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This paper investigates an open research task of reconstructing and generating 3D point clouds. Most existing works of 3D generative models directly take the Gaussian prior as input for the decoder to generate 3D point clouds, which fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Yunfan Zhang , Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Vun Chan Hua Nicholas , Zhiqi Shen , Chunyan Miao

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach that harnesses both 2D and 3D attentions to enable highly accurate depth completion without requiring iterative spatial propagations. Specifically, we first enhance a baseline convolutional depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yunxiao Shi , Manish Kumar Singh , Hong Cai , Fatih Porikli

We introduce RGB2Point, an unposed single-view RGB image to a 3D point cloud generation based on Transformer. RGB2Point takes an input image of an object and generates a dense 3D point cloud. Contrary to prior works based on CNN layers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Jae Joong Lee , Bedrich Benes

The success of deep learning methods led to significant breakthroughs in 3-D point cloud processing tasks with applications in remote sensing. Existing methods utilize convolutions that have some limitations, as they assume a uniform input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Dimple A Shajahan , Mukund Varma T , Ramanathan Muthuganapathy

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 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

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

This paper proposes a convolution structure for learning SE(3)-equivariant features from 3D point clouds. It can be viewed as an equivariant version of kernel point convolutions (KPConv), a widely used convolution form to process point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , William A. Clark , Huei Peng

Point cloud patterns are hard to learn because of the implicit local geometry features among the orderless points. In recent years, point cloud representation in 2D space has attracted increasing research interest since it exposes the local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yecheng Lyu , Xinming Huang , Ziming Zhang

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

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

We proposed a novel graph convolutional neural network that could construct a coarse, sparse latent point cloud from a dense, raw point cloud. With a novel non-isotropic convolution operation defined on irregular geometries, the model then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Zhang Yuhui , Greg Gutmann , Konagaya Akihiko

In recent years, point cloud generation has gained significant attention in 3D generative modeling. Among existing approaches, point-based methods directly generate point clouds without relying on other representations such as latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Petr Molodyk , Jaemoo Choi , David W. Romero , Ming-Yu Liu , Yongxin Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have performed extremely well on data represented by regularly arranged grids such as images. However, directly leveraging the classic convolution kernels or parameter sharing mechanisms on sparse 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Mingtao Feng , Liang Zhang , Xuefei Lin , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Ajmal Mian

Real-world sensors often produce incomplete, irregular, and noisy point clouds, making point cloud completion increasingly important. However, most existing completion methods rely on large paired datasets for training, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zhaoxin Fan , Yulin He , Zhicheng Wang , Kejian Wu , Hongyan Liu , Jun He

Point cloud completion aims to reconstruct complete 3D shapes from partial observations, which is a challenging problem due to severe occlusions and missing geometry. Despite recent advances in multimodal techniques that leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wang Luo , Di Wu , Hengyuan Na , Yinlin Zhu , Miao Hu , Guocong Quan

Numerous point-cloud understanding techniques focus on whole entities and have succeeded in obtaining satisfactory results and limited sparsity tolerance. However, these methods are generally sensitive to incomplete point clouds that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Kaiyue Zhou , Ming Dong , Peiyuan Zhi , Shengjin Wang

This work proposes a general-purpose, fully-convolutional network architecture for efficiently processing large-scale 3D data. One striking characteristic of our approach is its ability to process unorganized 3D representations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Dario Rethage , Johanna Wald , Jürgen Sturm , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Self-supervised learning of point cloud aims to leverage unlabeled 3D data to learn meaningful representations without reliance on manual annotations. However, current approaches face challenges such as limited data diversity and inadequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Keyi Liu , Yeqi Luo , Weidong Yang , Jingyi Xu , Zhijun Li , Wen-Ming Chen , Ben Fei

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense and uniformly distributed point sets from sparse point clouds. Existing point cloud upsampling methods typically approach the task as an interpolation problem. They achieve upsampling by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Ziming Nie , Qiao Wu , Chenlei Lv , Siwen Quan , Zhaoshuai Qi , Muze Wang , Jiaqi Yang