arXiv AI

Computational Depth Measurement in Thermographic Video: Overcoming Spatial Overfitting via Spatio-Temporal Decoupling

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

RAFT-DVC: Resolution-Aware Machine Learning-Based Digital Volume Correlation

RAFT-DVC is a resolution‑aware family of recurrent all‑pairs field transform (RAFT) based digital volume correlation (DVC) solvers that use encoder downsampling factors of 2, 4, and 8. The solvers localize displacement to about 0.017 feature‑grid voxels, with raw‑volume error scaling roughly as 0.017 s voxels, and exhibit complementary operating regimes determined by displacement reach and volumetric‑texture compatibility. Synthetic benchmarks show comparable performance to tuned classical DVC for fine‑texture, small‑to‑moderate displacements, while outperforming it for coarse‑texture, large‑displacement scenarios; additional tests on confocal and micro‑CT images confirm the importance of matching solver regimes to deformation magnitude and texture, and demonstrate cross‑texture transfer and improved accuracy after correcting sampler geometry.

By Zixiang Tong, Lehu Bu, Jin Yang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

XCalib Depth-Guided Geometric Optimization for Dense Thermal-Visible Video Registration

XCalib is an unsupervised dense registration framework that aligns thermal and visible video streams by optimizing virtual pinhole camera parameters and predicted monocular depth, thereby restricting spatial displacements to physically valid projection geometries. It introduces a novel registration paradigm using camera parameterization as an implicit regularizer, a robust Normalized Edges Correlation (NEC) metric for cross‑spectral alignment, and demonstrates superior temporal stability and alignment accuracy on public ADAS datasets compared to unconstrained dense flow baselines.

By Aurelien Godet, Gabriel Jobert, Mauro Dalla Mura
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

3D Point Cloud from Close-Range Photogrammetry for Defect Characterisation of Rubberised Concrete

The paper presents a close‑range photogrammetry workflow using Structure‑from‑Motion and Multi‑View Stereo to generate high‑resolution 3D point clouds of rubberised concrete. By capturing images with a Canon DSLR and an iPhone 16, the authors achieved sub‑millimetre reconstruction accuracy, outperforming traditional LiDAR for fine‑scale defect analysis. An RGB‑guided crack extraction method and deformation analysis further demonstrate the method’s utility for detailed surface monitoring and material performance evaluation.

By Jiacheng Liu, Mohammed Alnahhal, Ailar Hajimohammadi, Sara Gonizzi Barsanti, Jinling Wang, Mohsen Kalantari