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cs.CV2018

Color Constancy by GANs: An Experimental Survey

Partha Das, Anil S. Baslamisli, Yang Liu +2

In this paper, we formulate the color constancy task as an image-to-image translation problem using GANs. By conducting a large set of experiments on different datasets, an experim…

cs.CV2026

Gaussian Mapping for Evolving Scenes

Vladimir Yugay, Thies Kersten, Luca Carlone +3

Mapping systems with novel view synthesis (NVS) capabilities, most notably 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), are widely used in computer vision, as well as in various applications, inc…

cs.CV2024

MAGiC-SLAM: Multi-Agent Gaussian Globally Consistent SLAM

Vladimir Yugay, Theo Gevers, Martin R. Oswald

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems with novel view synthesis capabilities are widely used in computer vision, with applications in augmented reality, robotics, an…

cs.CV2025

ShapeSplat: A Large-scale Dataset of Gaussian Splats and Their Self-Supervised Pretraining

Qi Ma, Yue Li, Bin Ren +5

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become the de facto method of 3D representation in many vision tasks. This calls for the 3D understanding directly in this representation space. To…

cs.CV2021

Automatic Generation of Dense Non-rigid Optical Flow

Hoà ng-Ân Lê, Tushar Nimbhorkar, Thomas Mensink +3

There hardly exists any large-scale datasets with dense optical flow of non-rigid motion from real-world imagery as of today. The reason lies mainly in the required setup to derive…

cs.CV2020

Kinship Identification through Joint Learning Using Kinship Verification Ensembles

Wei Wang, Shaodi You, Sezer Karaoglu +1

Kinship verification is a well-explored task: identifying whether or not two persons are kin. In contrast, kinship identification has been largely ignored so far. Kinship identific…

cs.CV2018

Joint Learning of Intrinsic Images and Semantic Segmentation

Anil S. Baslamisli, Thomas T. Groenestege, Partha Das +3

Semantic segmentation of outdoor scenes is problematic when there are variations in imaging conditions. It is known that albedo (reflectance) is invariant to all kinds of illuminat…

cs.CV2018

Deception Detection by 2D-to-3D Face Reconstruction from Videos

Minh Ngô, Burak Mandira, Selim Fırat Yılmaz +5

Lies and deception are common phenomena in society, both in our private and professional lives. However, humans are notoriously bad at accurate deception detection. Based on the li…

cs.CV2024

Gaussian-SLAM: Photo-realistic Dense SLAM with Gaussian Splatting

Vladimir Yugay, Yue Li, Theo Gevers +1

We present a dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that uses 3D Gaussians as a scene representation. Our approach enables interactive-time reconstruction and ph…

cs.CV2014

Road Detection by One-Class Color Classification: Dataset and Experiments

Jose M. Alvarez, Theo Gevers, Antonio M. Lopez

Detecting traversable road areas ahead a moving vehicle is a key process for modern autonomous driving systems. A common approach to road detection consists of exploiting color fea…

cs.CV2025

Grab-3D: Detecting AI-Generated Videos from 3D Geometric Temporal Consistency

Wenhan Chen, Sezer Karaoglu, Theo Gevers

Recent advances in diffusion-based generation techniques enable AI models to produce highly realistic videos, heightening the need for reliable detection mechanisms. However, exist…

cs.CV2025

SceneSplat: Gaussian Splatting-based Scene Understanding with Vision-Language Pretraining

Yue Li, Qi Ma, Runyi Yang +10

Recognizing arbitrary or previously unseen categories is essential for comprehensive real-world 3D scene understanding. Currently, all existing methods rely on 2D or textual modali…

cs.CV2020

Physics-based Shading Reconstruction for Intrinsic Image Decomposition

Anil S. Baslamisli, Yang Liu, Sezer Karaoglu +1

We investigate the use of photometric invariance and deep learning to compute intrinsic images (albedo and shading). We propose albedo and shading gradient descriptors which are de…

cs.CV2022

MorphPool: Efficient Non-linear Pooling & Unpooling in CNNs

Rick Groenendijk, Leo Dorst, Theo Gevers

Pooling is essentially an operation from the field of Mathematical Morphology, with max pooling as a limited special case. The more general setting of MorphPooling greatly extends…

cs.CV2020

Spatio-temporal Features for Generalized Detection of Deepfake Videos

Ipek Ganiyusufoglu, L. Minh Ngô, Nedko Savov +2

For deepfake detection, video-level detectors have not been explored as extensively as image-level detectors, which do not exploit temporal data. In this paper, we empirically show…

cs.CV2024

T-MAE: Temporal Masked Autoencoders for Point Cloud Representation Learning

Weijie Wei, Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl, Theo Gevers +1

