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We present a learning-based approach to reconstruct buildings as 3D polygonal meshes from airborne LiDAR point clouds. What makes 3D building reconstruction from airborne LiDAR hard is the large diversity of building designs and especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yujia Liu , Anton Obukhov , Jan Dirk Wegner , Konrad Schindler

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

In this work, we explore the idea that effective generative models for point clouds under the autoencoding framework must acknowledge the relationship between a continuous surface, a discretized mesh, and a set of points sampled from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Austin Dill , Chun-Liang Li , Songwei Ge , Eunsu Kang

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is vital for 3D computer vision. State-of-the-art methods leverage large datasets to first learn local context priors that are represented as neural network-based signed distance functions (SDFs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker , Zhizhong Han

Most current neural networks for reconstructing surfaces from point clouds ignore sensor poses and only operate on raw point locations. Sensor visibility, however, holds meaningful information regarding space occupancy and surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Raphael Sulzer , Loic Landrieu , Alexandre Boulch , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet

The matching of 3D shapes has been extensively studied for shapes represented as surface meshes, as well as for shapes represented as point clouds. While point clouds are a common representation of raw real-world 3D data (e.g. from laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dongliang Cao , Florian Bernard

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method to represent point clouds as sets of samples drawn from a cloud-specific probability distribution. This interpretation matches intrinsic characteristics of point clouds: the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Michał Stypułkowski , Kacper Kania , Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Tomasz Trzciński , Jan Chorowski

Reconstruction of a continuous surface of two-dimensional manifold from its raw, discrete point cloud observation is a long-standing problem. The problem is technically ill-posed, and becomes more difficult considering that various sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Zhangjin Huang , Yuxin Wen , Zihao Wang , Jinjuan Ren , Kui Jia

Mesh reconstruction from a 3D point cloud is an important topic in the fields of computer graphic, computer vision, and multimedia analysis. In this paper, we propose a voxel structure-based mesh reconstruction framework. It provides the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Chenlei Lv , Weisi Lin , Baoquan Zhao

In this work, we propose a novel method for generating 3D point clouds that leverage properties of hyper networks. Contrary to the existing methods that learn only the representation of a 3D object, our approach simultaneously finds a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Przemysław Spurek , Sebastian Winczowski , Jacek Tabor , Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Tomasz Trzciński

Implicit neural networks have been successfully used for surface reconstruction from point clouds. However, many of them face scalability issues as they encode the isosurface function of a whole object or scene into a single latent vector.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Alexandre Boulch , Renaud Marlet

The core of self-supervised point cloud learning lies in setting up appropriate pretext tasks, to construct a pre-training framework that enables the encoder to perceive 3D objects effectively. In this paper, we integrate two prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yun Liu , Peng Li , Xuefeng Yan , Liangliang Nan , Bing Wang , Honghua Chen , Lina Gong , Wei Zhao , Mingqiang Wei

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

The recent advances in 3D sensing technology have made possible the capture of point clouds in significantly high resolution. However, increased detail usually comes at the expense of high storage, as well as computational costs in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Giorgos Bouritsas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Point cloud reconstruction from raw point cloud has been an important topic in computer graphics for decades, especially due to its high demand in modeling and rendering applications. An important way to solve this problem is establishing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Hui Tian , Kai Xu

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

We propose a fast and accurate surface reconstruction algorithm for unorganized point clouds using an implicit representation. Recent learning methods are either single-object representations with small neural models that allow for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Siddhant Ranade , Gonçalo Dias Pais , Ross Tyler Whitaker , Jacinto C. Nascimento , Pedro Miraldo , Srikumar Ramalingam

A key step in any scanning-based asset creation workflow is to convert unordered point clouds to a surface. Classical methods (e.g., Poisson reconstruction) start to degrade in the presence of noisy and partial scans. Hence, deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Philipp Erler , Paul Guerrero , Stefan Ohrhallinger , Michael Wimmer , Niloy J. Mitra

Point clouds and polygonal meshes are widely used when modeling real-world scenarios. Here, point clouds arise, for instance, from acquisition processes applied in various surroundings, such as reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, or…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Henriette Lipschütz , Ulrich Reitebuch , Konrad Polthier , Martin Skrodzki

Learning to generate 3D point clouds without 3D supervision is an important but challenging problem. Current solutions leverage various differentiable renderers to project the generated 3D point clouds onto a 2D image plane, and train deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Chen Chao , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker