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Given the rapid development of 3D scanners, point clouds are becoming popular in AI-driven machines. However, point cloud data is inherently sparse and irregular, causing significant difficulties for machine perception. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

In computer-aided design (CAD) community, the point cloud data is pervasively applied in reverse engineering, where the point cloud analysis plays an important role. While a large number of supervised learning methods have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cheng Zhang , Jian Shi , Xuan Deng , Zizhao Wu

There is a growing number of tasks that work directly on point clouds. As the size of the point cloud grows, so do the computational demands of these tasks. A possible solution is to sample the point cloud first. Classic sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Itai Lang , Asaf Manor , Shai Avidan

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

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

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

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

Point clouds obtained from 3D sensors are usually sparse. Existing methods mainly focus on upsampling sparse point clouds in a supervised manner by using dense ground truth point clouds. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Yifan Zhao , Le Hui , Jin Xie

Point cloud upsampling is essential for high-quality augmented reality, virtual reality, and telepresence applications, due to the capture, processing, and communication limitations of existing technologies. Although geometry upsampling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Lingdong Wang , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Jacob Chakareski , Ramesh K. Sitaraman

3D point clouds acquired by scanning real-world objects or scenes have found a wide range of applications including immersive telepresence, autonomous driving, surveillance, etc. They are often perturbed by noise or suffer from low density,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Haolan Chen , Bi'an Du , Shitong Luo , Wei Hu

The learning and aggregation of multi-scale features are essential in empowering neural networks to capture the fine-grained geometric details in the point cloud upsampling task. Most existing approaches extract multi-scale features from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yechao Bai , Xiaogang Wang , Marcelo H. Ang , Daniela Rus

In this paper, we tackle the challenging problem of point cloud completion from the perspective of feature learning. Our key observation is that to recover the underlying structures as well as surface details, given partial input, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Zejia Su , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

Existing learning-based point cloud upsampling methods often overlook the intrinsic data distribution charac?teristics of point clouds, leading to suboptimal results when handling sparse and non-uniform point clouds. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yaohui Fang , Xingce Wang

Completing an unordered partial point cloud is a challenging task. Existing approaches that rely on decoding a latent feature to recover the complete shape, often lead to the completed point cloud being over-smoothing, losing details, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Ren-Wu Li , Bo Wang , Chun-Peng Li , Ling-Xiao Zhang , Lin Gao

Point cloud upsampling is vital for the quality of the mesh in three-dimensional reconstruction. Recent research on point cloud upsampling has achieved great success due to the development of deep learning. However, the existing methods…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Shuquan Ye , Dongdong Chen , Songfang Han , Ziyu Wan , Jing Liao

Diffusion models are a powerful framework for tackling ill-posed problems, with recent advancements extending their use to point cloud upsampling. Despite their potential, existing diffusion models struggle with inefficiencies as they map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Lei Li

3D point cloud completion, the task of inferring the complete geometric shape from a partial point cloud, has been attracting attention in the community. For acquiring high-fidelity dense point clouds and avoiding uneven distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Minghua Liu , Lu Sheng , Sheng Yang , Jing Shao , Shi-Min Hu

Point cloud upsampling is to densify a sparse point set acquired from 3D sensors, providing a denser representation for the underlying surface. Existing methods divide the input points into small patches and upsample each patch separately,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chen Long , Wenxiao Zhang , Ruihui Li , Hao Wang , Zhen Dong , Bisheng Yang

Point Cloud Registration (PCR) estimates the relative rigid transformation between two point clouds of the same scene. Despite significant progress with learning-based approaches, existing methods still face challenges when the overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zhi Chen , Yufan Ren , Tong Zhang , Zheng Dang , Wenbing Tao , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

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