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Diffusion models have been popular for point cloud generation tasks. Existing works utilize the forward diffusion process to convert the original point distribution into a noise distribution and then learn the reverse diffusion process to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yukun Li , Liping Liu

Point cloud data now are popular data representations in a number of three-dimensional (3D) vision research realms. However, due to the limited performance of sensors and sensing noise, the raw data usually suffer from sparsity, noise, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Siwen Quan , Junhao Yu , Ziming Nie , Muze Wang , Sijia Feng , Pei An , Jiaqi Yang

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, essential for autonomous driving and infrastructure management, is best achieved by supervised learning, which demands extensive annotated datasets and faces the problem of domain shifts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Frémont

In this paper, we introduce a novel conditional generative adversarial network that creates dense 3D point clouds, with color, for assorted classes of objects in an unsupervised manner. To overcome the difficulty of capturing intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Mohammad Samiul Arshad , William J. Beksi

Advanced 3D metrology technologies such as Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and laser 3D scanners have facilitated the collection of massive point cloud data, beneficial for process monitoring, control and optimization. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Hao Yan , Kamran Paynabar , Massimo Pacella

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for point cloud generation. A key component that drives the impressive performance for generating high-quality samples from noise is iteratively denoise for thousands of steps. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Lemeng Wu , Dilin Wang , Chengyue Gong , Xingchao Liu , Yunyang Xiong , Rakesh Ranjan , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Vikas Chandra , Qiang Liu

Recent advancements in lidar technology have led to improved point cloud resolution as well as the generation of 360 degrees, low-resolution images by encoding depth, reflectivity, or near-infrared light within each pixel. These images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Sier Ha , Honghao Du , Xianjia Yu , Tomi Westerlund

Knowledge transfer from synthetic to real data has been widely studied to mitigate data annotation constraints in various computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation. However, the study focused on 2D images and its counterpart in 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Aoran Xiao , Jiaxing Huang , Dayan Guan , Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu

3D scene perception demands a large amount of adverse-weather LiDAR data, yet the cost of LiDAR data collection presents a significant scaling-up challenge. To this end, a series of LiDAR simulators have been proposed. Yet, they can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yang Wu , Yun Zhu , Kaihua Zhang , Jianjun Qian , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

In High Energy Physics, detailed and time-consuming simulations are used for particle interactions with detectors. To bypass these simulations with a generative model, the generation of large point clouds in a short time is required, while…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-01-03 Moritz Alfons Wilhelm Scham , Dirk Krücker , Kerstin Borras

Computer vision techniques play a central role in the perception stack of autonomous vehicles. Such methods are employed to perceive the vehicle surroundings given sensor data. 3D LiDAR sensors are commonly used to collect sparse 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Lucas Nunes , Rodrigo Marcuzzi , Benedikt Mersch , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Diffusion probabilistic models have achieved remarkable success in text guided image generation. However, generating 3D shapes is still challenging due to the lack of sufficient data containing 3D models along with their descriptions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zijie Wu , Yaonan Wang , Mingtao Feng , He Xie , Ajmal Mian

We introduce R2LDM, an innovative approach for generating dense and accurate 4D radar point clouds, guided by corresponding LiDAR point clouds. Instead of utilizing range images or bird's eye view (BEV) images, we represent both LiDAR and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Boyuan Zheng , Shouyi Lu , Renbo Huang , Minqing Huang , Fan Lu , Wei Tian , Guirong Zhuo , Lu Xiong

Indoor scene modification has emerged as a prominent area within computer vision, particularly for its applications in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). Traditional methods often rely on pre-existing object databases and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yiyang Luo , Ke Lin , Chao Gu

We present SP-GAN, a new unsupervised sphere-guided generative model for direct synthesis of 3D shapes in the form of point clouds. Compared with existing models, SP-GAN is able to synthesize diverse and high-quality shapes with fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Ruihui Li , Xianzhi Li , Ka-Hei Hui , Chi-Wing Fu

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds is an important task in autonomous driving. However, training deep models via conventional supervised methods requires large datasets which are costly to label. It is critical to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Minghua Liu , Yin Zhou , Charles R. Qi , Boqing Gong , Hao Su , Dragomir Anguelov

LiDAR sensors are an integral part of modern autonomous vehicles as they provide an accurate, high-resolution 3D representation of the vehicle's surroundings. However, it is computationally difficult to make use of the ever-increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Marc Uecker , Tobias Fleck , Marcel Pflugfelder , J. Marius Zöllner

The quality of point clouds is often limited by noise introduced during their capture process. Consequently, a fundamental 3D vision task is the removal of noise, known as point cloud filtering or denoising. State-of-the-art learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Xuequan Lu , Zhiwen Shao , Gang Li , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Ying He

Generative systems have a significant potential to synthesize innovative design alternatives. Still, most of the common systems that have been adopted in design require the designer to explicitly define the specifications of the procedures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Ardavan Bidgoli , Pedro Veloso

LiDAR point clouds contain measurements of complicated natural scenes and can be used to update digital elevation models, glacial monitoring, detecting faults and measuring uplift detecting, forest inventory, detect shoreline and beach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 F. Patricia Medina , Randy Paffenroth