Publications related to Hidden-surface determination

A method and system for enforcing smoothness constraints on surface meshes from a graph convolutional neural network

Pascal Fua, Pamuditha Udaranga Wickramasinghe

A method for enforcing smoothness constraints on surface meshes produced by a Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN) including the steps of reading image data from a memory, the image data including two-dimensional image data representing a three-dimens ...

2023

Differentiable Signed Distance Function Rendering

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Delio Aleardo Vicini, Sébastien Nicolas Speierer

Physically-based differentiable rendering has recently emerged as an attractive new technique for solving inverse problems that recover complete 3D scene representations from images. The inversion of shape parameters is of particular interest but also pose ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Sub-micrometer morphology of human atherosclerotic plaque revealed by synchrotron radiation-based mu CT-A comparison with histology

Goran Lovric, Anne Bonnin

Histology is a long standing and well-established gold standard for pathological characterizations. In recent years however, synchrotron radiation-based micro-computed tomography (SR mu CT) has become a tool for extending the imaging of two-dimensional thi ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2022

Efficient and Accurate Physically-Based Differentiable Rendering

Delio Aleardo Vicini

Physically-based rendering algorithms generate photorealistic images of virtual scenes. By simulating light paths in a scene, complex physical effects such as shadows, reflections and volumetric scattering can be reproduced. Over the last decade, physicall ...

EPFL2022

Light‐switchable buffers

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Daniel Maria Busiello, Cristian Pezzato, Stefano Zamuner, Cesare Berton

A visible light-switchable buffer system based on a protonated merocyanine photoacid is presented. Para -substitution of the indolium side with a methoxy group affords a compound suitable for making hydrolytically stable aqueous buffers whose pH can be tun ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

A Non-Exponential Transmittance Model for Volumetric Scene Representations

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Delio Aleardo Vicini

We introduce a novel transmittance model to improve the volumetric representation of 3D scenes. The model can represent opaque surfaces in the volumetric light transport framework. Volumetric representations are useful for complex scenes, and become increa ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Perimeter Control and Route Guidance of Multi-Region MFD Systems With Boundary Queues Using Colored Petri Nets

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas, Hui Fu

Perimeter control based on Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) aims to meter the number of transferring vehicles at the periphery of the protected urban region in order to obtain the desired number of vehicles in that region. The advantage of perimeter c ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Solving the Depth Ambiguity in Single-Perspective Images

Sabine Süsstrunk, Majed El Helou, Marjan Shahpaski

Scene depth estimation is gaining in importance as more and more AR/VR and robot vision applications are developed. Conventional depth-from-defocus techniques can passively provide depth maps from a single image. This is especially advantageous for moving ...

2019

A Rendering Solution to Display Light Field in Virtual Reality

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Irene Viola

There is a need for affordable and easily deployable rendering and display solutions to take full advantage of light field imaging. In particular, the research community needs ways to better assess the impact of various light field imaging technologies bas ...

IEEE2018

Presurgical brain mapping in epilepsy using simultaneous EEG and functional MRI at ultra-high field: feasibility and first results

Wietske Van der Zwaag, João Pedro Forjaco Jorge, François Lazeyras, Giannina Rita Iannotti

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to demonstrate that eloquent cortex and epileptic-related hemodynamic changes can be safely and reliably detected using simultaneous electroencephalography (EEG)-functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) recordings ...

Springer Verlag2016

Trinocular Adaptive Window Size Disparity Estimation Algorithm and Its Real-Time Hardware

Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici, Abdulkadir Akin, Raffaele Capoccia, Jonathan Emmanuel D Narinx, Ipek Baz

This paper proposes a hardware-oriented trinocular adaptive window size disparity estimation (T-AWDE) algorithm and the first real-time trinocular disparity estimation (DE) hardware that targets high-resolution images with high-quality disparity results. T ...

2015

A Novel Representation of Parts for Accurate 3D Object Detection and Tracking in Monocular Images

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Kwang Moo Yi, Alberto Crivellaro, Yannick Verdie, Mahdi Rad

We present a method that estimates in real-time and under challenging conditions the 3D pose of a known object. Our method relies only on grayscale images since depth cameras fail on metallic objects; it can handle poorly textured objects, and cluttered, c ...

2015

Practical parallel rendering of detailed neuron simulations

John Anthony Biddiscombe

Parallel rendering of large polygonal models with transparency is challenging due to the need for alpha-correct blending and compositing, which is costly for very large models with high depth complexity and spatial overlap. In this paper we compare the per ...

Eurographics Association2013

RD optimized auxiliary information for inpainting-based view synthesis

Pascal Frossard, Thomas Maugey

Texture and depth maps of two neighboring camera viewpoints are typically required for synthesis of an intermediate virtual view via depth-image-based rendering (DIBR). However, the bitrate overhead required for reconstruction ofmultiple texture and depth ...

2012

Endoscopic navigation for minimally invasive suturing

Charles Baur, Gábor Székely

Manipulating small objects such as needles, screws or plates inside the human body during minimally invasive surgery can be very difficult for less experienced surgeons due to the loss of 3D depth perception. Classical navigation techniques are often incap ...

2008

Retexturing in the Presence of Complex Illumination and Occlusions

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Julien Pilet

We present a non-rigid registration technique that achieves spatial, photometric, and visibility accuracy. It lets us photo-realistically augment 3D deformable surfaces under complex illumination conditions and in spite of severe occlusions. There are many ...

2007

Surface extraction and flattening for anatomical visualization

Laurent Saroul

In the last years, three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging techniques have taken an increasing importance in patient care and medical research. Volume images provide medical specialists with a direct access to the interior of a patient's body and reduce the ...

EPFL2006

Organic shape modeling through haptic devices

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Renaud Ott

This paper presents a sketching system for 3D organic shapes modeling and animation using virtual reality devices. On the hardware side, it is based on the Haptic Workstation™ which conveys force feedback on the user arms (upper body limbs), and a head mou ...

2006

White matter fiber tract segmentation in DT-MRI using geometric flows

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Patric Hagmann, Reto Meuli, Xavier Bresson, Olivier Cuisenaire, Lisa Jonasson

In this paper, we present a 3D geometric flow designed to segment the main core of fiber tracts in diffusion tensor magnetic resonance images. The fundamental assumption of our fiber segmentation technique is that adjacent voxels in a tract have similar pr ...

2005