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Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense and uniformly distributed point sets from a sparse point cloud, which plays a critical role in 3D computer vision. Previous methods typically split a sparse point cloud into several local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Shujuan Li , Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We introduce a novel technique for neural point cloud consolidation which learns from only the input point cloud. Unlike other point upsampling methods which analyze shapes via local patches, in this work, we learn from global subsets. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Gal Metzer , Rana Hanocka , Raja Giryes , Daniel Cohen-Or

We propose a generative adversarial network for point cloud upsampling, which can not only make the upsampled points evenly distributed on the underlying surface but also efficiently generate clean high frequency regions. The generator of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Hao Liu , Hui Yuan , Junhui Hou , Raouf Hamzaoui , Wei Gao

Processing large point clouds is a challenging task. Therefore, the data is often downsampled to a smaller size such that it can be stored, transmitted and processed more efficiently without incurring significant performance degradation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yang Ye , Xiulong Yang , Shihao Ji

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

This paper addresses the problem of generating uniform dense point clouds to describe the underlying geometric structures from given sparse point clouds. Due to the irregular and unordered nature, point cloud densification as a generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Yue Qian , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Ying He

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

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

Most algorithms that rely on deep learning-based approaches to generate 3D point sets can only produce clouds containing fixed number of points. Furthermore, they typically require large networks parameterized by many weights, which makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Edoardo Remelli , Pierre Baque , Pascal Fua

With the increased use of virtual and augmented reality applications, the importance of point cloud data rises. High-quality capturing of point clouds is still expensive and thus, the need for point cloud super-resolution or point cloud…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Viktoria Heimann , Andreas Spruck , André Kaup

The demand for high-resolution point clouds has increased throughout the last years. However, capturing high-resolution point clouds is expensive and thus, frequently replaced by upsampling of low-resolution data. Most state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Viktoria Heimann , Andreas Spruck , André Kaup

Generative diffusion models have shown empirical successes in point cloud resampling, generating a denser and more uniform distribution of points from sparse or noisy 3D point clouds by progressively refining noise into structure. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Wenqiang Xu , Wenrui Dai , Duoduo Xue , Ziyang Zheng , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

In this work, we propose a novel technique to generate shapes from point cloud data. A point cloud can be viewed as samples from a distribution of 3D points whose density is concentrated near the surface of the shape. Point cloud generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ruojin Cai , Guandao Yang , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Zekun Hao , Serge Belongie , Noah Snavely , Bharath Hariharan

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated its advantages in achieving fast and high-quality rendering. As point clouds serve as a widely-used and easily accessible form of 3D representation, bridging the gap between point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Weiqi Zhang , Junsheng Zhou , Haotian Geng , Wenyuan Zhang , Yu-Shen Liu

Designing a point cloud upsampler, which aims to generate a clean and dense point cloud given a sparse point representation, is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. A line of attempts achieves this goal by establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Pingping Cai , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Song Wang

This paper presents a framework to represent high-fidelity pointcloud sensor observations for efficient communication and storage. The proposed approach exploits Sparse Gaussian Process to encode pointcloud into a compact form. Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Mahmoud Ali , Lantao Liu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated remarkable performance in scene synthesis and novel view synthesis tasks. Typically, the initialization of 3D Gaussian primitives relies on point clouds derived from Structure-from-Motion (SfM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Shan Chen , Jiale Zhou , Lei Li

Efficient processing and feature extraction of largescale point clouds are important in related computer vision and cyber-physical systems. This work investigates point cloud resampling based on hypergraph signal processing (HGSP) to better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Qinwen Deng , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Point clouds acquired from scanning devices are often perturbed by noise, which affects downstream tasks such as surface reconstruction and analysis. The distribution of a noisy point cloud can be viewed as the distribution of a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Shitong Luo , Wei Hu

High-quality point clouds have practical significance for point-based rendering, semantic understanding, and surface reconstruction. Upsampling sparse, noisy and nonuniform point clouds for a denser and more regular approximation of target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Luqing Luo , Lulu Tang , Wanyi Zhou , Shizheng Wang , Zhi-Xin Yang