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Point cloud is a principal data structure adopted for 3D geometric information encoding. Unlike other conventional visual data, such as images and videos, these irregular points describe the complex shape features of 3D objects, which makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Chaoyi Zhang , Yang Song , Lina Yao , Weidong Cai

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) excels at producing highly detailed 3D reconstructions, but these scenes often require specialised renderers for effective visualisation. In contrast, point clouds are a widely used 3D representation and are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Lewis A G Stuart , Michael P Pound

We present an approach to learning features that represent the local geometry around a point in an unstructured point cloud. Such features play a central role in geometric registration, which supports diverse applications in robotics and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Marc Khoury , Qian-Yi Zhou , Vladlen Koltun

In the field of 3D point cloud generation, numerous 3D generative models have demonstrated the ability to generate diverse and realistic 3D shapes. However, the majority of these approaches struggle to generate controllable 3D point cloud…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhenyu Shu , Jiajun Shen , Zhongui Chen , Xiaoguang Han , Shiqing Xin

In this paper, we propose PCPNet, a deep-learning based approach for estimating local 3D shape properties in point clouds. In contrast to the majority of prior techniques that concentrate on global or mid-level attributes, e.g., for shape…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Paul Guerrero , Yanir Kleiman , Maks Ovsjanikov , Niloy J. Mitra

Point cloud is one of the widely used techniques for representing and storing 3D geometric data. In the past several methods have been proposed for processing point clouds. Methods such as PointNet and FoldingNet have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Prajwal Singh , Kaustubh Sadekar , Shanmuganathan Raman

The analysis of 3D point clouds has diverse applications in robotics, vision and graphics. Processing them presents specific challenges since they are naturally sparse, can vary in spatial resolution and are typically unordered. Graph-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Mohammad Khodadad , Morteza Rezanejad , Ali Shiraee Kasmaee , Kaleem Siddiqi , Dirk Walther , Hamidreza Mahyar

Mesh generation is of great value in various applications involving computer graphics and virtual content, yet designing generative models for meshes is challenging due to their irregular data structure and inconsistent topology of meshes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Zhaoyang Lyu , Jinyi Wang , Yuwei An , Ya Zhang , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

Point clouds, being the simple and compact representation of surface geometry of 3D objects, have gained increasing popularity with the evolution of deep learning networks for classification and segmentation tasks. Unlike human, teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Sindhu Hegde , Shankar Gangisetty

Over the last decade, the demand for better segmentation and classification algorithms in 3D spaces has significantly grown due to the popularity of new 3D sensor technologies and advancements in the field of robotics. Point-clouds are one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Felipe Gomez Marulanda , Pieter Libin , Timothy Verstraeten , Ann Nowé

We propose a generative model of unordered point sets, such as point clouds, in the form of an energy-based model, where the energy function is parameterized by an input-permutation-invariant bottom-up neural network. The energy function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jianwen Xie , Yifei Xu , Zilong Zheng , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

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

Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) have become one of the fundamental architectural component in point cloud analysis due to its effective feature learning mechanism. However, when processing complex geometric structures in point clouds, MLPs'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yan Shi , Qingdong He , Yijun Liu , Xiaoyu Liu , Jingyong Su

We propose a systematic approach for registering cross-source point clouds. The compelling need for cross-source point cloud registration is motivated by the rapid development of a variety of 3D sensing techniques, but many existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Xiaoshui Huang , Jian Zhang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Wu , Chun Yuan

3D reconstruction from images is a core problem in computer vision. With recent advances in deep learning, it has become possible to recover plausible 3D shapes even from single RGB images for the first time. However, obtaining detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Tao Hu , Geng Lin , Zhizhong Han , Matthias Zwicker

In this paper, we propose an effective point cloud generation method, which can generate multi-resolution point clouds of the same shape from a latent vector. Specifically, we develop a novel progressive deconvolution network with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Le Hui , Rui Xu , Jin Xie , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Self-attention modules have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in capturing long-range relationships and improving the performance of point cloud tasks. However, point cloud objects are typically characterized by complex, disordered, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Xian Wei , Muyu Wang , Shing-Ho Jonathan Lin , Zhengyu Li , Jian Yang , Arafat Al-Jawari , Xuan Tang

Point cloud processing is very challenging, as the diverse shapes formed by irregular points are often indistinguishable. A thorough grasp of the elusive shape requires sufficiently contextual semantic information, yet few works devote to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yongcheng Liu , Bin Fan , Gaofeng Meng , Jiwen Lu , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Most masked point cloud modeling (MPM) methods follow a regression paradigm to reconstruct the coordinate or feature of masked regions. However, they tend to over-constrain the model to learn the details of the masked region, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Abiao Li , Chenlei Lv , Yuming Fang , Yifan Zuo , Jian Zhang , Guofeng Mei

For a long time, the point cloud completion task has been regarded as a pure generation task. After obtaining the global shape code through the encoder, a complete point cloud is generated using the shape priorly learnt by the networks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Jieqi Shi , Lingyun Xu , Liang Heng , Shaojie Shen