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We propose Geometric Neural Parametric Models (GNPM), a learned parametric model that takes into account the local structure of data to learn disentangled shape and pose latent spaces of 4D dynamics, using a geometric-aware architecture on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Mirgahney Mohamed , Lourdes Agapito

Both humans and deep learning models can recognize objects from 3D shapes depicted with sparse visual information, such as a set of points randomly sampled from the surfaces of 3D objects (termed a point cloud). Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shuhao Fu , Philip J. Kellman , Hongjing Lu

The generation and completion of 3D objects represent a transformative challenge in computer vision. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have recently demonstrated strong potential in synthesizing realistic visual data. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yahia Hamdi , Nicolas Andrialovanirina , Kélig Mahé , Emilie Poisson Caillault

This work presents a generative adversarial architecture for generating three-dimensional shapes based on signed distance representations. While the deep generation of shapes has been mostly tackled by voxel and surface point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Marian Kleineberg , Matthias Fey , Frank Weichert

Recently, the self-supervised learning framework data2vec has shown inspiring performance for various modalities using a masked student-teacher approach. However, it remains open whether such a framework generalizes to the unique challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Karim Knaebel , Jonas Schult , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

Training neural networks for tasks such as 3D point cloud semantic segmentation demands extensive datasets, yet obtaining and annotating real-world point clouds is costly and labor-intensive. This work aims to introduce a novel pipeline for…

Generating 3D point clouds is challenging yet highly desired. This work presents a novel autoregressive model, PointGrow, which can generate diverse and realistic point cloud samples from scratch or conditioned on semantic contexts. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Yongbin Sun , Yue Wang , Ziwei Liu , Joshua E. Siegel , Sanjay E. Sarma

Deep generative models such as diffusion and flow matching are powerful machine learning tools capable of learning and sampling from high-dimensional distributions. They are particularly useful when the training data appears to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Zachary Bogorad , Ibrahim Elsharkawy , Yonatan Kahn , Andrew J. Larkoski , Noam Levi

Point clouds are a very efficient way to represent volumetric data in medical imaging. First, they do not occupy resources for empty spaces and therefore can avoid trade-offs between resolution and field-of-view for voxel-based 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Mattias Paul Heinrich

3D data that contains rich geometry information of objects and scenes is valuable for understanding 3D physical world. With the recent emergence of large-scale 3D datasets, it becomes increasingly crucial to have a powerful 3D generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Jianwen Xie , Zilong Zheng , Ruiqi Gao , Wenguan Wang , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

In aerodynamic shape optimization, the convergence and computational cost are greatly affected by the representation capacity and compactness of the design space. Previous research has demonstrated that using a deep generative model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Wei Chen , Arun Ramamurthy

A promising direction for pre-training 3D point clouds is to leverage the massive amount of data in 2D, whereas the domain gap between 2D and 3D creates a fundamental challenge. This paper proposes a novel approach to point-cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Siming Yan , Chen Song , Youkang Kong , Qixing Huang

We introduce methods for obtaining pretrained Geometric Neural Operators (GNPs) that can serve as basal foundation models for use in obtaining geometric features. These can be used within data processing pipelines for machine learning tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Blaine Quackenbush , Paul J. Atzberger

Despite continuous improvements, precipitation forecasts are still not as accurate and reliable as those of other meteorological variables. A major contributing factor to this is that several key processes affecting precipitation…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Lucy Harris , Andrew T. T. McRae , Matthew Chantry , Peter D. Dueben , Tim N. Palmer

This paper examines three major generative modelling frameworks: Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and Stable Diffusion models. VAEs are effective at learning latent representations but frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Sanchayan Vivekananthan

Deep neural networks for 3D point cloud understanding have achieved remarkable success in object classification and recognition, yet recent work shows that these models remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Existing 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Gayathry Chandramana Krishnan Nampoothiry , Raghuram Venkatapuram , Anirban Ghosh , Ayan Dutta

In this work, we propose a novel technique to generate shapes from point cloud data. A point cloud can be viewed as samples from a distribution of 3D points whose density is concentrated near the surface of the shape. Point cloud generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ruojin Cai , Guandao Yang , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Zekun Hao , Serge Belongie , Noah Snavely , Bharath Hariharan

In this paper, we propose a new method for mapping a 3D point cloud to the latent space of a 3D generative adversarial network. Our generative model for 3D point clouds is based on SP-GAN, a state-of-the-art sphere-guided 3D point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Jaeyeon Kim , Binh-Son Hua , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Sai-Kit Yeung

In this letter, we introduce several algorithms for geometry inpainting of 3D point clouds with large holes. The algorithms are examplar-based: hole filling is performed iteratively using templates near the hole boundary to find the best…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-04 Chinthaka Dinesh , Ivan V. Bajic , Gene Cheung

This paper proposes an approach to learn generic multi-modal mesh surface representations using a novel scheme for fusing texture and geometric data. Our approach defines an inverse mapping between different geometric descriptors computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Bilal Taha , Munawar Hayat , Stefano Berretti , Naoufel Werghi