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This paper investigates an open research task of reconstructing and generating 3D point clouds. Most existing works of 3D generative models directly take the Gaussian prior as input for the decoder to generate 3D point clouds, which fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Yunfan Zhang , Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Vun Chan Hua Nicholas , Zhiqi Shen , Chunyan Miao

In the field of 3D point cloud generation, numerous 3D generative models have demonstrated the ability to generate diverse and realistic 3D shapes. However, the majority of these approaches struggle to generate controllable 3D point cloud…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhenyu Shu , Jiajun Shen , Zhongui Chen , Xiaoguang Han , Shiqing Xin

We present a method that detects boundaries of parts in 3D shapes represented as point clouds. Our method is based on a graph convolutional network architecture that outputs a probability for a point to lie in an area that separates two or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Marios Loizou , Melinos Averkiou , Evangelos Kalogerakis

Point clouds provide a compact and efficient representation of 3D shapes. While deep neural networks have achieved impressive results on point cloud learning tasks, they require massive amounts of manually labeled data, which can be costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Han Qiao , Nayun Xu , Vladimir G. Kim

In High Energy Physics, detailed and time-consuming simulations are used for particle interactions with detectors. To bypass these simulations with a generative model, the generation of large point clouds in a short time is required, while…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-22 Moritz Alfons Wilhelm Scham , Dirk Krücker , Benno Käch , Kerstin Borras

To achieve point cloud denoising, traditional methods heavily rely on geometric priors, and most learning-based approaches suffer from outliers and loss of details. Recently, the gradient-based method was proposed to estimate the gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yaping Zhao , Haitian Zheng , Zhongrui Wang , Jiebo Luo , Edmund Y. Lam

While recent work on text-conditional 3D object generation has shown promising results, the state-of-the-art methods typically require multiple GPU-hours to produce a single sample. This is in stark contrast to state-of-the-art generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Alex Nichol , Heewoo Jun , Prafulla Dhariwal , Pamela Mishkin , Mark Chen

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of 3D medical imaging techniques with the development of 3D sensors and technology. Due to the presence of noise in image acquisition, registration researchers focused on an alternative way to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Liu Yang , Rudrasis Chakraborty

Point clouds, being the simple and compact representation of surface geometry of 3D objects, have gained increasing popularity with the evolution of deep learning networks for classification and segmentation tasks. Unlike human, teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Sindhu Hegde , Shankar Gangisetty

Point clouds are gaining prominence as a method for representing 3D shapes, but their irregular structure poses a challenge for deep learning methods. In this paper we propose CloudWalker, a novel method for learning 3D shapes using random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Adi Mesika , Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Ayellet Tal

A point cloud serves as a representation of the surface of a three-dimensional (3D) shape. Deep generative models have been adapted to model their variations typically using a map from a ball-like set of latent variables. However, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Takumi Kimura , Takashi Matsubara , Kuniaki Uehara

We introduce a method for learning to generate the surface of 3D shapes. Our approach represents a 3D shape as a collection of parametric surface elements and, in contrast to methods generating voxel grids or point clouds, naturally infers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Thibault Groueix , Matthew Fisher , Vladimir G. Kim , Bryan C. Russell , Mathieu Aubry

Autoregressive point cloud generation has long lagged behind diffusion-based approaches in quality. The performance gap stems from the fact that autoregressive models impose an artificial ordering on inherently unordered point sets, forcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ziqiao Meng , Qichao Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Zixing Song , Zhipeng Zhou , Irwin King , Peilin Zhao

Autoregressive point cloud generation has long lagged behind diffusion-based approaches in quality. The performance gap stems from the fact that autoregressive models impose an artificial ordering on inherently unordered point sets, forcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ziqiao Meng , Qichao Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Zixing Song , Zhipeng Zhou , Irwin King , Peilin Zhao

3D point cloud completion, the task of inferring the complete geometric shape from a partial point cloud, has been attracting attention in the community. For acquiring high-fidelity dense point clouds and avoiding uneven distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Minghua Liu , Lu Sheng , Sheng Yang , Jing Shao , Shi-Min Hu

In this paper, we focus on latent modification and generation of 3D point cloud object models with respect to their semantic parts. Different to the existing methods which use separate networks for part generation and assembly, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Cihan Öngün , Alptekin Temizel

Learning and selecting important points on a point cloud is crucial for point cloud understanding in various applications. Most of early methods selected the important points on 3D shapes by analyzing the intrinsic geometric properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Sanghuk Lee , Yan-Pei Cao , Yu-Shen Liu

Point clouds acquired by 3D scanning devices are often sparse, noisy, and non-uniform, causing a loss of geometric features. To facilitate the usability of point clouds in downstream applications, given such input, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Guangshun Wei , Hao Pan , Shaojie Zhuang , Yuanfeng Zhou , Changjian Li

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for point cloud generation. A key component that drives the impressive performance for generating high-quality samples from noise is iteratively denoise for thousands of steps. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Lemeng Wu , Dilin Wang , Chengyue Gong , Xingchao Liu , Yunyang Xiong , Rakesh Ranjan , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Vikas Chandra , Qiang Liu

We are interested in reconstructing the mesh representation of object surfaces from point clouds. Surface reconstruction is a prerequisite for downstream applications such as rendering, collision avoidance for planning, animation, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Minghua Liu , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Hao Su