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This paper presents a neural network for robust normal estimation on point clouds, named AdaFit, that can deal with point clouds with noise and density variations. Existing works use a network to learn point-wise weights for weighted least…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Runsong Zhu , Yuan Liu , Zhen Dong , Tengping Jiang , Yuan Wang , Wenping Wang , Bisheng Yang

Signals emitted by LiDAR sensors would often be negatively influenced during transmission by rain, fog, dust, atmospheric particles, scattering of light and other influencing factors, causing noises in point cloud images. To address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Yao Duan , Chuanchuan Yang , Hao Chen , Weizhen Yan , Hongbin Li

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to revolutionize transportation by improving efficiency and safety. Their success relies on 3D vision systems that effectively sense the environment and detect traffic agents. Among sensors AVs use to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Amirhesam Aghanouri , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

The prevalence of accessible depth sensing and 3D laser scanning techniques has enabled the convenient acquisition of 3D dynamic point clouds, which provide efficient representation of arbitrarily-shaped objects in motion. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Wei Hu , Qianjiang Hu , Zehua Wang , Xiang Gao

LiDAR point clouds are fundamental to various applications, yet the extreme sparsity of high-precision geometric details hinders efficient context modeling, thereby limiting the compression speed and performance of existing methods. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pengpeng Yu , Haoran Li , Runqing Jiang , Dingquan Li , Jing Wang , Liang Lin , Yulan Guo

Semantic segmentation of aerial point cloud data can be utilised to differentiate which points belong to classes such as ground, buildings, or vegetation. Point clouds generated from aerial sensors mounted to drones or planes can utilise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Matthew Howe , Boris Repasky , Timothy Payne

To realize low-latency spatial transmission system for immersive telepresence, there are two major problems: capturing dynamic 3D scene densely and processing them in real time. LiDAR sensors capture 3D in real time, but produce sparce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Kazuhiko Murasaki , Shunsuke Konagai , Masakatsu Aoki , Taiga Yoshida , Ryuichi Tanida

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense and uniformly distributed point sets from a sparse point cloud, which plays a critical role in 3D computer vision. Previous methods typically split a sparse point cloud into several local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Shujuan Li , Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

The validation of LiDAR-based perception of intelligent mobile systems operating in open-world applications remains a challenge due to the variability of real environmental conditions. Virtual simulations allow the generation of arbitrary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Hubert Padusinski , Christian Steinhauser , Christian Scherl , Julian Gaal , Jacob Langner

We propose an effective unsupervised 3D point cloud novelty detection approach, leveraging a general point cloud feature extractor and a one-class classifier. The general feature extractor consists of a graph-based autoencoder and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shizuka Akahori , Satoshi Iizuka , Ken Mawatari , Kazuhiro Fukui

The use of infrastructure sensor technology for traffic detection has already been proven several times. However, extrinsic sensor calibration is still a challenge for the operator. While previous approaches are unable to calibrate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Laurent Kloeker , Christian Kotulla , Lutz Eckstein

LiDAR-based 3D point cloud recognition has been proven beneficial in various applications. However, the sparsity and varying density pose a significant challenge in capturing intricate details of objects, particularly for medium-range and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zaipeng Duan , Xuzhong Hu , Pei An , Jie Ma

Unsupervised point cloud completion aims at estimating the corresponding complete point cloud of a partial point cloud in an unpaired manner. It is a crucial but challenging problem since there is no paired partial-complete supervision that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yingjie Cai , Kwan-Yee Lin , Chao Zhang , Qiang Wang , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples which are carefully crafted instances to cause the models to make wrong predictions. While adversarial examples for 2D images and CNNs have been extensively studied,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Chong Xiang , Charles R. Qi , Bo Li

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has the potential to benefit many applications, particularly those where manually annotating data is cumbersome. One such situation is the semantic segmentation of point clouds. In this context, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Yanhao Wu , Tong Zhang , Wei Ke , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

Storing and transmitting LiDAR point cloud data is essential for many AV applications, such as training data collection, remote control, cloud services or SLAM. However, due to the sparsity and unordered structure of the data, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Till Beemelmanns , Yuchen Tao , Bastian Lampe , Lennart Reiher , Raphael van Kempen , Timo Woopen , Lutz Eckstein

To train a well performing neural network for semantic segmentation, it is crucial to have a large dataset with available ground truth for the network to generalize on unseen data. In this paper we present novel point cloud augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Frederik Hasecke , Martin Alsfasser , Anton Kummert

Typical LiDAR-based 3D object detection models are trained in a supervised manner with real-world data collection, which is often imbalanced over classes (or long-tailed). To deal with it, augmenting minority-class examples by sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Mincheol Chang , Siyeong Lee , Jinkyu Kim , Namil Kim

Point clouds provide a compact and efficient representation of 3D shapes. While deep neural networks have achieved impressive results on point cloud learning tasks, they require massive amounts of manually labeled data, which can be costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Han Qiao , Nayun Xu , Vladimir G. Kim

Point cloud analysis is attracting attention from Artificial Intelligence research since it can be widely used in applications such as robotics, Augmented Reality, self-driving. However, it is always challenging due to irregularities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes