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Learning and analyzing 3D point clouds with deep networks is challenging due to the sparseness and irregularity of the data. In this paper, we present a data-driven point cloud upsampling technique. The key idea is to learn multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Lequan Yu , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ahmed ElSayed , Elif Kongar , Ausif Mahmood , Tarek Sobh , Terrance Boult

Point cloud completion is the task of predicting complete geometry from partial observations using a point set representation for a 3D shape. Previous approaches propose neural networks to directly estimate the whole point cloud through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Alexis Mendoza , Alexander Apaza , Ivan Sipiran , Cristian Lopez

Learning local descriptors is an important problem in computer vision. While there are many techniques for learning local patch descriptors for 2D images, recently efforts have been made for learning local descriptors for 3D points. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Siddharth Srivastava , Brejesh Lall

Strong evidence suggests that humans perceive the 3D world by parsing visual scenes and objects into part-whole hierarchies. Although deep neural networks have the capability of learning powerful multi-level representations, they can not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Renjie Liao

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

We propose a new representation for encoding 3D shapes as neural fields. The representation is designed to be compatible with the transformer architecture and to benefit both shape reconstruction and shape generation. Existing works on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Biao Zhang , Matthias Nießner , Peter Wonka

Point cloud segmentation and classification are some of the primary tasks in 3D computer vision with applications ranging from augmented reality to robotics. However, processing point clouds using deep learning-based algorithms is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Aadesh Desai , Saagar Parikh , Seema Kumari , Shanmuganathan Raman

Self-supervised learning of point cloud aims to leverage unlabeled 3D data to learn meaningful representations without reliance on manual annotations. However, current approaches face challenges such as limited data diversity and inadequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Keyi Liu , Yeqi Luo , Weidong Yang , Jingyi Xu , Zhijun Li , Wen-Ming Chen , Ben Fei

We present the Deep Convolutional Gaussian Mixture Model (DCGMM), a new probabilistic approach for image modeling capable of density estimation, sampling and tractable inference. DCGMM instances exhibit a CNN-like layered structure, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Alexander Gepperth

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

Low-level 3D representations, such as point clouds, meshes, NeRFs and 3D Gaussians, are commonly used for modeling 3D objects and scenes. However, cognitive studies indicate that human perception operates at higher levels and interprets 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhirui Gao , Renjiao Yi , Yuhang Huang , Wei Chen , Chenyang Zhu , Kai Xu

3D reconstruction from images is a core problem in computer vision. With recent advances in deep learning, it has become possible to recover plausible 3D shapes even from single RGB images for the first time. However, obtaining detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Tao Hu , Geng Lin , Zhizhong Han , Matthias Zwicker

Point cloud completion referring to completing 3D shapes from partial 3D point clouds is a fundamental problem for 3D point cloud analysis tasks. Benefiting from the development of deep neural networks, researches on point cloud completion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Jun Wang , Ying Cui , Dongyan Guo , Junxia Li , Qingshan Liu , Chunhua Shen

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

Pre-trained 3D vision models have gained significant attention for their promising performance on point cloud data. However, fully fine-tuning these models for downstream tasks is computationally expensive and storage-intensive. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Zixiang Ai , Zichen Liu , Yuanhang Lei , Zhenyu Cui , Xu Zou , Jiahuan Zhou

Point cloud analysis is an area of increasing interest due to the development of 3D sensors that are able to rapidly measure the depth of scenes accurately. Unfortunately, applying deep learning techniques to perform point cloud analysis is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Junming Zhang , Ming-Yuan Yu , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Point clouds are widely used representations of 3D data, but determining the visibility of points from a given viewpoint remains a challenging problem due to their sparse nature and lack of explicit connectivity. Traditional methods, such…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jun-Hao Wang , Yi-Yang Tian , Baoquan Chen , Peng-Shuai Wang

We introduce the Shape-Image Multimodal Network (SIM-Net), a novel 2D image classification architecture that integrates 3D point cloud representations inferred directly from RGB images. Our key contribution lies in a pixel-to-point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Youcef Sklab , Hanane Ariouat , Eric Chenin , Edi Prifti , Jean-Daniel Zucker

We introduce a novel technique for neural point cloud consolidation which learns from only the input point cloud. Unlike other point upsampling methods which analyze shapes via local patches, in this work, we learn from global subsets. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Gal Metzer , Rana Hanocka , Raja Giryes , Daniel Cohen-Or