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The promotion of construction robots can solve the problem of human resource shortage and improve the quality of decoration. To help the construction robots obtain environmental information, we need to use 3D point cloud, which is widely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xudong Li , Li Feng , Lei Li , Chen Wang

With the rapid progress of multimodal foundation models and predictive pre-training, an important open question is how to equip 3D point clouds with a pre-training paradigm that is better aligned with next-token and next-embedding learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yumeng Yao , Jingzhi Dong , Haowen Gu , Tao Chen , Zonghan Wu , Xiaoshui Huang , Yazhou Yao

Efficiently generating energetically stable crystal structures has long been a challenge in material design, primarily due to the immense arrangement of atoms in a crystal lattice. To facilitate the discovery of stable material, we present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhelin Li , Rami Mrad , Runxian Jiao , Guan Huang , Jun Shan , Shibing Chu , Yuanping Chen

This work presents a generative adversarial architecture for generating three-dimensional shapes based on signed distance representations. While the deep generation of shapes has been mostly tackled by voxel and surface point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Marian Kleineberg , Matthias Fey , Frank Weichert

Existing techniques to compress point cloud attributes leverage either geometric or video-based compression tools. We explore a radically different approach inspired by recent advances in point cloud representation learning. Point clouds…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Maurice Quach , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux

Point cloud completion aims to reconstruct complete 3D shapes from partial observations, which is a challenging problem due to severe occlusions and missing geometry. Despite recent advances in multimodal techniques that leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wang Luo , Di Wu , Hengyuan Na , Yinlin Zhu , Miao Hu , Guocong Quan

Point cloud completion aims to recover the complete shape based on a partial observation. Existing methods require either complete point clouds or multiple partial observations of the same object for learning. In contrast to previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Ruikai Cui , Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Jiawei Liu , Chaoyue Xing , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

In this paper, we propose PCPNet, a deep-learning based approach for estimating local 3D shape properties in point clouds. In contrast to the majority of prior techniques that concentrate on global or mid-level attributes, e.g., for shape…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Paul Guerrero , Yanir Kleiman , Maks Ovsjanikov , Niloy J. Mitra

Discrete point cloud objects lack sufficient shape descriptors of 3D geometries. In this paper, we present a novel method for aggregating hypothetical curves in point clouds. Sequences of connected points (curves) are initially grouped by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Tiange Xiang , Chaoyi Zhang , Yang Song , Jianhui Yu , Weidong Cai

A 3D point cloud describes the real scene precisely and intuitively.To date how to segment diversified elements in such an informative 3D scene is rarely discussed. In this paper, we first introduce a simple and flexible framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Xinlong Wang , Shu Liu , Xiaoyong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Jiaya Jia

This paper investigates an open research task of reconstructing and generating 3D point clouds. Most existing works of 3D generative models directly take the Gaussian prior as input for the decoder to generate 3D point clouds, which fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Yunfan Zhang , Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Vun Chan Hua Nicholas , Zhiqi Shen , Chunyan Miao

Point cloud registration for 3D objects is a challenging task due to sparse and noisy measurements, incomplete observations and large transformations. In this work, we propose \textbf{G}raph \textbf{M}atching \textbf{C}onsensus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Liang Pan , Zhongang Cai , Ziwei Liu

As the development of 3D sensors, registration of 3D data (e.g. point cloud) coming from different kind of sensor is dispensable and shows great demanding. However, point cloud registration between different sensors is challenging because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Xiaoshui Huang

Over the last decade, the demand for better segmentation and classification algorithms in 3D spaces has significantly grown due to the popularity of new 3D sensor technologies and advancements in the field of robotics. Point-clouds are one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Felipe Gomez Marulanda , Pieter Libin , Timothy Verstraeten , Ann Nowé

The Gaussian diffusion model, initially designed for image generation, has recently been adapted for 3D point cloud generation. However, these adaptations have not fully considered the intrinsic geometric characteristics of 3D shapes,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Dengsheng Chen , Jie Hu , Xiaoming Wei , Enhua Wu

In contrast to the literature where local patterns in 3D point clouds are captured by customized convolutional operators, in this paper we study the problem of how to effectively and efficiently project such point clouds into a 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Yecheng Lyu , Xinming Huang , Ziming Zhang

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach for acquiring transferable 3D representations from unlabeled 3D point clouds. Unlike 2D images, which are widely accessible, acquiring 3D assets requires specialized expertise or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xuweiyi Chen , Zezhou Cheng

Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure. Due to its irregular format, most researchers transform such data to regular 3D voxel grids or collections of images. This, however, renders data unnecessarily voluminous and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Charles R. Qi , Hao Su , Kaichun Mo , Leonidas J. Guibas

Deep generative architectures provide a way to model not only images but also complex, 3-dimensional objects, such as point clouds. In this work, we present a novel method to obtain meaningful representations of 3D shapes that can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Piotr Klukowski , Rafał Nowak , Karol Kurach , Wojciech Stokowiec , Tomasz Trzciński

We introduce PC2WF, the first end-to-end trainable deep network architecture to convert a 3D point cloud into a wireframe model. The network takes as input an unordered set of 3D points sampled from the surface of some object, and outputs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Yujia Liu , Stefano D'Aronco , Konrad Schindler , Jan Dirk Wegner