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Recent advances in implicit neural representations have achieved impressive results by sampling and fusing individual points along sampling rays in the sampling space. However, due to the explosively growing sampling space, finely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yuhan Ding , Fukun Yin , Jiayuan Fan , Hui Li , Xin Chen , Wen Liu , Chongshan Lu , Gang YU , Tao Chen

We introduce a new approach for reconstruction and novel view synthesis of unbounded real-world scenes. In contrast to previous methods using either volumetric fields, grid-based models, or discrete point cloud proxies, we propose a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Florian Hahlbohm , Linus Franke , Moritz Kappel , Susana Castillo , Martin Eisemann , Marc Stamminger , Marcus Magnor

In this work, we propose a novel method for generating 3D point clouds that leverage properties of hyper networks. Contrary to the existing methods that learn only the representation of a 3D object, our approach simultaneously finds a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Przemysław Spurek , Sebastian Winczowski , Jacek Tabor , Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Tomasz Trzciński

Conventional methods of 3D object generative modeling learn volumetric predictions using deep networks with 3D convolutional operations, which are direct analogies to classical 2D ones. However, these methods are computationally wasteful in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Chen-Hsuan Lin , Chen Kong , Simon Lucey

Point cloud completion aims to infer a complete shape from its partial observation. Many approaches utilize a pure encoderdecoder paradigm in which complete shape can be directly predicted by shape priors learned from partial scans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Zizhao Wu , Jian Shi , Xuan Deng , Cheng Zhang , Genfu Yang , Ming Zeng , Yunhai Wang

Point cloud completion is the task of predicting complete geometry from partial observations using a point set representation for a 3D shape. Previous approaches propose neural networks to directly estimate the whole point cloud through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Alexis Mendoza , Alexander Apaza , Ivan Sipiran , Cristian Lopez

Reconstructing geometric shapes from point clouds is a common task that is often accomplished by experts manually modeling geometries in CAD-capable software. State-of-the-art workflows based on fully automatic geometry extraction are…

Textured meshes are becoming an increasingly popular representation combining the 3D geometry and radiometry of real scenes. However, semantic segmentation algorithms for urban mesh have been little investigated and do not exploit all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Grégoire Grzeczkowicz , Bruno Vallet

In this paper, we focus on semantic segmentation method for point clouds of urban scenes. Our fundamental concept revolves around the collaborative utilization of diverse scene representations to benefit from different context information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Weijie Wei , Martin R. Oswald , Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl , Theo Gevers

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

Three dimensional (3D) object recognition is becoming a key desired capability for many computer vision systems such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and surveillance drones to operate more effectively in unstructured environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Chenxi Xiao , Juan Wachs

Point clouds are widely used representations of 3D data, but determining the visibility of points from a given viewpoint remains a challenging problem due to their sparse nature and lack of explicit connectivity. Traditional methods, such…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jun-Hao Wang , Yi-Yang Tian , Baoquan Chen , Peng-Shuai Wang

Recent research has shown the effectiveness of mmWave radar sensing for object detection in low visibility environments, which makes it an ideal technique in autonomous navigation systems. In this paper, we introduce Radar to Point Cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yue Sun , Honggang Zhang , Zhuoming Huang , Benyuan Liu

Point cloud analysis is an area of increasing interest due to the development of 3D sensors that are able to rapidly measure the depth of scenes accurately. Unfortunately, applying deep learning techniques to perform point cloud analysis is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Junming Zhang , Ming-Yuan Yu , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Point clouds acquired from 3D sensors are usually sparse and noisy. Point cloud upsampling is an approach to increase the density of the point cloud so that detailed geometric information can be restored. In this paper, we propose a Dual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zhi-Song Liu , Zijia Wang , Zhen Jia

The world around us is full of soft objects we perceive and deform with dexterous hand movements. For a robotic hand to control soft objects, it has to acquire online state feedback of the deforming object. While RGB-D cameras can collect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Elham Amin Mansour , Hehui Zheng , Robert K. Katzschmann

Three-dimensional point clouds provide highly accurate digital representations of objects, essential for applications in computer graphics, photogrammetry, computer vision, and robotics. However, comparing point clouds faces significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Amit Vishwakarma , K. S. Subrahamanian Moosath

Traditional explicit 3D representations, such as point clouds and meshes, demand significant storage to capture fine geometric details and require complex indexing systems for surface lookups, making functional representations an efficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Panagiotis Sapoutzoglou , George Terzakis , Georgios Floros , Maria Pateraki

We propose an auto-encoding network architecture for point clouds (PC) capable of extracting shape signatures without supervision. Building on this, we (i) design a loss function capable of modelling data variance on PCs which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Anjany Sekuboyina , Markus Rempfler , Alexander Valentinitsch , Maximilian Loeffler , Jan S. Kirschke , Bjoern H. Menze

The reconstruction of a discrete surface from a point cloud is a fundamental geometry processing problem that has been studied for decades, with many methods developed. We propose the use of a deep neural network as a geometric prior for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Francis Williams , Teseo Schneider , Claudio Silva , Denis Zorin , Joan Bruna , Daniele Panozzo