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Most current neural networks for reconstructing surfaces from point clouds ignore sensor poses and only operate on raw point locations. Sensor visibility, however, holds meaningful information regarding space occupancy and surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Raphael Sulzer , Loic Landrieu , Alexandre Boulch , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet

Point clouds captured by scanning sensors are often perturbed by noise, which have a highly negative impact on downstream tasks (e.g. surface reconstruction and shape understanding). Previous works mostly focus on training neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Junsheng Zhou , Xingyu Shi , Haichuan Song , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Reconstructing accurate implicit surface representations from point clouds remains a challenging task, particularly when data is captured using low-quality scanning devices. These point clouds often contain substantial noise, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tengkai Wang , Weihao Li , Ruikai Cui , Shi Qiu , Nick Barnes

This paper builds upon the current methods to increase their capability and automation for 3D surface construction from noisy and potentially sparse point clouds. It presents an analysis of an artificial neural network surface regression…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Adam R White , Li Bai

We show that denoising of 3D point clouds can be learned unsupervised, directly from noisy 3D point cloud data only. This is achieved by extending recent ideas from learning of unsupervised image denoisers to unstructured 3D point clouds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Pedro Hermosilla , Tobias Ritschel , Timo Ropinski

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

We present an approach to inform the reconstruction of a surface from a point scan through topological priors. The reconstruction is based on basis functions which are optimized to provide a good fit to the point scan while satisfying…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Rickard Brüel-Gabrielsson , Vignesh Ganapathi-Subramanian , Primoz Skraba , Leonidas J. Guibas

The growing size of point clouds enlarges consumptions of storage, transmission, and computation of 3D scenes. Raw data is redundant, noisy, and non-uniform. Therefore, simplifying point clouds for achieving compact, clean, and uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yuanqi Li , Jianwei Guo , Xinran Yang , Shun Liu , Jie Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yanwen Guo

Point cloud filtering is a fundamental problem in geometry modeling and processing. Despite of significant advancement in recent years, the existing methods still suffer from two issues: 1) they are either designed without preserving sharp…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Dongbo Zhang , Xuequan Lu , Hong Qin , Ying He

Point cloud data now are popular data representations in a number of three-dimensional (3D) vision research realms. However, due to the limited performance of sensors and sensing noise, the raw data usually suffer from sparsity, noise, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Siwen Quan , Junhao Yu , Ziming Nie , Muze Wang , Sijia Feng , Pei An , Jiaqi Yang

Recently, learning multi-view neural surface reconstruction with the supervision of point clouds or depth maps has been a promising way. However, due to the underutilization of prior information, current methods still struggle with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Chen Zhang , Wanjuan Su , Qingshan Xu , Wenbing Tao

Reconstructing models from unorganized point clouds presents a significant challenge, especially when the models consist of multiple components represented by their surface point clouds. Such models often involve point clouds with noise…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yu Chen , Hongwei Lin

Noisy 3D point clouds arise in many applications. They may be due to errors when constructing a 3D model from images or simply to imprecise depth sensors. Point clouds can be given geometrical structure using graphs created from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Yann Schoenenberger , Johan Paratte , Pierre Vandergheynst

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for point cloud denoising based on the tensor Tucker decomposition. We first represent the local surface patches of a noisy point cloud to be matrices by their distances to a reference point, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Jianze Li , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Tuan Tran

We present a comprehensive survey and benchmark of both traditional and learning-based methods for surface reconstruction from point clouds. This task is particularly challenging for real-world acquisitions due to factors such as noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Raphael Sulzer , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet , Loic Landrieu

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

To handle the different types of surface reconstruction tasks, we have replicated as well as modified a few of reconstruction methods and have made comparisons between the traditional method and data-driven method for reconstruction the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Ziyu Li , Fangyang Ye , Xinran Guan

The digitalization of society is rapidly developing toward the realization of the digital twin and metaverse. In particular, point clouds are attracting attention as a media format for 3D space. Point cloud data is contaminated with noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kosuke Nakayama , Hiroto Fukuta , Hiroshi Watanabe

The reconstruction of a discrete surface from a point cloud is a fundamental geometry processing problem that has been studied for decades, with many methods developed. We propose the use of a deep neural network as a geometric prior for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Francis Williams , Teseo Schneider , Claudio Silva , Denis Zorin , Joan Bruna , Daniele Panozzo

It is an important task to reconstruct surfaces from 3D point clouds. Current methods are able to reconstruct surfaces by learning Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) from single point clouds without ground truth signed distances or point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han