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Point cloud surface reconstruction has improved in accuracy with advances in deep learning, enabling applications such as infrastructure inspection. Recent approaches that reconstruct from small local regions rather than entire point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Eito Ogawa , Taiga Hayami , Hiroshi Watanabe

Point cloud stands as the most widely adopted format for representing 3D shapes and scenes due to its simplicity and geometric fidelity. However, its inherent unordered and irregular nature, exacerbated by sensor noise and occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhas Kamal , Hiranya Garbha Kumar , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

Learning invariant representations from images is one of the hardest challenges facing computer vision. Spatial pooling is widely used to create invariance to spatial shifting, but it is restricted to convolutional models. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Takaki Makino , Kazuyuki Aihara

Implicit function based surface reconstruction has been studied for a long time to recover 3D shapes from point clouds sampled from surfaces. Recently, Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) and Occupany Functions are adopted in learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Meng Jia , Matthew Kyan

Robust point cloud registration is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision and geometric deep learning, essential for applications such as large-scale 3D reconstruction, augmented reality, and scene understanding. However, the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Dongxu Zhang , Yingsen Wang , Yiding Sun , Haoran Xu , Peilin Fan , Jihua Zhu

This paper explores the problem of reconstructing temporally consistent surfaces from a 3D point cloud sequence without correspondence. To address this challenging task, we propose DynoSurf, an unsupervised learning framework integrating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuxin Yao , Siyu Ren , Junhui Hou , Zhi Deng , Juyong Zhang , Wenping Wang

Point cloud is a collection of 3D coordinates that are discrete geometric samples of an object's 2D surfaces. Imperfection in the acquisition process means that point clouds are often corrupted with noise. Building on recent advances in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-20 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic

The growing size of point clouds enlarges consumptions of storage, transmission, and computation of 3D scenes. Raw data is redundant, noisy, and non-uniform. Therefore, simplifying point clouds for achieving compact, clean, and uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yuanqi Li , Jianwei Guo , Xinran Yang , Shun Liu , Jie Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yanwen Guo

With the development of the 3D data acquisition facilities, the increasing scale of acquired 3D point clouds poses a challenge to the existing data compression techniques. Although promising performance has been achieved in static point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Guangchi Fang , Qingyong Hu , Yiling Xu , Yulan Guo

Fine-grained action detection is an important task with numerous applications in robotics and human-computer interaction. Existing methods typically utilize a two-stage approach including extraction of local spatio-temporal features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Khoi-Nguyen C. Mac , Dhiraj Joshi , Raymond A. Yeh , Jinjun Xiong , Rogerio S. Feris , Minh N. Do

Current point cloud processing algorithms do not have the capability to automatically extract semantic information from the observed scenes, except in very specialized cases. Furthermore, existing mesh analysis paradigms cannot be directly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Reed M. Williams , Horea T. Ilieş

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

Temporal information plays a pivotal role in Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) driving scene understanding, which can alleviate the visual information sparsity. However, the indiscriminate temporal fusion method will cause the barrier of feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Siyu Li , Jiacheng Lin , Hao Shi , Jiaming Zhang , Song Wang , You Yao , Zhiyong Li , Kailun Yang

Exploring contextual information in the local region is important for shape understanding and analysis. Existing studies often employ hand-crafted or explicit ways to encode contextual information of local regions. However, it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

This work addresses the problem of point cloud registration using deep neural networks. We propose an approach to predict the alignment between two point clouds with overlapping data content, but displaced origins. Such point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Markus Horn , Nico Engel , Vasileios Belagiannis , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer

We present a novel deep learning framework for flow field predictions in irregular domains when the solution is a function of the geometry of either the domain or objects inside the domain. Grid vertices in a computational fluid dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ali Kashefi , Davis Rempe , Leonidas J. Guibas

We address the problem of learning accurate 3D shape and camera pose from a collection of unlabeled category-specific images. We train a convolutional network to predict both the shape and the pose from a single image by minimizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Eldar Insafutdinov , Alexey Dosovitskiy

We present a learning-based method for interpolating and manipulating 3D shapes represented as point clouds, that is explicitly designed to preserve intrinsic shape properties. Our approach is based on constructing a dual encoding space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Maks Ovsjanikov

Rigid registration of partial observations is a fundamental problem in various applied fields. In computer graphics, special attention has been given to the registration between two partial point clouds generated by scanning devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Zihao Yan , Zimu Yi , Ruizhen Hu , Niloy J. Mitra , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

Over the last decade, deep learning has shown great success at performing computer vision tasks, including classification, super-resolution, and style transfer. Now, we apply it to data compression to help build the next generation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Mateen Ulhaq