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Acquisition and processing of point clouds (PCs) is a crucial enabler for many emerging applications reliant on 3D spatial data, such as robot navigation, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality. In most scenarios, PCs acquired by remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yulin Shao , Chenghong Bian , Li Yang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Deniz Gunduz

The development of practical applications, such as autonomous driving and robotics, has brought increasing attention to 3D point cloud understanding. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success on image-based tasks, there are many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Haoming Lu , Humphrey Shi

Point cloud is a collection of 3D coordinates that are discrete geometric samples of an object's 2D surfaces. Using a low-cost 3D scanner to acquire data means that point clouds are often in lower resolution than desired for rendering on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic

In the field of autonomous driving and robotics, point clouds are showing their excellent real-time performance as raw data from most of the mainstream 3D sensors. Therefore, point cloud neural networks have become a popular research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Hanxiao Tan

Deep neural networks have achieved significant success in 3D point cloud classification while relying on large-scale, annotated point cloud datasets, which are labor-intensive to build. Compared to capturing data with LiDAR sensors and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Huantao Ren , Minmin Yang , Senem Velipasalar

Point clouds arising from structured data, mainly as a result of CT scans, provides special properties on the distribution of points and the distances between those. Yet often, the amount of data provided can not compare to unstructured…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Franziska Lippoldt , Hartmut Schwandt

Point clouds, a prominent method of 3D representation, are extensively utilized across industries such as autonomous driving, surveying, electricity, architecture, and gaming, and have been rigorously investigated for their accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Jingyuan Tang , Yuhuan Zhao , Songlin Sun , Yangang Cai

Point clouds are rich geometric data structures, where their three dimensional structure offers an excellent domain for understanding the representation learning and generative modeling in 3D space. In this work, we aim to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lingjie Kong , Pankaj Rajak , Siamak Shakeri

We propose a method to generate 3D shapes using point clouds. Given a point-cloud representation of a 3D shape, our method builds a kd-tree to spatially partition the points. This orders them consistently across all shapes, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Matheus Gadelha , Subhransu Maji , Rui Wang

The recent advances in 3D sensing technology have made possible the capture of point clouds in significantly high resolution. However, increased detail usually comes at the expense of high storage, as well as computational costs in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Giorgos Bouritsas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

This paper presents PCDreamer, a novel method for point cloud completion. Traditional methods typically extract features from partial point clouds to predict missing regions, but the large solution space often leads to unsatisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Guangshun Wei , Yuan Feng , Long Ma , Chen Wang , Yuanfeng Zhou , Changjian Li

Point cloud completion aims to recover complete 3D geometry from partial observations caused by limited viewpoints and occlusions. Existing learning-based works, including 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based, point-based, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jiangyuan Liu , Yuhao Zhao , Hongxuan Ma , Zhe Liu , Jian Wang , Wei Zou

Point cloud is a critical 3D representation with many emerging applications. Because of the point sparsity and irregularity, high-quality rendering of point clouds is challenging and often requires complex computations to recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yueyu Hu , Ran Gong , Qi Sun , Yao Wang

Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure. Due to its irregular format, most researchers transform such data to regular 3D voxel grids or collections of images. This, however, renders data unnecessarily voluminous and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Charles R. Qi , Hao Su , Kaichun Mo , Leonidas J. Guibas

Hypergraph spectral analysis has emerged as an effective tool processing complex data structures in data analysis. The surface of a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud and the multilateral relationship among their points can be naturally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Songyang Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Zhi Ding

We introduce an estimator for the curvature of curves and surfaces by using finite sample points drawn from sampling a probability distribution that has support on the curve or surface. First we give an algorithm for estimation of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-03 R. Mirzaie

Over the last decade, the demand for better segmentation and classification algorithms in 3D spaces has significantly grown due to the popularity of new 3D sensor technologies and advancements in the field of robotics. Point-clouds are one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Felipe Gomez Marulanda , Pieter Libin , Timothy Verstraeten , Ann Nowé

Point cloud has drawn more and more research attention as well as real-world applications. However, many of these applications (e.g. autonomous driving and robotic manipulation) are actually based on sequential point clouds (i.e. four…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Haiyan Wang , Yingli Tian

Pseudo-LiDAR point cloud interpolation is a novel and challenging task in the field of autonomous driving, which aims to address the frequency mismatching problem between camera and LiDAR. Previous works represent the 3D spatial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Haojie Liu , Kang Liao , Chunyu Lin , Yao Zhao , Yulan Guo

Mixed-based point cloud augmentation is a popular solution to the problem of limited availability of large-scale public datasets. But the mismatch between mixed points and corresponding semantic labels hinders the further application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Tianfang Zhu , Yue Guan , Anan Li