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High-definition 3D city maps enable city planning and change detection, which is essential for municipal compliance, map maintenance, and asset monitoring, including both built structures and urban greenery. Conventional Digital Surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hezam Albagami , Haitian Wang , Xinyu Wang , Muhammad Ibrahim , Zainy M. Malakan , Abdullah M. Alqamdi , Mohammed H. Alghamdi , Ajmal Mian

This paper introduces five new density and accuracy metrics for aerial point clouds that address the complexity and objectives of modern, dense laser scans of urban scenes. The five metrics describe (1) vertical surface density (points per…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Michael H. Stanley , Debra F. Laefer

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds is important in urban remote sensing for understanding real-world street environments. This task, by projecting LiDAR point clouds and 3D semantic labels as sparse maps, can be reformulated as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaoyu Dong , Tiankui Xian , Wanshui Gan , Naoto Yokoya

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, essential for autonomous driving and infrastructure management, is best achieved by supervised learning, which demands extensive annotated datasets and faces the problem of domain shifts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Frémont

LiDAR point clouds provide rich geometric information, which is particularly useful for the analysis of complex scenes of urban regions. Finding structural and semantic differences between two different three-dimensional point clouds, say,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair , Pragyan Mohapatra

Point cloud data from 3D LiDAR sensors are one of the most crucial sensor modalities for versatile safety-critical applications such as self-driving vehicles. Since the annotations of point cloud data is an expensive and time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Khaled Saleh , Ahmed Abobakr , Mohammed Attia , Julie Iskander , Darius Nahavandi , Mohammed Hossny

Automated semantic understanding of dense point clouds is a prerequisite for Scan-to-BIM pipelines, digital twin construction, and as-built verification--core tasks in the digital transformation of the construction industry. Yet for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chao Yin , Hongzhe Yue , Qing Han , Difeng Hu , Zhenyu Liang , Fangzhou Lin , Bing Sun , Boyu Wang , Mingkai Li , Wei Yao , Jack C. P. Cheng

With the development of numerous 3D sensing technologies, object registration on cross-source point cloud has aroused researchers' interests. When the point clouds are captured from different kinds of sensors, there are large and different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Xiaoshui Huang , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu , Lixin Fan , Chun Yuan

High quality upsampling of sparse 3D point clouds is critically useful for a wide range of geometric operations such as reconstruction, rendering, meshing, and analysis. In this paper, we propose a data-driven algorithm that enables an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Wentai Zhang , Haoliang Jiang , Zhangsihao Yang , Soji Yamakawa , Kenji Shimada , Levent Burak Kara

Visual data in autonomous driving perception, such as camera image and LiDAR point cloud, can be interpreted as a mixture of two aspects: semantic feature and geometric structure. Semantics come from the appearance and context of objects to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Xia Chen , Jianren Wang , David Held , Martial Hebert

Exploring contextual information in the local region is important for shape understanding and analysis. Existing studies often employ hand-crafted or explicit ways to encode contextual information of local regions. However, it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Point cloud is a collection of 3D coordinates that are discrete geometric samples of an object's 2D surfaces. Using a low-cost 3D scanner to acquire data means that point clouds are often in lower resolution than desired for rendering on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic

Existing autonomous driving datasets are predominantly oriented towards well-structured urban settings and favourable weather conditions, leaving the complexities of rural environments and adverse weather conditions largely unaddressed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tzu-Yun Tseng , Alexey Nekrasov , Malcolm Burdorf , Bastian Leibe , Julie Stephany Berrio , Mao Shan , Zhenxing Ming , Stewart Worrall

Point cloud data has been extensively studied due to its compact form and flexibility in representing complex 3D structures. The ability of point cloud data to accurately capture and represent intricate 3D geometry makes it an ideal choice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ben Fei , Weidong Yang , Liwen Liu , Tianyue Luo , Rui Zhang , Yixuan Li , Ying He

Efficient transmission of 3D point cloud data is critical for advanced perception in centralized and decentralized multi-agent robotic systems, especially nowadays with the growing reliance on edge and cloud-based processing. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

We propose a novel dataset that has been specifically designed for 3D semantic segmentation of bridges and the domain gap analysis caused by varying sensors. This addresses a critical need in the field of infrastructure inspection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Maximilian Kellner , Mariana Ferrandon Cervantes , Yuandong Pan , Ruodan Lu , Ioannis Brilakis , Alexander Reiterer

The reconstruction of real-world surfaces is on high demand in various applications. Most existing reconstruction approaches apply 3D scanners for creating point clouds which are generally sparse and of low density. These points clouds will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rajat Sharma , Tobias Schwandt , Christian Kunert , Steffen Urban , Wolfgang Broll

Humans use UAVs to monitor changes in forest environments since they are lightweight and provide a large variety of surveillance data. However, their information does not present enough details for understanding the scene which is needed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bianca-Cerasela-Zelia Blaga , Sergiu Nedevschi

Large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation is an important task in 3D computer vision, which is widely applied in autonomous driving, robotics, and virtual reality. Current large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation methods usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ziyin Zeng , Yongyang Xu , Zhong Xie , Wei Tang , Jie Wan , Weichao Wu

Sensing the medical scenario can ensure the safety during the surgical operations. So, in this regard, a monitor platform which can obtain the accurate location information of the surgery room is desperately needed. Compared to 2D camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ke Wang , Han Song , Jiahui Zhang , Xinran Zhang , Hongen Liao