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The recent development of dynamic point clouds has introduced the possibility of mimicking natural reality, and greatly assisting quality of life. However, to broadcast successfully, the dynamic point clouds require higher compression due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Faranak Tohidi , Manoranjan Paul , Anwaar Ulhaq

This paper presents an approach for compressing point cloud geometry by leveraging a lightweight super-resolution network. The proposed method involves decomposing a point cloud into a base point cloud and the interpolation patterns for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Wei Zhang , Dingquan Li , Ge Li , Wen Gao

Along with increasingly popular virtual reality applications, the three-dimensional (3D) point cloud has become a fundamental data structure to characterize 3D objects and surroundings. To process 3D point clouds efficiently, a suitable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Songyang Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Zhi Ding

Many types of 3D acquisition sensors have emerged in recent years and point cloud has been widely used in many areas. Accurate and fast registration of cross-source 3D point clouds from different sensors is an emerged research problem in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Xiaoshui Huang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Wu , Jian Zhang , Chun Yuan

Reconstructing a high-resolution 3D model of an object is a challenging task in computer vision. Designing scalable and light-weight architectures is crucial while addressing this problem. Existing point-cloud based reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Priyanka Mandikal , R. Venkatesh Babu

In the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), efficient data compression is crucial for managing large-scale point cloud data acquired by roadside LiDAR sensors. The demand for efficient storage, streaming, and real-time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Walter Zimmer , Ramandika Pranamulia , Xingcheng Zhou , Mingyu Liu , Alois C. Knoll

Despite considerable progress being achieved in point cloud geometry compression, there still remains a challenge in effectively compressing large-scale scenes with sparse surfaces. Another key challenge lies in reducing decoding latency, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Kang You , Kai Liu , Li Yu , Pan Gao , Dandan Ding

Generalization remains a critical challenge in deep learning-based point cloud geometry compression. While existing methods perform well on standard benchmarks, their performance collapses in real-world scenarios due to two fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kangli Wang , Qianxi Yi , Yuqi Ye , Shihao Li , Wei Gao

This paper proposes a lossless point cloud (PC) geometry compression method that uses neural networks to estimate the probability distribution of voxel occupancy. First, to take into account the PC sparsity, our method adaptively partitions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Dat Thanh Nguyen , Maurice Quach , Giuseppe Valenzise , Pierre Duhamel

Advanced 3D metrology technologies such as Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and laser 3D scanners have facilitated the collection of massive point cloud data, beneficial for process monitoring, control and optimization. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Hao Yan , Kamran Paynabar , Massimo Pacella

The emergence of digital avatars has raised an exponential increase in the demand for human point clouds with realistic and intricate details. The compression of such data becomes challenging with overwhelming data amounts comprising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Xinju Wu , Pingping Zhang , Meng Wang , Peilin Chen , Shiqi Wang , Sam Kwong

We introduce the {\em polygon cloud}, also known as a polygon set or {\em soup}, as a compressible representation of 3D geometry (including its attributes, such as color texture) intermediate between polygonal meshes and point clouds.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Philip A. Chou , Eduardo Pavez , Ricardo L. de Queiroz , Antonio Ortega

The growing size of point clouds enlarges consumptions of storage, transmission, and computation of 3D scenes. Raw data is redundant, noisy, and non-uniform. Therefore, simplifying point clouds for achieving compact, clean, and uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yuanqi Li , Jianwei Guo , Xinran Yang , Shun Liu , Jie Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yanwen Guo

Cloud-edge collaboration enhances machine perception by combining the strengths of edge and cloud computing. Edge devices capture raw data (e.g., 3D point clouds) and extract salient features, which are sent to the cloud for deeper analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Chongzhen Tian , Hui Yuan , Pan Zhao , Chang Sun , Raouf Hamzaoui , Sam Kwong

Point cloud surface reconstruction has improved in accuracy with advances in deep learning, enabling applications such as infrastructure inspection. Recent approaches that reconstruct from small local regions rather than entire point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Eito Ogawa , Taiga Hayami , Hiroshi Watanabe

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 clouds are a fundamental 3D representation in computer vision, enabling a wide range of perception tasks. However, real-world point clouds often suffer from degradations such as incompleteness, noise, outliers, and irregular density,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Haoqing Wu , Alexa Nawotki , Jochen Garcke

This paper presents a novel method to determine rate-distortion optimized transform coefficients for efficient compression of videos generated from point clouds. The method exploits a generalized frequency selective extrapolation approach…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Christian Herglotz , Nils Genser , André Kaup

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the utilization of deep learning methods, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which have emerged as the dominant approach in various domains that involve structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chester Luo , Kevin Lai

Point cloud compression has garnered significant interest in computer vision. However, existing algorithms primarily cater to human vision, while most point cloud data is utilized for machine vision tasks. To address this, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Lei Liu , Zhihao Hu , Zhenghao Chen