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The growing size of point clouds enlarges consumptions of storage, transmission, and computation of 3D scenes. Raw data is redundant, noisy, and non-uniform. Therefore, simplifying point clouds for achieving compact, clean, and uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yuanqi Li , Jianwei Guo , Xinran Yang , Shun Liu , Jie Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yanwen Guo

This paper presents an effective normal estimation method adopting multi-patch stitching for an unstructured point cloud. The majority of learning-based approaches encode a local patch around each point of a whole model and estimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jun Zhou , Wei Jin , Mingjie Wang , Xiuping Liu , Zhiyang Li , Zhaobin Liu

This work presents an accurate and robust method for estimating normals from point clouds. In contrast to predecessor approaches that minimize the deviations between the annotated and the predicted normals directly, leading to direction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yingrui Wu , Mingyang Zhao , Keqiang Li , Weize Quan , Tianqi Yu , Jianfeng Yang , Xiaohong Jia , Dong-Ming Yan

Estimating surface normals from 3D point clouds is critical for various applications, including surface reconstruction and rendering. While existing methods for normal estimation perform well in regions where normals change slowly, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Haoyi Xiu , Xin Liu , Weimin Wang , Kyoung-Sook Kim , Masashi Matsuoka

In this work, we propose a novel method for generating 3D point clouds that leverage properties of hyper networks. Contrary to the existing methods that learn only the representation of a 3D object, our approach simultaneously finds a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Przemysław Spurek , Sebastian Winczowski , Jacek Tabor , Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Tomasz Trzciński

We present a comprehensive survey and benchmark of both traditional and learning-based methods for surface reconstruction from point clouds. This task is particularly challenging for real-world acquisitions due to factors such as noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Raphael Sulzer , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet , Loic Landrieu

Normal estimation for unstructured point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Current methods achieve encouraging results by mapping local patches to normal vectors or learning local surface fitting using neural networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shujuan Li , Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Existing point cloud modeling datasets primarily express the modeling precision by pose or trajectory precision rather than the point cloud modeling effect itself. Under this demand, we first independently construct a set of LiDAR system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Changjie Qiu , Zhiyong Wang , Xiuhong Lin , Yu Zang , Cheng Wang , Weiquan Liu

Point cloud normal estimation is a fundamental task in 3D geometry processing. While recent learning-based methods achieve notable advancements in normal prediction, they often overlook the critical aspect of equivariance. This results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hanxiao Wang , Mingyang Zhao , Weize Quan , Zhen Chen , Dong-ming Yan , Peter Wonka

Point clouds are widely used representations of 3D data, but determining the visibility of points from a given viewpoint remains a challenging problem due to their sparse nature and lack of explicit connectivity. Traditional methods, such…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jun-Hao Wang , Yi-Yang Tian , Baoquan Chen , Peng-Shuai Wang

Estimating the normal of a point requires constructing a local patch to provide center-surrounding context, but determining the appropriate neighborhood size is difficult when dealing with different data or geometries. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Kanle Shi , Yue Gao , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

In this paper, we propose PCPNet, a deep-learning based approach for estimating local 3D shape properties in point clouds. In contrast to the majority of prior techniques that concentrate on global or mid-level attributes, e.g., for shape…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Paul Guerrero , Yanir Kleiman , Maks Ovsjanikov , Niloy J. Mitra

Point cloud filtering and normal estimation are two fundamental research problems in the 3D field. Existing methods usually perform normal estimation and filtering separately and often show sensitivity to noise and/or inability to preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Xuequan Lu , Gang Li , Antonio Robles-Kelly

We present MambaH-Fit, a state space modelling framework tailored for hyper-surface fitting-based point cloud normal estimation. Existing normal estimation methods often fall short in modelling fine-grained geometric structures, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Weijia Wang , Yuanzhi Su , Pei-Gen Ye , Yuan-Gen Wang , Xuequan Lu

Point clouds are an increasingly relevant data type but they are often corrupted by noise. We propose a deep neural network based on graph-convolutional layers that can elegantly deal with the permutation-invariance problem encountered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Francesca Pistilli , Giulia Fracastoro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

This paper presents an end-to-end differentiable algorithm for robust and detail-preserving surface normal estimation on unstructured point-clouds. We utilize graph neural networks to iteratively parameterize an adaptive anisotropic kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Jan Eric Lenssen , Christian Osendorfer , Jonathan Masci

Although supervised deep normal estimators have recently shown impressive results on synthetic benchmarks, their performance deteriorates significantly in real-world scenarios due to the domain gap between synthetic and real data. Building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jie Zhang , Minghui Nie , Changqing Zou , Jian Liu , Ligang Liu , Junjie Cao

We present a neural-network-based architecture for 3D point cloud denoising called neural projection denoising (NPD). In our previous work, we proposed a two-stage denoising algorithm, which first estimates reference planes and follows by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Chaojing Duan , Siheng Chen , Jelena Kovacevic

Deep neural networks are widely used for understanding 3D point clouds. At each point convolution layer, features are computed from local neighborhoods of 3D points and combined for subsequent processing in order to extract semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiayun Wang , Rudrasis Chakraborty , Stella X. Yu

The analyses relying on 3D point clouds are an utterly complex task, often involving million of points, but also requiring computationally efficient algorithms because of many real-time applications; e.g. autonomous vehicle. However, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos