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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

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense and uniformly distributed point sets from sparse point clouds. Existing point cloud upsampling methods typically approach the task as an interpolation problem. They achieve upsampling by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Ziming Nie , Qiao Wu , Chenlei Lv , Siwen Quan , Zhaoshuai Qi , Muze Wang , Jiaqi Yang

Recovering dense and uniformly distributed point clouds from sparse or noisy data remains a significant challenge. Recently, great progress has been made on these tasks, but usually at the cost of increasingly intricate modules or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jihe Li , Bo Pang , Peng-Shuai Wang

Driven by the increasing demand for accurate and efficient representation of 3D data in various domains, point cloud sampling has emerged as a pivotal research topic in 3D computer vision. Recently, learning-to-sample methods have garnered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chengzhi Wu , Yuxin Wan , Hao Fu , Julius Pfrommer , Zeyun Zhong , Junwei Zheng , Jiaming Zhang , Jürgen Beyerer

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 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

3D point cloud completion, the task of inferring the complete geometric shape from a partial point cloud, has been attracting attention in the community. For acquiring high-fidelity dense point clouds and avoiding uneven distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Minghua Liu , Lu Sheng , Sheng Yang , Jing Shao , Shi-Min Hu

Sampling, grouping, and aggregation are three important components in the multi-scale analysis of point clouds. In this paper, we present a novel data-driven sampler learning strategy for point-wise analysis tasks. Unlike the widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yiqun Lin , Lichang Chen , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Xiaoguang Han , Shuguang Cui

As a popular representation of 3D data, point cloud may contain noise and need to be filtered before use. Existing point cloud filtering methods either cannot preserve sharp features or result in uneven point distribution in the filtered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Shuaijun Chen , Jinxi Wang , Wei Pan , Shang Gao , Meili Wang , Xuequan Lu

In recent years, point cloud representation has become one of the research hotspots in the field of computer vision, and has been widely used in many fields, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality, robotics, etc. Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Huang Zhang , Changshuo Wang , Shengwei Tian , Baoli Lu , Liping Zhang , Xin Ning , Xiao Bai

Automatic synthesis of high quality 3D shapes is an ongoing and challenging area of research. While several data-driven methods have been proposed that make use of neural networks to generate 3D shapes, none of them reach the level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Isaak Lim , Moritz Ibing , Leif Kobbelt

3D point cloud analysis has drawn a lot of research attention due to its wide applications. However, collecting massive labelled 3D point cloud data is both time-consuming and labor-intensive. This calls for data-efficient learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Chaitanya K. Joshi , Jie Lin

Large-scale datasets are usually required to train deep neural networks, but it increases the computational complexity hindering the practical applications. Recently, dataset distillation for images and texts has been attracting a lot of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jae-Young Yim , Dongwook Kim , Jae-Young Sim

Recently, research using point clouds has been increasing with the development of 3D scanner technology. According to this trend, the demand for high-quality point clouds is increasing, but there is still a problem with the high cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Hyungjun Lee , Sejoon Lim

Recent advances in generative modeling have demonstrated strong promise for high-quality point cloud upsampling. In this work, we present PUFM++, an enhanced flow-matching framework for reconstructing dense and accurate point clouds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Roland Maier , Andreas Rupp

Three-dimensional (3D) object recognition is crucial for intelligent autonomous agents such as autonomous vehicles and robots alike to operate effectively in unstructured environments. Most state-of-art approaches rely on relatively dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Prajval Kumar Murali , Cong Wang , Ravinder Dahiya , Mohsen Kaboli

We propose a generative adversarial network for point cloud upsampling, which can not only make the upsampled points evenly distributed on the underlying surface but also efficiently generate clean high frequency regions. The generator of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Hao Liu , Hui Yuan , Junhui Hou , Raouf Hamzaoui , Wei Gao

Point cloud representation has gained traction due to its efficient memory usage and simplicity in acquisition, manipulation, and storage. However, as point cloud sizes increase, effective down-sampling becomes essential to address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Shubham Bhardwaj , Ashwin Vinod , Soumojit Bhattacharya , Aryan Koganti , Aditya Sai Ellendula , Balakrishna Reddy

Point cloud upsampling is essential for high-quality augmented reality, virtual reality, and telepresence applications, due to the capture, processing, and communication limitations of existing technologies. Although geometry upsampling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Lingdong Wang , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Jacob Chakareski , Ramesh K. Sitaraman

Semantic segmentation of aerial point cloud data can be utilised to differentiate which points belong to classes such as ground, buildings, or vegetation. Point clouds generated from aerial sensors mounted to drones or planes can utilise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Matthew Howe , Boris Repasky , Timothy Payne