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This paper addresses the problem of generating dense point clouds from given sparse point clouds to model the underlying geometric structures of objects/scenes. To tackle this challenging issue, we propose a novel end-to-end learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yue Qian , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Ying He

We proposed a generalized method, NeuralSSD, for reconstructing a 3D implicit surface from the widely-available point cloud data. NeuralSSD is a solver-based on the neural Galerkin method, aimed at reconstructing higher-quality and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zi-Chen Xi , Jiahui Huang , Hao-Xiang Chen , Francis Williams , Qun-Ce Xu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

We examine implicit representations of parametric or point cloud models, based on interpolation matrices, which are not sensitive to base points. We show how interpolation matrices can be used for ray shooting of a parametric ray with a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Ioannis Z. Emiris , Christos Konaxis , Ilias S. Kotsireas , Clement Laroche

Generating realistic intermediate shapes between non-rigidly deformed shapes is a challenging task in computer vision, especially with unstructured data (e.g., point clouds) where temporal consistency across frames is lacking, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Lu Sang , Zehranaz Canfes , Dongliang Cao , Riccardo Marin , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

3D surface reconstruction from point clouds is a key step in areas such as content creation, archaeology, digital cultural heritage, and engineering. Current approaches either try to optimize a non-data-driven surface representation to fit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Philipp Erler , Lizeth Fuentes , Pedro Hermosilla , Paul Guerrero , Renato Pajarola , Michael Wimmer

The reconstruction of a discrete surface from a point cloud is a fundamental geometry processing problem that has been studied for decades, with many methods developed. We propose the use of a deep neural network as a geometric prior for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Francis Williams , Teseo Schneider , Claudio Silva , Denis Zorin , Joan Bruna , Daniele Panozzo

Explicit surface reconstruction aims to generate a surface mesh that exactly interpolates a given point cloud. This requirement is crucial when the point cloud must lie non-negotiably on the final surface to preserve sharp features and fine…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Pengfei Wang , Jian Liu , Qiujie Dong , Shiqing Xin , Yuanfeng Zhou , Changhe Tu , Caiming Zhang , Wenping Wang

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

Implicit curve and surface reconstruction attracts the attention of many researchers and gains a wide range of applications, due to its ability to describe objects with complicated geometry and topology. However, extra zero-level sets or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Yusuf Fatihu Hamza , Hongwei Lin , Zihao Li

Active object reconstruction using autonomous robots is gaining great interest. A primary goal in this task is to maximize the information of the object to be reconstructed, given limited on-board resources. Previous view planning methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Hao Hu , Sicong Pan , Liren Jin , Marija Popović , Maren Bennewitz

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

We present a nonlinear interpolation technique for parametric fields that exploits optimal transportation of coherent structures of the solution to achieve accurate performance. The approach generalizes the nonlinear interpolation procedure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Simona Cucchiara , Angelo Iollo , Tommaso Taddei , Haysam Telib

The task of point cloud upsampling aims to acquire dense and uniform point sets from sparse and irregular point sets. Although significant progress has been made with deep learning models, state-of-the-art methods require ground-truth dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xinhai Liu , Xinchen Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

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

Realistic digital models of plant leaves are crucial to fluid dynamics simulations of droplets for optimising agrochemical spray technologies. The presence and nature of small features (on the order of 100$\mathrm{\mu m}$) such as ridges…

This paper introduces a novel method for reconstructing meshes from sparse point clouds by predicting edge connection. Existing implicit methods usually produce superior smooth and watertight meshes due to the isosurface extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Weimin Wang , Yingxu Deng , Zezeng Li , Yu Liu , Na Lei

We introduce a new approach for reconstruction and novel view synthesis of unbounded real-world scenes. In contrast to previous methods using either volumetric fields, grid-based models, or discrete point cloud proxies, we propose a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Florian Hahlbohm , Linus Franke , Moritz Kappel , Susana Castillo , Martin Eisemann , Marc Stamminger , Marcus Magnor

While recent advancements in deep-learning point cloud upsampling methods have improved the input to intelligent transportation systems, they still suffer from issues of domain dependency between synthetic and real-scanned point clouds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sangwon Lim , Karim El-Basyouny , Yee Hong Yang

In healthcare, accurately classifying medical images is vital, but conventional methods often hinge on medical data with a consistent grid structure, which may restrict their overall performance. Recent medical research has been focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Kishore Babu Nampalle , Pradeep Singh , Vivek Narayan Uppala , Sumit Gangwar , Rajesh Singh Negi , Balasubramanian Raman

Designing a point cloud upsampler, which aims to generate a clean and dense point cloud given a sparse point representation, is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. A line of attempts achieves this goal by establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Pingping Cai , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Song Wang