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  • Deeper Depth Prediction with Fully Convolutional Residual Networks

    Iro Laina, Christian Rupprecht, Vasileios Belagiannis, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2016

    A fully convolutional architecture, encompassing residual learning, to model the ambiguous mapping between monocular images and depth maps is proposed and a novel way to efficiently learn feature map up-sampling within the network is presented.

    2,056
  • Unique Signatures of Histograms for Local Surface Description

    Federico Tombari, Samuele Salti, Luigi Di Stefano

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2010

    A novel comprehensive proposal for surface representation is formulated, which encompasses a new unique and repeatable local reference frame as well as a new 3D descriptor.

    1,653
  • SSD-6D: Making RGB-Based 3D Detection and 6D Pose Estimation Great Again

    Wadim Kehl, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Slobodan Ilić, Nassir Navab

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2017

    A novel method for detecting 3D model instances and estimating their 6D poses from RGB data in a single shot that competes or surpasses current state-of-the-art methods that leverage RGBD data on multiple challenging datasets.

    1,042
  • SHOT: Unique signatures of histograms for surface and texture description

    Samuele Salti, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    Computer Vision and Image Understanding · 2014

    A thorough experimental evaluation vouches that SHOT outperforms state-of-the-art local descriptors in experiments addressing descriptor matching for object recognition, 3D reconstruction and shape retrieval.

    1,012
  • Neural Fields in Visual Computing and Beyond

    Yiheng Xie, Towaki Takikawa, Shunsuke Saito, Or Litany, Shiqin Yan, Numair Khan, Federico Tombari, James Tompkin, +2 more

    Computer Graphics Forum · 2022

    A review of the literature on neural fields shows the breadth of topics already covered in visual computing, both historically and in current incarnations, and highlights the improved quality, flexibility, and capability brought by neural field methods.

    866
  • CNN-SLAM: Real-Time Dense Monocular SLAM with Learned Depth Prediction

    Keisuke Tateno, Federico Tombari, Iro Laina, Nassir Navab

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2017

    A method where CNN-predicted dense depth maps are naturally fused together with depth measurements obtained from direct monocular SLAM, based on a scheme that privileges depth prediction in image locations where monocularSLAM approaches tend to fail, e.g. along low-textured regions, and vice-versa.

    788
  • BOP: Benchmark for 6D Object Pose Estimation

    Tomáš Hodaň, Frank Michel, Eric Brachmann, Wadim Kehl, Anders Glent Buch, Dirk Kraft, Bertram Drost, Joel Vidal, +8 more

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    A benchmark for 6D pose estimation of a rigid object from a single RGB-D input image shows that methods based on point-pair features currently perform best, outperforming template matching methods, learning-based methods and methodsbased on 3D local features.

    571
  • Performance Evaluation of 3D Keypoint Detectors

    Federico Tombari, Samuele Salti, Luigi Di Stefano

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2012

    A categorization of existing methods in two classes, that allows for highlighting their common traits, is proposed, so as to abstract all algorithms to two general structures in terms of repeatability, distinctiveness and computational efficiency.

    472
  • GDR-Net: Geometry-Guided Direct Regression Network for Monocular 6D Object Pose Estimation

    Gu Wang, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Xiangyang Ji

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    462
  • Tutorial: Point Cloud Library: Three-Dimensional Object Recognition and 6 DOF Pose Estimation

    Aitor Aldomà, Zoltán-Csaba Márton, Federico Tombari, Walter Wohlkinger, Christian Potthast, Bernhard Zeisl, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Suat Gedikli, +1 more

    IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine · 2012

    387
  • Unique shape context for 3d data description

    Federico Tombari, Samuele Salti, Luigi Di Stefano

    Proceedings of the ACM workshop on 3D object retrieval · 2010

    This paper shows how to deploy a unique local Reference Frame to improve the accuracy and reduce the memory footprint of the well-known 3D Shape Context descriptor.

    383
  • 3D Point Capsule Networks

    Yongheng Zhao, Tolga Birdal, Haowen Deng, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2019

    3D capsule networks are proposed, an auto-encoder designed to process sparse 3D point clouds while preserving spatial arrangements of the input data and enables new applications such as part interpolation and replacement.

    371
  • Learning 3D Semantic Scene Graphs From 3D Indoor Reconstructions

    Johanna Wald, Helisa Dhamo, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

    This work proposes a learned method that regresses a scene graph from the point cloud of a scene, based on PointNet and Graph Convolutional Networks, and introduces 3DSSG, a semiautomatically generated dataset, that contains semantically rich scene graphs of 3D scenes.

    364
  • A combined texture-shape descriptor for enhanced 3D feature matching

    Federico Tombari, Samuele Salti, Luigi Di Stefano

    Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing · 2011

    329
  • Registration with the Point Cloud Library: A Modular Framework for Aligning in 3-D

    Dirk Holz, Alexandru-Eugen Ichim, Federico Tombari, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Sven Behnke

    IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine · 2015

    296
  • Deep Learning of Local RGB-D Patches for 3D Object Detection and 6D Pose Estimation

    Wadim Kehl, Fausto Milletarì, Federico Tombari, Slobodan Ilić, Nassir Navab

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    A 3D object detection method that uses regressed descriptors of locally-sampled RGB-D patches for 6D vote casting that generalizes well to previously unseen input data, and delivers robust detection results that compete with and surpass the state-of-the-art while being scalable in the number of objects is presented.

    293
  • SceneGraphFusion: Incremental 3D Scene Graph Prediction from RGB-D Sequences

    Shun-Cheng Wu, Johanna Wald, Keisuke Tateno, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    This work proposes a method to incrementally build up semantic scene graphs from a 3D environment given a sequence of RGB-D frames by means of a graph neural network and proposes a novel attention mechanism well suited for partial and missing graph data present in such an incremental reconstruction scenario.

    290
  • RIO: 3D Object Instance Re-Localization in Changing Indoor Environments

    Johanna Wald, Armen Avetisyan, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari, Matthias Nießner

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2019

    A new data-driven approach that efficiently finds matching features using a fully-convolutional 3D correspondence network operating on multiple spatial scales is introduced, which outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on the authors' newly-established benchmark, achieving an accuracy of 30.58%.

    283
  • SPARF: Neural Radiance Fields from Sparse and Noisy Poses

    Prune Truong, Marie‐Julie Rakotosaona, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2023

    This work introduces Sparse Pose Adjusting Radiance Field (SPARF), to address the challenge of novel-view synthesis given only few wide-baseline input images with noisy camera poses, and sets a new state of the art in the sparse-view regime on multiple challenging datasets.

    274
  • SHIFT: A Synthetic Driving Dataset for Continuous Multi-Task Domain Adaptation

    Tao Sun, Mattia Segù, Janis Postels, Yuxuan Wang, Luc Van Gool, Bernt Schiele, Federico Tombari, Fisher Yu

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    This paper introduces the largest multi-task synthetic dataset for autonomous driving, SHIFT, which presents discrete and continuous shifts in cloudiness, rain and fog intensity, time of day, and vehicle and pedestrian density.

    273
  • Implicit Neural Representations for Image Compression

    Yannick Strümpler, Janis Postels, Ren Yang, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    This work proposes the first comprehensive compression pipeline based on INRs including quantization, quantization-aware retraining and entropy coding and finds that the approach to source compression with INRs vastly outperforms similar prior work, is competitive with common compression algorithms designed specifically for images and closes the gap to state-of-the-art learned approaches based on Rate-Distortion Autoencoders.

    249
  • ZNCC-based template matching using bounded partial correlation

    Luigi Di Stefano, Stefano Mattoccia, Federico Tombari

    Pattern Recognition Letters · 2005

    The algorithms shown in this paper generalize and extend the concept of Bounded Partial Correlation, previously devised for a template matching process based on the Normalized Cross-Correlation function (NCC), previously devised for a template matching process based on the Normalized Cross-Correlation function (NCC).

    244
  • Classification and evaluation of cost aggregation methods for stereo correspondence

    Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi Di Stefano, Elisa Addimanda

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2008

    243
  • Learning in an Uncertain World: Representing Ambiguity Through Multiple Hypotheses

    Christian Rupprecht, Iro Laina, Robert S. DiPietro, Maximilian Baust, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab, Gregory D. Hager

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2017

    This work proposes a frame-work for reformulating existing single-prediction models as multiple hypothesis prediction (MHP) models and an associated meta loss and optimization procedure to train them, and finds that MHP models outperform their single-hypothesis counterparts in all cases and expose valuable insights into the variability of predictions.

    232
  • Segmentation-Based Adaptive Support for Accurate Stereo Correspondence

    Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi Di Stefano

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2007

    A novel support aggregation strategy which includes information obtained from a segmentation process is proposed which is effective in improving the state of the art in dense stereo correspondence.

    221
  • Distortion-Aware Convolutional Filters for Dense Prediction in Panoramic Images

    Keisuke Tateno, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    This work proposes a learning approach for panoramic depth map estimation from a single image, thanks to a specifically developed distortion-aware deformable convolution filter, which can be trained by means of conventional perspective images, then used to regress depth forPanoramic images, thus bypassing the effort needed to create annotated pan oramic training dataset.

    220
  • ZebraPose: Coarse to Fine Surface Encoding for 6DoF Object Pose Estimation

    Yongzhi Su, Mahdi Saleh, Torben Fetzer, Jason Raphael Rambach, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam, Didier Stricker, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    This work presents a discrete descriptor, which can represent the object surface densely by incorporating a hierarchical binary grouping, and proposes a coarse to fine training strategy, which enables fine-grained correspondence prediction of the 6DoF pose.

    210
  • Object Recognition in 3D Scenes with Occlusions and Clutter by Hough Voting

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    2010 Fourth Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology · 2010

    210
  • Learning Graph Embeddings for Compositional Zero-shot Learning

    Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Yongqin Xian, Federico Tombari, Zeynep Akata

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    A novel graph formulation called Compositional Graph Embedding (CGE) that learns image features, compositional classifiers and latent representations of visual primitives in an end-to-end manner and significantly outperforms the state of the art on MIT-States and UT-Zappos in the challenging generalized compositional zero-shot setting.

    205
  • Fully-Convolutional Point Networks for Large-Scale Point Clouds

    Dario Rethage, Johanna Wald, Jürgen Sturm, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    This work proposes a general-purpose, fully-convolutional network architecture for efficiently processing large-scale 3D data and demonstrates its ability to effectively learn both low-level features as well as complex compositional relationships by evaluating it on benchmark datasets for semantic voxel segmentation, semantic part segmentation and 3D scene captioning.

    203
  • GPV-Pose: Category-level Object Pose Estimation via Geometry-guided Point-wise Voting

    Yan Di, Ruida Zhang, Zhiqiang Lou, Fabian Manhardt, Xiangyang Ji, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    GPV-Pose is proposed, a novel framework for robust category-level pose estimation, harnessing geometric insights to enhance the learning of category- level pose-sensitive features, which produces superior results to state-of-the-art competitors on common public benchmarks, whilst almost achieving real-time inference speed at 20 FPS.

    192
  • Long Short-Term Memory Kalman Filters: Recurrent Neural Estimators for Pose Regularization

    Huseyin Coskun, Felix Achilles, Robert S. DiPietro, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2017

    This work proposes to learn rich, dynamic representations of the motion and noise models from data using long shortterm memory, which allows representations that depend on all previous observations and all previous states.

    191
  • A Global Hypotheses Verification Method for 3D Object Recognition

    Aitor Aldomà, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano, Markus Vincze

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2012

    Peculiar to this approach is the inherent ability to detect significantly occluded objects without increasing the amount of false positives, so that the operating point of the object recognition algorithm can nicely move toward a higher recall without sacrificing precision.

    187
  • Batch normalization embeddings for deep domain generalization

    Mattia Segù, Alessio Tonioni, Federico Tombari

    Pattern Recognition · 2022

    This work explicitly train domain-dependant representations by using ad-hoc batch normalization layers to collect independent domain's statistics and proposes to use these statistics to map domains in a shared latent space, where membership to a domain can be measured by means of a distance function.

    179
  • SparseFusion: Fusing Multi-Modal Sparse Representations for Multi-Sensor 3D Object Detection

    Yichen Xie, Chenfeng Xu, Marie‐Julie Rakotosaona, Patrick Rim, Federico Tombari, Kurt Keutzer, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Zhan

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2023

    SparseFusion is proposed, a novel multi-sensor 3D detection method that exclusively uses sparse candidates and sparse representations that achieves state-of-the-art performance on the nuScenes benchmark while also running at the fastest speed, even outperforming methods with stronger backbones.

    174
  • SO-Pose: Exploiting Self-Occlusion for Direct 6D Pose Estimation

    Yan Di, Fabian Manhardt, Gu Wang, Xiangyang Ji, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2021

    This work addresses the challenge of directly regressing all 6 degrees-of-freedom for the object pose in a cluttered environment from a single RGB image by means of a novel reasoning about self-occlusion, in order to establish a two-layer representation for 3D objects which considerably enhances the accuracy of end-to-end 6D pose estimation.

    174
  • TextMesh: Generation of Realistic 3D Meshes From Text Prompts

    Christina Tsalicoglou, Fabian Manhardt, Alessio Tonioni, Michael Niemeyer, Federico Tombari

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2024

    A novel method for generation of highly realistic-looking 3D meshes is proposed, extending NeRF to employ an SDF backbone, leading to improved 3D mesh extraction and a novel way to finetune the mesh texture, removing the effect of high saturation and improving the details of the output3D mesh.

    172
  • Deep Model-Based 6D Pose Refinement in RGB

    Fabian Manhardt, Wadim Kehl, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    A new visual loss is proposed that drives the pose update by aligning object contours, thus avoiding the definition of any explicit appearance model and producing pose accuracies that come close to 3D ICP without the need for depth data.

    172
  • OUR-CVFH – Oriented, Unique and Repeatable Clustered Viewpoint Feature Histogram for Object Recognition and 6DOF Pose Estimation

    Aitor Aldomà, Federico Tombari, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Markus Vincze

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2012

    A novel method to estimate a unique and repeatable reference frame in the context of 3D object recognition from a single viewpoint based on global descriptors with substantial improvement is presented regarding accuracy in recognition and 6DOF pose estimation, as well as in terms of computational performance.

    172
  • Socratic Models: Composing Zero-Shot Multimodal Reasoning with Language

    Andy Zeng, Attarian, Maria, Brian Ichter, Krzysztof Choromański, Wong, Adrian, Stefan Welker, Federico Tombari, Aveek Purohit, +5 more

    arXiv · 2022

    165
  • Variational Transformer Networks for Layout Generation

    Diego Martìn Arroyo, Janis Postels, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    This work exploits the properties of self-attention layers to capture high level relationships between elements in a layout, and uses these as the building blocks of the well-known Variational Autoencoder (VAE) formulation.

    163
  • Self6D: Self-supervised Monocular 6D Object Pose Estimation

    Gu Wang, Fabian Manhardt, Jianzhun Shao, Xiangyang Ji, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    This work proposes the idea of monocular 6D pose estimation by means of self-supervised learning, removing the need for real annotations, and demonstrates that the proposed self- supervision model is able to significantly enhance the model's original performance, outperforming all other methods relying on synthetic data or employing elaborate techniques from the domain adaptation realm.

    161
  • Concurrent Segmentation and Localization for Tracking of Surgical Instruments

    Iro Laina, Nicola Rieke, Christian Rupprecht, Josué Page Vizcaíno, Abouzar Eslami, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2017

    A novel method is proposed that takes advantage of the interdependency between localization and segmentation of the surgical tool and reformulate the 2D pose estimation as a heatmap regression and thereby enable a robust, concurrent regression of both tasks via deep learning.

    161
  • Sampling-Free Epistemic Uncertainty Estimation Using Approximated Variance Propagation

    Janis Postels, Francesco Ferroni, Huseyin Coskun, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2019

    This work presents a sampling-free approach for computing the epistemic uncertainty of a neural network and applies this approach to large-scale visual tasks to demonstrate the advantages of the method compared to sampling-based approaches in terms of quality of the uncertainty estimates as well as of computational overhead.

    160
  • RadSplat: Radiance Field-Informed Gaussian Splatting for Robust Real- Time Rendering with 900+ FPS

    Michael Niemeyer, Fabian Manhardt, Marie‐Julie Rakotosaona, Michael Oechsle, Daniel Duckworth, Rama Gosula, Keisuke Tateno, John Bates, +2 more

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2025

    RadSplat is presented, a lightweight method for robust real-time rendering of complex scenes that enables state-of-the-art synthesis of complex captures at 900+ FPS and proposes a novel test-time filtering approach that further accelerates rendering and allows to scale to larger, house-sized scenes.

    152
  • Query-Guided End-To-End Person Search

    Bharti Munjal, Sikandar Amin, Federico Tombari, Fabio Galasso

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2019

    A novel query-guided end-to-end person search network (QEEPS) to address both person detection and re-identification and outperform the previous state-of-the-art datasets by a large margin.

    151
  • Explaining the Ambiguity of Object Detection and 6D Pose From Visual Data

    Fabian Manhardt, Diego Martìn Arroyo, Christian Rupprecht, Benjamin Busam, Tolga Birdal, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2019

    This work proposes a new approach to 3D object detection and pose estimation which provides not only a better explanation for pose ambiguity, but also a higher accuracy in terms of pose estimation.

    141
  • Semantic Image Manipulation Using Scene Graphs

    Helisa Dhamo, Azade Farshad, Iro Laina, Nassir Navab, Gregory D. Hager, Federico Tombari, Christian Rupprecht

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

    This work introduces a spatio-semantic scene graph network that does not require direct supervision for constellation changes or image edits, and makes it possible to train the system from existing real-world datasets with no additional annotation effort.

    140
  • Structure-SLAM: Low-Drift Monocular SLAM in Indoor Environments

    Yanyan Li, Nikolas Brasch, Yida Wang, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2020

    The approach decouples rotation and translation estimation of the tracking process to reduce the long-term drift in indoor environments and outperforms the state of the art on common SLAM benchmarks such as ICL-NUIM and TUM RGB-D.

    135
  • SceneFun3D: Fine-Grained Functionality and Affordance Understanding in 3D Scenes

    Alexandros Delitzas, Ayça Takmaz, Federico Tombari, Robert W. Sumner, Marc Pollefeys, Francis Engelmann

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    125
  • Real-time and scalable incremental segmentation on dense SLAM

    Keisuke Tateno, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2015

    124
  • Traffic sign detection via interest region extraction

    Samuele Salti, Alioscia Petrelli, Federico Tombari, Nicola Fioraio, Luigi Di Stefano

    Pattern Recognition · 2014

    This work shows how a combination of solid image analysis and pattern recognition techniques can be used to tackle the problem of traffic sign detection in mobile mapping data, and presents in detail the design of a Traffic Sign Detection pipeline.

    123
  • Splat-SLAM: Globally Optimized RGB-Only SLAM with 3D Gaussians

    Erik Sandström, Gan‐Lin Zhang, Keisuke Tateno, Michael Oechsle, Michael Niemeyer, Youmin Zhang, Manthan Patel, Luc Van Gool, +2 more

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) · 2025

    This work introduces the first RGB-only SLAM system with globally optimized tracking, dynamically adapting the Gaussian map to keyframe pose and depth updates, and incorporates so called Disparity, Scale and Pose Optimization (DSPO) for bundle adjustment, jointly optimizing pose, depth, and monocular depth scale.

    120
  • Performance Evaluation of Full Search Equivalent Pattern Matching Algorithms

    Wanli Ouyang, Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi Di Stefano, Wai-Kuen Cham

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2011

    120
  • Dynamic Gaussian Marbles for Novel View Synthesis of Casual Monocular Videos

    Colton Stearns, Adam W. Harley, Mikaela Angelina Uy, Florian Dubost, Federico Tombari, Gordon Wetzstein, Leonidas J. Guibas

    SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Papers · 2024

    Dynamic Gaussian Marbles is proposed, which significantly outperforms other Gaussian baselines in quality, and is on-par with non-Gaussian representations, all while maintaining the efficiency, compositionality, editability, and tracking benefits of Gaussians.

    117
  • LayoutVLM: Differentiable Optimization of 3D Layout via Vision-Language Models

    Fan-Yun Sun, Weiyu Liu, Siyi Gu, Dylan Lim, Goutam Bhat, Federico Tombari, Manling Li, Nick Haber, +1 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    This work introduces LayoutVLM, a framework and scene layout representation that exploits the semantic knowledge of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and supports differentiable optimization to ensure physical plausibility.

    115
  • Graph-to-3D: End-to-End Generation and Manipulation of 3D Scenes Using Scene Graphs

    Helisa Dhamo, Fabian Manhardt, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2021

    This work proposes the first work that directly generates shapes from a scene graph in an end-to-end manner, and shows that the same model supports scene modification, using the respective scene graph as interface.

    112
  • RGB-D SLAM with Structural Regularities

    Yanyan Li, Raza Yunus, Nikolas Brasch, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2021

    This work proposes a RGB-D SLAM system specifically designed for structured environments and aimed at improved tracking and mapping accuracy by relying on geometric features that are extracted from the surrounding.

    110
  • Robust Monocular Depth Estimation under Challenging Conditions

    Stefano Gasperini, Nils Morbitzer, Hyunjun Jung, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2023

    106
  • I2MVFormer: Large Language Model Generated Multi-View Document Supervision for Zero-Shot Image Classification

    Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Muhammad Gul Zain Ali Khan, Yongqin Xian, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Didier Stricker, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2023

    This work provides a novel perspective on using an LLM to provide text supervision for a zero- shot image classification model and establishes a new state-of-the-art on three public benchmark datasets for zero-shot image classification with unsupervised semantic embeddings.

    103
  • BOLD Features to Detect Texture-less Objects

    Federico Tombari, Alessandro Franchi, Luigi Di

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2013

    103
  • Multimodal cue integration through Hypotheses Verification for RGB-D object recognition and 6DOF pose estimation

    Albina Aldomà, Federico Tombari, Johann Prankl, Andreas Richtsfeld, Luigi Di Stefano, Markus Vincze

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2013

    102
  • 2D Image-To-3D Model: Knowledge-Based 3D Building Reconstruction (3DBR) Using Single Aerial Images and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)

    F. Alidoost, Hossein Arefi, Federico Tombari

    Remote Sensing · 2019

    A deep learning (DL)-based approach is proposed for the detection and reconstruction of buildings from a single aerial image and does not need any additional or auxiliary data and employs a single image to reconstruct the 3D models of buildings with the competitive precision.

    101
  • Fast Full-Search Equivalent Template Matching by Enhanced Bounded Correlation

    Stefano Mattoccia, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2008

    100
  • Quaternion Equivariant Capsule Networks for 3D Point Clouds

    Yongheng Zhao, Tolga Birdal, Jan Eric Lenssen, Emanuele Menegatti, Leonidas J. Guibas, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    A 3D capsule module for processing point clouds that is equivariant to 3D rotations and translations, as well as invariant to permutations of the input points, and builds a capsule network that disentangles geometry from pose, paving the way for more informative descriptors and a structured latent space.

    96
  • When 2.5D is not enough: Simultaneous reconstruction, segmentation and recognition on dense SLAM

    Keisuke Tateno, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2016

    94
  • A Performance Evaluation of 3D Keypoint Detectors

    Samuele Salti, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    2011 International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission · 2011

    90
  • NeRFMeshing: Distilling Neural Radiance Fields into Geometrically-Accurate 3D Meshes

    Marie‐Julie Rakotosaona, Fabian Manhardt, Diego Martìn Arroyo, Michael Niemeyer, Abhijit Kundu, Federico Tombari

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2024

    This work proposes a novel compact and flexible architecture that enables easy 3D surface reconstruction from any NeRF-driven approach, and distill the volumetric 3D representation into a Signed Surface Approximation Network, allowing easy extraction of the 3D mesh and appearance.

    89
  • SecondPose: SE(3)-Consistent Dual-Stream Feature Fusion for Category-Level Pose Estimation

    Yamei Chen, Yan Di, Guangyao Zhai, Fabian Manhardt, Chenyangguang Zhang, Ruida Zhang, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab, +1 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    Sec-ondPose is presented, a novel approach integrating object-specific ge-ometric features with semantic category priors from DI-NOv2 that achieves a 12.4% leap forward over the state-of-the-art on NOCS-REAL275 and still surpasses other competitors by a large margin.

    87
  • SoftPoolNet: Shape Descriptor for Point Cloud Completion and Classification

    Yida Wang, David Joseph Tan, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    This paper proves that the regional activation can be incorporated in many point cloud architectures like AtlasNet and PCN, leading to better performance for geometric completion.

    87
  • OpenNeRF: Open Set 3D Neural Scene Segmentation with Pixel-Wise Features and Rendered Novel Views

    Francis Engelmann, Fabian Manhardt, Michael Niemeyer, Keisuke Tateno, Marc Pollefeys, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2024

    This work proposes OpenNeRF which naturally operates on posed images and directly encodes the VLM features within the NeRF, and shows that using pixel-wise VLM features (instead of global CLIP features) results in an overall less complex architecture without the need for additional DINO regularization.

    86
  • ManhattanSLAM: Robust Planar Tracking and Mapping Leveraging Mixture of Manhattan Frames

    Raza Yunus, Yanyan Li, Federico Tombari

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2021

    A robust RGB-D SLAM system is proposed to utilize the structural information in indoor scenes, allowing for accurate tracking and efficient dense mapping on a CPU, achieving superior performance compared to other state-of-the-art methods.

    86
  • Near real-time stereo based on effective cost aggregation

    Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi Di Stefano, Elisa Addimanda

    Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition/Proceedings/International Conference on Pattern Recognition · 2008

    81
  • Panoster: End-to-End Panoptic Segmentation of LiDAR Point Clouds

    Stefano Gasperini, Mohammad-Ali Nikouei Mahani, Alvaro Marcos-Ramiro, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2021

    This letter presents Panoster, a novel proposal-free panoptic segmentation method for LiDAR point clouds that reached state-of-the-art results among published approaches on the challenging SemanticKITTI benchmark, and further increased its lead by exploiting heuristic techniques.

    79
  • Semantic Monocular SLAM for Highly Dynamic Environments

    Nikolas Brasch, Aljaž Božič, Joe Lallemand, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2018

    79
  • Introducing Language Guidance in Prompt-based Continual Learning

    Muhammad Gul Zain Ali Khan, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Luc Van Gool, Didier Stricker, Federico Tombari, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2023

    Language Guidance for Prompt-based Continual Learning is proposed and introduces language guidance at the task level in the prompt pool and at the class level on the output feature of the vision encoder and achieves performance improvements without needing any additional learnable parameters.

    78
  • CommonScenes: Generating Commonsense 3D Indoor Scenes with Scene Graph Diffusion

    Guangyao Zhai, Evin Pınar Örnek, Shun-Cheng Wu, Yan Di, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam

    neural information processing systems · 2023

    CommonScenes is a fully generative model that converts scene graphs into corresponding controllable 3D scenes, which are semantically realistic and conform to commonsense and shows clear advantages over other methods regarding generation consistency, quality, and diversity.

    76
  • CONFORM: Contrast is All You Need For High-Fidelity Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

    Tuna Han Salih Meral, Enis Simsar, Federico Tombari, Pinar Yanardag

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    This work introduces a novel perspective by tackling this challenge in a contrastive context of text-to-image diffusion models by intuitively promoting the segregation of objects in attention maps while also maintaining that pairs of related attributes are kept close to each other.

    73
  • Convolutional neural networks for real-time epileptic seizure detection

    Felix Achilles, Federico Tombari, Vasileios Belagiannis, Anna Mira Loesch, Soheyl Noachtar, Nassir Navab

    Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering Imaging & Visualization · 2016

    It is conjecture that features learned via a convolutional neural network provide the ability to distinctively detect seizures from video, and even allow the system to generalize to different seizure types.

    73
  • 3D-VField: Adversarial Augmentation of Point Clouds for Domain Generalization in 3D Object Detection

    Alexander Lehner, Stefano Gasperini, Alvaro Marcos-Ramiro, Michael Schmidt, Mohammad-Ali Nikouei Mahani, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    This work substantially improves the generalization of 3D object detectors to out-of-domain data by deforming point clouds during training with 3D-VField: a novel data augmentation method that plausibly deforms objects via vector fields learned in an adversarial fashion.

    71
  • Patient MoCap: Human Pose Estimation Under Blanket Occlusion for Hospital Monitoring Applications

    Felix Achilles, Alexandru-Eugen Ichim, Huseyin Coskun, Federico Tombari, Soheyl Noachtar, Nassir Navab

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    This work proposes a learning-based method that allows to automatically infer 3D patient pose from depth images using a combination of convolutional neural network and recurrent neural network, which is trained on a large database that covers a range of motions in the hospital bed.

    70
  • ForkNet: Multi-Branch Volumetric Semantic Completion From a Single Depth Image

    Yida Wang, David Joseph Tan, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2019

    A novel model for 3D semantic completion from a single depth image, based on a single encoder and three separate generators used to reconstruct different geometric and semantic representations of the original and completed scene, all sharing the same latent space is proposed.

    68
  • Peeking behind objects: Layered depth prediction from a single image

    Helisa Dhamo, Keisuke Tateno, Iro Laina, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Pattern Recognition Letters · 2019

    A novel approach based on Convolutional Neural Networks to jointly predict depth maps and foreground separation masks used to condition Generative Adversarial Networks for hallucinating plausible color and depths in the initially occluded areas is proposed.

    65
  • Learning to Prompt with Text Only Supervision for Vision-Language Models

    Muhammad Uzair Khattak, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Muzammal Naseer, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2025

    This work develops a language-only efficient training approach that enables prompts to distill rich contextual knowledge from LLM data and enables zero-shot transfer of prompts to new classes and datasets, potentially reducing the LLM prompt engineering cost.

    64
  • Incremental 3D Semantic Scene Graph Prediction from RGB Sequences

    Shun‐Cheng Wu, Keisuke Tateno, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2023

    A real-time framework that incrementally builds a consistent 3D semantic scene graph of a scene given an RGB image sequence using a novel incremental entity estimation pipeline and a scene graph prediction network.

    64
  • Learning Local Displacements for Point Cloud Completion

    Yida Wang, David Joseph Tan, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    A novel approach aimed at object and semantic scene completion from a partial scan represented as a 3D point cloud that relies on three novel layers that are used successively within an encoder-decoder structure and specifically developed for the task at hand.

    63
  • RBP-Pose: Residual Bounding Box Projection for Category-Level Pose Estimation

    Ruida Zhang, Yan Di, Zhiqiang Lou, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Xiangyang Ji

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    60
  • Multi‐modal imaging, model‐based tracking, and mixed reality visualisation for orthopaedic surgery

    Sing Chun Lee, Bernhard Fuerst, Keisuke Tateno, Alex A. Johnson, Javad Fotouhi, Greg Michael Osgood, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    Healthcare Technology Letters · 2017

    A mixed reality support system, which incorporates multi-modal data fusion and model-based surgical tool tracking for creating a mixed reality environment supporting screw placement in orthopaedic surgery and provides an intuitive understanding of the surgical site.

    60
  • R4Dyn: Exploring Radar for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation of Dynamic Scenes

    Stefano Gasperini, Patrick Koch, Vinzenz Dallabetta, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam, Federico Tombari

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2021

    R4Dyn is presented, a novel set of techniques to use cost-efficient radar data on top of a self-supervised depth estimation framework that substantially improves the estimation on dynamic objects, such as cars by 37% on the challenging nuScenes dataset, hence demonstrating that radar is a valuable additional sensor for monocular depth estimation in autonomous vehicles.

    59
  • Beyond Controlled Environments: 3D Camera Re-localization in Changing Indoor Scenes

    Johanna Wald, Torsten Sattler, Stuart Golodetz, Tommaso Cavallari, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    This paper adapts 3RScan - a recently introduced indoor RGB-D dataset designed for object instance re-localization - to create RIO10, a new long-term camera re- localization benchmark focused on indoor scenes and explores how state-of-the-art cameraRe-localizers perform according to these metrics.

    56
  • A Versatile Learning-Based 3D Temporal Tracker: Scalable, Robust, Online

    David Joseph Tan, Federico Tombari, Slobodan Ilić, Nassir Navab

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2015

    56
  • Stereo Vision Enabling Precise Border Localization Within a Scanline Optimization Framework

    Stefano Mattoccia, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2007

    A novel algorithm for obtaining accurate dense disparity measurements and precise border localization from stereo pairs is proposed, which embodies a very effective variable support approach based on segmentation within a Scanline Optimization framework.

    56
  • SSP-Pose: Symmetry-Aware Shape Prior Deformation for Direct Category-Level Object Pose Estimation

    Ruida Zhang, Yan Di, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Xiangyang Ji

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2022

    An end-to-end trainable network SSP-Pose is proposed for category-level pose estimation, which integrates shape priors into a direct pose regression network and utilizes the symmetry information of each category to guide the shape prior deformation, and proposes a novel symmetry-aware loss to mitigate the matching ambiguity.

    55
  • Human Motion Analysis with Deep Metric Learning

    Huseyin Coskun, David Joseph Tan, Sailesh Conjeti, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    A novel metric learning objective based on a triplet architecture and Maximum Mean Discrepancy is proposed and a novel deep architecture based on attentive recurrent neural networks is proposed, which enforces a better separation within the learned embedding space of the different motion categories by means of the associated distribution moments.

