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In recent years, we have witnessed the presence of point cloud data in many aspects of our life, from immersive media, autonomous driving to healthcare, although at the cost of a tremendous amount of data. In this paper, we present an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Dat Thanh Nguyen , Andre Kaup

Many dense 3D point clouds have been exploited to represent visual objects instead of traditional images or videos. To evaluate the perceptual quality of various point clouds, in this letter, we propose a novel and efficient…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Wei Zhou , Guanghui Yue , Ruizeng Zhang , Yipeng Qin , Hantao Liu

Point clouds in 3D applications frequently experience quality degradation during processing, e.g., scanning and compression. Reliable point cloud quality assessment (PCQA) is important for developing compression algorithms with good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Ryosuke Watanabe , Keisuke Nonaka , Eduardo Pavez , Tatsuya Kobayashi , Antonio Ortega

The feature based spatial verification method SAL is applied to cloud data, i.e. two-dimensional spatial fields of total cloud cover and spectral radiance. Model output is obtained from the COSMO-DE forward operator SynSat and compared to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Michael Weniger , Petra Friederichs

Characterizing microstructure-material-property relations calls for software tools which extract point-cloud- and continuum-scale-based representations of microstructural objects. Application examples include atom probe, electron, and…

We propose a method for detecting structural changes in a city using images captured from vehicular mounted cameras over traversals at two different times. We first generate 3D point clouds for each traversal from the images and approximate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zi Jian Yew , Gim Hee Lee

In this paper, we present Point Cloud Color Constancy, in short PCCC, an illumination chromaticity estimation algorithm exploiting a point cloud. We leverage the depth information captured by the time-of-flight (ToF) sensor mounted rigidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xiaoyan Xing , Yanlin Qian , Sibo Feng , Yuhan Dong , Jiri Matas

Due to the difficulty in generating the effective descriptors which are robust to occlusion and viewpoint changes, place recognition for 3D point cloud remains an open issue. Unlike most of the existing methods that focus on extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Xin Kong , Xuemeng Yang , Guangyao Zhai , Xiangrui Zhao , Xianfang Zeng , Mengmeng Wang , Yong Liu , Wanlong Li , Feng Wen

Subjective image quality measures based on deep neural networks are very related to models of visual neuroscience. This connection benefits engineering but, more interestingly, the freedom to optimize deep networks in different ways, make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Pablo Hernández-Cámara , Jorge Vila-Tomás , Valero Laparra , Jesús Malo

Point clouds are a fundamental representation for robotic perception tasks such as localization, mapping, and object pose estimation. However, LiDAR-acquired point clouds are inherently sparse and non-uniform, providing incomplete…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jinwoo Lee , Jiwoo Kim , Woojae Shin , Giseop Kim , Hyondong Oh

Segment Anything Model (SAM) is an advanced foundational model for image segmentation, which is gradually being applied to remote sensing images (RSIs). Due to the domain gap between RSIs and natural images, traditional methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Nanqing Liu , Xun Xu , Yongyi Su , Haojie Zhang , Heng-Chao Li

Recent advances in generative modeling have demonstrated strong promise for high-quality point cloud upsampling. In this work, we present PUFM++, an enhanced flow-matching framework for reconstructing dense and accurate point clouds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Roland Maier , Andreas Rupp

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a prominent research direction owing to its ultrarapid training speed and high-fidelity rendering capabilities. However, the unstructured and irregular nature of Gaussian point clouds poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xiao Ren , Yu Liu , Ning An , Jian Cheng , Xin Qiao , He Kong

Robotic manipulation systems benefit from complementary sensing modalities, where each provides unique environmental information. Point clouds capture detailed geometric structure, while RGB images provide rich semantic context. Current…

Physical simulations that accurately model reality are crucial for many engineering disciplines such as mechanical engineering and robotic motion planning. In recent years, learned Graph Network Simulators produced accurate mesh-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Jonas Linkerhägner , Niklas Freymuth , Paul Maria Scheikl , Franziska Mathis-Ullrich , Gerhard Neumann

Grasping unknown objects from a single view has remained a challenging topic in robotics due to the uncertainty of partial observation. Recent advances in large-scale models have led to benchmark solutions such as GraspNet-1Billion.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Hao Chen , Takuya Kiyokawa , Zhengtao Hu , Weiwei Wan , Kensuke Harada

In recent years, parametric representations of point clouds have been widely applied in tasks such as memory-efficient mapping and multi-robot collaboration. Highly adaptive models, like spline surfaces or quadrics, are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yuan Gao , Wei Dong

The Structural Similarity (SSIM) Index is a very widely used image/video quality model that continues to play an important role in the perceptual evaluation of compression algorithms, encoding recipes and numerous other image/video…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Abhinau K. Venkataramanan , Chengyang Wu , Alan C. Bovik , Ioannis Katsavounidis , Zafar Shahid

Over the past two decades, we have seen an exponentially increased amount of point clouds collected with irregular shapes in various areas. Motivated by the importance of solid modeling for point clouds, we develop a novel and efficient…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-21 Xinyi Li , Shan Yu , Yueying Wang , Guannan Wang , Ming-Jun Lai , Li Wang

Point cloud completion is a fundamental yet not well-solved problem in 3D vision. Current approaches often rely on 3D coordinate information and/or additional data (e.g., images and scanning viewpoints) to fill in missing parts. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhe Zhu , Honghua Chen , Xing He , Mingqiang Wei