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Point cloud compression has garnered significant interest in computer vision. However, existing algorithms primarily cater to human vision, while most point cloud data is utilized for machine vision tasks. To address this, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Lei Liu , Zhihao Hu , Zhenghao Chen

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense point clouds from given sparse ones, which is a challenging task due to the irregular and unordered nature of point sets. To address this issue, we present a novel deep learning-based model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Aihua Mao , Zihui Du , Junhui Hou , Yaqi Duan , Yong-jin Liu , Ying He

In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have proven to be efficient analysis tools for processing point clouds, e.g., for reconstruction, segmentation and classification. In this paper, we focus on the classification of edges…

As the basic task of point cloud analysis, classification is fundamental but always challenging. To address some unsolved problems of existing methods, we propose a network that captures geometric features of point clouds for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

Over the last decade, the demand for better segmentation and classification algorithms in 3D spaces has significantly grown due to the popularity of new 3D sensor technologies and advancements in the field of robotics. Point-clouds are one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Felipe Gomez Marulanda , Pieter Libin , Timothy Verstraeten , Ann Nowé

We propose a mechanism to reconstruct part annotated 3D point clouds of objects given just a single input image. We demonstrate that jointly training for both reconstruction and segmentation leads to improved performance in both the tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Priyanka Mandikal , Navaneet K L , R. Venkatesh Babu

In recent years, point cloud representation has become one of the research hotspots in the field of computer vision, and has been widely used in many fields, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality, robotics, etc. Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Huang Zhang , Changshuo Wang , Shengwei Tian , Baoli Lu , Liping Zhang , Xin Ning , Xiao Bai

A point cloud is a crucial geometric data structure utilized in numerous applications. The adoption of deep neural networks referred to as Point Cloud Neural Networks (PC- NNs), for processing 3D point clouds, has significantly advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Amrijit Biswas , Md. Ismail Hossain , M M Lutfe Elahi , Ali Cheraghian , Fuad Rahman , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Aggregating neighbor features is essential for point cloud classification. In the existing work, each point in the cloud may inevitably be selected as the neighbors of multiple aggregation centers, as all centers will gather neighbor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Tao Lu , Chunxu Liu , Youxin Chen , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang

Three-dimensional (3D) point clouds are important data representations in visualization applications. The rapidly growing utility and popularity of point cloud processing strongly motivate a plethora of research activities on large-scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Qinwen Deng , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

In recent years, point cloud normal estimation, as a classical and foundational algorithm, has garnered extensive attention in the field of 3D geometric processing. Despite the remarkable performance achieved by current Neural Network-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jun Zhou , Yaoshun Li , Hongchen Tan , Mingjie Wang , Nannan Li , Xiuping Liu

This paper proposes EyeNet, a novel semantic segmentation network for point clouds that addresses the critical yet often overlooked parameter of coverage area size. Inspired by human peripheral vision, EyeNet overcomes the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Sunghwan Yoo , Yeongjeong Jeong , Maryam Jameela , Gunho Sohn

3D point cloud segmentation has a wide range of applications in areas such as autonomous driving, augmented reality, virtual reality and digital twins. The point cloud data collected in real scenes often contain small objects and categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chade Li , Pengju Zhang , Jiaming Zhang , Yihong Wu

Point clouds produced by 3D sensors are often sparse and noisy, posing challenges for tasks requiring dense and high-fidelity 3D representations. Prior work has explored both implicit feature-based upsampling and distance-function learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mahmoud Khater , Mona Strauss , Philipp von Olshausen , Alexander Reiterer

Recent supervised point cloud upsampling methods are restricted by the size of training data and are limited in terms of covering all object shapes. Besides the challenges faced due to data acquisition, the networks also struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Kaiyue Zhou , Ming Dong , Suzan Arslanturk

Robust 3D perception under corruption has become an essential task for the realm of 3D vision. While current data augmentation techniques usually perform random transformations on all point cloud objects in an offline way and ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Jie Wang , Lihe Ding , Tingfa Xu , Shaocong Dong , Xinli Xu , Long Bai , Jianan Li

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

3D object detection from point clouds plays a critical role in autonomous driving. Currently, the primary methods for point cloud processing are voxel-based and pillar-based approaches. Voxel-based methods offer high accuracy through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Liu Qifeng , Zhao Dawei , Dong Yabo , Xiao Liang , Wang Juan , Min Chen , Li Fuyang , Jiang Weizhong , Lu Dongming , Nie Yiming

With the rapid progress of deep convolutional neural networks, in almost all robotic applications, the availability of 3D point clouds improves the accuracy of 3D semantic segmentation methods. Rendering of these irregular, unstructured,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Mobina Mahdavi , Fahimeh Fooladgar , Shohreh Kasaei

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