    55
  • Full-Search-Equivalent Pattern Matching with Incremental Dissimilarity Approximations

    Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi Di Stefano

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2008

    55
  • A Global Hypothesis Verification Framework for 3D Object Recognition in Clutter

    Aitor Aldomà, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano, Markus Vincze

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2015

    53
  • Omnia de EgoTempo: Benchmarking Temporal Understanding of Multi-Modal LLMs in Egocentric Videos

    Chiara Plizzari, Alessio Tonioni, Yongqin Xian, Achin Kulshrestha, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    This work introduces EgoTempo, a dataset specifically designed to evaluate temporal understanding in the egocentric domain, and shows that state-of-the-art Multi-Modal Large Language Models on these benchmarks achieve remarkably high performance using just text or a single frame as input.

    51
  • Attention-based Lane Change Prediction

    Oliver Scheel, Naveen Shankar Nagaraja, Loren Schwarz, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2019

    An attention-based recurrent model to tackle both understandability and prediction quality is proposed and metrics which reflect the discomfort felt by the driver are proposed.

    51
  • Multimodal Video Analysis on Self-Powered Resource-Limited Wireless Smart Camera

    Michele Magno, Federico Tombari, Davide Brunelli, Luigi Di Stefano, L. Benini

    IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems · 2013

    51
  • 4D-OR: Semantic Scene Graphs for OR Domain Modeling

    Ege Özsoy, Evin Pınar Örnek, Ulrich Eck, Tobias Czempiel, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    50
  • Restricting the Flow: Information Bottlenecks for Attribution

    Karl Schulz, Leon Sixt, Federico Tombari, Tim Landgraf

    arXiv · 2020

    50
  • Real-time localization of articulated surgical instruments in retinal microsurgery

    Nicola Rieke, David Joseph Tan, Chiara Amat di San Filippo, Federico Tombari, Mohamed Alsheakhali, Vasileios Belagiannis, Abouzar Eslami, Nassir Navab

    Medical Image Analysis · 2016

    A method that builds on random forests and addresses the task by modelling the instrument as an articulated object by relating the movement of the instrument to the induced changes on the image intensities and can outperform current state-of-the art in real-time tracking.

    50
  • Surgical Tool Tracking and Pose Estimation in Retinal Microsurgery

    Nicola Rieke, David Joseph Tan, Mohamed Alsheakhali, Federico Tombari, Chiara Amat di San Filippo, Vasileios Belagiannis, Abouzar Eslami, Nassir Navab

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2015

    This work proposes an algorithm for simultaneous tool tracking and pose estimation that is inspired by state-of-the-art computer vision techniques and introduces a method based on regression forests to track the tool tip and to recover the tool's articulated pose.

    50
  • Hashmod: A Hashing Method for Scalable 3D Object Detection

    Wadim Kehl, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab, Slobodan Ilić, Vincent Lepetit

    British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) · 2015

    It is shown empirically that the complexity of the method is sublinear with the number of objects and it enables detection and pose estimation of many 3D objects with high accuracy while outperforming the state-of-the-art in terms of runtime.

    50
  • MonoGraspNet: 6-DoF Grasping with a Single RGB Image

    Guangyao Zhai, Dianye Huang, Shun‐Cheng Wu, Hyunjun Jung, Yan Di, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab, +1 more

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2023

    This paper proposes the first RGB-only 6-DoF grasping pipeline called MonoGraspNet that utilizes stable 2D features to simultaneously handle arbitrary object grasping and overcome the problems induced by photometrically challenging objects.

    49
  • A Taxonomy and Library for Visualizing Learned Features in Convolutional Neural Networks

    Felix Grün, Christian Rupprecht, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2016

    49
  • Analysis and Evaluation Between the First and the Second Generation of RGB-D Sensors

    M. Gesto, Federico Tombari, Pablo Rodríguez‐Gonzálvez, Diego González‐Aguilera

    IEEE Sensors Journal · 2015

    49
  • Multimodal Abandoned/Removed Object Detection for Low Power Video Surveillance Systems

    Michele Magno, Federico Tombari, Davide Brunelli, Luigi Di Stefano, L. Benini

    IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) · 2009

    49
  • Deep Positional and Relational Feature Learning for Rotation-Invariant Point Cloud Analysis

    Ruixuan Yu, Xin Wei, Federico Tombari, Jian Zhong Sun

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    A novel deep network for point clouds analysis is proposed by incorporating positional information of points as inputs while yielding rotation-invariance, and experiments show state-of-the-art classification and segmentation performances on benchmark datasets.

    48
  • SG-Bot: Object Rearrangement via Coarse-to-Fine Robotic Imagination on Scene Graphs

    Guangyao Zhai, Xiaoni Cai, Dianye Huang, Yan Di, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2024

    This paper presents SG-Bot, a novel rearrangement framework that utilizes a coarse-to-fine scheme with a scene graph as the scene representation, and demonstrates that SG-Bot outperforms competitors by a large margin.

    47
  • DNS-SLAM: Dense Neural Semantic-Informed SLAM

    Kunyi Li, Michael Niemeyer, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2024

    DNS SLAM is proposed, the first semantic neural SLAM method that trains class-wise scene representations while providing stable camera tracking at the same time, and outputs class-wise decomposed reconstructions with better texture, capturing appearance and geometric details.

    47
  • Hough Voting for 3D Object Recognition under Occlusion and Clutter

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications · 2012

    This work proposes a novel approach for the detection of free-form shapes in a3D space that matches 3D features through their descriptions to attain correspondences, then accumulates evidence of the presence of the object(s) being sought by verifying the consensus of correspondences within a 3D Hough space.

    47
  • Learning to Detect Good 3D Keypoints

    Alessio Tonioni, Samuele Salti, Federico Tombari, Riccardo Spezialetti, Luigi Di Stefano

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2017

    Through extensive experiments on standard datasets, this work shows how feature matching performance improves significantly by deploying 3D descriptors together with companion detectors learned by the methodology with respect to the adoption of established state-of-the-art 3D detectors based on hand-crafted saliency functions.

    46
  • Real-Time 3D Model Tracking in Color and Depth on a Single CPU Core

    Wadim Kehl, Federico Tombari, Slobodan Ilić, Nassir Navab

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2017

    A novel method to track 3D models in color and depth data is presented and it is shown how the method can be made more robust in the presence of depth data and consequently formulate a new joint contour and ICP tracking energy.

    45
  • OPA-3D: Occlusion-Aware Pixel-Wise Aggregation for Monocular 3D Object Detection

    Yongzhi Su, Yan Di, Guangyao Zhai, Fabian Manhardt, Jason Raphael Rambach, Benjamin Busam, Didier Stricker, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2023

    This work proposes to jointly estimate dense scene depth with depth-bounding box residuals and object bounding boxes, allowing a two-stream detection of 3D objects that harnesses both geometry and context information.

    44
  • Learning a Descriptor-Specific 3D Keypoint Detector

    Samuele Salti, Federico Tombari, Riccardo Spezialetti, Luigi Di Stefano

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2015

    44
  • CubeDiff: Repurposing Diffusion-Based Image Models for Panorama Generation

    Nikolai Kalischek, Michael Oechsle, Fabian Manhardt, Philipp Henzler, Konrad Schindler, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2025

    A novel method for generating 360{\deg} panoramas from text prompts or images by employing multi-view diffusion models to jointly synthesize the six faces of a cubemap, simplifying the generation process and enabling the use of existing multi-view diffusion models.

    43
  • Opportunistic Interfaces for Augmented Reality: Transforming Everyday Objects into Tangible 6DoF Interfaces Using Ad hoc UI

    Ruofei Du, Alex Olwal, Mathieu Le Goc, Shengzhi Wu, Danhang Tang, Yinda Zhang, Jun Zhang, David Joseph Tan, +2 more

    CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts · 2022

    This paper presents the workflow and technical details of Ad hoc UI (AhUI), a prototyping toolkit to empower users to turn everyday objects into opportunistic interfaces on the fly to grant users complete freedom to summon virtual interfaces on everyday objects via voice commands or tapping gestures.

    43
  • A performance evaluation of point pair features

    Lilita Kiforenko, Bertram Drost, Federico Tombari, Norbert Krüger, Anders Glent Buch

    Computer Vision and Image Understanding · 2017

    A detailed analysis of PPFs is presented, which highlights under which conditions PPFs perform particularly well as well as its main weaknesses, and finds that PPFs compared to most local histogram features degrade faster under disturbances such as occlusion and clutter.

    43
  • A traffic sign detection pipeline based on interest region extraction

    Samuele Salti, Alioscia Petrelli, Federico Tombari, Nicola Fioraio, Luigi Di Stefano

    2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) · 2013

    43
  • Supervised learning of hidden and non-hidden 0-order affordances and detection in real scenes

    Aitor Aldomà, Federico Tombari, Markus Vincze

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2012

    41
  • Object-Driven Multi-Layer Scene Decomposition From a Single Image

    Helisa Dhamo, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2019

    The approach aims at building up a Layered Depth Image (LDI) from a single RGB input, which is an efficient representation that arranges the scene in layers, including originally occluded regions, which enables various applications, such as 3D photography and diminished reality, all from asingle RGB image.

    40
  • Guide Me: Interacting with Deep Networks

    Christian Rupprecht, Iro Laina, Nassir Navab, Gregory D. Hager, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2018

    Methods to flexibly guide a trained convolutional neural network through user input to improve its performance during inference are explored by inserting a layer that acts as a spatio-semantic guide into the network.

    40
  • Search3D: Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation

    Ayça Takmaz, Alexandros Delitzas, Robert W. Sumner, Francis Engelmann, Johanna Wald, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2025

    This work introduces Search3D, an approach to construct hierarchical open-vocabulary 3D scene representations, enabling 3D search at multiple levels of granularity: fine-grained object parts, entire objects, or regions described by attributes like materials.

    39
  • Shape, Pose, and Appearance from a Single Image via Bootstrapped Radiance Field Inversion

    Dario Pavllo, David Joseph Tan, Marie‐Julie Rakotosaona, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2023

    This work introduces a principled end-to-end reconstruction framework for natural images, where accurate ground-truth poses are not available, and leverages an unconditional 3D-aware generator, to which a hybrid inversion scheme where a model produces a first guess of the solution which is then refined via optimization.

    39
  • Learning 3D Semantic Scene Graphs with Instance Embeddings

    Johanna Wald, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2022

    This work proposes instead a novel neural network architecture for 3D data, where the aim is to learn to regress semantic graphs from a given 3D scene, and shows the effectiveness of graphs as an intermediate representation on a retrieval task.

    39
  • Interest Points via Maximal Self-Dissimilarities

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2015

    This work proposes a novel interest point detector stemming from the intuition that image patches which are highly dissimilar over a relatively large extent of their surroundings hold the property of being repeatable and distinctive, thereby achieving enhanced repeatability, distinctiveness and localization accuracy.

    39
  • OpenMask3D: Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation

    Ayça Takmaz, Elisabetta Fedele, Robert W. Sumner, Marc Pollefeys, Federico Tombari, Francis Engelmann

    neural information processing systems · 2023

    37
  • Fast and Accurate Semantic Mapping through Geometric-based Incremental Segmentation

    Yoshikatsu Nakajima, Keisuke Tateno, Federico Tombari, Hideo Saitô

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2018

    An efficient and scalable method for incrementally building a dense, semantically annotated 3D map in real-time that has a capability of running at over 30Hz while performing all processing components, including SLAM, segmentation, 2D recognition, and updating class probabilities of each segmentation label at every incoming frame.

    37
  • How Good is my Video-LMM? Complex Video Reasoning and Robustness Evaluation Suite for Video-LMMs

    Muhammad Uzair Khattak, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Jameel Hassan, Muzammal Naseer, Federico Tombari, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman Hameed Khan

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) · 2025

    A training-free Dual-Step Contextual Prompting technique is developed to effectively enhance the performance of existing Video-LMMs on the CVRR-ES benchmark, providing valuable in-sights for building the next generation of human-centric AI systems with advanced robustness and reasoning capabilities.

    36
  • Reliable rejection of mismatching candidates for efficient ZNCC template matching

    Stefano Mattoccia, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing · 2008

    36
  • Mixed Diffusion for 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis

    Siyi Hu, Diego Martìn Arroyo, Stephanie R. Debats, Fabian Manhardt, Luca Carlone, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) · 2026

    MiDiffusion is presented, a novel mixed discrete-continuous diffusion model designed to synthesize plausible 3D indoor scenes given a floor plan and pre-arranged objects that outperforms state-of-the-art autoregressive and diffusion models in floor-conditioned 3D scene synthesis.

    35
  • SuperGSeg: Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation with Structured Super-Gaussians

    Siyun Liang, Sen Wang, Kunyi Li, Michael Niemeyer, Stefano Gasperini, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2026

    A novel approach that fosters cohesive, context-aware hierarchical scene representation by disentangling segmentation and language field distillation and achieves remarkable performance on both open-vocabulary object selection and semantic segmentation tasks is introduced.

    35
  • SemiVL: Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Vision-Language Guidance

    Lukas Hoyer, David Joseph Tan, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    35
  • Query-guided networks for few-shot fine-grained classification and person search

    Bharti Munjal, Alessandro Flaborea, Sikandar Amin, Federico Tombari, Fabio Galasso

    Pattern Recognition · 2022

    A novel unified Query-Guided Network (QGN) applicable to few-shot fine-grained classification and person search is proposed, which improves on a few recent few- shot fine- grained datasets and performs competitively on the person search datasets.

    35
  • Efficient template matching for multi-channel images

    Stefano Mattoccia, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    Pattern Recognition Letters · 2010

    This paper proposes a fast, exhaustive technique based on the Zero-mean Normalized Cross-Correlation (ZNCC) inspired from previous work related to grayscale images to speed-up template matching on multi-channel images without deteriorating the outcome of the search.

    35
  • LIME: Localized Image Editing via Attention Regularization in Diffusion Models

    Enis Simsar, Alessio Tonioni, Yongqin Xian, Thomas Hofmann, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) · 2025

    LIME does not require user-specified regions of interest (RoI) or additional text input, but rather employs features from pretrained methods and a straightforward clustering method to obtain precise editing mask, which consistently improves the performance of existing methods in various editing benchmarks.

    34
  • Feature matching evaluation for multimodal correspondence

    M. Gesto, Federico Tombari, Diego González‐Aguilera, Luis López-Fernández, Pablo Rodríguez‐Gonzálvez

    ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · 2017

    A study and evaluation of approaches aimed at image matching under different modalities, together with a survey of methodologies used for performance comparison in this specific context, and a novel algorithm for image matching.

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  • Domain-Specific Priors and Meta Learning for Few-Shot First-Person Action Recognition

    Huseyin Coskun, M. Zeeshan Zia, Bugra Tekin, Federica Bogo, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari, Harpreet S. Sawhney

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

    This work aims to develop an effective method for few-shot transfer learning for first-person action classification using independently trained local visual cues to learn representations that can be transferred from a source domain, which provides primitive action labels, to a different target domain.

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  • Unconditional Scene Graph Generation

    Sarthak Garg, Helisa Dhamo, Azade Farshad, Sabrina Musatian, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2021

    This work develops a deep auto-regressive model called SceneGraphGen which can directly learn the probability distribution over labelled and directed graphs using a hierarchical recurrent architecture and demonstrates the application of the generated graphs in image synthesis, anomaly detection and scene graph completion.

    33
  • Co-Planar Parametrization for Stereo-SLAM and Visual-Inertial Odometry

    Xin Li, Yanyan Li, Evin Pınar Örnek, Jinlong Lin, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2020

    A novel SLAM framework for stereo and visual inertial odometry estimation and an efficient and robust parametrization of co-planar points and lines which leverages specific geometric constraints to improve camera pose optimization in terms of both efficiency and accuracy.

    33
  • Incremental scene understanding on dense SLAM

    Chi Li, Han Xiao, Keisuke Tateno, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab, Gregory D. Hager

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2016

    33
  • Looking Beyond the Simple Scenarios: Combining Learners and Optimizers in 3D Temporal Tracking

    David Joseph Tan, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · 2017

    32
  • AnyUp: Universal Feature Upsampling

    Thomas Wimmer, Prune Truong, Marie‐Julie Rakotosaona, Michael Oechsle, Federico Tombari, Bernt Schiele, Jan Eric Lenssen

    arXiv · 2025

    This work proposes an inference-time feature-agnostic upsampling architecture to alleviate this limitation and improve upsampling quality, and sets a new state of the art for upsampled features, generalizes to different feature types, and preserves feature semantics while being efficient and easy to apply to a wide range of downstream tasks.

    31
  • Segment3D: Learning Fine-Grained Class-Agnostic 3D Segmentation Without Manual Labels

    Rui Huang, Songyou Peng, Ayça Takmaz, Federico Tombari, Marc Pollefeys, Shiji Song, Gao Ming Huang, Francis Engelmann

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    31
  • Quantifying Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty Using Density Estimation in Latent Space.

    Janis Postels, Hermann Blum, César Cadena, Roland Siegwart, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2020

    This work investigates whether the distribution of latent representations indeed contains information about the uncertainty associated with the predictions of a neural network and concludes with the exciting finding that the hidden repesentations of a deterministic neural network indeed contain information about its uncertainty.

