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Reconstructing accurate implicit surface representations from point clouds remains a challenging task, particularly when data is captured using low-quality scanning devices. These point clouds often contain substantial noise, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tengkai Wang , Weihao Li , Ruikai Cui , Shi Qiu , Nick Barnes

Building on recent advances in Bayesian statistics and image denoising, we propose Noise2Score3D, a fully unsupervised framework for point cloud denoising. Noise2Score3D learns the score function of the underlying point cloud distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Xiangbin Wei , Yuanfeng Wang , Ao XU , Lingyu Zhu , Dongyong Sun , Keren Li , Yang Li , Qi Qin

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

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

3D surface reconstruction from point clouds is a key step in areas such as content creation, archaeology, digital cultural heritage, and engineering. Current approaches either try to optimize a non-data-driven surface representation to fit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Philipp Erler , Lizeth Fuentes , Pedro Hermosilla , Paul Guerrero , Renato Pajarola , Michael Wimmer

3D dynamic point clouds provide a discrete representation of real-world objects or scenes in motion, which have been widely applied in immersive telepresence, autonomous driving, surveillance, etc. However, point clouds acquired from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Qianjiang Hu , Wei Hu

Soft-tissue surgeries, such as tumor resections, are complicated by tissue deformations that can obscure the accurate location and shape of tissues. By representing tissue surfaces as point clouds and applying non-rigid point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sara Monji-Azad , Marvin Kinz , Siddharth Kothari , Robin Khanna , Amrei Carla Mihan , David Maennel , Claudia Scherl , Juergen Hesser

We present CpT: Convolutional point Transformer - a novel deep learning architecture for dealing with the unstructured nature of 3D point cloud data. CpT is an improvement over existing attention-based Convolutions Neural Networks as well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Chaitanya Kaul , Joshua Mitton , Hang Dai , Roderick Murray-Smith

In this paper, we present a new method that reformulates point cloud completion as a set-to-set translation problem and design a new model, called PoinTr, which adopts a Transformer encoder-decoder architecture for point cloud completion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Xumin Yu , Yongming Rao , Ziyi Wang , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

In radar-camera 3D object detection, the radar point clouds are sparse and noisy, which causes difficulties in fusing camera and radar modalities. To solve this, we introduce a novel query-based detection method named Radar-Camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yiheng Li , Yang Yang , Zhen Lei

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

Adversary and invisibility are two fundamental but conflict characters of adversarial perturbations. Previous adversarial attacks on 3D point cloud recognition have often been criticized for their noticeable point outliers, since they just…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Qidong Huang , Xiaoyi Dong , Dongdong Chen , Hang Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Face recognition using 3D point clouds is gaining growing interest, while raw point clouds often contain a significant amount of noise due to imperfect sensors. In this paper, an end-to-end 3D face recognition on a noisy point cloud is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Junyu Liu , Jianfeng Ren , Sunhong Liang , Xudong Jiang

We propose the use of a Transformer to accurately predict normals from point clouds with noise and density variations. Previous learning-based methods utilize PointNet variants to explicitly extract multi-scale features at different input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Barry Shichen Hu , Siyun Liang , Johannes Paetzold , Huy H. Nguyen , Isao Echizen , Jiapeng Tang

Visual imitation learning with 3D point clouds has advanced robotic manipulation by providing geometry-aware, appearance-invariant observations. However, point cloud-based policies remain highly sensitive to sensor noise, pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhiyuan Zhang , Yu She

Point clouds are a very efficient way to represent volumetric data in medical imaging. First, they do not occupy resources for empty spaces and therefore can avoid trade-offs between resolution and field-of-view for voxel-based 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Mattias Paul Heinrich

Despite the popularity of transformers in practice, their architectures are empirically designed and neither mathematically justified nor interpretable. Moreover, as indicated by many empirical studies, some components of transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Peng Wang , Yifu Lu , Yaodong Yu , Druv Pai , Qing Qu , Yi Ma

Transformer, as an alternative to CNN, has been proven effective in many modalities (e.g., texts and images). For 3D point cloud transformers, existing efforts focus primarily on pushing their accuracy to the state-of-the-art level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhijian Liu , Xinyu Yang , Haotian Tang , Shang Yang , Song Han

Pre-trained point cloud analysis models have shown promising advancements in various downstream tasks, yet their effectiveness is typically suffering from low-quality point cloud (i.e., noise and incompleteness), which is a common issue in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Zixiang Ai , Zhenyu Cui , Yuxin Peng , Jiahuan Zhou

Recent Transformer-based methods have achieved advanced performance in point cloud registration by utilizing advantages of the Transformer in order-invariance and modeling dependency to aggregate information. However, they still suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Guangyan Chen , Meiling Wang , Yufeng Yue , Qingxiang Zhang , Li Yuan