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Point clouds and polygonal meshes are widely used when modeling real-world scenarios. Here, point clouds arise, for instance, from acquisition processes applied in various surroundings, such as reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, or…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Henriette Lipschütz , Ulrich Reitebuch , Konrad Polthier , Martin Skrodzki

Existing point cloud modeling datasets primarily express the modeling precision by pose or trajectory precision rather than the point cloud modeling effect itself. Under this demand, we first independently construct a set of LiDAR system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Changjie Qiu , Zhiyong Wang , Xiuhong Lin , Yu Zang , Cheng Wang , Weiquan Liu

In this paper, we propose PASS3D to achieve point-wise semantic segmentation for 3D point cloud. Our framework combines the efficiency of traditional geometric methods with robustness of deep learning methods, consisting of two stages: At…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Xin Kong , Guangyao Zhai , Baoquan Zhong , Yong Liu

Point cloud analysis has a wide range of applications in many areas such as computer vision, robotic manipulation, and autonomous driving. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success on image-based tasks, there are many unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Sushmita Sarker , Prithul Sarker , Gunner Stone , Ryan Gorman , Alireza Tavakkoli , George Bebis , Javad Sattarvand

Point cloud analysis is challenging due to irregularity and unordered data structure. To capture the 3D geometries, prior works mainly rely on exploring sophisticated local geometric extractors using convolution, graph, or attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xu Ma , Can Qin , Haoxuan You , Haoxi Ran , Yun Fu

Object parsing and segmentation from point clouds are challenging tasks because the relevant data is available only as thin structures along object boundaries or other features, and is corrupted by large amounts of noise. To handle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Adrian Barbu

Diffusion models are a powerful framework for tackling ill-posed problems, with recent advancements extending their use to point cloud upsampling. Despite their potential, existing diffusion models struggle with inefficiencies as they map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Lei Li

3D scanning is a complex multistage process that generates a point cloud of an object typically containing damaged parts due to occlusions, reflections, shadows, scanner motion, specific properties of the object surface, imperfect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Taras Rumezhak , Oles Dobosevych , Rostyslav Hryniv , Vladyslav Selotkin , Volodymyr Karpiv , Mykola Maksymenko

We present Topological Point Cloud Clustering (TPCC), a new method to cluster points in an arbitrary point cloud based on their contribution to global topological features. TPCC synthesizes desirable features from spectral clustering and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

We present a network architecture for processing point clouds that directly operates on a collection of points represented as a sparse set of samples in a high-dimensional lattice. Naively applying convolutions on this lattice scales…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Hang Su , Varun Jampani , Deqing Sun , Subhransu Maji , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jan Kautz

The continual improvement of 3D sensors has driven the development of algorithms to perform point cloud analysis. In fact, techniques for point cloud classification and segmentation have in recent years achieved incredible performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Junming Zhang , Weijia Chen , Yuping Wang , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

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

Curve skeleton extraction from unorganized point cloud is a fundamental task of computer vision and three-dimensional data preprocessing and visualization. A great amount of work has been done to extract skeleton from point cloud. but the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Yan Lin , Ji Liu , Jianlin Zhou

In this paper, we propose PCPNet, a deep-learning based approach for estimating local 3D shape properties in point clouds. In contrast to the majority of prior techniques that concentrate on global or mid-level attributes, e.g., for shape…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Paul Guerrero , Yanir Kleiman , Maks Ovsjanikov , Niloy J. Mitra

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

The reconstruction of real-world surfaces is on high demand in various applications. Most existing reconstruction approaches apply 3D scanners for creating point clouds which are generally sparse and of low density. These points clouds will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rajat Sharma , Tobias Schwandt , Christian Kunert , Steffen Urban , Wolfgang Broll

We study the task of weakly-supervised point cloud semantic segmentation with sparse annotations (e.g., less than 0.1% points are labeled), aiming to reduce the expensive cost of dense annotations. Unfortunately, with extremely sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Lizhao Liu , Zhuangwei Zhuang , Shangxin Huang , Xunlong Xiao , Tianhang Xiang , Cen Chen , Jingdong Wang , Mingkui Tan

Point cloud processing as a fundamental task in the field of geomatics and computer vision, has been supporting tasks and applications at different scales from air to ground, including mapping, environmental monitoring, urban/tree structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zhenxin Zhang , Zhihua Xu , Yuwei Cao , Ningli Xu , Shuye Wang , Shen'ao Cui , Zhen Li , Rongjun Qin

Point clouds have become increasingly vital across various applications thanks to their ability to realistically depict 3D objects and scenes. Nevertheless, effectively compressing unstructured, high-precision point cloud data remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hongning Ruan , Yulin Shao , Qianqian Yang , Liang Zhao , Dusit Niyato

Geometrical structures and the internal local region relationship, such as symmetry, regular array, junction, etc., are essential for understanding a 3D shape. This paper proposes a point cloud feature extraction network named PointSCNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Xingye Chen , Yiqi Wu , Wenjie Xu , Jin Li , Huaiyi Dong , Yilin Chen