    31
  • Crowd-sourced Semantic Edge Mapping for Autonomous Vehicles

    Markus Herb, Tobias Weiherer, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2019

    31
  • Situation Assessment for Planning Lane Changes: Combining Recurrent Models and Prediction

    Oliver Scheel, Loren Schwarz, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2018

    31
  • On the Use of Implicit Shape Models for Recognition of Object Categories in 3D Data

    Samuele Salti, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2011

    Modifications to three design points within the structure of a standard ISM are proposed to enhance its effectiveness for the categorization of databases entries, either 3D or 2D: namely, codebook size and composition, codeword activation strategy and vote weight strategy.

    31
  • GeoGaussian: Geometry-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Scene Rendering

    Yanyan Li, Chenyu Lyu, Yan Di, Guangyao Zhai, Gim Hee Lee, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    30
  • Real-Time Fully Incremental Scene Understanding on Mobile Platforms

    Johanna Wald, Keisuke Tateno, Jürgen Sturm, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2018

    30
  • PhysAvatar: Learning the Physics of Dressed 3D Avatars from Visual Observations

    Yang Zheng, Qingqing Zhao, Guandao Yang, Yifan Wang, Donglai Xiang, Florian Dubost, Dmitry Lagun, Thabo Beeler, +3 more

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    29
  • EchoScene: Indoor Scene Generation via Information Echo Over Scene Graph Diffusion

    Guangyao Zhai, Evin Pınar Örnek, Dave Zhenyu Chen, Ruotong Liao, Yan Di, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari, Benjamin Busam

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    29
  • Holistic OR domain modeling: a semantic scene graph approach

    Ege Özsoy, Tobias Czempiel, Evin Pınar Örnek, Ulrich Eck, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery · 2023

    A neural network-based SSG generation pipeline for semantic reasoning in the OR domain is introduced and the capabilities of the scene graphs are further highlighted by their successful application to clinical role prediction and surgical phase recognition tasks.

    29
  • SoftPool++: An Encoder–Decoder Network for Point Cloud Completion

    Yida Wang, David Joseph Tan, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2022

    This work proposes a novel convolutional operator that extracts permutation-invariant features from the point cloud via a soft-pooling of feature activations, which are able to preserve fine-grained geometric details in the input shape structure.

    29
  • TSDF++: A Multi-Object Formulation for Dynamic Object Tracking and Reconstruction

    Margarita Grinvald, Federico Tombari, Roland Siegwart, Juan I. Nieto

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2021

    This work introduces a novel multi-object TSDF formulation that can encode multiple object surfaces at any given location in the map that allows maintaining accurate reconstruction of surfaces even while they become temporarily occluded by other objects moving in their proximity.

    29
  • CertainNet: Sampling-Free Uncertainty Estimation for Object Detection

    Stefano Gasperini, Jan Haug, Mohammad-Ali Nikouei Mahani, Alvaro Marcos-Ramiro, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2021

    This work proposes a novel sampling-free uncertainty estimation method for object detection, and it is the first to provide separate uncertainties for each output signal: objectness, class, location and size.

    29
  • Real-Time Accurate 3D Head Tracking and Pose Estimation with Consumer RGB-D Cameras

    David Joseph Tan, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2017

    This work proposes another solution that utilizes a multi-camera system such that the data simultaneously acquired from multiple RGB-D sensors helps the tracker to handle challenging conditions that affect a subset of the cameras.

    29
  • One2Any: One-Reference 6D Pose Estimation for Any Object

    Mengya Liu, Siyuan Li, Ajad Chhatkuli, Prune Truong, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    A novel method One2Any is proposed that estimates the relative 6-degrees of freedom (DOF) object pose using only a single reference-single query RGB-D image, without prior knowledge of its 3D model, multi-view data, or category constraints.

    28
  • NEWTON: Neural View-Centric Mapping for On-the-Fly Large-Scale SLAM

    Hidenobu Matsuki, Keisuke Tateno, Michael Niemeyer, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2024

    Newton is proposed, a view-centric mapping method that dynamically constructs neural fields based on run-time observation that enables camera pose updates using loop closures and scene boundary updates by representing the scene with multiple neural fields, where each is defined in a local coordinate system of a selected keyframe.

    28
  • LoRACLR: Contrastive Adaptation for Customization of Diffusion Models

    Enis Simsar, Thomas Hofmann, Federico Tombari, Pinar Yanardag

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    LoRACLR is presented, a novel approach for multi-concept image generation that merges multiple LoRA models, each fine-tuned for a distinct concept, into a single, unified model without additional individual fine-tuning.

    27
  • IPCC-TP: Utilizing Incremental Pearson Correlation Coefficient for Joint Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction

    Dekai Zhu, Guangyao Zhai, Yan Di, Fabian Manhardt, Hendrik Berkemeyer, Tuan Anh Tran, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari, +1 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2023

    IPCC-TP is proposed, a novel relevance-aware module based on Incremental Pearson Correlation Coefficient to improve multi-agent interaction modeling and can be conveniently embedded into existing multi- agent prediction methods to extend original motion distribution decoders.

    27
  • Bending Graphs: Hierarchical Shape Matching using Gated Optimal Transport

    Mahdi Saleh, Shun-Cheng Wu, Luca Cosmo, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    A hierarchical learning design is investigated, to which local patch-level information and global shape-level structures are incorporated, which enables correspondence prediction and provides rich features for the matching stage.

    27
  • From 2D to 3D: Re-thinking Benchmarking of Monocular Depth Prediction

    Evin Pınar Örnek, Shristi Mudgal, Johanna Wald, Yida Wang, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2022

    This work proposes a set of metrics well suited to evaluate the 3D geometry of MDP approaches and a novel indoor benchmark, RIO-D3D, crucial for the proposed evaluation methodology, based on a real-world dataset featuring high-quality rendered depth maps obtained from RGB-D reconstructions.

    26
  • Adversarial Domain Feature Adaptation for Bronchoscopic Depth Estimation

    Mert Asim Karaoglu, Nikolas Brasch, Marijn Stollenga, Wolfgang Wein, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari, Alexander Ladikos

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2021

    This work proposes an alternative domain-adaptive approach to depth estimation from monocular images that improves the network's performance on real images by a considerable margin and can be employed in 3D reconstruction pipelines.

    26
  • Sensor substitution for video-based action recognition

    Christian Rupprecht, Colin Lea, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab, Gregory D. Hager

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2016

    26
  • Go with the Flows: Mixtures of Normalizing Flows for Point Cloud Generation and Reconstruction

    Janis Postels, Mengya Liu, Riccardo Spezialetti, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2021

    This work generalizes prior work by introducing additional discrete latent variable in mixture model, and demonstrates that by adding data augmentation, individual mixture components can learn to specialize in a semantically meaningful manner.

    25
  • GFrames: Gradient-Based Local Reference Frame for 3D Shape Matching

    Simone Melzi, Riccardo Spezialetti, Federico Tombari, Michael M. Bronstein, Luigi Di Stefano, Emanuele Rodolà

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2019

    25
  • Active Data Curation Effectively Distills Large-Scale Multimodal Models

    Vishaal Udandarao, Nikhil Parthasarathy, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Talfan Evans, Samuel Albanie, Federico Tombari, Yongqin Xian, Alessio Tonioni, +1 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    This work explores an alternative, yet simple approach—active data curation as effective distillation for contrastive multimodal pretraining, and finds such an active curation strategy to in fact be complementary to standard KD.

    24
  • Epipolar Geometry Improves Video Generation Models

    Orest Kupyn, Uscidda, Théo, Gazulla, Marta Tintore, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Christian Rupprecht

    arXiv · 2025

    This work aligns diffusion models using pairwise epipolar geometry constraints using pairwise epipolar geometry constraints via preference-based optimization, directly addressing unstable trajectories and geometric artifacts through mathematically principled geometric enforcement.

    24
  • Recurrent Models for Lane Change Prediction and Situation Assessment

    Oliver Scheel, Naveen Shankar Nagaraja, Loren Schwarz, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems · 2022

    24
  • On the Affinity between 3D Detectors and Descriptors

    Samuele Salti, Alioscia Petrelli, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    2012 Second International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization & Transmission · 2012

    24
  • Evaluation of stereo algorithms for 3D object recognition

    Federico Tombari, Fabio Gori

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops · 2011

    24
  • Binary DAD-Net: Binarized Driveable Area Detection Network for Autonomous Driving

    Alexander Frickenstein, Manoj Rohit Vemparala, Jakob Mayr, Naveen Shankar Nagaraja, Christian Unger, Federico Tombari, Walter Stechele

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2020

    A novel binarized driveable area detection network (binary DAD-Net), which uses only binary weights and activations in the encoder, the bottleneck, and the decoder part, which outperforms state-of-the-art semantic segmentation networks on public datasets.

    22
  • Self-Supervised Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation With Optical Flow Consistency

    Michela Zaccaria, Fabian Manhardt, Yan Di, Federico Tombari, Jacopo Aleotti, Mikhail Giorgini

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2023

    21
  • Graphite: Graph-Induced Feature Extraction for Point Cloud Registration

    Mahdi Saleh, Shervin Dehghani, Benjamin Busam, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2020

    This work Reformulate the 3D keypoint pipeline with graph neural networks which allow efficient processing of the point set while boosting its descriptive power which ultimately results in more accurate 3D registrations.

    21
  • Self-Supervised Learning of the Drivable Area for Autonomous Vehicles

    Jakob Mayr, Christian Unger, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2018

    21
  • Stereo for robots: Quantitative evaluation of efficient and low-memory dense stereo algorithms

    Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi Di Stefano

    International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV) · 2010

    21
  • UNOPose: Unseen Object Pose Estimation with an Unposed RGB-D Reference Image

    Xingyu Liu, Gu Wang, Ruida Zhang, Chenyangguang Zhang, Federico Tombari, Xiangyang Ji

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    Evaluated on the proposed benchmark based on the BOP Challenge, UNOPose demonstrates superior performance, significantly outperforming traditional and learning-based methods in the one-reference setting and remaining competitive with CAD-model-based methods.

    20
  • P2P-Bridge: Diffusion Bridges for 3D Point Cloud Denoising

    Mathias Vogel, Keisuke Tateno, Marc Pollefeys, Federico Tombari, Marie‐Julie Rakotosaona, Francis Engelmann

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    20
  • 3D Compositional Zero-Shot Learning with DeCompositional Consensus

    Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Evin Pınar Örnek, Yongqin Xian, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    This work presents 3D Compositional Zero-shot Learning as a problem of part generalization from seen to unseen object classes for semantic segmentation, and proposes DeCompositional Consensus, which combines a part segmentation network with a part scoring network.

    20
  • Automatic detection of pole-like structures in 3D urban environments

    Federico Tombari, Nicola Fioraio, Tommaso Cavallari, Samuele Salti, Alioscia Petrelli, Luigi Di Stefano

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2014

    20
  • Robust and accurate change detection under sudden illumination variations

    Luigi Di Stefano, Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia, Edoardo Lisi

    Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) · 2007

    20
  • Denoising Diffusion via Image-Based Rendering

    Titas Anciukevicius, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Henderson, Paul

    ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) · 2024

    This work introduces the first diffusion model able to perform fast, detailed reconstruction and generation of real-world 3D scenes, and introduces a new neural scene representation, IB-planes, that can efficiently and accurately represent large 3D scenes, dynamically allocating more capacity as needed to capture details visible in each image.

    19
  • SILC: Improving Vision Language Pretraining with Self-distillation

    Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Yongqin Xian, Xiaohua Zhai, Lukas Hoyer, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    19
  • U-RED: Unsupervised 3D Shape Retrieval and Deformation for Partial Point Clouds

    Yan Di, Chenyangguang Zhang, Ruida Zhang, Fabian Manhardt, Yongzhi Su, Jason Raphael Rambach, Didier Stricker, Xiangyang Ji, +1 more

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2023

    19
  • Lidar Upsampling With Sliced Wasserstein Distance

    Artem Savkin, Yida Wang, Sebastian Wirkert, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2022

    A method is proposed for lidar point cloud upsampling which can reconstruct fine-grained lidar scan patterns and utilize edge-aware dense convolutions for both feature extraction and feature expansion.

    19
  • Joint detection and tracking in videos with identification features

    Bharti Munjal, Abdul Rafey Aftab, Sikandar Amin, Meltem D. Brandlmaier, Federico Tombari, Fabio Galasso

    Image and Vision Computing · 2020

    This work proposes the first joint optimization of detection, tracking and re-identification features for videos at low frame-rate, and maintains the detector performance, a typical multi-task challenge.

    19
  • Dealing with Ambiguity in Robotic Grasping via Multiple Predictions

    Ghazal Ghazaei, Iro Laina, Christian Rupprecht, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab, Kianoush Nazarpour

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2019

    This work augments a fully convolutional neural network with a multiple hypothesis prediction model that predicts a set of grasp hypotheses in under 60ms, which is critical for real-time robotic applications.

    19
  • Hierarchical Multi-Organ Segmentation Without Registration in 3D Abdominal CT Images

    Vasileios Zografos, Alexander Valentinitsch, Markus Rempfler, Federico Tombari, Bjoern H. Menze

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    A novel framework for the segmentation of multiple organs in 3D abdominal CT images, which does not require registration with an atlas is presented, which uses discriminative classifiers that have been trained on an array of 3D volumetric features and implicitly model the appearance of the organs of interest.

    19
  • 3D Data Segmentation by Local Classification and Markov Random Fields

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    2011 International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission · 2011

    19
  • An Algorithm for Efficient and Exhaustive Template Matching

    Luigi Di Stefano, Stefano Mattoccia, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2004

    Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm for efficient and exhaustive template matching based on the Zero mean Normalized Cross Correlation function is effective in speeding up the standard procedure and that the behavior follows that obtained by the BPC technique in the NCC case.

    19
  • 4D Gaussian Splatting SLAM

    Yanyan Li, Youxu Fang, Zunjie Zhu, Kunyi Li, Yong Shan Ding, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025

    An efficient architecture that incrementally tracks camera poses and establishes the 4D Gaussian radiance fields in unknown scenarios by using a sequence of RGB-D images is proposed and achieves robust tracking and high-quality view synthesis performance in real-world environments.

    18
  • RelationField: Relate Anything in Radiance Fields

    Sebastian Koch, Johanna Wald, Mirco Colosi, Narunas Vaškevičius, Pedro Hermosilla, Federico Tombari, Timo Ropinski

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    RelationField is proposed, the first method to extract inter-object relationships directly from neural radiance fields, and represents relationships between objects as pairs of rays within a neural radiance field, effectively extending its formulation to include implicit relationship queries.

    18
  • BRAVE: Broadening the Visual Encoding of Vision-Language Models

    Oğuzhan Fatih Kar, Alessio Tonioni, Petra Poklukar, Achin Kulshrestha, Amir Zamir, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    18
  • Tracking-by-Detection of 3D Human Shapes: From Surfaces to Volumes

    Chun-Hao P. Huang, Benjamin Allain, Edmond Boyer, Jean-Sébastien Franco, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab, Slobodan Ilić

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2017

    18
  • Real-Time Online Adaption for Robust Instrument Tracking and Pose Estimation

    Nicola Rieke, David Joseph Tan, Federico Tombari, Josué Page Vizcaíno, Chiara Amat di San Filippo, Abouzar Eslami, Nassir Navab

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    A novel method for instrument tracking in Retinal Microsurgery which is apt to withstand the challenges of RM visual sequences in terms of varying illumination conditions and blur and is general enough to deal with different background and tool appearances.

    18
  • Graffiti Detection Using a Time-Of-Flight Camera

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano, Stefano Mattoccia, Andrea Zanetti

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2008

    Experimental results show promising capabilities of the proposed approach to video-based graffiti detection, with improvements expected as the technology gets more mature.

    18
  • A robust measure for visual correspondence

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano, Stefano Mattoccia

    International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing · 2007

    18
  • MOHO: Learning Single-View Hand-Held Object Reconstruction with Multi-View Occlusion-Aware Supervision

    Chenyangguang Zhang, Guanlong Jiao, Yan Di, Gu Wang, Ziqin Huang, Ruida Zhang, Fabian Manhardt, Bowen Fu, +2 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    A novel synthetic-to-real framework to exploit Multi-view Occlusion-aware supervision from hand-object videos for Hand-held Object reconstruction (MOHO) from a single image, tackling two predominant challenges in such setting: hand-induced occlusion and object's self-occlusion.

    17
  • Unsupervised Traffic Scene Generation with Synthetic 3D Scene Graphs

    Artem Savkin, Rachid Ellouze, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2021

    This work proposes a method based on domain-invariant scene representation to directly synthesize traffic scene imagery without rendering and introduces an unsupervised neural network architecture for realistic traffic scene synthesis.

