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Point clouds are utilized in various 3D applications such as cross-reality (XR) and realistic 3D displays. In some applications, e.g., for live streaming using a 3D point cloud, real-time point cloud denoising methods are required to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ryosuke Watanabe , Keisuke Nonaka , Eduardo Pavez , Tatsuya Kobayashi , Antonio Ortega

Reconstructing accurate implicit surface representations from point clouds remains a challenging task, particularly when data is captured using low-quality scanning devices. These point clouds often contain substantial noise, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tengkai Wang , Weihao Li , Ruikai Cui , Shi Qiu , Nick Barnes

Pre-trained point cloud analysis models have shown promising advancements in various downstream tasks, yet their effectiveness is typically suffering from low-quality point cloud (i.e., noise and incompleteness), which is a common issue in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Zixiang Ai , Zhenyu Cui , Yuxin Peng , Jiahuan Zhou

Estimating normals for noisy point clouds is a persistent challenge in 3D geometry processing, particularly for end-to-end oriented normal estimation. Existing methods generally address relatively clean data and rely on supervised priors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Xun Gong , Yu-Shen Liu

3D point cloud - a new signal representation of volumetric objects - is a discrete collection of triples marking exterior object surface locations in 3D space. Conventional imperfect acquisition processes of 3D point cloud - e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Jin Zeng , Gene Cheung , Michael Ng , Jiahao Pang , Cheng Yang

Normal estimation on 3D point clouds is a fundamental problem in 3D vision and graphics. Current methods often show limited accuracy in predicting normals at sharp features (e.g., edges and corners) and less robustness to noise. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Weijia Wang , Xuequan Lu , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Xiao Liu , Antonio Robles-Kelly

Image denoising is a classic restoration problem. Yet, current deep learning methods are subject to the problems of generalization and interpretability. To mitigate these problems, in this project, we present a framework that is capable of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Haley Owsianko , Florian Cassayre , Qiyuan Liang

A 3D point cloud is typically constructed from depth measurements acquired by sensors at one or more viewpoints. The measurements suffer from both quantization and noise corruption. To improve quality, previous works denoise a point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xue Zhang , Gene Cheung , Jiahao Pang , Yash Sanghvi , Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Stanley H. Chan

Point clouds are naturally sparse, while image pixels are dense. The inconsistency limits feature fusion from both modalities for point-wise scene flow estimation. Previous methods rarely predict scene flow from the entire point clouds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Chensheng Peng , Guangming Wang , Xian Wan Lo , Xinrui Wu , Chenfeng Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan , Hesheng Wang

Over the past two decades, we have seen an exponentially increased amount of point clouds collected with irregular shapes in various areas. Motivated by the importance of solid modeling for point clouds, we develop a novel and efficient…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-21 Xinyi Li , Shan Yu , Yueying Wang , Guannan Wang , Ming-Jun Lai , Li Wang

The growing size of point clouds enlarges consumptions of storage, transmission, and computation of 3D scenes. Raw data is redundant, noisy, and non-uniform. Therefore, simplifying point clouds for achieving compact, clean, and uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yuanqi Li , Jianwei Guo , Xinran Yang , Shun Liu , Jie Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yanwen Guo

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D. Despite recent progress on point cloud segmentation with the power of deep networks, current learning methods based on the clean label assumptions may fail with noisy labels. Yet, class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Shuquan Ye , Dongdong Chen , Songfang Han , Jing Liao

Point cloud upsampling (PCU) enriches the representation of raw point clouds, significantly improving the performance in downstream tasks such as classification and reconstruction. Most of the existing point cloud upsampling methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Wentao Qu , Yuantian Shao , Lingwu Meng , Xiaoshui Huang , Liang Xiao

3D dynamic point clouds provide a natural discrete representation of real-world objects or scenes in motion, with a wide range of applications in immersive telepresence, autonomous driving, surveillance, \etc. Nevertheless, dynamic point…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Wei Hu , Qianjiang Hu , Zehua Wang , Xiang Gao

Video denoising aims at removing noise from videos to recover clean ones. Some existing works show that optical flow can help the denoising by exploiting the additional spatial-temporal clues from nearby frames. However, the flow estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jiezhang Cao , Qin Wang , Jingyun Liang , Yulun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Point clouds produced by 3D scanning are often sparse, non-uniform, and noisy. Recent upsampling approaches aim to generate a dense point set, while achieving both distribution uniformity and proximity-to-surface, and possibly amending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ruihui Li , Xianzhi Li , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu

Diffusion probabilistic models are traditionally used to generate colors at fixed pixel positions in 2D images. Building on this, we extend diffusion models to point cloud semantic segmentation, where point positions also remain fixed, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yong He , Hongshan Yu , Mingtao Feng , Tongjia Chen , Zechuan Li , Anwaar Ulhaq , Saeed Anwar , Ajmal Saeed Mian

Image denoising is a fundamental task in low-level computer vision. While recent deep learning-based image denoising methods have achieved impressive performance, they are black-box models and the underlying denoising principle remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Jingwei Niu , Jun Cheng , Shan Tan

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

Real-world image denoising is an extremely important image processing problem, which aims to recover clean images from noisy images captured in natural environments. In recent years, diffusion models have achieved very promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Cheng Yang , Lijing Liang , Zhixun Su