Zhong , Zitong Zhan , Quankai Gao , Ziyu Chen , Haozhe Lou , Jiageng Mao , Ulrich Neumann , Chen Wang , Yue Wang

We consider the problem of simultaneously estimating a dense depth map and camera pose for a large set of images of an indoor scene. While classical SfM pipelines rely on a two-step approach where cameras are first estimated using a bundle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Benjamin Graham , David Novotny

In this work, we propose a novel unsupervised deep learning model to address multi-focus image fusion problem. First, we train an encoder-decoder network in unsupervised manner to acquire deep feature of input images. And then we utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Boyuan Ma , Xiaojuan Ban , Haiyou Huang , Yu Zhu

In the last twenty years, Structure from Motion (SfM) has been a constant research hotspot in the fields of photogrammetry, computer vision, robotics etc., whereas real-time performance is just a recent topic of growing interest. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zongqian Zhan , Yifei Yu , Rui Xia , Wentian Gan , Hong Xie , Giulio Perda , Luca Morelli , Fabio Remondino , Xin Wang

This paper deals with the problem of reconstructing a depth map from a sequence of differently focused images, also known as depth from focus or shape from focus. We propose to state the depth from focus problem as a variational problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Michael Moeller , Martin Benning , Carola Schönlieb , Daniel Cremers

Full surround monodepth (FSM) methods can learn from multiple camera views simultaneously in a self-supervised manner to predict the scale-aware depth, which is more practical for real-world applications in contrast to scale-ambiguous depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yuchen Yang , Xinyi Wang , Dong Li , Lu Tian , Ashish Sirasao , Xun Yang