    17
  • SRH-Net: Stacked Recurrent Hourglass Network for Stereo Matching

    Hongzhi Du, Yanyan Li, Yanbiao Sun, Jigui Zhu, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2021

    This paper decouple the 4D cubic cost volume used by 3D convolutional filters into sequential cost maps along the direction of disparity instead of dealing with it at once by exploiting a recurrent cost aggregation strategy.

    17
  • Lightweight Semantic Mesh Mapping for Autonomous Vehicles

    Markus Herb, Tobias Weiherer, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2021

    17
  • Robust Segmentation of Various Anatomies in 3D Ultrasound Using Hough Forests and Learned Data Representations

    Fausto Milletarì, Seyed‐Ahmad Ahmadi, Christine Kroll, Christoph Hennersperger, Federico Tombari, Amit M. Shah, Annika Plate, Kai Boetzel, +1 more

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2015

    This work proposes a highly adaptive learning-based method for fully automatic segmentation of ultrasound volumes that can robustly and automatically adapt to different anatomies yet enforcing appearance and shape constraints.

    17
  • Markerless Augmented Reality Using Image Mosaics

    Pietro Azzari, Luigi Di Stefano, Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2008

    This work proposes a practical approach that is suitable for environment where big planar structures are present and all the objects laying on the structure are composed into a large reference object using image mosaicing techniques, so that the problem is reduced to that of finding the pose from a single plane.

    17
  • InseRF: Text-Driven Generative Object Insertion in Neural 3D Scenes

    Mohamad Shahbazi, Liesbeth Claessens, Michael Niemeyer, Edo Collins, Alessio Tonioni, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2024

    This study introduces InseRF, a novel method for generative object insertion in the NeRF reconstructions of 3D scenes based on a user-provided textual description and a 2D bounding box in a reference viewpoint, which is capable of controllable and 3D-consistent object insertion without requiring explicit 3D information as input.

    16
  • TokenFormer: Rethinking Transformer Scaling with Tokenized Model Parameters

    Haiyang Wang, Yue Fan, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Yongqin Xian, Jan Eric Lenssen, Liwei Wang, Federico Tombari, Bernt Schiele

    arXiv · 2024

    TokenFormer is introduced, a natively scalable architecture that leverages the attention mechanism not only for computations among input tokens but also for interactions between tokens and model parameters, thereby enhancing architectural flexibility.

    16
  • LOLA v1.1 – An Upgrade in Hardware and Software Design for Dynamic Multi-Contact Locomotion

    Philipp Seiwald, Shun-Cheng Wu, Felix Sygulla, Tobias F. C. Berninger, Nora-Sophie Staufenberg, Moritz F. Sattler, Nicolas Neuburger, Daniel Jean Rixen, +1 more

    IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) · 2021

    16
  • Multi-modal Video Surveillance Aided by Pyroelectric Infrared Sensors

    Michele Magno, Federico Tombari, Davide Brunelli, Luigi Di Stefano, L. Benini

    HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2008

    A multi-modal video sensor node designed for low-power and low-cost video surveillance able to detect changes in the environment and the on-board microprocessor implements an NCC-based change detection algorithm is presented.

    16
  • I2DFormer+: Learning Image to Document Summary Attention for Zero-Shot Image Classification

    Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Yongqin Xian, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2024

    This work proposes I2DFormer+, a novel transformer-based ZSL framework that jointly learn to encode images and documents by aligning both modalities in a shared embedding space and significantly outperforms previous unsupervised semantic embeddings under both zero-shot and generalized zero-shot learning settings on three public datasets.

    15
  • Know Your Neighbors: Improving Single-View Reconstruction via Spatial Vision-Language Reasoning

    Rui Li, Tobias Fischer, Mattia Segù, Marc Pollefeys, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    Kyn, a novel method for single-view scene reconstruction that reasons about semantic and spatial context to predict each point's density, is proposed and it is shown that KYN improves 3D shape recovery compared to predicting density for each 3D point in isolation.

    15
  • Dynamic Hyperbolic Attention Network for Fine Hand-object Reconstruction

    Zhiying Leng, Shun-Cheng Wu, Mahdi Saleh, Antonio Montanaro, Hao Yu, Yin Wang, Nassir Navab, Xiaohui Liang, +1 more

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2023

    This work proposes the first precise hand-object reconstruction method in hyperbolic space, namely Dynamic Hyperbolic Attention Network (DHANet), which leverages intrinsic properties of hyperbolic space to learn representative features.

    15
  • SupeRGB-D: Zero-Shot Instance Segmentation in Cluttered Indoor Environments

    Evin Pınar Örnek, Aravindhan K Krishnan, Shreekant Gayaka, Cheng-Hao Kuo, Arnie Sen, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2023

    This work explores zero-shot instance segmentation (ZSIS) from RGB-D data to identify unseen objects in a semantic category-agnostic manner and presents a method that uses annotated objects to learn the “objectness” of pixels and generalize to unseen object categories in cluttered indoor environments.

    15
  • PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ROBUST MATCHING MEASURES

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano, Stefano Mattoccia, Angelo Galanti

    International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications · 2008

    15
  • HyperSDFusion: Bridging Hierarchical Structures in Language and Geometry for Enhanced 3D Text2Shape Generation

    Zhiying Leng, Tolga Birdal, Xiaohui Liang, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    This work proposes HyperSD-Fusion, a dual-branch diffusion model that generates 3D shapes from a given text using a hyperbolic hierarchical representation, and is the first to explore the hyperbolic hierarchical representation for text-to-shape generation.

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  • Zero123-6D: Zero-shot Novel View Synthesis for RGB Category-level 6D Pose Estimation

    Francesco Di Felice, Alberto Remus, Stefano Gasperini, Benjamin Busam, Lionel Ott, Federico Tombari, Roland Siegwart, Carlo Alberto Avizzano

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2024

    This work presents Zero123-6D, the first work to demonstrate the utility of Diffusion Model-based novel-view-synthesizers in enhancing RGB 6D pose estimation at category-level, by integrating them with feature extraction techniques.

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  • Physics-Encoded Graph Neural Networks for Deformation Prediction under Contact

    Mahdi Saleh, Michael Sommersperger, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2024

    This work focuses on modeling the dynamics between a rigid mesh contacting a deformable mesh under external forces under external forces, and jointly learning geometry and physics reconstructs consistent and detailed deformations.

    14
  • CCD-3DR: Consistent Conditioning in Diffusion for Single-Image 3D Reconstruction

    Yan Di, Chenyangguang Zhang, Pengyuan Wang, Zhai, Guangyao, Ruida Zhang, Fabian Manhardt, Benjamin Busam, Xiangyang Ji, +1 more

    arXiv · 2023

    CCD-3DR is presented, which exploits a novel centered diffusion probabilistic model for consistent local feature conditioning and outperforms all competitors by a large margin on synthetic benchmark ShapeNet-R2N2.

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  • Towards Long-Term Retrieval-Based Visual Localization in Indoor Environments With Changes

    Julia Kabalar, Shun-Cheng Wu, Johanna Wald, Keisuke Tateno, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2023

    14
  • RobotFusion: Grasping with a Robotic Manipulator via Multi-view Reconstruction

    Daniele De Gregorio, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    An efficient approach to segment the sought objects out of a planar workbench as well as a novel algorithm to automatically estimate grasping points are proposed for 3D object reconstruction and grasping based on an articulated robotic manipulator.

    14
  • Online learning for automatic segmentation of 3D data

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano, Simone Giardino

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2011

    14
  • Speeding-up NCC-Based Template Matching Using Parallel Multimedia Instructions

    Luigi Di Stefano, Stefano Mattoccia, Federico Tombari

    Seventh International Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception (CAMP'05) · 2006

    14
  • Gaussians-to-Life: Text-Driven Animation of 3D Gaussian Splatting Scenes

    Thomas Wimmer, Michael Oechsle, Michael Niemeyer, Federico Tombari

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2025

    Gaussians2Life, a method for animating parts of high-quality 3D scenes in a Gaussian Splatting representation, enables the creation of consistent, immersive 3D experiences for arbitrary scenes and enables the animation of a large variety of object classes.

    13
  • DB-GAN: Boosting Object Recognition Under Strong Lighting Conditions

    Luca Minciullo, Fabian Manhardt, Kei Yoshikawa, Sven Meier, Federico Tombari, Norimasa Kobori

    IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision · 2021

    13
  • Feature-based automatic 3D registration for cultural heritage applications

    Federico Tombari, Fabio Remondino

    Digital Heritage International Congress · 2013

    13
  • Gatekeeper: Improving Model Cascades Through Confidence Tuning

    Stephan Rabanser, Nathalie Rauschmayr, Achin Kulshrestha, Petra Poklukar, Wittawat Jitkrittum, Sean Augenstein, Congchao Wang, Federico Tombari

    neural information processing systems · 2025

    This work introduces a novel loss function called Gatekeeper for calibrating smaller models in cascade setups that fine-tunes the smaller model to confidently handle tasks it can perform correctly while deferring complex tasks to the larger model.

    12
  • Semantic Library Adaptation: LoRA Retrieval and Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Reza Qorbani, Gianluca Villani, Theodoros Panagiotakopoulos, Marc Botet Colomer, Linus Härenstam-Nielsen, Mattia Segù, Pier Luigi Dovesi, Jussi Karlgren, +3 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    This work introduces Semantic Library Adaptation (SemLA), a novel framework for training-free, test-time domain adaptation that leverages a library of LoRA-based adapters indexed with CLIP embeddings, dynamically merging the most relevant adapters based on proximity to the target domain in the embedding space.

    12
  • SceneGraphLoc: Cross-Modal Coarse Visual Localization on 3D Scene Graphs

    Yang Miao, Francis Engelmann, Olga Vysotska, Federico Tombari, Marc Pollefeys, Dániel Baráth

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    12
  • Segmenting Known Objects and Unseen Unknowns without Prior Knowledge

    Stefano Gasperini, Alvaro Marcos-Ramiro, Michael Schmidt, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2023

    For the first time in panoptic segmentation with unknown objects, the U3HS is trained without unknown categories, reducing assumptions and leaving the settings as unconstrained as in real-life scenarios.

    12
  • The Hidden Uncertainty in a Neural Networks Activations

    Janis Postels, Hermann Blum, Yannick Strümpler, César Cadena, Roland Siegwart, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2020

    12
  • Learning Descriptors With Cube Loss for View-Based 3-D Object Retrieval

    Dong Wang, Hongxun Yao, Federico Tombari, Sicheng Zhao, Bin Wang, Hong Liu

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 2019

    12
  • Variational Object-Aware 3-D Hand Pose From a Single RGB Image

    Yafei Gao, Yida Wang, Pietro Falco, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2019

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  • GPU-SHOT: Parallel Optimization for Real-Time 3D Local Description

    Daniele Palossi, Federico Tombari, Samuele Salti, Martino Ruggiero, Luigi Di Stefano, L. Benini

    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) · 2013

    12
  • A 3D reconstruction system based on improved spacetime stereo

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano, Stefano Mattoccia, Andrea Mainetti

    International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV) · 2010

    12
  • Unsupervised Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image

    Pierluigi Zama Ramirez, Diego Martìn Arroyo, Alessio Tonioni, Federico Tombari

    SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021

    This work pre-train a purely generative decoder model using a GAN formulation while at the same time training an encoder network to invert the mapping from latent code to images and shows that the framework achieves results comparable to the state of the art on ShapeNet.

    11
  • Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Surgical Instrument Tracking

    Nicola Rieke, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    Elsevier eBooks · 2018

    This chapter outlines how computer vision can support the surgeon during an intervention via the example of surgical instrument tracking in retinal microsurgery, and shows how to derive algorithms for simultaneous tool tracking and pose estimation based on random forests.

    11
  • M2SVid: End-to-End Inpainting and Refinement for Monocular-to-Stereo Video Conversion

    Nina Shvetsova, Goutam Bhat, Prune Truong, Hilde Kuehne, Federico Tombari

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2026

    The Stable Video Diffusion model is extended to utilize the input left video, the warped right video, and the disocclusion masks as conditioning input to generate a high-quality right camera view and modify the attention layers in SVD to compute full attention for discoccluded pixels.

    10
  • Contrastive Test-Time Composition of Multiple LoRA Models for Image Generation

    Tuna Han Salih Meral, Enis Simsar, Federico Tombari, Pinar Yanardag

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025

    CLoRA is introduced, a training-free approach that addresses limitations in multi-concept image generation using LoRA models by updating the attention maps of multiple LoRA models at test-time, and leveraging the attention maps to create semantic masks for fusing latent representations.

    10
  • Text-to-3D by Stitching a Multi-view Reconstruction Network to a Video Generator

    Hyojun Go, Dominik Narnhofer, Goutam Bhat, Prune Truong, Federico Tombari, Konrad Schindler

    arXiv · 2025

    This work introduces VIST3A, a general framework that enables high-quality text-to-3D generation and adapts direct reward finetuning, a popular technique for human preference alignment, to adapt direct reward finetuning, a popular technique for human preference alignment.

    10
  • KP-RED: Exploiting Semantic Keypoints for Joint 3D Shape Retrieval and Deformation

    Ruida Zhang, Chenyangguang Zhang, Di Yan, Fabian Manhardt, Xingyu Liu, Federico Tombari, Xiangyang Ji

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    KP-RED is presented, a unified KeyPoint-driven REtrieval and Deformation framework that takes object scans as input and jointly retrieves and deforms the most geometrically similar CAD models from a pre-processed database to tightly match the target.

    10
  • Time-to-Label: Temporal Consistency for Self-Supervised Monocular 3D Object Detection

    Issa Mouawad, Nikolas Brasch, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Francesca Odone

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2022

    This work argues that the temporal consistency on the level of object poses, provides an important supervision signal given the strong prior on physical motion and proposes a self-supervised loss which uses this consistency, in addition to render-and-compare losses defined on lidar point clouds, to refine noisy pose predictions and derive high-quality pseudo labels.

    10
  • Graffiti Detection Using Two Views

    Luigi Di Stefano, Federico Tombari, Alessandro Lanza, Stefano Mattoccia, Stefano Monti

    HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2008

    A novel video surveillance approach designed to detect vandal acts occurring on the background of the monitored scene, such as graffiti painting on walls and surfaces, public and private property defacing or etching, unauthorized post sticking is presented.

    10
  • Prior2former - Evidential Modeling of Mask Transformers for Assumption-Free Open-World Panoptic Segmentation

    Sebastian Schmidt, Julius Körner, Dominik Fuchsgruber, Stefano Gasperini, Federico Tombari, Stephan Günnemann

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025

    This work proposes Prior2Former (P2F), the first approach for segmentation vision transformers rooted in evidential learning that enables high-quality uncertainty estimation that effectively detects novel and OOD objects, enabling state-of-the-art anomaly instance segmentation and open-world panoptic segmentation.

    9
  • UniSDF: Unifying Neural Representations for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction of Complex Scenes with Reflections

    Fangjinhua Wang, Marie‐Julie Rakotosaona, Michael Niemeyer, Richard Szeliski, Marc Pollefeys, Federico Tombari

    neural information processing systems · 2024

    9
  • LatentSwap3D: Semantic Edits on 3D Image GANs

    Enis Simsar, Alessio Tonioni, Evin Pınar Örnek, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW) · 2023

    This work proposes LatentSwap3D, a semantic edit approach based on latent space discovery that can be used with any off-the-shelf 3D or 2D GAN model and on any dataset and outperforms others both qualitatively and quantitatively.

    9
  • 3D Adversarial Augmentations for Robust Out-of-Domain Predictions

    Alexander Lehner, Stefano Gasperini, Alvaro Marcos-Ramiro, Michael Schmidt, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam, Federico Tombari

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2023

    This work improves the robustness and generalization of both 3D object detection and 3D semantic segmentation methods to out-of-domain data by augmenting the training set with adversarial examples.

    9
  • A Combined Generalized and Subject-Specific 3D Head Pose Estimation

    David Joseph Tan, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2015

    9
  • Efficient and optimal block matching for motion estimation

    Stefano Mattoccia, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano, Marco Pignoloni

    International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing · 2007

    9
  • 3D Scene Graphs: Open Challenges and Future Directions

    Dennis Rotondi, Francesco Argenziano, Sebastian Koch, Nathan Hughes, Martin Büchner, Johanna Wald, Lukas Rosenberger Schmid, Daniele Nardi, +5 more

    arXiv · 2026

    This survey provides a unified and critical review of 3DSGs, with particular emphasis on open challenges and future directions, and formalize 3DSGs under a common definition and analyze the principal modeling choices that characterize existing formulations, including node and edge attributes, hierarchical structure, dynamic scene representations, and affordance-aware extensions.

    8
  • GALA: Guided Attention with Language Alignment for Open Vocabulary Gaussian Splatting

    Elena Alegret, Kunyi Li, Sen Wang, Siyun Liang, Michael Niemeyer, Stefano Gasperini, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2026

    This paper presents GALA, a novel framework for open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), and introduces a core contribution of GALA, a cross-attention module with two learnable codebooks that encode view-independent semantic embeddings.

