English

DANCE: Density-agnostic and Class-aware Network for Point Cloud Completion

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-11-18 v2

Abstract

Point cloud completion aims to recover missing geometric structures from incomplete 3D scans, which often suffer from occlusions or limited sensor viewpoints. Existing methods typically assume fixed input/output densities or rely on image-based representations, making them less suitable for real-world scenarios with variable sparsity and limited supervision. In this paper, we introduce Density-agnostic and Class-aware Network (DANCE), a novel framework that completes only the missing regions while preserving the observed geometry. DANCE generates candidate points via ray-based sampling from multiple viewpoints. A transformer decoder then refines their positions and predicts opacity scores, which determine the validity of each point for inclusion in the final surface. To incorporate semantic guidance, a lightweight classification head is trained directly on geometric features, enabling category-consistent completion without external image supervision. Extensive experiments on the PCN and MVP benchmarks show that DANCE outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy and structural consistency, while remaining robust to varying input densities and noise levels.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.07978,
  title  = {DANCE: Density-agnostic and Class-aware Network for Point Cloud Completion},
  author = {Da-Yeong Kim and Yeong-Jun Cho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.07978},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

7 pages, 11 figures, Accepted to AAAI 2026 (to appear)

R2 v1 2026-07-01T07:31:32.412Z