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Diffusion probabilistic models have achieved remarkable success in text guided image generation. However, generating 3D shapes is still challenging due to the lack of sufficient data containing 3D models along with their descriptions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zijie Wu , Yaonan Wang , Mingtao Feng , He Xie , Ajmal Mian

As 3D point clouds become the prevailing shape representation in computer vision, generating high-quality point clouds remains a challenging problem. Flow-based models have shown strong potential due to exact likelihood estimation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Linhao Wang , Qichang Zhang , Yifan Yang , Ye Su , Hao Wang

While 3D content generation has advanced significantly, existing methods still face challenges with input formats, latent space design, and output representations. This paper introduces a novel 3D generation framework that addresses these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Yushi Lan , Shangchen Zhou , Zhaoyang Lyu , Fangzhou Hong , Shuai Yang , Bo Dai , Xingang Pan , Chen Change Loy

With the development of 3D laser scanning techniques and depth sensors, 3D dynamic point clouds have attracted increasing attention as a representation of 3D objects in motion, enabling various applications such as 3D immersive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Zeqing Fu , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

Many applications in robotics and human-computer interaction can benefit from understanding 3D motion of points in a dynamic environment, widely noted as scene flow. While most previous methods focus on stereo and RGB-D images as input, few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xingyu Liu , Charles R. Qi , Leonidas J. Guibas

Geometry and topology constitute complementary descriptors of three-dimensional shape, yet existing benchmark datasets primarily capture geometric information while neglecting topological structure. This work addresses this limitation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Prachi Kudeshia , Jiju Poovvancheri

In the past decade, deep neural networks have achieved significant progress in point cloud learning. However, collecting large-scale precisely-annotated training data is extremely laborious and expensive, which hinders the scalability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Aoran Xiao , Xiaoqin Zhang , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

Semantic labeling of 3D point clouds is important for the derivation of 3D models from real world scenarios in several economic fields such as building industry, facility management, town planning or heritage conservation. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Bernhard Japes , Jennifer Mack , Florian Rist , Katja Herzog , Reinhard Töpfer , Volker Steinhage

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

Point clouds provide a flexible geometric representation suitable for countless applications in computer graphics; they also comprise the raw output of most 3D data acquisition devices. While hand-designed features on point clouds have long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yue Wang , Yongbin Sun , Ziwei Liu , Sanjay E. Sarma , Michael M. Bronstein , Justin M. Solomon

Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud analysis has become one of the attractive subjects in realistic imaging and machine visions due to its simplicity, flexibility and powerful capacity of visualization. Actually, the representation of scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Omar Elharrouss , Kawther Hassine , Ayman Zayyan , Zakariyae Chatri , Noor almaadeed , Somaya Al-Maadeed , Khalid Abualsaud

We propose a generative model of unordered point sets, such as point clouds, in the form of an energy-based model, where the energy function is parameterized by an input-permutation-invariant bottom-up neural network. The energy function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jianwen Xie , Yifei Xu , Zilong Zheng , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

While the community of 3D point cloud generation has witnessed a big growth in recent years, there still lacks an effective way to enable intuitive user control in the generation process, hence limiting the general utility of such methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Kiyohiro Nakayama , Mikaela Angelina Uy , Jiahui Huang , Shi-Min Hu , Ke Li , Leonidas J Guibas

We present CpT: Convolutional point Transformer - a novel deep learning architecture for dealing with the unstructured nature of 3D point cloud data. CpT is an improvement over existing attention-based Convolutions Neural Networks as well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Chaitanya Kaul , Joshua Mitton , Hang Dai , Roderick Murray-Smith

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics. There has been extensive research in this area, but existing methods meet great challenges in situations with a large proportion of outliers and time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Kexue Fu , Shaolei Liu , Xiaoyuan Luo , Manning Wang

We propose a novel end-to-end deep scene flow model, called PointPWC-Net, on 3D point clouds in a coarse-to-fine fashion. Flow computed at the coarse level is upsampled and warped to a finer level, enabling the algorithm to accommodate for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Wenxuan Wu , Zhiyuan Wang , Zhuwen Li , Wei Liu , Li Fuxin

Generating realistic and diverse LiDAR point clouds is crucial for autonomous driving simulation. Although previous methods achieve LiDAR point cloud generation from user inputs, they struggle to attain high-quality results while enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Haiyun Wei , Fan Lu , Yunwei Zhu , Zehan Zheng , Weiyi Xue , Lin Shao , Xudong Zhang , Ya Wu , Rong Fu , Guang Chen

The application of deep learning to 3D point clouds is challenging due to its lack of order. Inspired by the point embeddings of PointNet and the edge embeddings of DGCNNs, we propose three improvements to the task of point cloud analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Suresh Manandhar

3D point-cloud recognition with PointNet and its variants has received remarkable progress. A missing ingredient, however, is the ability to automatically evaluate point-wise importance w.r.t.\! classification performance, which is usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Tianhang Zheng , Changyou Chen , Junsong Yuan , Bo Li , Kui Ren

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