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Point clouds provide a compact and efficient representation of 3D shapes. While deep neural networks have achieved impressive results on point cloud learning tasks, they require massive amounts of manually labeled data, which can be costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Han Qiao , Nayun Xu , Vladimir G. Kim

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

Contemporary point cloud segmentation approaches largely rely on richly annotated 3D training data. However, it is both time-consuming and challenging to obtain consistently accurate annotations for such 3D scene data. Moreover, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Jiaxu Liu , Zhengdi Yu , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

Point cloud data has been extensively studied due to its compact form and flexibility in representing complex 3D structures. The ability of point cloud data to accurately capture and represent intricate 3D geometry makes it an ideal choice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ben Fei , Weidong Yang , Liwen Liu , Tianyue Luo , Rui Zhang , Yixuan Li , Ying He

This paper presents a novel non-local part-aware deep neural network to denoise point clouds by exploring the inherent non-local self-similarity in 3D objects and scenes. Different from existing works that explore small local patches, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Chao Huang , Ruihui Li , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu

Point cloud denoising is a fundamental and crucial challenge in real-world point cloud applications. Existing quantitative evaluation metrics for point cloud denoising methods are implemented in a supervised manner, which requires both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhiyong Su , Jincan Wu , Yonghui Liu , Zheng Li , Weiqing Li

Acquired 3D point cloud data, whether from active sensors directly or from stereo-matching algorithms indirectly, typically contain non-negligible noise. To address the point cloud denoising problem, we propose a fast graph-based local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-01 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic , Cheng Yang

Recovering high quality surfaces from noisy point clouds, known as point cloud denoising, is a fundamental yet challenging problem in geometry processing. Most of the existing methods either directly denoise the noisy input or filter raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zheng Liu , Yaowu Zhao , Sijing Zhan , Yuanyuan Liu , Renjie Chen , Ying He

Surface reconstruction from an unorganized point cloud is an important problem due to its widespread applications. White noise, possibly clustered outliers, and noisy perturbation may be generated when a point cloud is sampled from a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Siu-Wing Cheng , Man-Kit Lau

Real noisy-clean pairs on a large scale are costly and difficult to obtain. Meanwhile, supervised denoisers trained on synthetic data perform poorly in practice. Self-supervised denoisers, which learn only from single noisy images, solve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Zejin Wang , Jiazheng Liu , Guoqing Li , Hua Han

Object classification using LiDAR 3D point cloud data is critical for modern applications such as autonomous driving. However, labeling point cloud data is labor-intensive as it requires human annotators to visualize and inspect the 3D data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Wang , Reza Arablouei , Jiajun Liu , Paulo Borges , Greg Bishop-Hurley , Nicholas Heaney

We present a novel approach to learning a point-wise, meaningful embedding for point-clouds in an unsupervised manner, through the use of neural-networks. The domain of point-cloud processing via neural-networks is rapidly evolving, with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Matan Shoef , Sharon Fogel , Daniel Cohen-Or

We investigate the task of learning blind image denoising networks from an unpaired set of clean and noisy images. Such problem setting generally is practical and valuable considering that it is feasible to collect unpaired noisy and clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Xiaohe Wu , Ming Liu , Yue Cao , Dongwei Ren , Wangmeng Zuo

Learning signed distance functions (SDFs) from point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. However, without ground truth signed distances, point normals or clean point clouds, current methods still struggle from learning SDFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

To alleviate the cost of collecting and annotating large-scale point cloud datasets, we propose an unsupervised learning approach to learn features from unlabeled point cloud "3D object" dataset by using part contrasting and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ling Zhang , Zhigang Zhu

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

Learning signed distance functions (SDFs) from 3D point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. However, without ground truth signed distances, point normals or clean point clouds, current methods still struggle from learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Point cloud data have been widely explored due to its superior accuracy and robustness under various adverse situations. Meanwhile, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved very impressive success in various applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Aoran Xiao , Jiaxing Huang , Dayan Guan , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shijian Lu , Ling Shao

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

Understanding and representing the structure of 3D objects in an unsupervised manner remains a core challenge in computer vision and graphics. Most existing unsupervised keypoint methods are not designed for unconditional generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Rhys Newbury , Juyan Zhang , Tin Tran , Hanna Kurniawati , Dana Kulić