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With the rise of large-scale models trained on broad data, in-context learning has become a new learning paradigm that has demonstrated significant potential in natural language processing and computer vision tasks. Meanwhile, in-context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Zhongbin Fang , Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Joachim M. Buhmann , Chen Change Loy , Mengyuan Liu

Point clouds have become an increasingly important representation for 3D medical imaging, offering a compact, surface-preserving alternative to traditional voxel or mesh-based approaches. Recent advances in deep learning have enabled rapid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Tongxu Zhang , Zhiming Liang , Bei Wang

In this paper, we revisit the classical representation of 3D point clouds as linear shape models. Our key insight is to leverage deep learning to represent a collection of shapes as affine transformations of low-dimensional linear shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Romain Loiseau , Tom Monnier , Mathieu Aubry , Loïc Landrieu

Estimation of differential geometric quantities in discrete 3D data representations is one of the crucial steps in the geometry processing pipeline. Specifically, estimating normals and sharp feature lines from raw point cloud helps improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Albert Matveev , Alexey Artemov , Denis Zorin , Evgeny Burnaev

Large-scale 3D point clouds can consist of hundreds of millions of points. Even after downsampling, these point clouds are too large for modern 3D neural networks. In order to develop a semantic understanding of the scene, the point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Maximilian Kellner , Dominik Merkle , Michael Brunklaus , Alexander Reiterer

Object reconstruction from 3D point clouds has been a long-standing research problem in computer vision and computer graphics, and achieved impressive progress. However, reconstruction from time-varying point clouds (a.k.a. 4D point clouds)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Tuan-Anh Vu , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Quang-Hieu Pham , Sai-Kit Yeung

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

Effectively representing 3D scenes for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is crucial yet challenging. Existing approaches commonly only rely on 2D image features and use varied tokenization approaches. This work presents a rigorous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Hugues Thomas , Chen Chen , Jian Zhang

Recently normalizing flows (NFs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on modeling 3D point clouds while allowing sampling with arbitrary resolution at inference time. However, these flow-based models still require long training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Janis Postels , Mengya Liu , Riccardo Spezialetti , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

Understanding dynamic 3D environment is crucial for robotic agents and many other applications. We propose a novel neural network architecture called $MeteorNet$ for learning representations for dynamic 3D point cloud sequences. Different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Xingyu Liu , Mengyuan Yan , Jeannette Bohg

We present PointInfinity, an efficient family of point cloud diffusion models. Our core idea is to use a transformer-based architecture with a fixed-size, resolution-invariant latent representation. This enables efficient training with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zixuan Huang , Justin Johnson , Shoubhik Debnath , James M. Rehg , Chao-Yuan Wu

Dense point cloud generation from a sparse or incomplete point cloud is a crucial and challenging problem in 3D computer vision and computer graphics. So far, the existing methods are either computationally too expensive, suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Abol Basher , Jani Boutellier

While three-dimensional (3D) building models play an increasingly pivotal role in many real-world applications, obtaining a compact representation of buildings remains an open problem. In this paper, we present a novel framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhaiyu Chen , Hugo Ledoux , Seyran Khademi , Liangliang Nan

We present a novel graph-neural-network-based system to effectively represent large-scale 3D point clouds with the applications to autonomous driving. Many previous works studied the representations of 3D point clouds based on two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-28 Siheng Chen , Sufeng. Niu , Tian Lan , Baoan Liu

Implicit generative models have been widely employed to model 3D data and have recently proven to be successful in encoding and generating high-quality 3D shapes. This work builds upon these models and alleviates current limitations by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Tejaswini Medi , Jawad Tayyub , Muhammad Sarmad , Frank Lindseth , Margret Keuper

Key points, correspondences, projection matrices, point clouds and dense clouds are the skeletons in image-based 3D reconstruction, of which point clouds have the important role in generating a realistic and natural model for a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Trung-Kien Le , Ping Li

In this paper we explore the richness of information captured by the latent space of a vision-based generative model. The model combines unsupervised generative learning with a task-based performance predictor to learn and to exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Yizhe Wu , Sudhanshu Kasewa , Oliver Groth , Sasha Salter , Li Sun , Oiwi Parker Jones , Ingmar Posner

Local density of point clouds is crucial for representing local details, but has been overlooked by existing point cloud compression methods. To address this, we propose a novel deep point cloud compression method that preserves local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yun He , Xinlin Ren , Danhang Tang , Yinda Zhang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Point cloud analysis has a wide range of applications in many areas such as computer vision, robotic manipulation, and autonomous driving. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success on image-based tasks, there are many unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Sushmita Sarker , Prithul Sarker , Gunner Stone , Ryan Gorman , Alireza Tavakkoli , George Bebis , Javad Sattarvand

Learning 3D representations that generalize well to arbitrarily oriented inputs is a challenge of practical importance in applications varying from computer vision to physics and chemistry. We propose a novel multi-resolution convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 James Fox , Bo Zhao , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Rampi Ramprasad , Le Song