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Reconstructing a continuous surface from an unoritented 3D point cloud is a fundamental task in 3D shape processing. In recent years, several methods have been proposed to address this problem using implicit neural representations (INRs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ryutaro Yamauchi , Jinya Sakurai , Ryo Furukawa , Tatsushi Matsubayashi

3D point clouds acquired by scanning real-world objects or scenes have found a wide range of applications including immersive telepresence, autonomous driving, surveillance, etc. They are often perturbed by noise or suffer from low density,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Haolan Chen , Bi'an Du , Shitong Luo , Wei Hu

Reconstruction of a continuous surface of two-dimensional manifold from its raw, discrete point cloud observation is a long-standing problem. The problem is technically ill-posed, and becomes more difficult considering that various sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Zhangjin Huang , Yuxin Wen , Zihao Wang , Jinjuan Ren , Kui Jia

Surface reconstruction is a fundamental problem in 3D graphics. In this paper, we propose a learning-based approach for implicit surface reconstruction from raw point clouds without normals. Our method is inspired by Gauss Lemma in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Dong Xiao , Siyou Lin , Zuoqiang Shi , Bin Wang

While three-dimensional (3D) building models play an increasingly pivotal role in many real-world applications, obtaining a compact representation of buildings remains an open problem. In this paper, we present a novel framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhaiyu Chen , Hugo Ledoux , Seyran Khademi , Liangliang Nan

Point cloud completion aims to recover accurate global geometry and preserve fine-grained local details from partial point clouds. Conventional methods typically predict unseen points directly from 3D point cloud coordinates or use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jinpeng Yu , Binbin Huang , Yuxuan Zhang , Huaxia Li , Xu Tang , Shenghua Gao

We present a novel method for reconstructing a 3D implicit surface from a large-scale, sparse, and noisy point cloud. Our approach builds upon the recently introduced Neural Kernel Fields (NKF) representation. It enjoys similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jiahui Huang , Zan Gojcic , Matan Atzmon , Or Litany , Sanja Fidler , Francis Williams

In this work, we introduce a novel computational framework for solving the two-dimensional Hele-Shaw free boundary problem with surface tension. The moving boundary is represented by point clouds, eliminating the need for a global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Zengyan Zhang , Wenrui Hao , John Harlim

Reconstruction of high-fidelity 3D objects or scenes is a fundamental research problem. Recent advances in RGB-D fusion have demonstrated the potential of producing 3D models from consumer-level RGB-D cameras. However, due to the discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Yabin Xu , Liangliang Nan , Laishui Zhou , Jun Wang , Charlie C. L. Wang

Implicit neural networks have been successfully used for surface reconstruction from point clouds. However, many of them face scalability issues as they encode the isosurface function of a whole object or scene into a single latent vector.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Alexandre Boulch , Renaud Marlet

In geology, a key activity is the characterisation of geological structures (surface formation topology and rock units) using Planar Orientation measurements such as Strike, Dip and Dip Direction. In general these measurements are collected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 J. Kissi-Ameyaw , K. McIsaac , X. Wang , G. R. Osinski

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has attracted widespread attention due to its high-quality rendering, and ultra-fast training and rendering speed. However, due to the unstructured and irregular nature of Gaussian point clouds, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Danpeng Chen , Hai Li , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Weijian Xie , Shangjin Zhai , Nan Wang , Haomin Liu , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

Implicit 3D surface reconstruction of an object from its partial and noisy 3D point cloud scan is the classical geometry processing and 3D computer vision problem. In the literature, various 3D shape representations have been developed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Atharva Pandey , Vishal Yadav , Rajendra Nagar , Santanu Chaudhury

Point cloud data represents a crucial category of information for mathematical modeling, and surface reconstruction from such data is an important task across various disciplines. However, during the scanning process, the collected point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hao Liu

Reconstruction of geometry based on different input modes, such as images or point clouds, has been instrumental in the development of computer aided design and computer graphics. Optimal implementations of these applications have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Jun Gao , Chengcheng Tang , Vignesh Ganapathi-Subramanian , Jiahui Huang , Hao Su , Leonidas J. Guibas

Designing a point cloud upsampler, which aims to generate a clean and dense point cloud given a sparse point representation, is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. A line of attempts achieves this goal by establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Pingping Cai , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Song Wang

Poisson Surface Reconstruction is a widely-used algorithm for reconstructing a surface from an oriented point cloud. To facilitate applications where only partial surface information is available, or scanning is performed sequentially, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Sidhanth Holalkere , David S. Bindel , Silvia Sellán , Alexander Terenin

Thin surfaces, such as the leaves of a plant, pose a significant challenge for implicit surface reconstruction techniques, which typically assume a closed, orientable surface. We show that by approximately interpolating a point cloud of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Riley M. Whebell , Timothy J. Moroney , Ian W. Turner , Ravindra Pethiyagoda , Scott W. McCue

Reconstructing geometric shapes from point clouds is a common task that is often accomplished by experts manually modeling geometries in CAD-capable software. State-of-the-art workflows based on fully automatic geometry extraction are…

In this paper we describe a parallel implicit method based on radial basis functions (RBF) for surface reconstruction. The applicability of RBF methods is hindered by its computational demand, that requires the solution of linear systems of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-05-23 Salvatore Cuomo , Ardelio Gallettiy , Giulio Giuntay , Alfredo Staracey