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Normal estimation for 3D point clouds is a fundamental task in 3D geometry processing. The state-of-the-art methods rely on priors of fitting local surfaces learned from normal supervision. However, normal supervision in benchmarks comes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Kanle Shi , Yue Gao , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Point cloud normal estimation is a fundamental task in 3D geometry processing. While recent learning-based methods achieve notable advancements in normal prediction, they often overlook the critical aspect of equivariance. This results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hanxiao Wang , Mingyang Zhao , Weize Quan , Zhen Chen , Dong-ming Yan , Peter Wonka

Estimating surface normals from 3D point clouds is critical for various applications, including surface reconstruction and rendering. While existing methods for normal estimation perform well in regions where normals change slowly, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Haoyi Xiu , Xin Liu , Weimin Wang , Kyoung-Sook Kim , Masashi Matsuoka

This paper surveys and evaluates some popular state of the art methods for algorithmic curvature and normal estimation. In addition to surveying existing methods we also propose a new method for robust curvature estimation and evaluate it…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jared Spang

Point cloud filtering and normal estimation are two fundamental research problems in the 3D field. Existing methods usually perform normal estimation and filtering separately and often show sensitivity to noise and/or inability to preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Xuequan Lu , Gang Li , Antonio Robles-Kelly

We present a comprehensive survey and benchmark of both traditional and learning-based methods for surface reconstruction from point clouds. This task is particularly challenging for real-world acquisitions due to factors such as noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Raphael Sulzer , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet , Loic Landrieu

This paper presents an end-to-end differentiable algorithm for robust and detail-preserving surface normal estimation on unstructured point-clouds. We utilize graph neural networks to iteratively parameterize an adaptive anisotropic kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Jan Eric Lenssen , Christian Osendorfer , Jonathan Masci

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

As 3D point cloud analysis has received increasing attention, the insufficient scale of point cloud datasets and the weak generalization ability of networks become prominent. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jinlai Zhang , Lyujie Chen , Bo Ouyang , Binbin Liu , Jihong Zhu , Yujing Chen , Yanmei Meng , Danfeng Wu

In this paper, we propose a point cloud classification method based on graph neural network and manifold learning. Different from the conventional point cloud analysis methods, this paper uses manifold learning algorithms to embed point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Dinghao Yang , Wei Gao

The growing size of point clouds enlarges consumptions of storage, transmission, and computation of 3D scenes. Raw data is redundant, noisy, and non-uniform. Therefore, simplifying point clouds for achieving compact, clean, and uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yuanqi Li , Jianwei Guo , Xinran Yang , Shun Liu , Jie Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yanwen Guo

We present a robust refinement method for estimating oriented normals from unstructured point clouds. In contrast to previous approaches that either suffer from high computational complexity or fail to achieve desirable accuracy, our novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yingrui Wu , Mingyang Zhao , Weize Quan , Jian Shi , Xiaohong Jia , Dong-Ming Yan

Despite the growing demand for accurate surface normal estimation models, existing methods use general-purpose dense prediction models, adopting the same inductive biases as other tasks. In this paper, we discuss the inductive biases needed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Gwangbin Bae , Andrew J. Davison

Neural implicit surfaces have become an important technique for multi-view 3D reconstruction but their accuracy remains limited. In this paper, we argue that this comes from the difficulty to learn and render high frequency textures with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 François Darmon , Bénédicte Bascle , Jean-Clément Devaux , Pascal Monasse , Mathieu Aubry

Normal estimation for unstructured point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Current methods achieve encouraging results by mapping local patches to normal vectors or learning local surface fitting using neural networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shujuan Li , Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

In this paper, we propose Selective Output Smoothing Regularization, a novel regularization method for training the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Inspired by the diverse effects on training from different samples, Selective Output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Xuan Cheng , Tianshu Xie , Xiaomin Wang , Qifeng Weng , Minghui Liu , Jiali Deng , Ming Liu

Recovering high quality surfaces from noisy point clouds, known as point cloud denoising, is a fundamental yet challenging problem in geometry processing. Most of the existing methods either directly denoise the noisy input or filter raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zheng Liu , Yaowu Zhao , Sijing Zhan , Yuanyuan Liu , Renjie Chen , Ying He

A key step in any scanning-based asset creation workflow is to convert unordered point clouds to a surface. Classical methods (e.g., Poisson reconstruction) start to degrade in the presence of noisy and partial scans. Hence, deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Philipp Erler , Paul Guerrero , Stefan Ohrhallinger , Michael Wimmer , Niloy J. Mitra

Although supervised deep normal estimators have recently shown impressive results on synthetic benchmarks, their performance deteriorates significantly in real-world scenarios due to the domain gap between synthetic and real data. Building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jie Zhang , Minghui Nie , Changqing Zou , Jian Liu , Ligang Liu , Junjie Cao

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