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Using heterogeneous depth cameras and 3D scanners in 3D face verification causes variations in the resolution of the 3D point clouds. To solve this issue, previous studies use 3D registration techniques. Out of these proposed techniques,…

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Generative AI, i.e., the group of technologies that automatically generate visual or written content based on text prompts, has undergone a leap in complexity and become widely available within just a few years. Such technologies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Nanna Inie , Jeanette Falk , Steven Tanimoto

Generating realistic 3D indoor scenes from user inputs remains a challenging problem in computer vision and graphics, requiring careful balance of geometric consistency, spatial relationships, and visual realism. While neural generation…

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We build rearticulable models for arbitrary everyday man-made objects containing an arbitrary number of parts that are connected together in arbitrary ways via 1 degree-of-freedom joints. Given point cloud videos of such everyday objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Shaowei Liu , Saurabh Gupta , Shenlong Wang

A 3D point cloud is an unstructured, sparse, and irregular dataset, typically collected by airborne LiDAR systems over a geological region. Laser pulses emitted from these systems reflect off objects both on and above the ground, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Hong Zhao , Huyunting Huang , Tonglin Zhang , Baijian Yang , Jin Wei-Kocsis , Songlin Fei

Generating realistic 3D point clouds is a fundamental problem in computer vision with applications in remote sensing, robotics, and digital object modeling. Existing generative approaches primarily capture geometry, and when semantics are…

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This work considers a new task in geometric deep learning: generating a triangulation among a set of points in 3D space. We present PointTriNet, a differentiable and scalable approach enabling point set triangulation as a layer in 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Nicholas Sharp , Maks Ovsjanikov

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and its sub-branch machine learning (ML) promise machines that go beyond the boundaries of automation and behave autonomously. Applications of these machines in creative practices such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Ardavan Bidgoli , Eunsu Kang , Daniel Cardoso Llach

The core of self-supervised point cloud learning lies in setting up appropriate pretext tasks, to construct a pre-training framework that enables the encoder to perceive 3D objects effectively. In this paper, we integrate two prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yun Liu , Peng Li , Xuefeng Yan , Liangliang Nan , Bing Wang , Honghua Chen , Lina Gong , Wei Zhao , Mingqiang Wei

This paper tackles the problem of parts-aware point cloud generation. Unlike existing works which require the point cloud to be segmented into parts a priori, our parts-aware editing and generation are performed in an unsupervised manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Shidi Li , Miaomiao Liu , Christian Walder

Three-dimensional geometric data offer an excellent domain for studying representation learning and generative modeling. In this paper, we look at geometric data represented as point clouds. We introduce a deep AutoEncoder (AE) network with…

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The main power of artificial intelligence is not in modeling what we already know, but in creating solutions that are new. Such solutions exist in extremely large, high-dimensional, and complex search spaces. Population-based search…

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This paper presents a computational model for conceptual shifts, based on a novelty metric applied to a vector representation generated through deep learning. This model is integrated into a co-creative design system, which enables a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Pegah Karimi , Mary Lou Maher , Nicholas Davis , Kazjon Grace

Generating structured ASCII art using computational techniques demands a careful interplay between aesthetic representation and computational precision, requiring models that can effectively translate visual information into symbolic text…

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Generative AI systems have been heralded as tools for augmenting human creativity and inspiring divergent thinking, though with little empirical evidence for these claims. This paper explores the effects of exposure to AI-generated images…

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At I/ITSEC 2019, the authors presented a fully-automated workflow to segment 3D photogrammetric point-clouds/meshes and extract object information, including individual tree locations and ground materials (Chen et al., 2019). The ultimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Meida Chen , Andrew Feng , Kyle McCullough , Pratusha Bhuvana Prasad , Ryan McAlinden , Lucio Soibelman

We present a new deep point cloud rendering pipeline through multi-plane projections. The input to the network is the raw point cloud of a scene and the output are image or image sequences from a novel view or along a novel camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Peng Dai , Yinda Zhang , Zhuwen Li , Shuaicheng Liu , Bing Zeng

Practical garment design spans two modes: intuitive creation from high-level intent, such as a reference image or text description, and complex low-level editing across 2D sewing patterns and 3D draped geometry, which requires professional…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kiyohiro Nakayama , I-Chao Shen , Ruofan Liu , Yiming Wang , Gordon Wetzstein , Takeo Igarashi

AI image generators based on diffusion models have recently garnered attention for their capability to create images from simple text prompts. However, for practical use in civil engineering they need to be able to create specific…

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