    8
  • PointDiT: Pixel-Space Diffusion for Monocular Geometry Estimation

    Haofei Xu, Rundi Wu, Philipp Henzler, Nikolai Kalischek, Michael Oechsle, Fabian Manhardt, Marc Pollefeys, Andreas Geiger, +2 more

    arXiv · 2026

    This work introduces a minimalist pixel-space Diffusion Transformer, built on a plain ViT, that operates directly on raw 3D point map patches and is conditioned on image tokens from a pre-trained DINOv3.

    8
  • Test-Time Visual In-Context Tuning

    Jiahao Xie, Alessio Tonioni, Nathalie Rauschmayr, Federico Tombari, Bernt Schiele

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    This work proposes test-time Visual In-Context Tuning (VICT), a method that can adapt VICL models on the fly with a single test sample and flips the role between the task prompts and the test sample and uses a cycle consistency loss to reconstruct the original task prompt output.

    8
  • Unified Semantic Transformer for 3D Scene Understanding

    Sebastian Koch, Johanna Wald, Matsuki, Hidenobu, Pedro Hermosilla, Timo Ropinski, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2025

    This work introduces UNITE, a Unified Semantic Transformer for 3D scene understanding, a novel feed-forward neural network that unifies a diverse set of 3D dense semantic indoor tasks within a single model.

    8
  • Towards Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation

    Bin Yan, Martin Sundermeyer, David Joseph Tan, Huchuan Lu, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) · 2025

    This paper analyzes the computational bottlenecks of state-of-the-art foundation models that performs OV- VIS, and proposes a new method, TROY-VIS, that significantly improves processing speed while maintaining high accuracy, and achieves the best tradeoff between accuracy and speed.

    8
  • InstantPose: Zero-Shot Instance-Level 6D Pose Estimation From a Single View

    Francesco Di Felice, Alberto Remus, Stefano Gasperini, Benjamin Busam, Lionel Ott, Stefan Thalhammer, Federico Tombari, Carlo Alberto Avizzano

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2025

    8
  • LaRI: Layered Ray Intersections for Single-view 3D Geometric Reasoning

    Rui Li, Biao Zhang, Zhenyu Li, Federico Tombari, Peter Wonka

    arXiv · 2025

    An annotation pipeline using rendering engines, construct annotations for five public datasets, including synthetic and real-world data covering 3D objects and scenes, and proposes to predict the ray stopping index, which identifies valid intersecting pixels and layers from LaRI's output.

    8
  • Extracting Training Data from Document-Based VQA Models

    Francesco Pinto, Nathalie Rauschmayr, Florian Tramèr, Philip H. S. Torr, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2024

    This work shows Vision-Language Models can memorize responses for training samples and regurgitate them even when the relevant visual information has been removed, indicating these models could divulge memorised sensitive information and therefore pose a privacy risk.

    8
  • DDF-HO: Hand-Held Object Reconstruction via Conditional Directed Distance Field

    Chenyangguang Zhang, Yan Di, Ruida Zhang, Guangyao Zhai, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Xiangyang Ji

    neural information processing systems · 2023

    8
  • CloudAttention: Efficient Multi-Scale Attention Scheme For 3D Point Cloud Learning

    Mahdi Saleh, Yige Wang, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2022

    This work redesigns set transformers into a hierarchical framework for shape classification and part and scene segmentation and proposes a local attention unit, which captures features in a spatial neighborhood, in order to mitigate the non-heterogeneity of point clouds.

    8
  • 3DPointCaps++: Learning 3D Representations with Capsule Networks

    Yongheng Zhao, Guangchi Fang, Yulan Guo, Leonidas J. Guibas, Federico Tombari, Tolga Birdal

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2022

    3DPointCaps++ is presented for learning robust, flexible and generalizable 3D object representations without requiring heavy annotation efforts or supervision and introduces a cluster loss ensuring that the points reconstructed by a single capsule remain local and do not spread across the object uncontrollably.

    8
  • Content Disentanglement for Semantically Consistent Synthetic-to-Real Domain Adaptation

    Mert Keser, Artem Savkin, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2021

    This work proposes a novel, unsupervised, end-to-end domain adaptation network architecture that enables semantically consistent sim2real image transfer and performs content disentanglement by employing shared content encoder and fixed style code.

    8
  • Joint motion boundary detection and CNN-based feature visualization for video object segmentation

    Zahra Kamranian, Ahmad Reza Naghsh Nilchi, Hamid Sadeghian, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    Neural Computing and Applications · 2019

    A video object segmentation method which jointly uses motion boundary and convolutional neural network (CNN)-based class-level maps to carry out the co-segmentation of the frames to create initial object and background regions.

    8
  • Large scale and long standing simultaneous reconstruction and segmentation

    Keisuke Tateno, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    Computer Vision and Image Understanding · 2016

    This work proposes a method to segment a 3D point cloud of a scene while simultaneously reconstructing it via Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) and incrementally merges segments obtained from each input depth image in an unified global model leveraging the camera pose estimated via SLAM.

    8
  • Semantic parametric body shape estimation from noisy depth sequences

    Alexandru-Eugen Ichim, Federico Tombari

    Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2015

    An original approach for fitting a pre-defined parametric shape model to depth data by exploiting the 3D body pose tracked through a sequence of range maps acquired from off-the-shelf depth cameras.

    8
  • Deep convolutional neural networks for automatic identification of epileptic seizures in infrared and depth images

    Felix Achilles, Vasileios Belagiannis, Federico Tombari, Anna Mira Loesch, João Paulo Silva Cunha, Nassir Navab, Soheyl Noachtar

    Journal of the Neurological Sciences · 2015

    8
  • Robust and efficient background subtraction by quadratic polynomial fitting

    Alessandro Lanza, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing · 2010

    8
  • View-to-label: Multi-view consistency for self-supervised monocular 3D object detection

    Issa Mouawad, Nikolas Brasch, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Francesca Odone

    Computer Vision and Image Understanding · 2025

    7
  • LiLoc: Lifelong Localization Using Adaptive Submap Joining and Egocentric Factor Graph

    Yixin Fang, Yanyan Li, Kun Qian, Federico Tombari, Yue Wang, Gim Hee Lee

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2025

    7
  • Text-Conditioned Resampler For Long Form Video Understanding

    Bruno Korbar, Yongqin Xian, Alessio Tonioni, Andrew Zisserman, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    7
  • Adversarial Appearance Learning in Augmented Cityscapes for Pedestrian Recognition in Autonomous Driving

    Artem Savkin, Thomas Lapotre, Kevin Strauss, Uzair Akbar, Federico Tombari

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2020

    This paper provides a pipeline for augmentation of the Cityscapes dataset with virtual pedestrians and reveals a novel generative network architecture for adversarial learning of the data-set lighting conditions.

    7
  • An Octree-Based Approach towards Efficient Variational Range Data Fusion

    Wadim Kehl, Tobias Holl, Federico Tombari, Slobodan Ilić, Nassir Navab

    British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) · 2016

    This work presents an efficient way to fuse range data via a variational Octree-based minimization approach by taking the actual range data geometry into account, and explains how to dynamically adjust the optimizer's geometric structure via joining/splitting of Octree nodes.

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  • [POSTER] Augmenting Mobile C-arm Fluoroscopes via Stereo-RGBD Sensors for Multimodal Visualization

    Séverine Habert, Meng Ma, Wadim Kehl, Xiang Wang, Federico Tombari, Pascal Fallavollita, Nassir Navab

    IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) · 2015

    7
  • Accurate and Efficient Background Subtraction by Monotonic Second-Degree Polynomial Fitting

    Alessandro Lanza, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) · 2010

    7
  • Non-linear parametric Bayesian regression for robust background subtraction

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano, Alessandro Lanza, Stefano Mattoccia

    2009 Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC) · 2009

    7
  • OracleGS: Grounding Generative Priors for Sparse-View Gaussian Splatting

    Atakan Topaloglu, Kunyi Li, Michael Niemeyer, Nassir Navab, Ahmet Murat Tekalp, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) · 2026

    This work proposes OracleGS, a novel framework that reconciles generative completeness with regressive fidelity for sparse view Gaussian Splatting, and conditions the powerful generative prior on multi-view geometric evidence on multi-view geometric evidence.

    6
  • RaNeuS: Ray-adaptive Neural Surface Reconstruction

    Yida Wang, David Joseph Tan, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2024

    The proposed RaNeuS1 proposes to adaptively adjust the regularization on the signed distance field so that unsatisfying rendering rays won’t enforce strong Eikonal regularization which is ineffective, and allow the gradients from regions with well-learned radiance to effectively back-propagated to the SDF.

    6
  • D-SCo: Dual-Stream Conditional Diffusion for Monocular Hand-Held Object Reconstruction

    Bowen Fu, Gu Wang, Chenyangguang Zhang, Yan Di, Ziqin Huang, Zhiying Leng, Fabian Manhardt, Xiangyang Ji, +1 more

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    This work introduces centroid-fixed dual-stream conditional diffusion for monocular hand-held object reconstruction (D-SCo), tackling two predominant challenges and introduces a dual-stream denoiser to semantically and geometrically model hand-object interactions with a novel unified hand-object semantic embedding.

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  • SST: Real-time End-to-end Monocular 3D Reconstruction via Sparse Spatial-Temporal Guidance

    Chenyangguang Zhang, Zhiqiang Lou, Yan Di, Federico Tombari, Xiangyang Ji

    IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · 2023

    An end-to-end 3D reconstruction network SST is proposed, which utilizes Sparse estimated points from visual SLAM system as additional Spatial guidance and fuses Temporal features via a cross-modal attention mechanism, achieving more detailed reconstruction results.

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  • ManiFlow: Implicitly Representing Manifolds with Normalizing Flows

    Janis Postels, Martin Danelljan, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2022

    This work establishes that NFs trained on perturbed data implicitly represent the manifold in regions of maximum likelihood, and proposes an optimization objective that recovers the most likely point on the manifold given a sample from the perturbed distribution.

    6
  • I2DFormer: Learning Image to Document Attention for Zero-Shot Image Classification

    Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Yongqin Xian, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    neural information processing systems · 2022

    6
  • On the Practicality of Deterministic Epistemic Uncertainty

    Janis Postels, Mattia Segù, Tao Sun, Sieber, Luca Daniel, Luc Van Gool, Fisher Yu, Federico Tombari

    Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 2021

    6
  • A Divide et Impera Approach for 3D Shape Reconstruction from Multiple Views

    Riccardo Spezialetti, David Joseph Tan, Alessio Tonioni, Keisuke Tateno, Federico Tombari

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2020

    This paper proposes to rely on viewpoint variant reconstructions by merging the visible information from the given views by estimating the relative pose between all the pairs of the object and builds a clean 3D model which preserves the details from each viewpoint.

    6
  • Learning without prejudice: Avoiding bias in webly-supervised action recognition

    Christian Rupprecht, Ansh Kapil, Nan Liu, Lamberto Ballan, Federico Tombari

    Computer Vision and Image Understanding · 2017

    This work trains two independent CNNs, a RGB network on web images and video frames and a second network using temporal information from optical flow and demonstrates that training the networks independently is vastly superior to selecting the frames for the flow classifier by using the authors' RGB network.

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  • Toward Compressed 3D Descriptors

    Filippo Malaguti, Federico Tombari, Samuele Salti, Danilo Pietro Pau, Luigi Di Stefano

    2012 Second International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization & Transmission · 2012

    6
  • A PRACTICAL STEREO SYSTEM BASED ON REGULARIZATION AND TEXTURE PROJECTION

    Federico Tombari, Kurt Konolige

    International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) · 2009

    It is shown that in scenes with moving objects spatial regularization methods are more accurate than spacetime stereo, while remaining computationally simpler, and an extension of regularization-based algorithms to the temporal domain is proposed, to further improve the performance ofregularization methods within dynamic scenes.

    6
  • Template Matching Based on the L_p Norm Using Sufficient Conditions with Incremental Approximations

    Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi Di Stefano

    2006 IEEE International Conference on Video and Signal Based Surveillance · 2006

    6
  • OVI-MAP:Open-Vocabulary Instance-Semantic Mapping

    Zilong Deng, Federico Tombari, Marc Pollefeys, Johanna Wald, Dániel Baráth

    arXiv · 2026

    This work proposes to build a class-agnostic 3D instance map that is incrementally constructed from RGB-D input, while semantic features are extracted only from a small set of automatically selected views using vision-language models.

    5
  • SmileSplat: Generalizable Gaussian Splats for Unconstrained Sparse Images

    Yanyan Li, Yixin Fang, Federico Tombari, Gim Hee Lee

    arXiv · 2024

    A novel generalizable Gaussian Splatting method is proposed to reconstruct pixel-aligned Gaussian surfels for diverse scenarios only requiring unconstrained sparse multi-view images, and achieves state-of-the-art performance in various 3D vision tasks.

    5
  • Toward a Diffusion-Based Generalist for Dense Vision Tasks

    Yue Bo Fan, Yongqin Xian, Xiaohua Zhai, Kolesnikov, Alexander, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Bernt Schiele, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2024

    This paper proposes to perform diffusion in pixel space and provide a recipe for finetuning pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models for dense vision tasks and shows competitive performance to the other vision generalists.

    5
  • Open-Structure: Structural Benchmark Dataset for SLAM Algorithms

    Yanyan Li, Zhao Zhuang Guo, Ze Hong Yang, Yanbiao Sun, Liang Zhao, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2024

    A baseline is proposed using the Open-Structure dataset to evaluate widely used modules, including camera pose tracking, parametrization, and factor graph optimization, within SLAM systems, to discern each module's strengths and weaknesses in the context of camera tracking and optimization processes.

    5
  • Human Pose Descriptions and Subject-Focused Attention for Improved Zero-Shot Transfer in Human-Centric Classification Tasks

    Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Federico Tombari, Luc Van Gool, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

    arXiv · 2024

    The proposed FocusCLIP, integrating subject-level guidance– a specialized mechanism for target-specific supervision–into the CLIP framework for improved zero-shot transfer on human-centric tasks, shows a 2.47% improvement over CLIP in zero-shot bird classification using the CUB dataset.

    5
  • OpenSUN3D: 1st Workshop Challenge on Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding

    Francis Engelmann, Ayça Takmaz, Jonas Schult, Elisabetta Fedele, Johanna Wald, Songyou Peng, Xi Wang, Or Litany, +20 more

    arXiv · 2024

    An overview of the challenge hosted at the OpenSUN3D Workshop on Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding is provided, the challenge dataset, the evaluation methodology, and brief descriptions of the winning methods are presented.

    5
  • GOCA: Guided Online Cluster Assignment for Self-supervised Video Representation Learning

    Huseyin Coskun, Alireza Zareian, Joshua L. Moore, Federico Tombari, Chen Wang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    5
  • SC-Explorer: Incremental 3D Scene Completion for Safe and Efficient Exploration Mapping and Planning

    Lukas Schmid, Mansoor Nasir Cheema, Victor Reijgwart, Roland Siegwart, Federico Tombari, César Cadena

    arXiv · 2022

    This work proposes a novel way to integrate deep learning into exploration by leveraging 3D scene completion by leveraging 3D scene completion for informed, safe, and interpretable exploration mapping and planning.

    5
  • E-Graph: Minimal Solution for Rigid Rotation with Extensibility Graphs

    Yanyan Li, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    5
  • Semantic Image Alignment for Vehicle Localization

    Markus Herb, Matthias Lemberger, Marcel M. Schmitt, Alexander Kurz, Tobias Weiherer, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2021

    This paper presents a novel approach to vehicle localization in dense semantic maps, including vectorized high-definition maps or 3D meshes, using semantic segmentation from a monocular camera, formulate the localization task as a direct image alignment problem on semantic images, which allows the approach to robustly track the vehicle pose in semantically labeled maps.

    5
  • BUILDING OUTLINE EXTRACTION FROM AERIAL IMAGES USING CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS

    F. Alidoost, Hossein Arefi, Federico Tombari

    ˜The œinternational archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences · 2019

    A Deep Learning (DL)-based approach is proposed to localize buildings, estimate the relative height information, and extract the buildings’ boundaries using a single aerial image and could be employed for real time applications.

    5
  • [POSTER] A Step Closer To Reality: Closed Loop Dynamic Registration Correction in SAR

    Hemal Naik, Federico Tombari, Christoph Resch, Peter Keitler, Nassir Navab

    IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) · 2015

    5
  • A Template Analysis Methodology to Improve the Efficiency of Fast Matching Algorithms

    Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi Di Stefano, Fabio Regoli, Riccardo Viti

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2009

    This paper outlines a methodology to order the succession of bounding functions deployed by this technique based on the analysis of the template only, and proves that the proposed approach is able to achieve improved efficiency.

