English
Related papers

Related papers: Inferring Point Cloud Quality via Graph Similarity

200 papers

In recent years new application areas have emerged in which one aims to capture the geometry of objects by means of three-dimensional point clouds. Often the obtained data consist of a dense sampling of the object's surface, containing many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Daniel Tenbrinck , Fjedor Gaede , Martin Burger

One of the main challenges in point cloud compression (PCC) is how to evaluate the perceived distortion so that the codec can be optimized for perceptual quality. Current standard practices in PCC highlight a primary issue: while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhang Chen , Shuai Wan , Siyu Ren , Fuzheng Yang , Mengting Yu , Junhui Hou

In point cloud analysis tasks, the existing local feature aggregation descriptors (LFAD) are unable to fully utilize information in the neighborhood of central points. Previous methods rely solely on Euclidean distance to constrain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Haotian Hu , Fanyi Wang , Jingwen Su , Hongtao Zhou , Yaonong Wang , Laifeng Hu , Yanhao Zhang , Zhiwang Zhang

Humans have remarkable selective sensitivity to identities -- easily distinguishing between highly similar identities, even across significantly different contexts such as diverse viewpoints or lighting. Vision models have struggled to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Julia Chae , Nicholas Kolkin , Jui-Hsien Wang , Richard Zhang , Sara Beery , Cusuh Ham

Tractable models of human perception have proved to be challenging to build. Hand-designed models such as MS-SSIM remain popular predictors of human image quality judgements due to their simplicity and speed. Recent modern deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Sangnie Bhardwaj , Ian Fischer , Johannes Ballé , Troy Chinen

With the development of 3D sensing technologies, point clouds have attracted increasing attention in a variety of applications for 3D object representation, such as autonomous driving, 3D immersive tele-presence and heritage reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Junkun Qi , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

Point cloud quality assessment (PCQA) has become an appealing research field in recent days. Considering the importance of saliency detection in quality assessment, we propose an effective full-reference PCQA metric which makes the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Zhengyu Wang , Yujie Zhang , Qi Yang , Yiling Xu , Jun Sun , Shan Liu

In healthcare, accurately classifying medical images is vital, but conventional methods often hinge on medical data with a consistent grid structure, which may restrict their overall performance. Recent medical research has been focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Kishore Babu Nampalle , Pradeep Singh , Vivek Narayan Uppala , Sumit Gangwar , Rajesh Singh Negi , Balasubramanian Raman

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

Judging the quality of samples synthesized by generative models can be tedious and time consuming, especially for complex data structures, such as point clouds. This paper presents a novel approach to quantify the realism of local regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Larissa T. Triess , David Peter , Stefan A. Baur , J. Marius Zöllner

We introduce CatSIM, a new similarity metric for binary and multinary two- and three-dimensional images and volumes. CatSIM uses a structural similarity image quality paradigm and is robust to small perturbations in location so that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Geoffrey Z. Thompson , Ranjan Maitra

A considerable amount of research is concerned with the generation of realistic sensor data. LiDAR point clouds are generated by complex simulations or learned generative models. The generated data is usually exploited to enable or improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Larissa T. Triess , Christoph B. Rist , David Peter , J. Marius Zöllner

Diffusion models have fundamentally transformed the field of generative models, making the assessment of similarity between customized model outputs and reference inputs critically important. However, traditional perceptual similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yiren Song , Xiaokang Liu , Mike Zheng Shou

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

In point clouds, noise directly perturbs point coordinates that encode both spatial location and geometry, making one-to-one correspondence construction more challenging than in images. Existing methods impose statistical mappings across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chengwei Zhang , Xueyi Zhang , Tao Jiang , Xinhao Xu , Wenjie Li , Fubo Zhang , Longyong Chen

The rapid advancement of generative AI models necessitates novel methods for evaluating image quality that extend beyond human perception. A critical concern for these models is the preservation of an image's underlying Scene Composition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Md Redwanul Haque , Manzur Murshed , Manoranjan Paul , Tsz-Kwan Lee

Efficient processing and feature extraction of largescale point clouds are important in related computer vision and cyber-physical systems. This work investigates point cloud resampling based on hypergraph signal processing (HGSP) to better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Qinwen Deng , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Airborne laser scanning and photogrammetry are two main techniques to obtain 3D data representing the object surface. Due to the high cost of laser scanning, we want to explore the potential of using point clouds derived by dense image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Zhenchao Zhang , Markus Gerke , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Acquired 3D point cloud data, whether from active sensors directly or from stereo-matching algorithms indirectly, typically contain non-negligible noise. To address the point cloud denoising problem, we propose a fast graph-based local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-01 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic , Cheng Yang

Recognizing precise geometrical configurations of groups of objects is a key capability of human spatial cognition, yet little studied in the deep learning literature so far. In particular, a fundamental problem is how a machine can learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Laetitia Teodorescu , Katja Hofmann , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer