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Cross-resolution Face Recognition via Identity-Preserving Network and Knowledge Distillation

Cross-resolution face recognition has become a challenging problem for modern deep face recognition systems. It aims at matching a low-resolution probe image with high-resolution gallery images registered in a database. Existing methods mainly leverage pri ...

2023

Templates for 3D Object Pose Estimation Revisited: Generalization to New Objects and Robustness to Occlusions

Mathieu Salzmann, Vincent Lepetit, Yinlin Hu

We present a method that can recognize new objects and estimate their 3D pose in RGB images even under partial occlusions. Our method requires neither a training phase on these objects nor real images depicting them, only their CAD models. It relies on a s ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

Image Matching Across Wide Baselines: From Paper to Practice

Pascal Fua, Kwang Moo Yi, Eduard Trulls Fortuny, Anastasiia Mishchuk

We introduce a comprehensive benchmark for local features and robust estimation algorithms, focusing on the downstream task-the accuracy of the reconstructed camera pose-as our primary metric. Our pipeline's modular structure allows easy integration, confi ...

2021

Unsupervised Stereo Matching Using Confidential Correspondence Consistency

Seungryong Kim

Stereo matching aims to perceive the 3D geometric configuration of scenes and facilitates a variety of computer vision in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) applications. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown dramatic perfor ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Learning stereo reconstruction with deep neural networks

Stepan Tulyakov

Stereo reconstruction is a problem of recovering a 3d structure of a scene from a pair of images of the scene, acquired from different viewpoints. It has been investigated for decades and many successful methods were developed. The main drawback of these ...

EPFL2020

Beyond Cameras: Real-Time High-Resolution 3D and Panoramic MultiView Vision Systems with Their Applications

Bilal Demir

The cameras are invented by imitating the human visual system to capture the scene. The camera technologies have been substantially advanced in recent years. 108 MP resolution with 100x hybrid zoom has become standard features for smartphone flagships. In ...

EPFL2020

Heterogeneous Face Recognition Using Domain Specific Units

Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos, Tiago De Freitas Pereira

The task of Heterogeneous Face Recognition consists in matching face images that are sensed in different domains, such as sketches to photographs (visual spectra images), thermal images to photographs or near-infrared images to photographs. In this work we ...

2019

Achieving high-resolution thermal imagery in low-contrast lake surface waters by aerial remote sensing and image registration

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Daniel Sage, Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi

A two-platform measurement system for realizing airborne thermography of the Lake Surface Water Temperature (LSWT) with ~0.8 m pixel resolution (sub-pixel satellite scale) is presented. It consists of a tethered Balloon Launched Imaging and Monitoring Plat ...

2019

Learning How To Recognize Faces In Heterogeneous Environments

Tiago De Freitas Pereira

Face recognition is a mature field in biometrics in which several systems have been proposed over the last three decades. Such systems are extremely reliable under controlled recording conditions and it has been deployed in the field in critical tasks, suc ...

EPFL2019

A Real-Time Multi-Camera Depth Estimation ASIC with Custom On-Chip Embedded DRAM

Jonathan Emmanuel D Narinx

The capability to process high-resolution videos in real-time is becoming more important in a wide variety of applications such as autonomous vehicles, virtual reality or intelligent surveillance systems. The high-accuracy and complex video processing algo ...

EPFL2019

Learning an event sequence embedding for event-based deep stereo

François Fleuret, Stepan Tulyakov

Today, a frame-based camera is the sensor of choice for machine vision applications. However, these cameras, originally developed for acquisition of static images rather than for sensing of dynamic uncontrolled visual environments, suffer from high power c ...

IEEE2019

Personal familiarity enhances sensitivity to horizontal structure during processing of face identity

Mattew Pachai

What makes identification of familiar faces seemingly effortless? Recent studies using unfamiliar face stimuli suggest that selective processing of information conveyed by horizontally oriented spatial frequency components supports accurate performance in ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)2017

Learning to Match Aerial Images with Deep Attentive Architectures

Pascal Fua, Eduard Trulls Fortuny

Image matching is a fundamental problem in Computer Vision. In the context of feature-based matching, SIFT and its variants have long excelled in a wide array of applications. However, for ultra-wide baselines, as in the case of aerial images captured unde ...

2016

Do We Need Binary Features for 3D Reconstruction?

Pascal Fua, Xinchao Wang

Binary features have been incrementally popular in the past few years due to their low memory footprints and the efficient computation of Hamming distance between binary descriptors. They have been shown with promising results on some real time application ...

2016

Template-based Monocular 3-D Shape Reconstruction And Tracking Using Laplacian Meshes

Tien Dat Ngo

This thesis addresses the problem of recovering the 3-D shape of a deformable object in single images, or image sequences acquired by a monocular video camera, given that a 3-D template shape and a template image of the object are available. While being a ...

EPFL2016

A Variational Aggregation Framework for Patch-Based Optical Flow Estimation

We propose a variational aggregation method for optical flow estimation. It consists of a two-step framework, first estimating a collection of parametric motion models to generate motion candidates, and then reconstructing a global dense motion field. The ...

Springer2016

A Combined Approach Toward Consistent Reconstructions of Indoor Spaces Based on 6D RGB-D Odometry and KinectFusion

Nadia Barbara Figueroa Fernandez

We propose a 6D RGB-D odometry approach that finds the relative camera pose between consecutive RGB-D frames by keypoint extraction and feature matching both on the RGB and depth image planes. Furthermore, we feed the estimated pose to the highly accurate ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Real-Time High-Resolution Multiple-Camera Depth Map Estimation Hardware and Its Applications

Abdulkadir Akin

Depth information is used in a variety of 3D based signal processing applications such as autonomous navigation of robots and driving systems, object detection and tracking, computer games, 3D television, and free view-point synthesis. These applications r ...

EPFL2015

From Bits to Images: Inversion of Local Binary Descriptors

Pierre Vandergheynst, Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Laurent Jacques, Emmanuel D'Angelo

Local Binary Descriptors are becoming more and more popular for image matching tasks, especially when going mobile. While they are extensively studied in this context, their ability to carry enough information in order to infer the original image is seldom ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Pose Estimation of Web-Shared Landscape Pictures

Devis Tuia, Vincent Lepetit, François Golay, Timothée Produit

We propose a robust method for registering high oblique images of landscapes. Typically, an input image can be registered by matching it against a set of registered images of the same location. While this has been shown to work very well for images of popu ...

2014