    5
  • Hierarchical 3D Scene Graphs Construction Outdoors

    Jon Nyffeler, Federico Tombari, Dániel Baráth

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025

    4
  • ESCAPE: Equivariant Shape Completion via Anchor Point Encoding

    Burak Bekci, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari, Mahdi Saleh

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    ESAPE (Equivariant Shape Completion via Anchor Point Encoding), a novel framework designed to achieve rotation-equivariant shape completion, is introduced, which employs a distinctive encoding strategy by selecting anchor points from a shape and representing all points as a distance to all anchor points.

    4
  • CausNVS: Autoregressive Multi-view Diffusion for Flexible 3D Novel View Synthesis

    Kong, Xin, Daniel Watson, Yannick Strümpler, Michael Niemeyer, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2025

    The proposed CausNVS is a multi-view diffusion model in an autoregressive setting, which supports arbitrary input-output view configurations and generates views sequentially, and achieves consistently strong visual quality across diverse settings.

    4
  • Stylebreeder: Exploring and Democratizing Artistic Styles through Text-to-Image Models

    Matthew Zheng, Enis Simsar, Hidir Yesiltepe, Federico Tombari, Joel Simon, Pinar Yanardag

    neural information processing systems · 2024

    4
  • Unsupervised Template Warp Consistency for Implicit Surface Correspondences

    Mengya Liu, Ajad Chhatkuli, Janis Postels, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    Computer Graphics Forum · 2023

    This work investigates the inherent assumption that the implicit neural field optimization naturally leads to consistently warped shapes, thus providing both good shape reconstruction and correspondences and introduces explicit constraints using unsupervised sparse point predictions, directly encouraging consistency of the warped shapes.

    4
  • DisPositioNet: Disentangled Pose and Identity in Semantic Image Manipulation

    Azade Farshad, Yousef Yeganeh, Helisa Dhamo, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    arXiv · 2022

    This work proposes DisPositioNet, a model that learns a disentangled representation for each object for the task of image manipulation using scene graphs in a self-supervised manner and shows that disentangling the feature representations in the latent manifold of the model outperforms the previous works qualitatively and quantitatively.

    4
  • 3D Local Descriptors—from Handcrafted to Learned

    Riccardo Spezialetti, Samuele Salti, Luigi Di Stefano, Federico Tombari

    Springer eBooks · 2020

    This chapter provides a comprehensive review of the main proposals in the field of 3D feature description, based on different, handcrafted ways to encode and exploit the geometric properties of a given surface.

    4
  • Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue on RGB-D Vision: Methods and Applications

    Mohammed Bennamoun, Yulan Guo, Federico Tombari, Kamal Youcef‐Toumi, Ko Nishino

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2020

    This special issue focuses on Red Blue Green (RBG)-D vision, an emerging research topic in computer vision, with a number of applications in robotics, entertainment, biometrics and multimedia, to stimulate researchers from different fields to present their state-of-the-art work.

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  • Headlight Range Estimation for Autonomous Driving using Deep Neural Networks

    Jakob Mayr, Can Giracoglu, Christian Unger, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium · 2019

    4
  • Co-segmentation via visualization

    Zahra Kamranian, Federico Tombari, Ahmad Reza Naghsh Nilchi, Amirhassan Monadjemi, Nassir Navab

    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation · 2018

    Compared experiments conducted on two benchmark datasets, iCoseg and MSRC, illustrate the superior performance of the proposed approach over state-of-the-art algorithms.

    4
  • Repeatable Local Coordinate Frames for 3D Human Motion Tracking: From Rigid to Non-rigid

    Chun-Hao P. Huang, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2015

    4
  • SING3R-SLAM: Submap-Based Indoor Monocular Gaussian SLAM With 3D Reconstruction Priors

    Kunyi Li, Michael Niemeyer, Sen Wang, Stefano Gasperini, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2026

    This work proposes SING3R-SLAM, a globally consistent Gaussian-based monocular indoor SLAM framework that represents the scene with a Global Gaussian Map that serves as a persistent, differentiable memory, incorporates local geometric reconstruction via submap-level global alignment, and leverages consistency of the global map to further refine local geometry.

    3
  • RefAM: Attention Magnets for Zero-Shot Referral Segmentation

    Kukleva, Anna, Enis Simsar, Alessio Tonioni, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Federico Tombari, Jan Eric Lenssen, Bernt Schiele

    arXiv · 2025

    This work introduces a new method that directly exploits features from diffusion transformers for downstream tasks, requiring neither architectural modifications nor additional training, and develops RefAM, a simple training-free grounding framework that combines cross-attention maps, GAS handling, and redistribution.

    3
  • From open-vocabulary to vocabulary-free semantic segmentation

    Klara Reichard, Giulia Rizzoli, Stefano Gasperini, Lukas Hoyer, Pietro Zanuttigh, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    Pattern Recognition Letters · 2025

    3
  • Elastic3D: Controllable Stereo Video Conversion with Guided Latent Decoding

    Nando Metzger, Prune Truong, Goutam Bhat, Konrad Schindler, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2025

    Elastic3D, a controllable, direct end-to-end method for upgrading a conventional video to a binocular one, based on (conditional) latent diffusion, avoids artifacts due to explicit depth estimation and warping and sets a new standard for reliable, controllable stereo video conversion.

    3
  • Neural Semantic Map-Learning for Autonomous Vehicles

    Markus Herb, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2024

    This work presents a mapping system that fuses local submaps gathered from a fleet of vehicles at a central instance to produce a coherent map of the road environment including drivable area, lane markings, poles, obstacles and more as a 3D mesh.

    3
  • Object-Aware Monocular Depth Prediction With Instance Convolutions

    Enis Simsar, Evin Pınar Örnek, Fabian Manhardt, Helisa Dhamo, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2022

    This work proposes a novel convolutional operator which is explicitly tailored to avoid feature aggregation of different object parts, based on estimating per-part depth values by means of super-pixels, and demonstrates the advantages of Instance Convolutions over the classical convolution at estimating depth around occlusion boundaries.

    3
  • Sampling/Importance Resampling for Semantically Consistent Synthetic to Real Image Domain Adaptation in Urban Traffic Scenes

    Artem Savkin, Monika Kasperek, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium · 2019

    3
  • Universal Hough dictionaries for object tracking

    Fausto Milletarì, Wadim Kehl, Federico Tombari, Slobodan Ilić, Seyed‐Ahmad Ahmadi, Nassir Navab

    British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) · 2015

    This paper aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, as to provide real-time information about the physical properties of the central nervous system and its complications.

    3
  • Detecting motion by means of 2D and 3D information

    Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi Di Stefano, F. Tonelli

    2007

    Two change detection strategies based on two views which exploits 2D and 3D information in order to deal with typical change detection issues are proposed and compared.

    3
  • Stitched Value Model for Diffusion Alignment

    Hyojun Go, Hyungjin Chung, Prune Truong, Goutam Bhat, Li Mi, Zhaochong An, Zixiang Zhao, Dominik Narnhofer, +3 more

    arXiv · 2026

    This work proposes StitchVM, a model stitching framework that efficiently transfers reward models pretrained for clean images to the noisy latent regime, and shows that this approach yields improvements across a broad range of downstream steering and post-training methods.

    2
  • Future Dynamic 3D Reconstruction: Toward 3D World Modeling with Disentangled Ego-Motion

    Nils Morbitzer, Jonathan Evers, Artem Savkin, Thomas Stauner, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari, Stefano Gasperini

    arXiv · 2026

    FR3D is proposed, a world model that predicts a persistent 3D latent representation for future dynamic 3D reconstruction and introduces a teacher-student distillation strategy that leverages the spatial ”com-mon sense” of off-the-shelf foundation models, leading to robust zero-shot generalization.

    2
  • SSL-R1: Self-Supervised Visual Reinforcement Post-Training for Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jiahao Xie, Alessio Tonioni, Nathalie Rauschmayr, Federico Tombari, Bernt Schiele

    arXiv · 2026

    This work revisits self-supervised learning in visual domains and reformulates widely-used SSL tasks into a set of verifiable visual puzzles for RL post-training, requiring neither human nor external model supervision.

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  • DataComp-VLM: Improved Open Datasets for Vision-Language Models

    Matteo Farina, Vishaal Udandarao, Thao Nguyen, Selim Kuzucu, Maximilian Böther, Andreas Hochlehnert, Ghosh, Adhiraj, Marianna Nezhurina, +22 more

    arXiv · 2026

    It is found that data mixing, not filtering, is key to a high-quality training dataset: instruction-heavy mixtures scale better than caption-heavy ones, with gains widening at larger scales.

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  • MOBIUS: Big-to-Mobile Universal Instance Segmentation via Multi-modal Bottleneck Fusion and Calibrated Decoder Pruning

    Mattia Segù, Marta Tintore Gazulla, Yongqin Xian, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025

    MOBIUS establishes a new benchmark for efficient segmentation on both highperformance computing platforms and mobile devices, designed for Pareto-optimal downscaling to support deployment across devices ranging from high-end accelerators to mobile hardware.

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  • LODGE: Level-of-Detail Large-Scale Gaussian Splatting with Efficient Rendering

    Jonas Kulhanek, Marie‐Julie Rakotosaona, Fabian Manhardt, Christina Tsalicoglou, Michael Niemeyer, Torsten Sattler, Songyou Peng, Federico Tombari

    neural information processing systems · 2025

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  • Self-supervised Shape Completion via Involution and Implicit Correspondences

    Mengya Liu, Ajad Chhatkuli, Janis Postels, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    2
  • Multimodal Semantic Scene Graphs for Holistic Modeling of Surgical Procedures

    Ege Özsoy, Evin Pınar Örnek, Ulrich Eck, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    arXiv · 2021

    2
  • 3DSNet: Unsupervised Shape-to-Shape 3D Style Transfer

    Mattia Segù, Margarita Grinvald, Roland Siegwart, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2020

    2
  • Explicit Domain Adaptation With Loosely Coupled Samples

    Oliver Scheel, Loren Schwarz, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2020

    This work proposes a transfer learning framework, core of which is learning an explicit mapping between domains, beneficial for safety-critical applications, like autonomous driving.

    2
  • Grasp Type Estimation for Myoelectric Prostheses using Point Cloud Feature Learning

    Ghazal Ghazaei, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab, Kianoush Nazarpour

    arXiv · 2019

    2
  • Predicting Multiple Actions for Stochastic Continuous Control

    Sanjeev Kumar, Christian Rupprecht, Federico Tombari, Gregory D. Hager

    2018

    This work introduces a new approach to estimate continuous actions using actor-critic algorithms for reinforcement learning problems and predicts M actions with the policy network and then uniformly sample one action during training as well as testing at each state.

    2
  • Automatic Initialization and Failure Detection for Surgical Tool Tracking in Retinal Microsurgery

    Josué Page Vizcaíno, Nicola Rieke, David Joseph Tan, Federico Tombari, Abouzar Eslami, Nassir Navab

    Informatik aktuell · 2017

    An algorithm for robustly detecting the bounding box around the tool tip together with a failure detection of the tracking algorithm is proposed, transforming the user input dependent algorithm into a completely automatic framework without the need of an assistant.

    2
  • [POSTER] Mixed Reality Support for Orthopaedic Surgery

    Sing Chun Lee, Keisuke Tateno, Bernhard Fuerst, Federico Tombari, Javad Fotouhi, Greg Michael Osgood, Alex A. Johnson, Nassir Navab

    IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) · 2017

    2
  • Frustration Free Pose Computation For Spatial AR Devices in Industrial Scenario

    Hemal Naik, Mahmoud Bahaa, Federico Tombari, Peter Keitler, Nassir Navab

    IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) · 2016

    2
  • Shrec'16 Track: Retrieval of Human Subjects From Depth Sensor Data

    Andrea Giachetti, Francesco Fornasa, F. Parezzan, A. Saletti, L. Zambaldo, L. Zanini, Felix Achilles, Alexandru-Eugen Ichim, +3 more

    HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2016

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  • A Radial Search Method for Fast Nearest Neighbor Search on Range Images

    Federico Tombari, Samuele Salti, Luca Puglia, Giancarlo Raiconi, Luigi Di Stefano

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    When tested against open source implementations of state-of-the-art NNS algorithms, radial search obtains better performance than the other algorithms in terms of speedup, while yielding the same level of accuracy.

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  • Bounded Non-Local Means for Fast and Effective Image Denoising

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2015

    This paper proposes a method aimed at improving the computational efficiency of NLM by quick pre-selection of dissimilar patches thanks to a rapidly computable upper bound of the weighting function.

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  • The Maximal Self-dissimilarity Interest Point Detector

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications · 2015

    This work proposes a novel interest point detector stemming from the intuition that image patches which are highly dissimilar over a relatively large extent of their surroundings hold the property of being repeatable and distinctive, thereby achieving enhanced repeatability, distinctiveness and localization accuracy.

    2
  • Featurising Pixels from Dynamic 3D Scenes with Linear In-Context Learners

    Nikita Araslanov, Martin Sundermeyer, Hidenobu Matsuki, David Joseph Tan, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2026

    This work presents a framework that learns pixel-accurate feature descriptors from videos, LILA, which leverages spatio-temporal cue maps and trains effectively on uncurated video datasets, embedding semantic and geometric properties in a temporally consistent manner.

    1
  • FLAT: Feedforward Latent Triangle Splatting for Geometrically Accurate Scene Generation

    Orest Kupyn, Goutam Bhat, Philipp Henzler, Fabian Manhardt, Christian Rupprecht, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2026

    FLAT is introduced and, for the first time, it is shown that triangle splats can be decoded directly from video diffusion latents and converted into a fully opaque, game-engine-ready representation that supports real-time rendering.

    1
  • Good Token Hunting: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Token Selection for Visual Geometry Transformers

    Shuhong Zheng, Michael Oechsle, Erik Sandström, Marie‐Julie Rakotosaona, Federico Tombari, Igor Gilitschenski

    arXiv · 2026

    This work introduces a two-stage framework for effective token selection, and highlights the advantage of a diversity-based strategy for inter-frame selection, which ensures broad coverage of the scene and offers a superior speed-accuracy trade-off compared to existing solutions.

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  • RiemanLine: Riemannian Manifold Representation of 3D Lines for Factor Graph Optimization

    Yan Li, Ze Yang, Keisuke Tateno, Federico Tombari, Liang Zhao, Gim Hee Lee

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2026

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  • OpenGaFF: Open-Vocabulary Gaussian Feature Field with Codebook Attention

    Kunyi Li, Michael Niemeyer, Sen Wang, Stefano Gasperini, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2026

    OpenGaFF is presented, a novel framework for open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding built upon 3D Gaussian Splatting that models semantics as a continuous function of Gaussian geometry and appearance and introduces a structured codebook that serves as a set of shared semantic primitives.

    1
  • 3D Segmentation Using Viewpoint-Dependent Spatial Relationships

    Ayaka Nanri, Klara Reichard, Mert Kiray, Federico Tombari, Benjamin Busam, Asako Kanezaki

    arXiv · 2026

    A viewpoint representation is introduced that encodes camera poses and conditions the model on the observation viewpoint, improving segmentation accuracy on viewpoint-dependent relations and increasing mIoU from 0.30 to 0.47 compared to a model without viewpoint conditioning.

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  • PARCEL: Pool-Anchored Resampling with Conditioned Elastic Queries for Efficient Vision-Language Understanding

    Selim Kuzucu, Alessio Tonioni, Vasile Lup, Bernt Schiele, Federico Tombari, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem

    arXiv · 2026

    PARCEL improves the performance-efficiency Pareto frontier, consistently outperforming existing matryoshka baselines across visual-token budgets while preserving the"train once, deploy anywhere"paradigm.

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  • Lost in Translation? Vocabulary Alignment for Source-Free Adaptation in Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Silvio Mazzucco, Persson, Carl, Mattia Segù, Pier Luigi Dovesi, Federico Tombari, Luc Van Gool, Matteo Poggi

    arXiv · 2025

    This work introduces VocAlign, a novel source-free domain adaptation framework specifically designed for VLMs in open-vocabulary semantic segmentation that adopts a student-teacher paradigm enhanced with a vocabulary alignment strategy, which improves pseudo-label generation by incorporating additional class concepts.

    1
  • UIP2P: Unsupervised Instruction-Based Image Editing via Edit Reversibility Constraint

    Enis Simsar, Alessio Tonioni, Yongqin Xian, Thomas Hofmann, Federico Tombari

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025

    An unsupervised instruction-based image editing approach that removes the need for ground-truth edited images during training and introduces a novel editing mechanism called Edit Reversibility Constraint (ERC), which applies forward and reverse edits in one training step and enforces alignment in image, text, and attention spaces.

