Vision researchers have created an incredible range of algorithms and systems to detect, track, recognize, and contextualize objects in a scene, using a myriad of internal models to represent their problem and solution. However in order to effectively make use of these algorithms sophisticated expert knowledge is required to understand and properly utilize the internal models used. Researchers ...

We introduce a novel nonrigid 2D image registration method that establishes dense and accurate correspondences across images without the need of any manual intervention. Our key insight is to model the image as a membrane, i.e., a thin 3D surface, and to constrain its deformation based on its geometric properties. To do so, we derive a novel Bayesian formulation. We impose priors on the moving ...