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The recent advances in 3D sensing technology have made possible the capture of point clouds in significantly high resolution. However, increased detail usually comes at the expense of high storage, as well as computational costs in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Giorgos Bouritsas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Affordable 3D scanners often produce sparse and non-uniform point clouds that negatively impact downstream applications in robotic systems. While existing point cloud upsampling architectures have demonstrated promising results on standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ahmed Hatem , Yiming Qian , Yang Wang

Inverse medium scattering solvers generally reconstruct a single solution without an associated measure of uncertainty. This is true both for the classical iterative solvers and for the emerging deep learning methods. But ill-posedness and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 AmirEhsan Khorashadizadeh , Ali Aghababaei , Tin Vlašić , Hieu Nguyen , Ivan Dokmanić

The goal of point cloud assembly is to reconstruct a complete 3D shape by aligning multiple point cloud pieces. This work presents a novel equivariant solver for assembly tasks based on flow matching models. We first theoretically show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ziming Wang , Nan Xue , Rebecka Jörnsten

Point clouds captured by depth sensors are often contaminated by noises, obstructing further analysis and applications. In this paper, we emphasize the importance of point distribution uniformity to downstream tasks. We demonstrate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Tian-Xing Xu , Yuan-Chen Guo , Yong-Liang Yang , Song-Hai Zhang

Recovering high-quality surfaces from irregular point cloud is ill-posed unless strong geometric priors are available. We introduce an implicit self-prior approach that distills a shape-specific prior directly from the input point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kyle Fogarty , Chenyue Cai , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Cengiz Öztireli

Despite significant progress in image-based 3D scene flow estimation, the performance of such approaches has not yet reached the fidelity required by many applications. Simultaneously, these applications are often not restricted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Aseem Behl , Despoina Paschalidou , Simon Donné , Andreas Geiger

This work introduces a new task of instance-incremental scene graph generation: Given a scene of the point cloud, representing it as a graph and automatically increasing novel instances. A graph denoting the object layout of the scene is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Chao Qi , Jianqin Yin , Jinghang Xu , Pengxiang Ding

Fine-grained geometry, captured by aggregation of point features in local regions, is crucial for object recognition and scene understanding in point clouds. Nevertheless, existing preeminent point cloud backbones usually incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jie Wang , Jianan Li , Lihe Ding , Ying Wang , Tingfa Xu

In recent years new application areas have emerged in which one aims to capture the geometry of objects by means of three-dimensional point clouds. Often the obtained data consist of a dense sampling of the object's surface, containing many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Daniel Tenbrinck , Fjedor Gaede , Martin Burger

In this paper, we present a novel deep method to reconstruct a point cloud of an object from a single still image. Prior arts in the field struggle to reconstruct an accurate and scalable 3D model due to either the inefficient and expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Anh-Duc Nguyen , Seonghwa Choi , Woojae Kim , Sanghoon Lee

With the increasing demand of capturing our environment in three-dimensions for AR/ VR applications and autonomous driving among others, the importance of high-resolution point clouds rises. As the capturing process is a complex task, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Viktoria Heimann , Andreas Spruck , André Kaup

Normalising flows are generative models that transform a complex density into a simpler density through the use of bijective transformations enabling both density estimation and data generation from a single model. %However, the requirement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-28 Eshant English , Matthias Kirchler , Christoph Lippert

We present a novel approach to learning a point-wise, meaningful embedding for point-clouds in an unsupervised manner, through the use of neural-networks. The domain of point-cloud processing via neural-networks is rapidly evolving, with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Matan Shoef , Sharon Fogel , Daniel Cohen-Or

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

Normalizing flows are an established approach for modelling complex probability densities through invertible transformations from a base distribution. However, the accuracy with which the target distribution can be captured by the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-02 Harry Bevins , Will Handley , Thomas Gessey-Jones

Unsupervised learning on 3D point clouds has undergone a rapid evolution, especially thanks to data augmentation-based contrastive methods. However, data augmentation is not ideal as it requires a careful selection of the type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Guofeng Mei , Cristiano Saltori , Fabio Poiesi , Jian Zhang , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe , Qiang Wu

In this work we propose a one-class self-supervised method for anomaly segmentation in images that benefits both from a modern machine learning approach and a more classic statistical detection theory. The method consists of four phases.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Matías Tailanian , Álvaro Pardo , Pablo Musé

Classifying whole images is a classic problem in machine learning, and graph neural networks are a powerful methodology to learn highly irregular geometries. It is often the case that certain parts of a point cloud are more important than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Lindsey Gray , Thomas Klijnsma , Shamik Ghosh

Conventional methods of 3D object generative modeling learn volumetric predictions using deep networks with 3D convolutional operations, which are direct analogies to classical 2D ones. However, these methods are computationally wasteful in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Chen-Hsuan Lin , Chen Kong , Simon Lucey