    1
  • LanPose: Language-Instructed 6D Object Pose Estimation for Robotic Assembly

    Bowen Fu, Sek Kun Leong, Yan Di, Gu Wang, Jiwen Tang, Federico Tombari, Xiangyang Ji

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2025

    1
  • Learning Neural Exposure Fields for View Synthesis

    Michael Niemeyer, Fabian Manhardt, Marie‐Julie Rakotosaona, Michael Oechsle, Christina Tsalicoglou, Keisuke Tateno, Jonathan T. Barron, Federico Tombari

    neural information processing systems · 2025

    1
  • MonoGSDF: Exploring Monocular Geometric Cues for Gaussian Splatting-Guided Implicit Surface Reconstruction

    Kunyi Li, Michael Niemeyer, Zeyu Chen, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2024

    1
  • View-to-Label: Multi-View Consistency for Self-Supervised 3D Object Detection

    Issa Mouawad, Nikolas Brasch, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Francesca Odone

    arXiv · 2023

    This work proposes a novel approach to self-supervise 3D object detection purely from RGB sequences alone, leveraging multi-view constraints and weak labels.

    1
  • 3D Compression Using Neural Fields

    Janis Postels, Yannick Strümpler, Klara Reichard, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2023

    This work leverages previous advances and proposes a novel NF-based compression algorithm for 3D data that excels at geometry compression on 3D point clouds as well as meshes and shows that, due to the NF formulation, it is straightforward to extend the compression algorithm to compress both geometry and attribute of3D data.

    1
  • Re-Nerfing: Improving Novel View Synthesis through Novel View Synthesis

    Felix Tristram, Stefano Gasperini, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2023

    Re-Nerfing is proposed, a simple and general multi-stage approach that leverages NeRF’s own view synthesis to address limitations in shape-radiance ambiguities and brings improvements to the state-of-the-art Zip-NeRF, even when trained with all views.

    1
  • ParGAN: Learning Real Parametrizable Transformations

    Diego Martìn Arroyo, Alessio Tonioni, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2022

    This work proposes ParGAN, a generalization of the cycle-consistent GAN framework to learn image transformations with simple and intuitive controls, which takes as input both an image and a parametrization of the transformation.

    1
  • The Belt and Road Initiative

    Federico Tombari

    Routledge eBooks · 2021

    1
  • Three-Dimensional Shape Descriptor

    Riccardo Spezialetti, Federico Tombari

    Springer eBooks · 2020

    1
  • Local Image Descriptors with Statistical Losses

    Dong Wang, Bin Wang, Hongxun Yao, Hong Liu, Federico Tombari

    Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing · 2018

    1
  • Deep Learned Full-3D Object Completion from Single View

    Dario Rethage, Federico Tombari, Felix Achilles, Nassir Navab

    arXiv · 2018

    1
  • Abstract: Real-Time Online Adaption for Robust Instrument Tracking and Pose Estimation

    Nicola Rieke, David Joseph Tan, Federico Tombari, Josué Page Vizcaíno, Chiara Amat di San Filippo, Abouzar Eslami, Nassir Navab

    Informatik aktuell · 2017

    A robust closed-loop framework to track and localize the instrument parts in real-time, based on a dual-random forest (RF), which predicts the locations of the tool joints based on HOG features.

    1
  • Three Dimensional Shape Descriptor

    Federico Tombari

    Springer eBooks · 2014

    1
  • Adaptive Low Resolution Pruning for fast Full Search-equivalent pattern matching

    Federico Tombari, Wanli Ouyang, Luigi Di Stefano, Wai-Kuen Cham

    Pattern Recognition Letters · 2011

    This paper proposes a computational analysis of several incremental techniques specifically designed to enhance the efficiency of Low Resolution Pruning and proposes a novel LRP algorithm aimed at minimizing the theoretical number of operations by adaptively exploiting different incremental approaches.

    1
  • Second-Order Polynomial Models for Background Subtraction

    Alessandro Lanza, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2011

    This paper proposes here a thorough theoretical analysis aimed at identifying a family of suitable models and deriving the closed-form solutions of the associated regression problems and presents a detailed quantitative experimental evaluation aimed at comparing the different background subtraction algorithms resulting from theoretical analysis.

    1
  • IMPROVING GEOMETRIC HASHING BY MEANS OF FEATURE DESCRIPTORS

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications · 2011

    A novel method aimed at improving the performance of Geometric Hashing in terms of robustness toward occlusion and clutter is proposed, which employs feature descriptors to notably decrease the amount of false positives that generally arise under these conditions.

    1
  • Methodologies for visual correspondence

    Federico Tombari

    AMS Dottorato Institutional Doctoral Theses Repository (University of Bologna) · 2009

    The dissertation presents original contributions to the theory of visual correspondence, as well as applications dealing with 3D reconstruction and multi-view video surveillance, including fast pattern matching, stereo correspondence and robust image matching.

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  • Enhanced Low-Resolution Pruning for Fast Full-Search Template Matching

    Stefano Mattoccia, Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2009

    This paper proposes an original contribution with respect to Gharavi-Alkhansari's work that is based on the exploitation of an initial estimation of the global minimum aimed at increasing the efficiency of the pruning process.

    1
  • Multi-view Access Monitoring and Singularization in Interlocks

    Luigi Di Stefano, Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia, Matteo Balasso

    IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) · 2008

    1
  • Robust Visual Correspondence: Theory and Applications

    Federico Tombari, Luigi Di, Stefano Mattocci

    InTech eBooks · 2008

    The visual correspondence task can be extremely challenging in presence of disturbance factors which typically affect images, and the acquisition of images from different spatial points or different time instants can also induce occlusions.

    1
  • Computer Vision – ECCV 2026

    Paolo Favaro, Zuzana Kúkelová, Atsuto Maki, Anna Rohrbach, Konrad Schindler, Federico Tombari

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2026

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  • Imagine3D-LLM: Teaching MLLMs to Imagine 3D Scenes Before Answering

    Jaewoo Jung, 유현서, Honggyu An, Jisang Han, Kim, Mungyeom, Minkyeong Jeon, Heeseong Shin, WonJun Moon, +5 more

    arXiv · 2026

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  • R-CoV: Region-Aware Chain-of-Verification for Alleviating Object Hallucinations in LVLMs

    Jiahao Xie, Alessio Tonioni, Nathalie Rauschmayr, Federico Tombari, Bernt Schiele

    arXiv · 2026

    R-CoV is proposed, a visual chain-of-verification method to alleviate object hallucinations in LVLMs in a post-hoc manner that can be seamlessly integrated into various LVLMs in a training-free manner and without relying on external detection models.

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  • Stepper: Stepwise Immersive Scene Generation with Multiview Panoramas

    Felix Wimbauer, Fabian Manhardt, Michael Oechsle, Nikolai Kalischek, Christian Rupprecht, Daniel Cremers, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2026

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  • GenRec: Knowing Where to Reconstruct and Where to Generate

    Ata Çelen, Jaewoo Jung, Federico Tombari, Marc Pollefeys, Sunghwan Hong, Michael Niemeyer, Dániel Baráth

    arXiv · 2026

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  • InstructMesh: Selective Refinement of Generative 3D Models for Fabrication

    Faraz Faruqi, Ahmed Katary, Demircan Tas, Theresa Hradilak, Ning Zhang, Jiaji Li, Fabian Manhardt, Martin Nisser, +5 more

    arXiv · 2026

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  • TAPNext++: What's Next for Tracking Any Point (TAP)?

    Sebastian Jung, Artem Zholus, Martin Sundermeyer, Carl Doersch, Ross Goroshin, David Joseph Tan, Sarath Chandar, Rudolph Triebel, +1 more

    arXiv · 2026

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  • Learning 3D Scene Reconstruction From Nighttime Driving Videos

    Andrea Ramazzina, Stefano Gasperini, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2026

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  • 891 - RiemanLine: Riemannian Manifold Representation of 3D Lines for Factor Graph Optimization

    Association for Artificial Intelligence 2026, Gim Hee Lee, Yanyan Li, Keisuke Tateno, Federico Tombari, Ze Yang, Liang Zhao

    Underline Science Inc. · 2026

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  • The First EgoCross Challenge at EgoVis 2026: Cross-Domain Egocentric Video Question Answering

    Yuqian Fu, Tianwen Qian, Yanjun Li, Yu Li, Kunyu Peng, Zheng Xu, Yongqin Xian, Alessio Tonioni, +22 more

    arXiv · 2026

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  • GESTO: Human-Centric Spatio-Temporal Memory for Reasoning in Dynamic Scenes

    Ermanno Bartoli, Buwei He, Dennis Rotondi, Sebastian Koch, Federico Tombari, Kai O. Arras, Patric Jensfelt, Yixi Cai, +1 more

    arXiv · 2026

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  • SA4Depth: Consistent Pose-Depth Scale Alignment for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

    C Li, Nadine Berner, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari, Stefano Gasperini

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2026

    This work uses the depth estimated during training to reproject learnable visual features across consecutive frames and refine the pose estimates by reducing feature alignment residuals and introduces SA4Depth, an approach to improve this alignment and boost the depth predictions while keeping the inference time unchanged.

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  • DynaTok: Token-Based 4D Reconstruction from Partial Point Clouds

    Weirong Chen, Keisuke Tateno, Hidenobu Matsuki, Michael Niemeyer, Daniel Cremers, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2026

    D DynaTok is proposed, a point-based framework for correspondence-free 4D reconstruction from partial point cloud sequences without images that encodes frames into compact latent tokens, aggregates incomplete observations over time with a Transformer-based spatiotemporal encoder, and decouples geometry and motion through residual tokens in a unified model.

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  • ChronoGraph: Functional 4D Scene Graphs with Vision-Language Models for Interaction Understanding and Grounded Planning

    Chenyangguang Zhang, Małgorzata Gwiazda, Guanlong Jiao, Yuanchen Ju, Federico Tombari, Koushil Sreenath, Marc Pollefeys, Sunghwan Hong

    arXiv · 2026

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  • LEGAU: Learning Semantic Gaussian Priors for Scalable Category-level Pose Estimation

    Hongli Xu, Zhaowei Lu, Junwen Huang, Jiaqi Hu, Peter Yu, Benjamin Busam, Federico Tombari, Slobodan Ilić

    arXiv · 2026

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  • Level-of-Token Diffusion

    Kiyohiro Nakayama, Brian Chao, Jan Ackermann, Hansheng Chen, Federico Tombari, Leonidas Guibas, Lior Yariv, Gordon Wetzstein

    arXiv · 2026

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  • SG2Loc: Sequential Visual Localization on 3D Scene Graphs

    Nicole Damblon, Olga Vysotska, Federico Tombari, Marc Pollefeys, Dániel Baráth

    arXiv · 2026

    This paper introduces a novel, lightweight approach to sequential visual localization using 3D scene graphs, leveraging a compact scene graph and efficient semantic matching, which significantly reduces storage while maintaining performance on real-world datasets.

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  • SplashSplat: Reconstructing Splashing Liquids from Real-World Multi-View Videos

    Peiyu Liu, Dingxi Zhang, Federico Tombari, Marc Pollefeys, Christina Tsalicoglou, Dániel Baráth

    arXiv · 2026

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  • The Art of Interrogation: Consistency Amplifies Factuality in Spatial Reasoning

    Theo Uscidda, Marta Tintore Gazulla, Maks Ovsjanikov, Federico Tombari, Leonidas J. Guibas

    arXiv · 2026

    This work proposes a self-supervised reinforcement learning (RL) framework that targets the internal reasoning process without requiring ground-truth annotations and shows that this label-free consistency training approaches the accuracy of models trained with ground-truth supervision and achieves similar generalization across diverse tasks and data domains.

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  • From Visual Cues to Spoken Narration: Rethinking Audio Description

    Akshita Gupta, Aditya Arora, Federico Tombari, Marcus Rohrbach, Anna Rohrbach

    arXiv · 2026

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  • Prompting Diffusion Models for Zero-Shot Instance Segmentation

    Irem Zeynep Alagöz, Nils Morbitzer, Andrea Ramazzina, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari, Stefano Gasperini

    arXiv · 2026

    The results suggest that the rich priors encoded in generative pretraining, combined with principled spatial conditioning, offer a compelling path toward broadly generalizing interactive segmentation without large-scale mask supervision.

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  • Language-Guided Open-World Anomaly Segmentation

    Klara Reichard, Nikolas Brasch, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2025

    Clipomaly is proposed, the first CLIP-based open-world and anomaly segmentation method for autonomous driving that dynamically extends its vocabulary at inference time without retraining, enabling robust detection and naming of anomalies beyond common class definitions such as those in Cityscapes.

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  • Video Perception Models for 3D Scene Synthesis

    Rui Huang, Guangyao Zhai, Zuria Bauer, Marc Pollefeys, Federico Tombari, Leonidas Guibas, Gao Ming Huang, Francis Engelmann

    neural information processing systems · 2025

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  • Object-X: Learning to Reconstruct Multi-Modal 3D Object Representations

    Gaia Di Lorenzo, Federico Tombari, Marc Pollefeys, Dániel Baráth

    neural information processing systems · 2025

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  • Hierarchical Representation for 3D Shape Understanding

    Mahdi Saleh, Federico Tombari, Technische Universität München

    2025

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  • PRISM: Probabilistic Representation for Integrated Shape Modeling and Generation

    Lei Cheng, Mahdi Saleh, Cheng, Qing, Lu Sang, Hongli Xu, Daniel Cremers, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2025

    This work introduces PRISM, a novel compositional approach for 3D shape generation that integrates categorical diffusion models with Statistical Shape Models (SSM) and Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) and uses GMM to represent part semantics in a continuous space.

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  • Semantic Map-Learning and Localization for Autonomous Vehicles

    Markus Herb, Federico Tombari, Technische Universität München

    2025

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  • Real-time 3D Semantic Scene Understanding and Reconstruction in Indoor Environments

    Shun-Cheng Wu, Federico Tombari, Technische Universität München

    2025

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  • Enhancing Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning via Low-Rank Adapted LLMs

    Selim Kuzucu, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Kukleva, Anna, Federico Tombari, Bernt Schiele

    arXiv · 2025

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  • From Unseen Objects to Holistic 3D Scene Understanding

    Evin Pınar Örnek, Federico Tombari, Technische Universität München

    2024

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  • PointHGN: Point Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Point Cloud Learning

    Zhiying Leng, Shun‐Cheng Wu, Frederick W. B. Li, Federico Tombari, Xiaohui Liang

    IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo workshops · 2023

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  • Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection with Class Label Shift Weighted Local Features

    Andong Tan, Niklas Hanselmann, Shuxiao Ding, Federico Tombari, Marius Cordts

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2023

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  • Transformers in Action: Weakly Supervised Action Segmentation

    Ridley, John, Huseyin Coskun, David Joseph Tan, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2022

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  • Attention-based Adversarial Appearance Learning of Augmented Pedestrians

    Strauss, Kevin, Artem Savkin, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2021

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  • LegoFormer: Transformers for Block-by-Block Multi-view 3D Reconstruction

    Farid Yagubbayli, Wang, Yida, Alessio Tonioni, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2021

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  • Abstract: Leveraging Web Data for Skin Lesion Classification

    Fernando Navarro, Sailesh Conjeti, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    Informatik aktuell · 2019

    The success of deep learning is mainly based on the assumption that for the given application, there is access to a large amount of annotated data, and the representativeness of the training set is still limited by the number of available samples.

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  • Unsupervised Monocular Depth Prediction for Indoor Continuous Video Streams

    Yinglong Feng, Shun-Cheng Wu, Okan Köpüklü, Xueyang Kang, Federico Tombari

    arXiv · 2019

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  • Contributors

    Senjian An, Mohammed Bennamoun, Niccolò Bisagno, Farid Boussaïd, Domenico Buongiorno, Andrea Cavallaro, Oya Çeliktutan, Shayok Chakraborty, +22 more

    Elsevier eBooks · 2018

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  • One For All: Adaptive Learning-based Temporal Tracker for 3D Head Shape Models

    David Joseph Joseph, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) · 2017

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  • SSD6D決定RGBベースのレン3D検出と6D姿勢推定大再び【Powered by NICT】

    Wadim Kehl, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Ilić Slobodan, Nassir Navab

    IEEE Conference Proceedings · 2017

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  • 長い短期記憶Kalmanフィルタ:姿勢正規化のためのリカレントニューラル推定器【Powered by NICT】

    Huseyin Coskun, Achilles Felix, Robert S. DiPietro, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari

    IEEE Conference Proceedings · 2017

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  • 2.5Dが十分でない場合:高密度SLAMに同時再構成,セグメンテーションと認識【Powered by NICT】

    Keisuke Tateno, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab

    IEEE Conference Proceedings · 2016

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  • フラストレーション産業シナリオの空間的ARデバイス用の自由姿勢計算【Powered by NICT】

    Naik Hemal, Bahaa Mahmoud, Federico Tombari, Keitler Peter, Nassir Navab

    IEEE Conference Proceedings · 2016

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  • Retrieval of Human Subjects from Depth Sensor Data

    Andrea Giachetti, Francesco Fornasa, F. Parezzan, A. Saletti, L. Zambaldo, L. Zanini, Felix Achilles, Alexandru-Eugen Ichim, +3 more

    Eurographics · 2016

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