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Generative models for high-quality materials are particularly desirable to make 3D content authoring more accessible. However, the majority of material generation methods are trained on synthetic data. Synthetic data provides precise…

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

The performance of supervised deep learning algorithms depends significantly on the scale, quality and diversity of the data used for their training. Collecting and manually annotating large amount of data can be both time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 C. Symeonidis , P. Nousi , P. Tosidis , K. Tsampazis , N. Passalis , A. Tefas , N. Nikolaidis

Generating 3D point cloud (PC) data from noisy sonar measurements is a problem that has potential applications for bathymetry mapping, artificial object inspection, mapping of aquatic plants and fauna as well as underwater navigation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Andres Pulido , Ruoyao Qin , Antonio Diaz , Andrew Ortega , Peter Ifju , Jaejeong Shin

Cloud segmentation plays a crucial role in image analysis for climate modeling. Manually labeling the training data for cloud segmentation is time-consuming and error-prone. We explore to train segmentation networks with synthetic data due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Qing Lyu , Minghao Chen , Xiang Chen

We present INDOOR-LIDAR, a comprehensive hybrid dataset of indoor 3D LiDAR point clouds designed to advance research in robot perception. Existing indoor LiDAR datasets often suffer from limited scale, inconsistent annotation formats, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haichuan Li , Changda Tian , Panos Trahanias , Tomi Westerlund

Generating realistic 3D point clouds is a fundamental problem in computer vision with applications in remote sensing, robotics, and digital object modeling. Existing generative approaches primarily capture geometry, and when semantics are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gunner Stone , Sushmita Sarker , Alireza Tavakkoli

The 3D object detection capabilities in urban environments have been enormously improved by recent developments in Light Detection and Range (LiDAR) technology. This paper presents a novel framework that transforms the detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Nawfal Guefrachi , Hakim Ghazzai , Ahmad Alsharoa

In recent years, parametric representations of point clouds have been widely applied in tasks such as memory-efficient mapping and multi-robot collaboration. Highly adaptive models, like spline surfaces or quadrics, are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yuan Gao , Wei Dong

LiDAR point clouds are widely used in autonomous driving and consist of large numbers of 3D points captured at high frequency to represent surrounding objects such as vehicles, pedestrians, and traffic signs. While this dense data enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Z. Rozsa , Á. Madaras , Q. Wei , X. Lu , M. Golarits , H. Yuan , T. Sziranyi , R. Hamzaoui

This paper introduces five new density and accuracy metrics for aerial point clouds that address the complexity and objectives of modern, dense laser scans of urban scenes. The five metrics describe (1) vertical surface density (points per…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Michael H. Stanley , Debra F. Laefer

3D data derived from satellite images is essential for scene modeling applications requiring large-scale coverage or involving locations not accessible by airborne lidar or cameras. Measuring the resolution of this data is important for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Christina Selby , Holden Bindl , Tyler Feldman , Andrew Skow , Nicolas Norena Acosta , Shea Hagstrom , Myron Brown

We present a new point-based approach for modeling the appearance of real scenes. The approach uses a raw point cloud as the geometric representation of a scene, and augments each point with a learnable neural descriptor that encodes local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kara-Ali Aliev , Artem Sevastopolsky , Maria Kolos , Dmitry Ulyanov , Victor Lempitsky

Recent advancements in generative AI have made it possible to create synthetic datasets that can be as accurate as real-world data for training AI models, powering statistical insights, and fostering collaboration with sensitive datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Amy Steier , Lipika Ramaswamy , Andre Manoel , Alexa Haushalter

With the development of numerous 3D sensing technologies, object registration on cross-source point cloud has aroused researchers' interests. When the point clouds are captured from different kinds of sensors, there are large and different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Xiaoshui Huang , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu , Lixin Fan , Chun Yuan

Adverse weather conditions can severely affect the performance of LiDAR sensors by introducing unwanted noise in the measurements. Therefore, differentiating between noise and valid points is crucial for the reliable use of these sensors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Aldi Piroli , Vinzenz Dallabetta , Johannes Kopp , Marc Walessa , Daniel Meissner , Klaus Dietmayer

Quantifying the gap between synthetic and real-world imagery is essential for improving both transformer-based models - that rely on large volumes of data - and datasets, especially in underexplored domains like aerial scene understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Alina Marcu

The real-world applications of 3D point clouds have been growing rapidly in recent years, but not much effective work has been dedicated to perceptual quality assessment of colored 3D point clouds. In this work, we first build a large 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Honglei Su , Qi Liu , Zhengfang Duanmu , Wentao Liu , Zhou Wang

The search for refining 3D LiDAR data has attracted growing interest motivated by recent techniques such as supervised learning or generative model-based methods. Existing approaches have shown the possibilities for using diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Sander Elias Magnussen Helgesen , Kazuto Nakashima , Jim Tørresen , Ryo Kurazume

In quantum many-body systems, measurements can induce qualitative new features, but their simulation is hindered by the exponential complexity involved in sampling the measurement results. We propose to use machine learning to assist the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Yuchen Zhu , Molei Tao , Yuebo Jin , Xie Chen