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In point clouds, noise directly perturbs point coordinates that encode both spatial location and geometry, making one-to-one correspondence construction more challenging than in images. Existing methods impose statistical mappings across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chengwei Zhang , Xueyi Zhang , Tao Jiang , Xinhao Xu , Wenjie Li , Fubo Zhang , Longyong Chen

A 3D point cloud is typically constructed from depth measurements acquired by sensors at one or more viewpoints. The measurements suffer from both quantization and noise corruption. To improve quality, previous works denoise a point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xue Zhang , Gene Cheung , Jiahao Pang , Yash Sanghvi , Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Stanley H. Chan

In this work, we tackle the task of point cloud denoising through a novel framework that adapts Diffusion Schr\"odinger bridges to points clouds. Unlike previous approaches that predict point-wise displacements from point features or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Mathias Vogel , Keisuke Tateno , Marc Pollefeys , Federico Tombari , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Francis Engelmann

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

This paper proposes a method for estimating a surface that contains a given set of points from noisy measurements. More precisely, by assuming that the surface is described by the zero set of a function in the span of a given set of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Omar M. Sleem , Sahand Kiani , Constantino M. Lagoa

Point clouds acquired by 3D scanning devices are often sparse, noisy, and non-uniform, causing a loss of geometric features. To facilitate the usability of point clouds in downstream applications, given such input, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Guangshun Wei , Hao Pan , Shaojie Zhuang , Yuanfeng Zhou , Changjian Li

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

Point cloud obtained from 3D scanning is often sparse, noisy, and irregular. To cope with these issues, recent studies have been separately conducted to densify, denoise, and complete inaccurate point cloud. In this paper, we advocate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jaesung Choe , Byeongin Joung , Francois Rameau , Jaesik Park , In So Kweon

Burst denoising methods are crucial for enhancing images captured on handheld devices, but they often struggle with large motion or suffer from prohibitive computational costs. In this paper, we propose DenoiseGS, the first framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yongsen Cheng , Yuanhao Cai , Yulun Zhang

3D point clouds acquired by scanning real-world objects or scenes have found a wide range of applications including immersive telepresence, autonomous driving, surveillance, etc. They are often perturbed by noise or suffer from low density,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Haolan Chen , Bi'an Du , Shitong Luo , Wei Hu

Point clouds are an increasingly relevant data type but they are often corrupted by noise. We propose a deep neural network based on graph-convolutional layers that can elegantly deal with the permutation-invariance problem encountered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Francesca Pistilli , Giulia Fracastoro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Score diffusion methods can learn probability densities from samples. The score of the noise-corrupted density is estimated using a deep neural network, which is then used to iteratively transport a Gaussian white noise density to a target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Stéphane Mallat , Eero P. Simoncelli

Pre-trained point cloud analysis models have shown promising advancements in various downstream tasks, yet their effectiveness is typically suffering from low-quality point cloud (i.e., noise and incompleteness), which is a common issue in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Zixiang Ai , Zhenyu Cui , Yuxin Peng , Jiahuan Zhou

Denoising diffusion models are a class of generative models which have recently achieved state-of-the-art results across many domains. Gradual noise is added to the data using a diffusion process, which transforms the data distribution into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-28 Francisco Vargas , Teodora Reu , Anna Kerekes , Michael M Bronstein

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

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

Noisy 3D point clouds arise in many applications. They may be due to errors when constructing a 3D model from images or simply to imprecise depth sensors. Point clouds can be given geometrical structure using graphs created from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Yann Schoenenberger , Johan Paratte , Pierre Vandergheynst

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

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

3D object detection is a fundamental task in scene understanding. Numerous research efforts have been dedicated to better incorporate Hough voting into the 3D object detection pipeline. However, due to the noisy, cluttered, and partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Haoran Hou , Mingtao Feng , Zijie Wu , Weisheng Dong , Qing Zhu , Yaonan Wang , Ajmal Mian