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Dong Lao

14 accepted papers

2026

ODE-GS: Latent ODEs for Dynamic Scene Extrapolation with 3D Gaussian Splatting

ICLR 2026poster

We introduce ODE-GS, a novel approach that integrates 3D Gaussian Splatting with latent neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to enable future extrapolation of dynamic 3D scenes. Unlike existing dynamic scene reconstruction methods, which rely on time-conditioned deformation networks and are…

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2026

ORCaS: Unsupervised Depth Completion via Occluded Region Completion as Supervision

ICLR 2026poster

We propose a method for inferring an egocentric dense depth map from an RGB image and a sparse point cloud. The crux of our method lies in modeling the 3D scene implicitly within the latent space and learning an inductive bias in an unsupervised manner through principles of Structure-from-Motion. T…

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2024

AugUndo: Scaling Up Augmentations for Monocular Depth Completion and Estimation

ECCV 2024poster

"Unsupervised depth completion and estimation methods are trained by minimizing reconstruction error. Block artifacts from resampling, intensity saturation, and occlusions are amongst the many undesirable by-products of common data augmentation schemes that affect image reconstruction quality, and t…

2024

Diffeomorphic Template Registration for Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation

CVPR 2024highlight

We describe a method for recovering the irradiance underlying a collection of images corrupted by atmospheric turbulence. Since supervised data is often technically impossible to obtain assumptions and biases have to be imposed to solve this inverse problem and we choose to model them explicitly. Ra…

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2024

RSA: Resolving Scale Ambiguities in Monocular Depth Estimators through Language Descriptions

NeurIPS 2024poster

We propose a method for metric-scale monocular depth estimation. Inferring depth from a single image is an ill-posed problem due to the loss of scale from perspective projection during the image formation process. Any scale chosen is a bias, typically stemming from training on a dataset; hence, exis…

2024

Sub-token ViT Embedding via Stochastic Resonance Transformers

ICML 2024poster

Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures represent images as collections of high-dimensional vectorized tokens, each corresponding to a rectangular non-overlapping patch. This representation trades spatial granularity for embedding dimensionality, and results in semantically rich but spatially coarsel…

2024

WorDepth: Variational Language Prior for Monocular Depth Estimation

CVPR 2024poster

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction from a single image is an ill-posed problem with inherent ambiguities i.e. scale. Predicting a 3D scene from text description(s) is similarly ill-posed i.e. spatial arrangements of objects described. We investigate the question of whether two inherently ambiguou…

2022

Surprising Instabilities in Training Deep Networks and a Theoretical Analysis

NeurIPS 2022accept

We empirically demonstrate numerical instabilities in training standard deep networks with SGD. Specifically, we show numerical error (on the order of the smallest floating point bit) induced from floating point arithmetic in training deep nets can be amplified significantly and result in significan…

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