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The task of head pose estimation from a single depth image is challenging, due to the presence of large pose variations, occlusions and inhomegeneous facial feature space. To solve the problem, we propose Deep Regression Forest with Soft-Attention (SA-DRF) in a multi-task learning setup. It can be integrated with a general feature learning net and jointly learned in an end-to-end manner. The soft-attention module is facilitated to learn soft masks from the general features and feeds the forest with task-specific features to regress head poses.

Light fields are able to capture light rays from a scene arriving at different angles, effectively creating multiple perspective views of the same scene. Thus, one of the flagship applications of light fields is to estimate the captured scene geometry, which can notably be achieved by establishing correspondences between the perspective views, usually in the form of a disparity map. Such correspondence estimation has been a long standing research topic in computer vision, with application to stereo vision or optical flow.

Existing techniques to compress point cloud attributes leverage either geometric or video-based compression tools. We explore a radically different approach inspired by recent advances in point cloud representation learning. Point clouds can be interpreted as 2D manifolds in 3D space. Specifically, we fold a 2D grid onto a point cloud and we map attributes from the point cloud onto the folded 2D grid using a novel optimized mapping method. This mapping results in an image, which opens a way to apply existing image processing techniques on point cloud attributes.

The acquisition of 3D MRIs is adversely affected by many degrading factors including low spatial resolution and noise. Image enhancement techniques are commonplace, but there are few proposals that address the increase of the spatial resolution and noise removal at the same time. An algorithm to address this vital need is proposed in this presented work. The proposal tiles the 3D image space into parallelepipeds, so that a median filter is applied in each parallelepiped. The results obtained from several such tilings are then combined by a subsequent median computation.

Novel view synthesis is the task of synthesizing an image of an object at an arbitrary viewpoint given one or a few views of the object. The output image of novel view synthesis exhibits a significant structural change from the input. Because of the large change, the skip connections or U-Net architecture, which can sustain the multi-level characteristics of the input images, cannot be directly utilized for the novel view synthesis. In this paper, we investigate several variations of skip connection on two widely used novel view synthesis modules, pixel generation and flow prediction.