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Point cloud compression (PCC) is a key enabler for various 3-D applications, owing to the universality of the point cloud format. Ideally, 3D point clouds endeavor to depict object/scene surfaces that are continuous. Practically, as a set…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-12 Jiahao Pang , Muhammad Asad Lodhi , Dong Tian

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics, involving the alignment of 3D point sets captured from varying viewpoints using depth sensors such as LiDAR or structured light. In modern robotic systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ashutosh Singandhupe , Sanket Lokhande , Hung Manh La

Designing a point cloud upsampler, which aims to generate a clean and dense point cloud given a sparse point representation, is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. A line of attempts achieves this goal by establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Pingping Cai , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Song Wang

Rejecting correspondence outliers enables to boost the correspondence quality, which is a critical step in achieving high point cloud registration accuracy. The current state-of-the-art correspondence outlier rejection methods only utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Xiaoshui Huang , Wentao Qu , Yifan Zuo , Yuming Fang , Xiaowei Zhao

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method to represent point clouds as sets of samples drawn from a cloud-specific probability distribution. This interpretation matches intrinsic characteristics of point clouds: the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Michał Stypułkowski , Kacper Kania , Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Tomasz Trzciński , Jan Chorowski

We can use a method called registration to integrate some point clouds that represent the shape of the real world. In this paper, we propose highly accurate and stable registration method. Our method detects keypoints from point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Masaki Yoshii , Ikuko Shimizu

In this paper, we unify popular non-rigid registration methods for point sets and surfaces under our general framework, GiNGR. GiNGR builds upon Gaussian Process Morphable Models (GPMM) and hence separates modeling the deformation prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Dennis Madsen , Jonathan Aellen , Andreas Morel-Forster , Thomas Vetter , Marcel Lüthi

Unsupervised point cloud segmentation is critical for embodied artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, as it mitigates the prohibitive cost of dense point-level annotations required by fully supervised methods. While integrating 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yixiao Song , Qingyong Li , Wen Wang , Zhicheng Yan

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has already become the emerging research focus in the fields of 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. Given that training a 3DGS requires a significant amount of time and computational cost, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xuanyu Zhang , Jiarui Meng , Runyi Li , Zhipei Xu , Yongbing Zhang , Jian Zhang

Point-based representations have consistently played a vital role in geometric data structures. Most point cloud learning and processing methods typically leverage the unordered and unconstrained nature to represent the underlying geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jionghao Wang , Cheng Lin , Yuan Liu , Rui Xu , Zhiyang Dou , Xiao-Xiao Long , Hao-Xiang Guo , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang , Xin Li

Point cloud registration, a fundamental task in 3D vision, has achieved remarkable success with learning-based methods in outdoor environments. Unsupervised outdoor point cloud registration methods have recently emerged to circumvent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kezheng Xiong , Haoen Xiang , Qingshan Xu , Chenglu Wen , Siqi Shen , Jonathan Li , Cheng Wang

Current point cloud processing algorithms do not have the capability to automatically extract semantic information from the observed scenes, except in very specialized cases. Furthermore, existing mesh analysis paradigms cannot be directly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Reed M. Williams , Horea T. Ilieş

Achieving globally optimal point cloud registration under partial overlaps and large misalignments remains a fundamental challenge. While simultaneous transformation ($\boldsymbol{\theta}$) and correspondence ($\mathbf{P}$) estimation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Wei Lian , Fei Ma , Hang Pan , Zhesen Cui , Wangmeng Zuo

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

The semantic segmentation task aims at dense classification at the pixel-wise level. Deep models exhibited progress in tackling this task. However, one remaining problem with these approaches is the loss of spatial precision, often produced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Darwin Saire , Adín Ramírez Rivera

Obtaining enough high-quality correspondences is crucial for robust registration. Existing correspondence refinement methods mostly follow the paradigm of outlier removal, which either fails to correctly identify the accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Guiyu Zhao , Sheng Ao , Ye Zhang , Kai Xu , Yulan Guo

Point cloud completion aims to reconstruct the complete 3D shape from incomplete point clouds, and it is crucial for tasks such as 3D object detection and segmentation. Despite the continuous advances in point cloud analysis techniques,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yi Zhong , Weize Quan , Dong-ming Yan , Jie Jiang , Yingmei Wei

In recent years, the challenge of 3D shape analysis within point cloud data has gathered significant attention in computer vision. Addressing the complexities of effective 3D information representation and meaningful feature extraction for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Md Meraz , Md Afzal Ansari , Mohammed Javed , Pavan Chakraborty

Point cloud shape completion is a challenging problem in 3D vision and robotics. Existing learning-based frameworks leverage encoder-decoder architectures to recover the complete shape from a highly encoded global feature vector. Though the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Wenxiao Zhang , Qingan Yan , Chunxia Xiao

In robotic inspection, joint registration of multiple point clouds is an essential technique for estimating the transformation relationships between measured parts, such as multiple blades in a propeller. However, the presence of noise and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Lingjie Su , Wei Xu , Shuyang Zhao , Yuqi Cheng , Wenlong Li