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We present a detail-driven deep neural network for point set upsampling. A high-resolution point set is essential for point-based rendering and surface reconstruction. Inspired by the recent success of neural image super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Wang Yifan , Shihao Wu , Hui Huang , Daniel Cohen-Or , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Point cloud upsampling is crucial for tasks like 3D reconstruction. While existing methods rely on patch-based inputs, and there is no research discussing the differences and principles between point cloud model full input and patch based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Tongxu Zhang

Recently, deep learning methods have shown great success in 3D point cloud upsampling. Among these methods, many feature expansion units were proposed to complete point expansion at the end. In this paper, we compare various feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Qiang Li , Tao Dai , Shu-Tao Xia

Point clouds produced by 3D sensors are often sparse and noisy, posing challenges for tasks requiring dense and high-fidelity 3D representations. Prior work has explored both implicit feature-based upsampling and distance-function learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mahmoud Khater , Mona Strauss , Philipp von Olshausen , Alexander Reiterer

In this paper, we tackle the challenging problem of point cloud completion from the perspective of feature learning. Our key observation is that to recover the underlying structures as well as surface details, given partial input, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Zejia Su , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

Among 2D convolutional networks on point clouds, point-based approaches consume point clouds of fixed size directly. By analysis of PointNet, a pioneer in introducing deep learning into point sets, we reveal that current point-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Zhenpeng Chen , Yuan li

This paper addresses the problem of generating uniform dense point clouds to describe the underlying geometric structures from given sparse point clouds. Due to the irregular and unordered nature, point cloud densification as a generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Yue Qian , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Ying He

Despite the recent development of deep learning-based point cloud upsampling, most MLP-based point cloud upsampling methods have limitations in that it is difficult to train the local and global structure of the point cloud at the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Dohoon Kim , Minwoo Shin , Joonki Paik

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

Point clouds upsampling is a challenging issue to generate dense and uniform point clouds from the given sparse input. Most existing methods either take the end-to-end supervised learning based manner, where large amounts of pairs of sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Wenbo Zhao , Xianming Liu , Zhiwei Zhong , Junjun Jiang , Wei Gao , Ge Li , Xiangyang Ji

We introduce a novel technique for neural point cloud consolidation which learns from only the input point cloud. Unlike other point upsampling methods which analyze shapes via local patches, in this work, we learn from global subsets. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Gal Metzer , Rana Hanocka , Raja Giryes , Daniel Cohen-Or

Point clouds acquired from 3D sensors are usually sparse and noisy. Point cloud upsampling is an approach to increase the density of the point cloud so that detailed geometric information can be restored. In this paper, we propose a Dual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zhi-Song Liu , Zijia Wang , Zhen Jia

Single-photon sensing has generated great interest as a prominent technique of long-distance and ultra-sensitive imaging, however, it tends to yield sparse and spatially biased point clouds, thus limiting its practical utility. In this…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 Jinyi Liu , Guoyang Zhao , Lijun Liu , Yiguang Hong , Weiping Zhang , Shuming Cheng

In recent years, point cloud upsampling has been widely applied in tasks such as 3D reconstruction and object recognition. This study proposed a novel framework, ReLPU, which enhances upsampling performance by explicitly learning from both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Tongxu Zhang , Bei Wang

The ever-increasing 3D application makes the point cloud compression unprecedentedly important and needed. In this paper, we propose a patch-based compression process using deep learning, focusing on the lossy point cloud geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Kang You , Pan Gao

Recently, arbitrary-scale point cloud upsampling mechanism became increasingly popular due to its efficiency and convenience for practical applications. To achieve this, most previous approaches formulate it as a problem of surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Hang Du , Xuejun Yan , Jingjing Wang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

Point clouds produced by 3D scanning are often sparse, non-uniform, and noisy. Recent upsampling approaches aim to generate a dense point set, while achieving both distribution uniformity and proximity-to-surface, and possibly amending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ruihui Li , Xianzhi Li , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu

Point clouds, being the simple and compact representation of surface geometry of 3D objects, have gained increasing popularity with the evolution of deep learning networks for classification and segmentation tasks. Unlike human, teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Sindhu Hegde , Shankar Gangisetty

The application of deep learning to 3D point clouds is challenging due to its lack of order. Inspired by the point embeddings of PointNet and the edge embeddings of DGCNNs, we propose three improvements to the task of point cloud analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Suresh Manandhar

Processing large point clouds is a challenging task. Therefore, the data is often downsampled to a smaller size such that it can be stored, transmitted and processed more efficiently without incurring significant performance degradation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yang Ye , Xiulong Yang , Shihao Ji