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A 3D point cloud is often synthesized from depth measurements collected by sensors at different viewpoints. The acquired measurements are typically both coarse in precision and corrupted by noise. To improve quality, previous works denoise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Xue Zhang , Gene Cheung , Jiahao Pang , Dong Tian

3D point cloud (PC) -- a collection of discrete geometric samples of a physical object's surface -- is typically large in size, which entails expensive subsequent operations like viewpoint image rendering and object recognition. Leveraging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan Bajic

Point normal, as an intrinsic geometric property of 3D objects, not only serves conventional geometric tasks such as surface consolidation and reconstruction, but also facilitates cutting-edge learning-based techniques for shape analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Haoran Zhou , Honghua Chen , Yingkui Zhang , Mingqiang Wei , Haoran Xie , Jun Wang , Tong Lu , Jing Qin , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Over the past two decades, we have seen an exponentially increased amount of point clouds collected with irregular shapes in various areas. Motivated by the importance of solid modeling for point clouds, we develop a novel and efficient…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-21 Xinyi Li , Shan Yu , Yueying Wang , Guannan Wang , Ming-Jun Lai , Li Wang

3D dynamic point clouds provide a discrete representation of real-world objects or scenes in motion, which have been widely applied in immersive telepresence, autonomous driving, surveillance, etc. However, point clouds acquired from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Qianjiang Hu , Wei Hu

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

Point clouds are an increasingly relevant data type but they are often corrupted by noise. We propose a deep neural network based on graph-convolutional layers that can elegantly deal with the permutation-invariance problem encountered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Francesca Pistilli , Giulia Fracastoro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Point clouds are utilized in various 3D applications such as cross-reality (XR) and realistic 3D displays. In some applications, e.g., for live streaming using a 3D point cloud, real-time point cloud denoising methods are required to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ryosuke Watanabe , Keisuke Nonaka , Eduardo Pavez , Tatsuya Kobayashi , Antonio Ortega

Point cloud, an efficient 3D object representation, has become popular with the development of depth sensing and 3D laser scanning techniques. It has attracted attention in various applications such as 3D tele-presence, navigation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Gusi Te , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo , Amin Zheng

Real-world environment-derived point clouds invariably exhibit noise across varying modalities and intensities. Hence, point cloud denoising (PCD) is essential as a preprocessing step to improve downstream task performance. Deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chengwei Zhang , Xueyi Zhang , Mingrui Lao , Tao Jiang , Xinhao Xu , Wenjie Li , Fubo Zhang , Longyong Chen

With the development of 3D sensing technologies, point clouds have attracted increasing attention in a variety of applications for 3D object representation, such as autonomous driving, 3D immersive tele-presence and heritage reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Junkun Qi , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

In recent years new application areas have emerged in which one aims to capture the geometry of objects by means of three-dimensional point clouds. Often the obtained data consist of a dense sampling of the object's surface, containing many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Daniel Tenbrinck , Fjedor Gaede , Martin Burger

Estimating normals for noisy point clouds is a persistent challenge in 3D geometry processing, particularly for end-to-end oriented normal estimation. Existing methods generally address relatively clean data and rely on supervised priors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Xun Gong , Yu-Shen Liu

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

Point cloud obtained from 3D scanning is often sparse, noisy, and irregular. To cope with these issues, recent studies have been separately conducted to densify, denoise, and complete inaccurate point cloud. In this paper, we advocate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jaesung Choe , Byeongin Joung , Francois Rameau , Jaesik Park , In So Kweon

In this paper, we propose a normal estimation method for unstructured 3D point clouds. In this method, a feature constraint mechanism called Local Plane Features Constraint (LPFC) is used and then a multi-scale selection strategy is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jun Zhou , Hua Huang , Bin Liu , Xiuping Liu

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

As a collection of 3D points sampled from surfaces of objects, a 3D point cloud is widely used in robotics, autonomous driving and augmented reality. Due to the physical limitations of 3D sensing devices, 3D point clouds are usually noisy,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Chaojing Duan , Siheng Chen , Jelena Kovačević

Generating continuous surfaces from discrete point cloud data is a fundamental task in several 3D vision applications. Real-world point clouds are inherently noisy due to various technical and environmental factors. Existing data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Stuti Pathak , Rhys G. Evans , Gunther Steenackers , Rudi Penne

Pre-trained point cloud analysis models have shown promising advancements in various downstream tasks, yet their effectiveness is typically suffering from low-quality point cloud (i.e., noise and incompleteness), which is a common issue in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Zixiang Ai , Zhenyu Cui , Yuxin Peng , Jiahuan Zhou