The scarcity of annotated data in LiDAR point cloud understanding hinders effective representation learning. Consequently, scholars have been actively investigating efficacious sel…

cs.RO2018

TrimBot2020: an outdoor robot for automatic gardening

Nicola Strisciuglio, Radim Tylecek, Michael Blaich +9

Robots are increasingly present in modern industry and also in everyday life. Their applications range from health-related situations, for assistance to elderly people or in surgic…

cs.CV2023

APNet: Urban-level Scene Segmentation of Aerial Images and Point Clouds

Weijie Wei, Martin R. Oswald, Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl +1

In this paper, we focus on semantic segmentation method for point clouds of urban scenes. Our fundamental concept revolves around the collaborative utilization of diverse scene rep…

cs.CV2026

SceneSplat++: A Large Dataset and Comprehensive Benchmark for Language Gaussian Splatting

Mengjiao Ma, Qi Ma, Yue Li +10

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) serves as a highly performant and efficient encoding of scene geometry, appearance, and semantics. Moreover, grounding language in 3D scenes has proven…

cs.CV2021

ShadingNet: Image Intrinsics by Fine-Grained Shading Decomposition

Anil S. Baslamisli, Partha Das, Hoang-An Le +2

In general, intrinsic image decomposition algorithms interpret shading as one unified component including all photometric effects. As shading transitions are generally smoother tha…

cs.CV2014

Detect2Rank : Combining Object Detectors Using Learning to Rank

Sezer Karaoglu, Yang Liu, Theo Gevers

Object detection is an important research area in the field of computer vision. Many detection algorithms have been proposed. However, each object detector relies on specific assum…

cs.CV2024

FewViewGS: Gaussian Splatting with Few View Matching and Multi-stage Training

Ruihong Yin, Vladimir Yugay, Yue Li +2

The field of novel view synthesis from images has seen rapid advancements with the introduction of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and more recently with 3D Gaussian Splatting. Gauss…

cs.CV2018

3DContextNet: K-d Tree Guided Hierarchical Learning of Point Clouds Using Local and Global Contextual Cues

Wei Zeng, Theo Gevers

Classification and segmentation of 3D point clouds are important tasks in computer vision. Because of the irregular nature of point clouds, most of the existing methods convert poi…

cs.CV2024

Geometry-guided Feature Learning and Fusion for Indoor Scene Reconstruction

Ruihong Yin, Sezer Karaoglu, Theo Gevers

In addition to color and textural information, geometry provides important cues for 3D scene reconstruction. However, current reconstruction methods only include geometry at the fe…

cs.CV2024

SceneTeller: Language-to-3D Scene Generation

Başak Melis Öcal, Maxim Tatarchenko, Sezer Karaoglu +1

Designing high-quality indoor 3D scenes is important in many practical applications, such as room planning or game development. Conventionally, this has been a time-consuming proce…

cs.CV2025

LumiNet: Latent Intrinsics Meets Diffusion Models for Indoor Scene Relighting

Xiaoyan Xing, Konrad Groh, Sezer Karaoglu +2

We introduce LumiNet, a novel architecture that leverages generative models and latent intrinsic representations for effective lighting transfer. Given a source image and a target…

cs.CV2025

SDFit: 3D Object Pose and Shape by Fitting a Morphable SDF to a Single Image

Dimitrije Antić, Georgios Paschalidis, Shashank Tripathi +3

Recovering 3D object pose and shape from a single image is a challenging and ill-posed problem. This is due to strong (self-)occlusions, depth ambiguities, the vast intra- and inte…

cs.CV2026

Chorus: Multi-Teacher Pretraining for Holistic 3D Gaussian Scene Encoding

Yue Li, Qi Ma, Runyi Yang +8

While 3DGS has emerged as a high-fidelity scene representation, encoding rich, general-purpose features directly from its primitives remains under-explored. We address this gap by…

cs.CV2018

Three for one and one for three: Flow, Segmentation, and Surface Normals

Hoang-An Le, Anil S. Baslamisli, Thomas Mensink +1

Optical flow, semantic segmentation, and surface normals represent different information modalities, yet together they bring better cues for scene understanding problems. In this p…

cs.CV2018

CNN based Learning using Reflection and Retinex Models for Intrinsic Image Decomposition

