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Reconstructing meshes from point clouds is a fundamental task in computer vision with applications spanning robotics, autonomous systems, and medical imaging. Selecting an appropriate learning-based method requires understanding trade-offs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Fatima Zahra Iguenfer , Achraf Hsain , Hiba Amissa , Yousra Chtouki

Generating 3D point clouds is challenging yet highly desired. This work presents a novel autoregressive model, PointGrow, which can generate diverse and realistic point cloud samples from scratch or conditioned on semantic contexts. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Yongbin Sun , Yue Wang , Ziwei Liu , Joshua E. Siegel , Sanjay E. Sarma

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gunner Stone , Sushmita Sarker , Alireza Tavakkoli

This paper focuses on a novel generative approach for 3D point clouds that makes use of invertible flow-based models. The main idea of the method is to treat a point cloud as a probability density in 3D space that is modeled using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Jan Chorowski

Mesh generation is of great value in various applications involving computer graphics and virtual content, yet designing generative models for meshes is challenging due to their irregular data structure and inconsistent topology of meshes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Zhaoyang Lyu , Jinyi Wang , Yuwei An , Ya Zhang , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

A point cloud serves as a representation of the surface of a three-dimensional (3D) shape. Deep generative models have been adapted to model their variations typically using a map from a ball-like set of latent variables. However, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Takumi Kimura , Takashi Matsubara , Kuniaki Uehara

3D point cloud generation by the deep neural network from a single image has been attracting more and more researchers' attention. However, recently-proposed methods require the objects be captured with relatively clean backgrounds, fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Yan Xia , Yang Zhang , Dingfu Zhou , Xinyu Huang , Cheng Wang , Ruigang Yang

Recovering point clouds involves the sequential process of sampling and restoration, yet existing methods struggle to effectively leverage both topological and geometric attributes. To address this, we propose an end-to-end architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaiyue Zhou , Zelong Tan , Hongxiao Wang , Ya-Li Li , Shengjin Wang

Quad meshes are essential in geometric modeling and computational mechanics. Although learning-based methods for triangle mesh demonstrate considerable advancements, quad mesh generation remains less explored due to the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zezeng Li , Zhihui Qi , Weimin Wang , Ziliang Wang , Junyi Duan , Na Lei

This paper addresses the problem of generating uniform dense point clouds to describe the underlying geometric structures from given sparse point clouds. Due to the irregular and unordered nature, point cloud densification as a generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Yue Qian , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Ying He

The ever-increasing 3D application makes the point cloud compression unprecedentedly important and needed. In this paper, we propose a patch-based compression process using deep learning, focusing on the lossy point cloud geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Kang You , Pan Gao

This paper addresses the problem of generating dense point clouds from given sparse point clouds to model the underlying geometric structures of objects/scenes. To tackle this challenging issue, we propose a novel end-to-end learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yue Qian , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Ying He

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Panos Achlioptas , Olga Diamanti , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Leonidas Guibas

In recent years, point cloud generation has gained significant attention in 3D generative modeling. Among existing approaches, point-based methods directly generate point clouds without relying on other representations such as latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Petr Molodyk , Jaemoo Choi , David W. Romero , Ming-Yu Liu , Yongxin Chen

Collider data generation with machine learning has become increasingly popular in particle physics due to the high computational cost of conventional Monte Carlo simulations, particularly for future high-luminosity colliders. We propose a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-08-12 Benno Käch , Isabell Melzer-Pellmann , Dirk Krücker

We introduce deep neural networks for the analysis of anatomical shapes that learn a low-dimensional shape representation from the given task, instead of relying on hand-engineered representations. Our framework is modular and consists of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Benjamin Gutierrez Becker , Ignacio Sarasua , Christian Wachinger

We study the problem of shape generation in 3D mesh representation from a few color images with known camera poses. While many previous works learn to hallucinate the shape directly from priors, we resort to further improving the shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Chao Wen , Yinda Zhang , Zhuwen Li , Yanwei Fu

We propose a method to generate 3D shapes using point clouds. Given a point-cloud representation of a 3D shape, our method builds a kd-tree to spatially partition the points. This orders them consistently across all shapes, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Matheus Gadelha , Subhransu Maji , Rui Wang

This paper introduces a novel framework called DTNet for 3D mesh reconstruction and generation via Disentangled Topology. Beyond previous works, we learn a topology-aware neural template specific to each input then deform the template to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Ka-Hei Hui , Ruihui Li , Jingyu Hu , Chi-Wing Fu

Man-made objects usually exhibit descriptive curved features (i.e., curve networks). The curve network of an object conveys its high-level geometric and topological structure. We present a framework for extracting feature curve networks…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Yuanhao Cao , Liangliang Nan , Peter Wonka