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Given the rapid development of 3D scanners, point clouds are becoming popular in AI-driven machines. However, point cloud data is inherently sparse and irregular, causing significant difficulties for machine perception. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

Inspired by recent improvements in point cloud processing for autonomous navigation, we focus on using hierarchical graph neural networks for processing and feature learning over large-scale outdoor LiDAR point clouds. We observe that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Arulmolivarman Thieshanthan , Amashi Niwarthana , Pamuditha Somarathne , Tharindu Wickremasinghe , Ranga Rodrigo

Efficient transmission of 3D point cloud data is critical for advanced perception in centralized and decentralized multi-agent robotic systems, especially nowadays with the growing reliance on edge and cloud-based processing. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

Established sampling protocols for 3D point cloud learning, such as Farthest Point Sampling (FPS) and Fixed Sample Size (FSS), have long been relied upon. However, real-world data often suffer from corruptions, such as sensor noise, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chongshou Li , Pin Tang , Xinke Li , Yuheng Liu , Tianrui Li

Rendering high-fidelity images from sparse point clouds is still challenging. Existing learning-based approaches suffer from either hole artifacts, missing details, or expensive computations. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jiaxu Wang , Ziyi Zhang , Junhao He , Renjing Xu

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

Point cloud compression (PCC) is a key enabler for various 3-D applications, owing to the universality of the point cloud format. Ideally, 3D point clouds endeavor to depict object/scene surfaces that are continuous. Practically, as a set…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-12 Jiahao Pang , Muhammad Asad Lodhi , Dong Tian

Point clouds are utilized in various 3D applications such as cross-reality (XR) and realistic 3D displays. In some applications, e.g., for live streaming using a 3D point cloud, real-time point cloud denoising methods are required to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ryosuke Watanabe , Keisuke Nonaka , Eduardo Pavez , Tatsuya Kobayashi , Antonio Ortega

We propose a novel deep learning-based framework to tackle the challenge of semantic segmentation of large-scale point clouds of millions of points. We argue that the organization of 3D point clouds can be efficiently captured by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Loic Landrieu , Martin Simonovsky

In this work, we propose a novel method for generating 3D point clouds that leverage properties of hyper networks. Contrary to the existing methods that learn only the representation of a 3D object, our approach simultaneously finds a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Przemysław Spurek , Sebastian Winczowski , Jacek Tabor , Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Tomasz Trzciński

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

Sampling is widely used in various point cloud tasks as it can effectively reduce resource consumption. Recently, some methods have proposed utilizing neural networks to optimize the sampling process for various task requirements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Guoqing Zhang , Wenbo Zhao , Jian Liu , Xianming Liu

Completing an unordered partial point cloud is a challenging task. Existing approaches that rely on decoding a latent feature to recover the complete shape, often lead to the completed point cloud being over-smoothing, losing details, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Ren-Wu Li , Bo Wang , Chun-Peng Li , Ling-Xiao Zhang , Lin Gao

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

Point clouds obtained from 3D sensors are usually sparse. Existing methods mainly focus on upsampling sparse point clouds in a supervised manner by using dense ground truth point clouds. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Yifan Zhao , Le Hui , Jin Xie

Point clouds produced by 3D sensors are often sparse and noisy, posing challenges for tasks requiring dense and high-fidelity 3D representations. Prior work has explored both implicit feature-based upsampling and distance-function learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mahmoud Khater , Mona Strauss , Philipp von Olshausen , Alexander Reiterer

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense point clouds from given sparse ones, which is a challenging task due to the irregular and unordered nature of point sets. To address this issue, we present a novel deep learning-based model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Aihua Mao , Zihui Du , Junhui Hou , Yaqi Duan , Yong-jin Liu , Ying He

Hypergraphs allow modeling problems with multi-way high-order relationships. However, the computational cost of most existing hypergraph-based algorithms can be heavily dependent upon the input hypergraph sizes. To address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Aghdaei , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

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

Point cloud super-resolution is a fundamental problem for 3D reconstruction and 3D data understanding. It takes a low-resolution (LR) point cloud as input and generates a high-resolution (HR) point cloud with rich details. In this paper, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Huikai Wu , Junge Zhang , Kaiqi Huang