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Recent years have seen the development of mature solutions for reconstructing deformable surfaces from a single image, provided that they are relatively well-textured. By contrast, recovering the 3D shape of texture-less surfaces remains an open problem, a ...

In many 3--D object-detection and pose-estimation problems, run-time performance is of critical importance. However, there usually is time to train the system, which we will show to be very useful. Assuming that several registered images of the target obje ...

Modeling the shape of garments has received much attention, but most existing approaches assume the garments to be worn by someone, which constrains the range of shapes they can assume. In this work, we address shape recovery when garments are being manipu ...

Unsupervised self-rehabilitation exercises and physical training can cause serious injuries if performed incorrectly. We introduce a learning-based framework that identifies the mistakes made by a user and proposes corrective measures for easier and safer ...

We propose a novel approach to automatically tracking elliptical cell populations in time-lapse image sequences. Given an initial segmentation, we account for partial occlusions and overlaps by generating an over-complete set of competing detection hypothe ...

In this paper, we show that in a multi-camera context, we can effectively handle occlusions at each time frame independently, even when the only available data comes from the binary output of a fairly primitive motion detector. We start from occupancy probability estimates in a top view and rely on a generative model to yield probability images to be compared with the actual input images. We then refine the estimates so that the probability images match the binary input images as well as possible. We demons

We present a general approach for solving the point-cloud matching problem for the case of mildly nonlinear transformations. Our method quickly finds a coarse approximation of the solution by exploring a reduced set of partial matches using an approach to ...

In this study, we compared a monocular computer vision (MCV)-based approach with the golden standard for collecting kinematic data on ski tracks (i.e., video-based stereophotogrammetry) and assessed its deployment readiness for answering applied research q ...

We present a method for improving robustness in feature-based tracking of human motion. Motion flows of features estimated by a standard tracker are modified to be coherent with neighboring ones. This coherence constraint is computed based on a smooth approximation to initial motion flows computed by the tracker. With these tracking results, we demonstrate motion segmentation of different body parts in an image sequence

While learned image features can achieve great accuracy on different Computer Vision problems, their use in real-world situations is still very limited as their extraction is typically time-consuming. We therefore propose a method to learn image features that can be extracted very efficiently using separable filters, by looking for low rank filters. We evaluate our approach on both the image categorization and the pixel classification tasks and show that we obtain similar accuracy as state-of-the-art method

Size uniformity is one of the prominent features of superpixels. However, size uniformity rarely conforms to the varying content of an image. The chosen size of the superpixels therefore represents a compromise - how to obtain the fewest superpixels withou ...

We propose a novel approach to automated delineation of linear structures that form complex and potentially loopy networks. This is in contrast to earlier approaches that usually assume a tree topology for the networks. At the heart of our method is an Int ...

Learning filters to produce sparse image representations in terms of overcomplete dictionaries has emerged as a powerful way to create image features for many different purposes. Unfortunately, these filters are usually both numerous and non-separable, mak ...

Automatic visual detection of instruments in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) can significantly augment the procedure experience for operating clinicians. In this paper, we present a novel technique for detecting surgical instruments by constructing a robu ...

We present a real-time method for detecting deformable surfaces, with no need whatsoever for a priori pose knowledge. Our method starts from a set of wide baseline point matches between an undeformed image of the object and the image in which it is to be d ...

We propose to use binary strings as an efficient feature point descriptor, which we call BRIEF. We show that it is highly discriminative even when using relatively few bits and can be computed using simple intensity difference tests. Furthermore, the descr ...

Without a deformation model, monocular 3D shape recovery of deformable surfaces is severly under-constrained. Even when the image information is rich enough, prior knowledge of the feasible deformations is required to overcome the ambiguities. This is furt ...

We propose a non-iterative solution to the PnP problem---the estimation of the pose of a calibrated camera from n 3D-to-2D point correspondences---whose computational complexity grows linearly with n. This is in contrast to state-of-the-art method that are ...

Most recent approaches to monocular 3D pose estimation rely on Deep Learning. They either train a Convolutional Neural Network to directly regress from an image to a 3D pose, which ignores the dependencies between human joints, or model these dependencies ...

Pulmonary diseases rank prominently among the principal causes of death worldwide. Curing them will require, among other things, a better understanding of the complex 3D tree-shaped structures within the pulmonary system, such as airways, arteries, and vei ...

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Learning to Reconstruct Texture-less Deformable Surfaces from a Single View

Keypoint Recognition using Randomized Trees

Reconstruction of Manipulated Garment with Guided Deformation Prior

3D Pose Based Feedback For Physical Exercises

Network Flow Integer Programming to Track Elliptical Cells in Time-Lapse Sequences

Fixed Point Probability Field for Occlusion Handling

Active Testing Search for Point Cloud Matching

Are Existing Monocular Computer Vision-Based 3D Motion Capture Approaches Ready for Deployment? A Methodological Study on the Example of Alpine Skiing

Robust tracking and segmentation of human motion in an image sequence

Learning Separable Filters

Scale-Adaptive Superpixels

Reconstructing Loopy Curvilinear Structures Using Integer Programming

Learning Separable Filters

Fast Part-Based Classification for Instrument Detection in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Fast Non-Rigid Surface Detection, Registration and Realistic Augmentation

BRIEF: Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features

Local deformation models for monocular 3D shape recovery

Accurate Non-Iterative O(n) Solution to the PnP Problem

Learning Latent Representations of 3D Human Pose with Deep Neural Networks

Efficient anatomical labeling of pulmonary tree structures via deep point-graph representation-based implicit fields