Anil S. Baslamisli, Hoang-An Le, Theo Gevers

Most of the traditional work on intrinsic image decomposition rely on deriving priors about scene characteristics. On the other hand, recent research use deep learning models as in…

cs.CV2026

Fast SceneScript: Fast and Accurate Language-Based 3D Scene Understanding via Multi-Token Prediction

Ruihong Yin, Xuepeng Shi, Oleksandr Bailo +2

Recent perception-generalist approaches based on language models have achieved state-of-the-art results across diverse tasks, including 3D scene layout estimation and 3D object det…

cs.CV2022

PIE-Net: Photometric Invariant Edge Guided Network for Intrinsic Image Decomposition

Partha Das, Sezer Karaoglu, Theo Gevers

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of recovering the image formation components (reflectance and shading) from an image. Previous methods employ either explicit priors to…

cs.CV2026

Unblur-SLAM: Dense Neural SLAM for Blurry Inputs

Qi Zhang, Denis Rozumny, Francesco Girlanda +4

We propose Unblur-SLAM, a novel RGB SLAM pipeline for sharp 3D reconstruction from blurred image inputs. In contrast to previous work, our approach is able to handle different type…

cs.CV2025

Edge-Centric Relational Reasoning for 3D Scene Graph Prediction

Yanni Ma, Hao Liu, Yulan Guo +2

3D scene graph prediction aims to abstract complex 3D environments into structured graphs consisting of objects and their pairwise relationships. Existing approaches typically adop…

cs.CV2026

Relighting as a Probe of Visual Priors via Augmented Latent Intrinsics

Xiaoyan Xing, Xiao Zhang, Sezer Karaoglu +2

Image-to-image relighting requires representations that separate illumination from scene properties while preserving dense geometry, material, and photometric cues. We use this tas…

cs.CV2020

Novel View Synthesis from Single Images via Point Cloud Transformation

Hoang-An Le, Thomas Mensink, Partha Das +1

In this paper the argument is made that for true novel view synthesis of objects, where the object can be synthesized from any viewpoint, an explicit 3D shape representation isdesi…

cs.CV2025

3D-AVS: LiDAR-based 3D Auto-Vocabulary Segmentation

Weijie Wei, Osman Ülger, Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl +2

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) methods offer promising capabilities in detecting unseen object categories, but the category must be known and needs to be provided by a human, e…

cs.CV2024

Modeling Weather Uncertainty for Multi-weather Co-Presence Estimation

Qi Bi, Shaodi You, Theo Gevers

Images from outdoor scenes may be taken under various weather conditions. It is well studied that weather impacts the performance of computer vision algorithms and needs to be hand…

cs.CV2020

Inferring Point Clouds from Single Monocular Images by Depth Intermediation

Wei Zeng, Sezer Karaoglu, Theo Gevers

In this paper, we propose a pipeline to generate 3D point cloud of an object from a single-view RGB image. Most previous work predict the 3D point coordinates from single RGB image…

eess.IV2019

On the Benefit of Adversarial Training for Monocular Depth Estimation

Rick Groenendijk, Sezer Karaoglu, Theo Gevers +1

In this paper we address the benefit of adding adversarial training to the task of monocular depth estimation. A model can be trained in a self-supervised setting on stereo pairs o…

cs.CV2026

FVO: Fast Visual Odometry with Transformers

Vlardimir Yugay, Duy-Kien Nguyen, Theo Gevers +2

Hybrid pipelines that combine deep learning with classical optimization have established themselves as the dominant approach to visual odometry (VO). By integrating neural network…

cs.CV2023

HaarNet: Large-scale Linear-Morphological Hybrid Network for RGB-D Semantic Segmentation

