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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

In recent years, several point cloud geometry compression methods that utilize advanced deep learning techniques have been proposed, but there are limited works on attribute compression, especially lossless compression. In this work, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Dat Thanh Nguyen , Kamal Gopikrishnan Nambiar , Andre Kaup

The plenoptic point cloud that has multiple colors from various directions, is a more complete representation than the general point cloud that usually has only one color. It is more realistic but also brings a larger volume of data that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Li Li , Zhu Li , Shan Liu , Houqiang Li

LiDAR point clouds are fundamental to various applications, yet the extreme sparsity of high-precision geometric details hinders efficient context modeling, thereby limiting the compression speed and performance of existing methods. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pengpeng Yu , Haoran Li , Runqing Jiang , Dingquan Li , Jing Wang , Liang Lin , Yulan Guo

Point cloud is a prevalent 3D data representation format with significant application values in immersive media, autonomous driving, digital heritage protection, etc. However, the large data size of point clouds poses challenges to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Wei Gao , Wenxu Gao , Xingming Mu , Changhao Peng , Ge Li

Voxel-based methods are among the most efficient for point cloud geometry compression, particularly with dense point clouds. However, they face limitations due to a restricted receptive field, especially when handling high-bit depth point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bojun Liu , Yangzhi Ma , Ao Luo , Li Li , Dong Liu

The non-uniformly distributed nature of the 3D dynamic point cloud (DPC) brings significant challenges to its high-efficient inter-frame compression. This paper proposes a novel 3D sparse convolution-based Deep Dynamic Point Cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Tingyu Fan , Linyao Gao , Yiling Xu , Zhu Li , Dong Wang

Point clouds (PC) are essential for AR/VR and autonomous driving but challenge compression schemes with their size, irregular sampling, and sparsity. MPEG's Geometry-based Point Cloud Compression (GPCC) methods successfully reduce bitrate;…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Muhammad Talha , Qi Yang , Zhu Li , Anique Akhtar , Geert Van Der Auwera

Point cloud video (PCV) is a versatile 3D representation of dynamic scenes with emerging applications. This paper introduces U-Motion, a learning-based compression scheme for both PCV geometry and attributes. We propose a U-Structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Tingyu Fan , Yueyu Hu , Ran Gong , Yao Wang

Recovering point clouds involves the sequential process of sampling and restoration, yet existing methods struggle to effectively leverage both topological and geometric attributes. To address this, we propose an end-to-end architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaiyue Zhou , Zelong Tan , Hongxiao Wang , Ya-Li Li , Shengjin Wang

Point cloud compression is a key enabler for the emerging applications of immersive visual communication, autonomous driving and smart cities, etc. In this paper, we propose a hybrid point cloud attribute compression scheme built on an…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Yiting Shao , Qi Zhang , Ge Li , Zhu Li

Point cloud has been the mainstream representation for advanced 3D applications, such as virtual reality and augmented reality. However, the massive data amounts of point clouds is one of the most challenging issues for transmission and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zixi Guo , Yun Zhang , Linwei Zhu , Hanli Wang , Gangyi Jiang

This paper presents a novel point cloud compression method COT-PCC by formulating the task as a constrained optimal transport (COT) problem. COT-PCC takes the bitrate of compressed features as an extra constraint of optimal transport (OT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zezeng Li , Weimin Wang , Ziliang Wang , Na Lei

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

Existing AI-based point cloud compression methods struggle with dependence on specific training data distributions, which limits their real-world deployment. Implicit Neural Representation (INR) methods solve the above problem by encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenjie Huang , Qi Yang , Shuting Xia , He Huang , Zhu Li , Yiling Xu

We propose a practical deep generative approach for lossless point cloud geometry compression, called MSVoxelDNN, and show that it significantly reduces the rate compared to the MPEG G-PCC codec. Our previous work based on autoregressive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Dat Thanh Nguyen , Maurice Quach , Giuseppe Valenzise , Pierre Duhamel

Point cloud completion aims to reconstruct complete 3D shapes from partial observations, which is a challenging problem due to severe occlusions and missing geometry. Despite recent advances in multimodal techniques that leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wang Luo , Di Wu , Hengyuan Na , Yinlin Zhu , Miao Hu , Guocong Quan

This work extends the multiscale structure originally developed for point cloud geometry compression to point cloud attribute compression. To losslessly encode the attribute while maintaining a low bitrate, accurate probability prediction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Jianqiang Wang , Dandan Ding , Zhan Ma

Three-dimensional (3D) point clouds are becoming more and more popular for representing 3D objects and scenes. Due to limited network bandwidth, efficient compression of 3D point clouds is crucial. To tackle this challenge, the Moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zehan Wang , Yuxuan Wei , Hui Yuan , Wei Zhang , Peng Li

Recently, deep learning has significantly advanced the performance of point cloud geometry compression. However, the learning-based lossless attribute compression of point clouds with varying densities is under-explored. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Chunyang Fu , Ge Li , Wei Gao , Shiqi Wang , Zhu Li , Shan Liu