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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

Driven by the increasing demand for accurate and efficient representation of 3D data in various domains, point cloud sampling has emerged as a pivotal research topic in 3D computer vision. Recently, learning-to-sample methods have garnered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chengzhi Wu , Yuxin Wan , Hao Fu , Julius Pfrommer , Zeyun Zhong , Junwei Zheng , Jiaming Zhang , Jürgen Beyerer

As a popular geometric representation, point clouds have attracted much attention in 3D vision, leading to many applications in autonomous driving and robotics. One important yet unsolved issue for learning on point cloud is that point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yuefan Shen , Yanchao Yang , Mi Yan , He Wang , Youyi Zheng , Leonidas Guibas

We introduce a novel technique for neural point cloud consolidation which learns from only the input point cloud. Unlike other point upsampling methods which analyze shapes via local patches, in this work, we learn from global subsets. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Gal Metzer , Rana Hanocka , Raja Giryes , Daniel Cohen-Or

The matching of 3D shapes has been extensively studied for shapes represented as surface meshes, as well as for shapes represented as point clouds. While point clouds are a common representation of raw real-world 3D data (e.g. from laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dongliang Cao , Florian Bernard

Point clouds have attracted increasing attention. Significant progress has been made in methods for point cloud analysis, which often requires costly human annotation as supervision. To address this issue, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Bi'an Du , Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Xin Li

Learning to generate 3D point clouds without 3D supervision is an important but challenging problem. Current solutions leverage various differentiable renderers to project the generated 3D point clouds onto a 2D image plane, and train deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Chen Chao , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Recent years have witnessed the surge of learned representations that directly build upon point clouds. Though becoming increasingly expressive, most existing representations still struggle to generate ordered point sets. Inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Jiaxin Wei , Lige Liu , Ran Cheng , Wenqing Jiang , Minghao Xu , Xinyu Jiang , Tao Sun , Soren Schwertfeger , Laurent Kneip

We introduce Point2Skeleton, an unsupervised method to learn skeletal representations from point clouds. Existing skeletonization methods are limited to tubular shapes and the stringent requirement of watertight input, while our method aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Cheng Lin , Changjian Li , Yuan Liu , Nenglun Chen , Yi-King Choi , Wenping Wang

Topology matters. Despite the recent success of point cloud processing with geometric deep learning, it remains arduous to capture the complex topologies of point cloud data with a learning model. Given a point cloud dataset containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jiahao Pang , Duanshun Li , Dong Tian

We propose a fast and accurate surface reconstruction algorithm for unorganized point clouds using an implicit representation. Recent learning methods are either single-object representations with small neural models that allow for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Siddhant Ranade , Gonçalo Dias Pais , Ross Tyler Whitaker , Jacinto C. Nascimento , Pedro Miraldo , Srikumar Ramalingam

Recognizing human actions from point cloud videos has attracted tremendous attention from both academia and industry due to its wide applications like automatic driving, robotics, and so on. However, current methods for point cloud action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Xiaodong Chen , Wu Liu , Xinchen Liu , Yongdong Zhang , Jungong Han , Tao Mei

Neural implicit representations have become a popular choice for modeling surfaces due to their adaptability in resolution and support for complex topology. While previous works have achieved impressive reconstruction quality by training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Lu Sang , Abhishek Saroha , Maolin Gao , Daniel Cremers

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are known to rely more on local texture rather than global shape when making decisions. Recent work also indicates a close relationship between CNN's texture-bias and its robustness against distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Baifeng Shi , Dinghuai Zhang , Qi Dai , Zhanxing Zhu , Yadong Mu , Jingdong Wang

The manual annotation for large-scale point clouds is still tedious and unavailable for many harsh real-world tasks. Self-supervised learning, which is used on raw and unlabeled data to pre-train deep neural networks, is a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Junsheng Zhou , Xin Wen , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Yue Gao , Yi Fang , Zhizhong Han

This paper addresses the task of estimating the 6 degrees of freedom pose of a known 3D object from depth information represented by a point cloud. Deep features learned by convolutional neural networks from color information have been the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Ge Gao , Mikko Lauri , Yulong Wang , Xiaolin Hu , Jianwei Zhang , Simone Frintrop

In this paper, we propose Neural Points, a novel point cloud representation and apply it to the arbitrary-factored upsampling task. Different from traditional point cloud representation where each point only represents a position or a local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wanquan Feng , Jin Li , Hongrui Cai , Xiaonan Luo , Juyong Zhang

Self-supervised methods have been proven effective for learning deep representations of 3D point cloud data. Although recent methods in this domain often rely on random masking of inputs, the results of this approach can be improved. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Michał Szachniewicz , Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba

Point cloud data have been widely explored due to its superior accuracy and robustness under various adverse situations. Meanwhile, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved very impressive success in various applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Aoran Xiao , Jiaxing Huang , Dayan Guan , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shijian Lu , Ling Shao

Manual annotation of large-scale point cloud dataset for varying tasks such as 3D object classification, segmentation and detection is often laborious owing to the irregular structure of point clouds. Self-supervised learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mohamed Afham , Isuru Dissanayake , Dinithi Dissanayake , Amaya Dharmasiri , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Ranga Rodrigo