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Point cloud filtering is a fundamental problem in geometry modeling and processing. Despite of significant advancement in recent years, the existing methods still suffer from two issues: 1) they are either designed without preserving sharp…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Dongbo Zhang , Xuequan Lu , Hong Qin , Ying He

Cloud-edge collaboration enhances machine perception by combining the strengths of edge and cloud computing. Edge devices capture raw data (e.g., 3D point clouds) and extract salient features, which are sent to the cloud for deeper analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Chongzhen Tian , Hui Yuan , Pan Zhao , Chang Sun , Raouf Hamzaoui , Sam Kwong

The emergence of digital avatars has raised an exponential increase in the demand for human point clouds with realistic and intricate details. The compression of such data becomes challenging with overwhelming data amounts comprising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Xinju Wu , Pingping Zhang , Meng Wang , Peilin Chen , Shiqi Wang , Sam Kwong

We propose an end-to-end trainable image compression framework with a multi-scale and context-adaptive entropy model, especially for low bitrate compression. Due to the success of autoregressive priors in probabilistic generative model, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-18 Jing Zhou , Sihan Wen , Akira Nakagawa , Kimihiko Kazui , Zhiming Tan

Existing techniques to compress point cloud attributes leverage either geometric or video-based compression tools. We explore a radically different approach inspired by recent advances in point cloud representation learning. Point clouds…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Maurice Quach , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux

Recovering dense and uniformly distributed point clouds from sparse or noisy data remains a significant challenge. Recently, great progress has been made on these tasks, but usually at the cost of increasingly intricate modules or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jihe Li , Bo Pang , Peng-Shuai Wang

Point cloud compression is essential to experience volumetric multimedia as it drastically reduces the required streaming data rates. Point attributes, specifically colors, extend the challenge of lossy compression beyond geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Michael Rudolph , Aron Riemenschneider , Amr Rizk

In point cloud geometry compression, context models usually use the one-hot encoding of node occupancy as the label, and the cross-entropy between the one-hot encoding and the probability distribution predicted by the context model as the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Chang Sun , Hui Yuan , Shuai Li , Xin Lu , Raouf Hamzaoui

Efficient point cloud compression is essential for applications like virtual and mixed reality, autonomous driving, and cultural heritage. This paper proposes a deep learning-based inter-frame encoding scheme for dynamic point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Anique Akhtar , Zhu Li , Geert Van der Auwera

We present a novel compression algorithm for reducing the storage of LiDAR sensor data streams. Our model exploits spatio-temporal relationships across multiple LiDAR sweeps to reduce the bitrate of both geometry and intensity values.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Sourav Biswas , Jerry Liu , Kelvin Wong , Shenlong Wang , Raquel Urtasun

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

Lossy compression relies on an autoencoder to transform a point cloud into latent points for storage, leaving the inherent redundancy of latent representations unexplored. To reduce redundancy in latent points, we propose a diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Xiaoge Zhang , Zijie Wu , Mehwish Nasim , Mingtao Feng , Saeed Anwar , Ajmal Mian

This paper presents a novel point cloud compression method COT-PCC by formulating the task as a constrained optimal transport (COT) problem. COT-PCC takes the bitrate of compressed features as an extra constraint of optimal transport (OT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zezeng Li , Weimin Wang , Ziliang Wang , Na Lei

In healthcare, accurately classifying medical images is vital, but conventional methods often hinge on medical data with a consistent grid structure, which may restrict their overall performance. Recent medical research has been focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Kishore Babu Nampalle , Pradeep Singh , Vivek Narayan Uppala , Sumit Gangwar , Rajesh Singh Negi , Balasubramanian Raman

Point cloud analysis (such as 3D segmentation and detection) is a challenging task, because of not only the irregular geometries of many millions of unordered points, but also the great variations caused by depth, viewpoint, occlusion, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang , Qinghua Zheng

With the growth of 3D applications and the rapid increase in sensor-collected 3D point cloud data, there is a rising demand for efficient compression algorithms. Most existing learning-based compression methods handle geometry and color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Tianxin Huang , Gim Hee Lee

Point cloud compression plays a crucial role in reducing the huge cost of data storage and transmission. However, distortions can be introduced into the decompressed point clouds due to quantization. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Xiaoqing Fan , Ge Li , Dingquan Li , Yurui Ren , Wei Gao , Thomas H. Li

This paper presents SurfelSoup, an end-to-end learned surface-based framework for point cloud geometry compression, with surface-structured primitives for representation. It proposes a probabilistic surface representation, pSurfel, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Tingyu Fan , Ran Gong , Yueyu Hu , Yao Wang

Emerging event cameras acquire visual information by detecting time domain brightness changes asynchronously at the pixel level and, unlike conventional cameras, are able to provide high temporal resolution, very high dynamic range, low…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ahmadreza Sezavar , Catarina Brites , Joao Ascenso

The ever-increasing demand for 3D modeling in the emerging immersive applications has made point clouds an essential class of data for 3D image and video processing. Tree based structures are commonly used for representing point clouds…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Hoda Roodaki , Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi