Publications

NeuSEditor: From Multi-View Images to Text-Guided Neural Surface Edits

Published in 3DV, 2026

Nail Ibrahimli, Julian Kooij, Liangliang Nan

Implicit surface representations are valued for their compactness and continuity but pose significant challenges for editing. To address this gap, we introduce NeuSEditor, a novel method for text-guided editing of neural implicit surfaces derived from multi-view images. NeuSEditor employs an identity-preserving architecture that efficiently separates scenes into foreground and background, enabling precise modifications without altering the scene’s inherent properties. Our geometry-aware distillation loss significantly enhances rendering and geometric quality. Our method simplifies the editing workflow by eliminating the need for continuous dataset updates and source prompting. NeuSEditor outperforms recent state-of-the-art methods like PDS and InstructNeRF2NeRF, delivering superior rendering and geometric quality. Project page: https://neuseditor.github.io/

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MuVieCAST: Multi-View Consistent Artistic Style Transfer

Published in 3DV, 2024

Nail Ibrahimli, Julian Kooij, Liangliang Nan

We present a modular multi-view consistent style transfer network architecture MuVieCAST that enables consistent style transfer between multiple viewpoints of the same scene. This network architecture supports both sparse and dense views, making it versatile enough to handle a wide range of multi-view image datasets. The approach consists of three modules that perform specific tasks related to style transfer, namely content preservation, image transformation, and multi-view consistency enforcement. We evaluate our approach extensively across multiple application domains including depth-map-based point cloud fusion, mesh reconstruction, and novel-view synthesis. The results demonstrate that the framework produces high-quality stylized images while maintaining consistency across multiple views, even for complex styles that involve mosaic tessellations or extensive brush strokes. Our modular multi-view consistent style transfer framework is extensible and can easily be integrated with various backbone architectures, making it a flexible solution for multi-view style transfer. Project page: https://muviecast.github.io/

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DDL-MVS: Depth Discontinuity Learning for MVS Networks

Published in Remote Sensing, 2023

Nail Ibrahimli, Hugo Ledoux, Julian Kooij, Liangliang Nan

Traditional MVS methods have good accuracy but struggle with completeness, while recently developed learning-based multi-view stereo (MVS) techniques have improved completeness except accuracy being compromised. We propose depth discontinuity learning for MVS methods, which further improves accuracy while retaining the completeness of the reconstruction. Our idea is to jointly estimate the depth and boundary maps where the boundary maps are explicitly used for further refinement of the depth maps. We validate our idea and demonstrate that our strategies can be easily integrated into the existing learning-based MVS pipeline where the reconstruction depends on high-quality depth map estimation. Extensive experiments on various datasets show that our method improves reconstruction quality compared to baseline. Experiments also demonstrate that the presented model and strategies have good generalization capabilities.

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Push-the-Boundary: Boundary-aware Feature Propagation for Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds

Published in 3DV, 2022

Shenglan Du, Nail Ibrahimli, Jantien Stoter, Julian Kooij, Liangliang Nan

Feedforward fully convolutional neural networks currently dominate in semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds.Despite their great success, they suffer from the loss of local information at low-level layers, posing significant challenges to accurate scene segmentation and precise object boundary delineation.Prior works either address this issue by post-processing or jointly learn object boundaries to implicitly improve feature encoding of the networks.These approaches often require additional modules which are difficult to integrate into the original architecture.
To improve the segmentation near object boundaries, we propose a boundary-aware feature propagation mechanism.This mechanism is achieved by exploiting a multi-task learning framework that aims to explicitly guide the boundaries to their original locations.With one shared encoder, our network outputs (i) boundary localization, (ii) prediction of directions pointing to the object’s interior, and (iii) semantic segmentation, in three parallel streams.The predicted boundaries and directions are fused to propagate the learned features to refine the segmentation.We conduct extensive experiments on the S3DIS and SensatUrban datasets against various baseline methods, demonstrating that our proposed approach yields consistent improvements by reducing boundary errors.

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Unsupervised Odometry and Depth Learning for Endoscopic Capsule Robots

Published in IROS, 2018

Mehmet Turan, Evin Pinar Ornek, Nail Ibrahimli, Can Giracoglu, Yasin Almalioglu, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Metin Sitti

In the last decade, many medical companies and research groups have tried to convert passive capsule endoscopes as an emerging and minimally invasive diagnostic technology into actively steerable endoscopic capsule robots which will provide more intuitive disease detection, targeted drug delivery and biopsy-like operations in the gastrointestinal(GI) tract. In this study, we introduce a fully unsupervised, real-time odometry and depth learner for monocular endoscopic capsule robots. We establish the supervision by warping view sequences and assigning the re-projection minimization to the loss function, which we adopt in multi-view pose estimation and single-view depth estimation network. Detailed quantitative and qualitative analyses of the proposed framework performed on non-rigidly deformable ex-vivo porcine stomach datasets proves the effectiveness of the method in terms of motion estimation and depth recovery.

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