arXiv AI

Egosurg: Arbitrary view synthesis for egocentric replay of operating room workflows from ambient cameras

EgoSurg is a framework that reconstructs dynamic operating room scenes from sparse wall‑mounted stereo video and renders arbitrary, role‑specific egocentric views without instrumenting personnel. It builds a per‑timestamp 3D Gaussian Splatting representation using scale‑aware stereo depth and refines it with an image‑conditioned diffusion model to correct artifacts from limited camera coverage, crowding, and occlusion. Evaluations on real robotic pulmonology procedures and simulated sessions show consistent near‑field reconstruction fidelity (PSNR 26.8 dB, SSIM 0.895) and synthesized egocentric view quality (PSNR 17.8 dB, SSIM 0.766) across workflow phases and hospital sites, with case studies demonstrating applications such as sterile field violation adjudication, role‑specific replay, and counterfactual personnel positioning.

arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago

MV-dVRK: A Multi-Viewpoint Benchmark for Spatial Surgical Perception

arXiv:2609.02717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale training and refined optimization techniques have greatly improved sparse multi-view 3D reconstruction. Despite their relevance to surgery,...

By Guido Caccianiga, Sergey Prokudin, Yutong Chen, Bernard Javot, Rachael L'Orsa, Omer Burak Alada\u{g}, Yarden Sharon, Jens Rolinger, Ivan Capobianco, Anton Deguet, Siyu Tang, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 24

Grounded-Exo2Ego: Structured Semantic Grounding for Robust Exocentric-to-Egocentric Video Generation

Grounded-Exo2Ego introduces a dual‑branch video diffusion model that combines a geometric anchoring branch with a semantic grounding branch to generate egocentric video from a single exocentric source. The framework also includes a camera re‑localization algorithm to correct reconstruction misalignment and a fully automated synthetic data engine for training. Experiments on the EgoExo4D dataset demonstrate significant performance gains over recent state‑of‑the‑art methods.

By Shengze Wang, Michael Stengel, Tianye Li, Seonwook Park, Amrita Mazumdar, Koki Nagano, Alex Trevithick, Shalini De Mello
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Action-grounded tissue affordance enables anticipatory auto-framing that lowers surgeon cognitive workload during laparoscopic surgery

arXiv:2608.02471v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In laparoscopy, surgeon gaze tracks where the instruments will act; easing this demand through visual attention modeling requires dense label...

By Jiayu Gu, Yiwei Wang, Jie Zhang, Guojun Cao, Keshen Lyu, Song Zhou, Yimeng Chen, Haorui Wang, Qingmin Feng, Shenchao Shi, Hongkuan Shi, Qiuyu Yu, Qiang Xie, Huan Zhao, Wenbin Chen, Caihua Xiong, Chidan Wan, Jing Samantha Pan, Xiong Cai, Han Ding
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Surgical Video Generation From Diffusion to World Models: A Survey

This survey reviews recent advances in surgical video generation, categorizing methods into unconditional, conditional, and world modeling generation. It highlights a shift from creating visually plausible frames to modeling the causal dynamics of surgical scenes, and discusses challenges such as pixel-level fidelity versus clinical plausibility, generalization, physical realism, controllability, and interpretability. The paper also compiles experimental results from public datasets to serve as a quantitative benchmark for the field.

By Fuxiang Huang, Chenxu Zhang, Liang Han, Lei Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 10

Surg-UniWorld: A Unified Surgical World Model with Multimodal Control Experts

arXiv:2608. 06770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Controllable surgical world models can provide a generative foundation for surgical artificial intelligence and simulation by synthesizing realistic instrument--tissue interactions.

By Rulin Zhou, Wanhao Liu, Guoheng Ma, Liangjin Shao, Qiujie Song, Yidu Wang, Guankun Wang, Tong Chen, Long Bai, Luping Zhou, Hongliang Ren
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 20

FF-ProCams: Feed-Forward Gaussian Splatting for Projector-Camera System

Projector-camera (ProCams) systems achieve active scene perception and controllable appearance manipulation via structured illumination, serving as a core infrastructure for spatial augmented reality, projection mapping, and surface reflectance acquisition. Existing inverse-rendering methods for ProCams deliver high-fidelity results but rely on time-consuming per-scene optimization, while mainstream feed-forward 3D reconstruction models produce baked appearance that cannot adapt to spatially varying projector illumination.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

A Survey of 3D Reconstruction with Event Cameras

arXiv:2505. 08438v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Event cameras are rapidly emerging as powerful vision sensors for 3D reconstruction, uniquely capable of asynchronously capturing per-pixel brightness changes.

By Chuanzhi Xu, Haoxian Zhou, Langyi Chen, Haodong Chen, Zeke Zexi Hu, Zhicheng Lu, Ying Zhou, Vera Chung, Qiang Qu, Weidong Cai
arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago

ACE-Ego-Hand: Repurposing Video Diffusion Models for Occlusion-Robust Egocentric 3D Hand Motion Recovery

arXiv:2608.20308v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Egocentric video offers scalable manipulation data for embodied AI, yet recovering metric 3D hand trajectories remains challenging due to severe ob...

By Yufei Liu, Xixi Wang, Hao Li, Ganlong Zhao, Kaitong Cai, Chengkai Jin, Chunxiao Liu, Jianbo Liu, Siyuan Huang, Xingang Pan, Hongsheng Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21

DreamHand: Repurposing Video Diffusion Models for Occlusion-Robust Egocentric 3D Hand Motion Recovery

arXiv:2608. 20308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric video offers scalable manipulation data for embodied AI, yet recovering metric 3D hand trajectories remains challenging due to severe object occlusion and frequent out-of-sight gaps.

By Yufei Liu, Xixi Wang, Hao Li, Ganlong Zhao, Kaitong Cai, Chengkai Jin, Chunxiao Liu, Jianbo Liu, Siyuan Huang, Xingang Pan, Hongsheng Li