Tracking Anything in Heart All at Once

Myocardial motion tracking stands as an essential clinical tool in the prevention and detection of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs), the foremost cause of death globally. However, current techniques suffer incomplete and inaccurate motion estimation of the myocardium both in spatial and temporal dimensions, hindering the early identification of myocardial dysfunction. In addressing these challenges, this paper introduces the Neural Cardiac Motion Field (NeuralCMF). NeuralCMF leverages the implicit neural representation (INR) to model the 3D structure and the comprehensive 6D forward/backward motion of the heart. This approach offers memory-efficient storage and continuous capability to query the precise shape and motion of the myocardium throughout the cardiac cycle at any specific point. Notably, NeuralCMF operates without the need for paired datasets, and its optimization is self-supervised through the physics knowledge priors both in space and time dimensions, ensuring compatibility with both 2D and 3D echocardiogram video inputs. Experimental validations across three representative datasets support the robustness and innovative nature of the NeuralCMF, marking significant advantages over existing state-of-the-arts in cardiac imaging and motion tracking.

Rendering Nighttime Image Via Cascaded Color and Brightness Compensation

Image signal processing (ISP) is crucial for camera imaging, and neural networks (NN) solutions are extensively deployed for daytime scenes. The lack of sufficient nighttime image dataset and insights on nighttime illumination characteristics poses a great challenge for high-quality rendering using existing NN ISPs. To tackle it, we first built a high-resolution nighttime RAW-RGB (NR2R) dataset with white balance and tone mapping annotated by expert professionals. Meanwhile, to best capture the characteristics of nighttime illumination light sources, we develop the CBUnet, a two-stage NN ISP to cascade the compensation of color and brightness attributes. Experiments show that our method has better visual quality compared to traditional ISP pipeline, and is ranked at the second place in the NTIRE 2022 Night Photography Rendering Challenge for two tracks by respective People's and Professional Photographer's choices. The code and relevant materials are avaiable on our website: https://njuvision.github.io/CBUnet.