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Recovering point clouds involves the sequential process of sampling and restoration, yet existing methods struggle to effectively leverage both topological and geometric attributes. To address this, we propose an end-to-end architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaiyue Zhou , Zelong Tan , Hongxiao Wang , Ya-Li Li , Shengjin Wang

Point cloud patterns are hard to learn because of the implicit local geometry features among the orderless points. In recent years, point cloud representation in 2D space has attracted increasing research interest since it exposes the local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yecheng Lyu , Xinming Huang , Ziming Zhang

A key step in any scanning-based asset creation workflow is to convert unordered point clouds to a surface. Classical methods (e.g., Poisson reconstruction) start to degrade in the presence of noisy and partial scans. Hence, deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Philipp Erler , Paul Guerrero , Stefan Ohrhallinger , Michael Wimmer , Niloy J. Mitra

A stratified space is a kind of topological space together with a partition into smooth manifolds. These kinds of spaces naturally arise in the study of singular algebraic varieties, symplectic reduction, and differentiable stacks. In this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Ethan Ross

A topological shape analysis is proposed and utilized to learn concepts that reflect shape commonalities. Our approach is two-fold: i) a spatial topology analysis of point cloud segment constellations within objects. Therein constellations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Christian A. Mueller , Andreas Birk

Recognition of occluded objects in unseen indoor environments is a challenging problem for mobile robots. This work proposes a new slicing-based topological descriptor that captures the 3D shape of object point clouds to address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ekta U. Samani , Ashis G. Banerjee

Given i.i.d. sample from a stratified mixture of immersed manifolds of different dimensions, we study the minimax estimation of the underlying stratified structure. We provide a constructive algorithm allowing to estimate each mixture…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Eddie Aamari , Clément Berenfeld

We present a new technique that enables manifold learning to accurately embed data manifolds that contain holes, without discarding any topological information. Manifold learning aims to embed high dimensional data into a lower dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Thomas Cohn , Nikhil Devraj , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

We obtain a complete classification of hypercomplex manifolds, on which a compact group of automorphisms acts transitively. The description of the spaces as well as the proofs of our results use only the structure theory of reductive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-25 George Dimitrov , Vasil Tsanov

Unsupervised point cloud completion aims at estimating the corresponding complete point cloud of a partial point cloud in an unpaired manner. It is a crucial but challenging problem since there is no paired partial-complete supervision that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yingjie Cai , Kwan-Yee Lin , Chao Zhang , Qiang Wang , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Over the last decade, deep learning has shown great success at performing computer vision tasks, including classification, super-resolution, and style transfer. Now, we apply it to data compression to help build the next generation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Mateen Ulhaq

Learning and analyzing 3D point clouds with deep networks is challenging due to the sparseness and irregularity of the data. In this paper, we present a data-driven point cloud upsampling technique. The key idea is to learn multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Lequan Yu , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Point cloud is one of the widely used techniques for representing and storing 3D geometric data. In the past several methods have been proposed for processing point clouds. Methods such as PointNet and FoldingNet have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Prajwal Singh , Kaustubh Sadekar , Shanmuganathan Raman

Reconstructing models from unorganized point clouds presents a significant challenge, especially when the models consist of multiple components represented by their surface point clouds. Such models often involve point clouds with noise…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yu Chen , Hongwei Lin

The proposed method extends upon the representational output of semantic instance segmentation by explicitly including both visible and occluded parts. A fully convolutional network is trained to produce consistent pixel-level embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Yanfeng Liu , Eric Psota , Lance Pérez

We present a way to apply topological data analysis for classifying encrypted bits into distinct classes. Persistent homology is applied to generate topological features of a point cloud obtained from sets of encryptions. We see that this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Jayati Kaushik , Aaruni Kaushik , Upasana Parashar

We present an approach to learning features that represent the local geometry around a point in an unstructured point cloud. Such features play a central role in geometric registration, which supports diverse applications in robotics and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Marc Khoury , Qian-Yi Zhou , Vladlen Koltun

Surface extraction from implicit neural representations modelling a single class surface is a well-known task. However, there exist no surface extraction methods from an implicit representation of multiple classes that guarantee topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jash Vira , Andrew Myers , Simon Ratcliffe

In this paper we examine the structure of complex points of real 4-manifolds embedded into complex 3-manifolds up to isotopy. We show that there are only two types of complex points up to isotopy and as a consequence, show that any such…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Marko Slapar

We consider the problem of classifying trajectories on a discrete or discretised 2-dimensional manifold modelled by a simplicial complex. Previous works have proposed to project the trajectories into the harmonic eigenspace of the Hodge…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Vincent P. Grande , Josef Hoppe , Florian Frantzen , Michael T. Schaub