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We present a neural-network-based architecture for 3D point cloud denoising called neural projection denoising (NPD). In our previous work, we proposed a two-stage denoising algorithm, which first estimates reference planes and follows by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Chaojing Duan , Siheng Chen , Jelena Kovacevic

Point clouds are a fundamental 3D representation in computer vision, enabling a wide range of perception tasks. However, real-world point clouds often suffer from degradations such as incompleteness, noise, outliers, and irregular density,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Haoqing Wu , Alexa Nawotki , Jochen Garcke

In recent years, point cloud upsampling has been widely applied in tasks such as 3D reconstruction and object recognition. This study proposed a novel framework, ReLPU, which enhances upsampling performance by explicitly learning from both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Tongxu Zhang , Bei Wang

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

This paper builds upon the current methods to increase their capability and automation for 3D surface construction from noisy and potentially sparse point clouds. It presents an analysis of an artificial neural network surface regression…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Adam R White , Li Bai

Point cloud processing as a fundamental task in the field of geomatics and computer vision, has been supporting tasks and applications at different scales from air to ground, including mapping, environmental monitoring, urban/tree structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zhenxin Zhang , Zhihua Xu , Yuwei Cao , Ningli Xu , Shuye Wang , Shen'ao Cui , Zhen Li , Rongjun Qin

Estimating normals for noisy point clouds is a persistent challenge in 3D geometry processing, particularly for end-to-end oriented normal estimation. Existing methods generally address relatively clean data and rely on supervised priors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Xun Gong , Yu-Shen Liu

Point cloud compression plays a crucial role in reducing the huge cost of data storage and transmission. However, distortions can be introduced into the decompressed point clouds due to quantization. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Xiaoqing Fan , Ge Li , Dingquan Li , Yurui Ren , Wei Gao , Thomas H. Li

Point clouds obtained from 3D scans are typically sparse, irregular, and noisy, and required to be consolidated. In this paper, we present the first deep learning based edge-aware technique to facilitate the consolidation of point clouds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Lequan Yu , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Point cloud upsampling (PCU) enriches the representation of raw point clouds, significantly improving the performance in downstream tasks such as classification and reconstruction. Most of the existing point cloud upsampling methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Wentao Qu , Yuantian Shao , Lingwu Meng , Xiaoshui Huang , Liang Xiao

Point clouds are a basic data type that is increasingly of interest as 3D content becomes more ubiquitous. Applications using point clouds include virtual, augmented, and mixed reality and autonomous driving. We propose a more efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Ryan Killea , Yun Li , Saeed Bastani , Paul McLachlan

It is an important task to reconstruct surfaces from 3D point clouds. Current methods are able to reconstruct surfaces by learning Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) from single point clouds without ground truth signed distances or point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

The development of practical applications, such as autonomous driving and robotics, has brought increasing attention to 3D point cloud understanding. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success on image-based tasks, there are many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Haoming Lu , Humphrey Shi

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

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense and uniformly distributed point sets from sparse point clouds. Existing point cloud upsampling methods typically approach the task as an interpolation problem. They achieve upsampling by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Ziming Nie , Qiao Wu , Chenlei Lv , Siwen Quan , Zhaoshuai Qi , Muze Wang , Jiaqi Yang

While deep learning-based methods have demonstrated outstanding results in numerous domains, some important functionalities are missing. Resolution scalability is one of them. In this work, we introduce a novel architecture, dubbed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Remco Royen , Adrian Munteanu

In this paper, we tackle the challenging problem of point cloud completion from the perspective of feature learning. Our key observation is that to recover the underlying structures as well as surface details, given partial input, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Zejia Su , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

In recent years, point cloud normal estimation, as a classical and foundational algorithm, has garnered extensive attention in the field of 3D geometric processing. Despite the remarkable performance achieved by current Neural Network-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jun Zhou , Yaoshun Li , Hongchen Tan , Mingjie Wang , Nannan Li , Xiuping Liu

Point cloud learning has lately attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications in many areas, such as computer vision, autonomous driving, and robotics. As a dominating technique in AI, deep learning has been successfully used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Yulan Guo , Hanyun Wang , Qingyong Hu , Hao Liu , Li Liu , Mohammed Bennamoun