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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

Point cloud analysis is attracting attention from Artificial Intelligence research since it can be widely used in applications such as robotics, Augmented Reality, self-driving. However, it is always challenging due to irregularities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

The popularisation of acquisition devices capable of capturing volumetric information such as LiDAR scans and depth cameras has lead to an increased interest in point clouds as an imaging modality. Due to the high amount of data needed for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Davi Lazzarotto , Touradj Ebrahimi

Point clouds are often sparse and incomplete, which imposes difficulties for real-world applications. Existing shape completion methods tend to generate rough shapes without fine-grained details. Considering this, we introduce a two-branch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Xiaogang Wang , Marcelo H Ang , Gim Hee Lee

The application of deep learning to 3D point clouds is challenging due to its lack of order. Inspired by the point embeddings of PointNet and the edge embeddings of DGCNNs, we propose three improvements to the task of point cloud analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Suresh Manandhar

We introduce a continuous global optimization method to the field of surface reconstruction from discrete noisy cloud of points with weak information on orientation. The proposed method uses an energy functional combining flux-based…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Rongjiang Pan , Vaclav Skala

Point clouds upsampling is a challenging issue to generate dense and uniform point clouds from the given sparse input. Most existing methods either take the end-to-end supervised learning based manner, where large amounts of pairs of sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Wenbo Zhao , Xianming Liu , Zhiwei Zhong , Junjun Jiang , Wei Gao , Ge Li , Xiangyang Ji

A point cloud is a crucial geometric data structure utilized in numerous applications. The adoption of deep neural networks referred to as Point Cloud Neural Networks (PC- NNs), for processing 3D point clouds, has significantly advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Amrijit Biswas , Md. Ismail Hossain , M M Lutfe Elahi , Ali Cheraghian , Fuad Rahman , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Recent advances in generative modeling have demonstrated strong promise for high-quality point cloud upsampling. In this work, we present PUFM++, an enhanced flow-matching framework for reconstructing dense and accurate point clouds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Roland Maier , Andreas Rupp

3D point cloud segmentation remains challenging for structureless and textureless regions. We present a new unified point-based framework for 3D point cloud segmentation that effectively optimizes pixel-level features, geometrical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hung-Yueh Chiang , Yen-Liang Lin , Yueh-Cheng Liu , Winston H. Hsu

While deep learning-based methods have demonstrated outstanding results in numerous domains, some important functionalities are missing. Resolution scalability is one of them. In this work, we introduce a novel architecture, dubbed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Remco Royen , Adrian Munteanu

Object reconstruction from 3D point clouds has been a long-standing research problem in computer vision and computer graphics, and achieved impressive progress. However, reconstruction from time-varying point clouds (a.k.a. 4D point clouds)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Tuan-Anh Vu , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Quang-Hieu Pham , Sai-Kit Yeung

Recent development of 3D sensors allows the acquisition of extremely dense 3D point clouds of large-scale scenes. The main challenge of processing such large point clouds remains in the size of the data, which induce expensive computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Thomas Richard , Florent Dupont , Guillaume Lavoue

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

This paper presents an approach for compressing point cloud geometry by leveraging a lightweight super-resolution network. The proposed method involves decomposing a point cloud into a base point cloud and the interpolation patterns for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Wei Zhang , Dingquan Li , Ge Li , Wen Gao

The universality of the point cloud format enables many 3D applications, making the compression of point clouds a critical phase in practice. Sampled as discrete 3D points, a point cloud approximates 2D surface(s) embedded in 3D with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Jiahao Pang , Kevin Bui , Dong Tian

Surface reconstruction from an unorganized point cloud is an important problem due to its widespread applications. White noise, possibly clustered outliers, and noisy perturbation may be generated when a point cloud is sampled from a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Siu-Wing Cheng , Man-Kit Lau

Reconstructing a 3D shape based on a single sketch image is challenging due to the large domain gap between a sparse, irregular sketch and a regular, dense 3D shape. Existing works try to employ the global feature extracted from sketch to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Chenjian Gao , Qian Yu , Lu Sheng , Yi-Zhe Song , Dong Xu

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

3D point clouds are discrete samples of continuous surfaces which can be used for various applications. However, the lack of true connectivity information, i.e., edge information, makes point cloud recognition challenging. Recent edge-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Haoyi Xiu , Xin Liu , Weimin Wang , Kyoung-Sook Kim , Takayuki Shinohara , Qiong Chang , Masashi Matsuoka