Rick Groenendijk, Leo Dorst, Theo Gevers

Signals from different modalities each have their own combination algebra which affects their sampling processing. RGB is mostly linear; depth is a geometric signal following the o…

cs.CV2024

RealDiff: Real-world 3D Shape Completion using Self-Supervised Diffusion Models

Başak Melis Öcal, Maxim Tatarchenko, Sezer Karaoglu +1

Point cloud completion aims to recover the complete 3D shape of an object from partial observations. While approaches relying on synthetic shape priors achieved promising results i…

cs.CV2020

EDEN: Multimodal Synthetic Dataset of Enclosed GarDEN Scenes

Hoang-An Le, Thomas Mensink, Partha Das +2

Multimodal large-scale datasets for outdoor scenes are mostly designed for urban driving problems. The scenes are highly structured and semantically different from scenarios seen i…

cs.CV2022

SIGNet: Intrinsic Image Decomposition by a Semantic and Invariant Gradient Driven Network for Indoor Scenes

Partha Das, Sezer Karaoglu, Arjan Gijsenij +1

Intrinsic image decomposition (IID) is an under-constrained problem. Therefore, traditional approaches use hand crafted priors to constrain the problem. However, these constraints…

cs.CV2022

Invariant Descriptors for Intrinsic Reflectance Optimization

Anil S. Baslamisli, Theo Gevers

Intrinsic image decomposition aims to factorize an image into albedo (reflectance) and shading (illumination) sub-components. Being ill-posed and under-constrained, it is a very ch…

cs.CV2023

Relational Prior Knowledge Graphs for Detection and Instance Segmentation

Osman Ülger, Yu Wang, Ysbrand Galama +3

Humans have a remarkable ability to perceive and reason about the world around them by understanding the relationships between objects. In this paper, we investigate the effectiven…

cs.CV2021

Generative Models for Multi-Illumination Color Constancy

Partha Das, Yang Liu, Sezer Karaoglu +1

In this paper, the aim is multi-illumination color constancy. However, most of the existing color constancy methods are designed for single light sources. Furthermore, datasets for…

cs.CV2020

Multi-Loss Weighting with Coefficient of Variations

Rick Groenendijk, Sezer Karaoglu, Theo Gevers +1

Many interesting tasks in machine learning and computer vision are learned by optimising an objective function defined as a weighted linear combination of multiple losses. The fina…

cs.CV2023

Learning Content-enhanced Mask Transformer for Domain Generalized Urban-Scene Segmentation

Qi Bi, Shaodi You, Theo Gevers

Domain-generalized urban-scene semantic segmentation (USSS) aims to learn generalized semantic predictions across diverse urban-scene styles. Unlike domain gap challenges, USSS is…

cs.CV2025

GaussianBlender: Instant Stylization of 3D Gaussians with Disentangled Latent Spaces

Melis Ocal, Xiaoyan Xing, Yue Li +3

3D stylization is central to game development, virtual reality, and digital arts, where the demand for diverse assets calls for scalable methods that support fast, high-fidelity ma…

cs.CV2024

Ray-Distance Volume Rendering for Neural Scene Reconstruction

Ruihong Yin, Yunlu Chen, Sezer Karaoglu +1

Existing methods in neural scene reconstruction utilize the Signed Distance Function (SDF) to model the density function. However, in indoor scenes, the density computed from the S…

cs.CV2019

Improving Face Detection Performance with 3D-Rendered Synthetic Data

Jian Han, Sezer Karaoglu, Hoang-An Le +1

In this paper, we provide a synthetic data generator methodology with fully controlled, multifaceted variations based on a new 3D face dataset (3DU-Face). We customized synthetic d…

cs.CV2024

Retinex-Diffusion: On Controlling Illumination Conditions in Diffusion Models via Retinex Theory

Xiaoyan Xing, Vincent Tao Hu, Jan Hendrik Metzen +3

This paper introduces a novel approach to illumination manipulation in diffusion models, addressing the gap in conditional image generation with a focus on lighting conditions. We…

cs.CV2024

Intrinsic Image Decomposition Using Point Cloud Representation

Xiaoyan Xing, Konrad Groh, Sezer Karaoglu +1

The purpose of intrinsic decomposition is to separate an image into its albedo (reflective properties) and shading components (illumination properties). This is challenging because…