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We propose a precise and efficient normal estimation method that can deal with noise and nonuniform density for unstructured 3D point clouds. Unlike existing approaches that directly take patches and ignore the local neighborhood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Keqiang Li , Mingyang Zhao , Huaiyu Wu , Dong-Ming Yan , Zhen Shen , Fei-Yue Wang , Gang Xiong

Full-reference point cloud objective metrics are currently providing very accurate representations of perceptual quality. These metrics are usually composed of a set of features that are somehow combined, resulting in a final quality value.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Joao Prazeres , Rafael Rodrigues , Manuela Pereira , Antonio M. G. Pinheiro

In this work, we propose a novel framework shape back-projection for computationally efficient point cloud processing in a probabilistic manner. The primary component of the technique is shape histogram and a back-projection procedure. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ashish Kumar , L. Behera

Point clouds are essential for storage and transmission of 3D content. As they can entail significant volumes of data, point cloud compression is crucial for practical usage. Recently, point cloud geometry compression approaches based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Maurice Quach , Aladine Chetouani , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux

In recent years, No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment (NR-PCQA) research has achieved significant progress. However, existing methods mostly seek a direct mapping function from visual data to the Mean Opinion Score (MOS), which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Yating Liu , Yujie Zhang , Ziyu Shan , Yiling Xu

Nowadays digital image compression and decompression techniques are very much important. So our aim is to calculate the quality of face and other regions of the compressed image with respect to the original image. Image segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Abhishek Bhattacharya , Tanusree Chatterjee

Three-dimensional (3D) point clouds are important data representations in visualization applications. The rapidly growing utility and popularity of point cloud processing strongly motivate a plethora of research activities on large-scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Qinwen Deng , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

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

Point cloud is a collection of 3D coordinates that are discrete geometric samples of an object's 2D surfaces. Using a low-cost 3D scanner to acquire data means that point clouds are often in lower resolution than desired for rendering on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic

In this paper, we propose Neural Points, a novel point cloud representation and apply it to the arbitrary-factored upsampling task. Different from traditional point cloud representation where each point only represents a position or a local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wanquan Feng , Jin Li , Hongrui Cai , Xiaonan Luo , Juyong Zhang

With the increasing demand of capturing our environment in three-dimensions for AR/ VR applications and autonomous driving among others, the importance of high-resolution point clouds rises. As the capturing process is a complex task, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Viktoria Heimann , Andreas Spruck , André Kaup

Point clouds are utilized in various 3D applications such as cross-reality (XR) and realistic 3D displays. In some applications, e.g., for live streaming using a 3D point cloud, real-time point cloud denoising methods are required to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ryosuke Watanabe , Keisuke Nonaka , Eduardo Pavez , Tatsuya Kobayashi , Antonio Ortega

Reconstructing building floor plans from point cloud data is key for indoor navigation, BIM, and precise measurements. Traditional methods like geometric algorithms and Mask R-CNN-based deep learning often face issues with noise, limited…

In most practical situations, the compression or transmission of images and videos creates distortions that will eventually be perceived by a human observer. Vice versa, image and video restoration techniques, such as inpainting or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Rafael Reisenhofer , Sebastian Bosse , Gitta Kutyniok , Thomas Wiegand

The reconstruction of real-world surfaces is on high demand in various applications. Most existing reconstruction approaches apply 3D scanners for creating point clouds which are generally sparse and of low density. These points clouds will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rajat Sharma , Tobias Schwandt , Christian Kunert , Steffen Urban , Wolfgang Broll

Accurate 3D geometry acquisition is essential for a wide range of applications, such as computer graphics, autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. However, raw point clouds acquired in real-world environments are often…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jinxi Wang , Ben Fei , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Zheng Liu , Ying He , Xuequan Lu

The prevalence of accessible depth sensing and 3D laser scanning techniques has enabled the convenient acquisition of 3D dynamic point clouds, which provide efficient representation of arbitrarily-shaped objects in motion. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Wei Hu , Qianjiang Hu , Zehua Wang , Xiang Gao

As applications using immersive media gained increased attention from both academia and industry, research in the field of point cloud compression has greatly intensified in recent years, leading to the development of the MPEG compression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Davi Lazzarotto , Michela Testolina , Touradj Ebrahimi

As the basic task of point cloud analysis, classification is fundamental but always challenging. To address some unsolved problems of existing methods, we propose a network that captures geometric features of point clouds for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

Point cloud upsampling is essential for high-quality augmented reality, virtual reality, and telepresence applications, due to the capture, processing, and communication limitations of existing technologies. Although geometry upsampling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Lingdong Wang , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Jacob Chakareski , Ramesh K. Sitaraman