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Learning and analyzing 3D point clouds with deep networks is challenging due to the sparseness and irregularity of the data. In this paper, we present a data-driven point cloud upsampling technique. The key idea is to learn multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Lequan Yu , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Point cloud denoising aims to restore clean point clouds from raw observations corrupted by noise and outliers while preserving the fine-grained details. We present a novel deep learning-based denoising model, that incorporates normalizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Aihua Mao , Zihui Du , Yu-Hui Wen , Jun Xuan , Yong-Jin Liu

The reconstruction of real-world surfaces is on high demand in various applications. Most existing reconstruction approaches apply 3D scanners for creating point clouds which are generally sparse and of low density. These points clouds will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rajat Sharma , Tobias Schwandt , Christian Kunert , Steffen Urban , Wolfgang Broll

Diffusion models are a powerful framework for tackling ill-posed problems, with recent advancements extending their use to point cloud upsampling. Despite their potential, existing diffusion models struggle with inefficiencies as they map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Lei Li

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

Recent advances in generative modeling have demonstrated strong promise for high-quality point cloud upsampling. In this work, we present PUFM++, an enhanced flow-matching framework for reconstructing dense and accurate point clouds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Roland Maier , Andreas Rupp

The task of point cloud upsampling aims to acquire dense and uniform point sets from sparse and irregular point sets. Although significant progress has been made with deep learning models, state-of-the-art methods require ground-truth dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xinhai Liu , Xinchen Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

As 3D point clouds become the representation of choice for multiple vision and graphics applications, the ability to synthesize or reconstruct high-resolution, high-fidelity point clouds becomes crucial. Despite the recent success of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Guandao Yang , Xun Huang , Zekun Hao , Ming-Yu Liu , Serge Belongie , Bharath Hariharan

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

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 clouds acquired from range scans are often sparse, noisy, and non-uniform. This paper presents a new point cloud upsampling network called PU-GAN, which is formulated based on a generative adversarial network (GAN), to learn a rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Ruihui Li , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

This paper addresses the problem of generating uniform dense point clouds to describe the underlying geometric structures from given sparse point clouds. Due to the irregular and unordered nature, point cloud densification as a generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Yue Qian , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Ying He

Existing learning-based point cloud upsampling methods often overlook the intrinsic data distribution charac?teristics of point clouds, leading to suboptimal results when handling sparse and non-uniform point clouds. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yaohui Fang , Xingce Wang

Point cloud upsampling is to densify a sparse point set acquired from 3D sensors, providing a denser representation for the underlying surface. Existing methods divide the input points into small patches and upsample each patch separately,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chen Long , Wenxiao Zhang , Ruihui Li , Hao Wang , Zhen Dong , Bisheng Yang

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 upsampling focuses on generating a dense, uniform and proximity-to-surface point set. Most previous approaches accomplish these objectives by carefully designing a single-stage network, which makes it still challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hang Du , Xuejun Yan , Jingjing Wang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

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

The learning and aggregation of multi-scale features are essential in empowering neural networks to capture the fine-grained geometric details in the point cloud upsampling task. Most existing approaches extract multi-scale features from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yechao Bai , Xiaogang Wang , Marcelo H. Ang , Daniela Rus

Flow-based generative models are composed of invertible transformations between two random variables of the same dimension. Therefore, flow-based models cannot be adequately trained if the dimension of the data distribution does not match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Hyeongju Kim , Hyeonseung Lee , Woo Hyun Kang , Joun Yeop Lee , Nam Soo Kim

Point clouds upsampling is a challenging issue to generate dense and uniform point clouds from the given sparse input. Most existing methods either take the end-to-end supervised learning based manner, where large amounts of pairs of sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Wenbo Zhao , Xianming Liu , Zhiwei Zhong , Junjun Jiang , Wei Gao , Ge Li , Xiangyang Ji
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