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Point clouds obtained with 3D scanners or by image-based reconstruction techniques are often corrupted with significant amount of noise and outliers. Traditional methods for point cloud denoising largely rely on local surface fitting (e.g.,…
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…
In this paper, we present an end-to-end unsupervised anomaly detection framework for 3D point clouds. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to tackle the anomaly detection task on a general object represented by a 3D point…
Low dimensional primitive feature extraction from LiDAR point clouds (such as planes) forms the basis of majority of LiDAR data processing tasks. A major challenge in LiDAR data analysis arises from the irregular nature of LiDAR data that…
With the development of 3D sensing technologies, point clouds have attracted increasing attention in a variety of applications for 3D object representation, such as autonomous driving, 3D immersive tele-presence and heritage reconstruction.…
Storing and transmitting LiDAR point cloud data is essential for many AV applications, such as training data collection, remote control, cloud services or SLAM. However, due to the sparsity and unordered structure of the data, it is…
This paper proposes a fast and accurate surface normal estimation method which can be directly used on depth maps (organized point clouds). The surface normal estimation process is formulated as a closed-form expression. In order to reduce…
Point cloud upsampling is crucial for tasks like 3D reconstruction. While existing methods rely on patch-based inputs, and there is no research discussing the differences and principles between point cloud model full input and patch based…
In the field of autonomous driving and robotics, point clouds are showing their excellent real-time performance as raw data from most of the mainstream 3D sensors. Therefore, point cloud neural networks have become a popular research…
3D point cloud classification has many safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving and robotic grasping. However, several studies showed that it is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In particular, an attacker can make a…
Change detection and irregular object extraction in 3D point clouds is a challenging task that is of high importance not only for autonomous navigation but also for updating existing digital twin models of various industrial environments.…
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…
Feature descriptors of point clouds are used in several applications, such as registration and part segmentation of 3D point clouds. Learning discriminative representations of local geometric features is unquestionably the most important…
Processing point clouds using deep neural networks is still a challenging task. Most existing models focus on object detection and registration with deep neural networks using point clouds. In this paper, we propose a deep model that learns…
In recent years new application areas have emerged in which one aims to capture the geometry of objects by means of three-dimensional point clouds. Often the obtained data consist of a dense sampling of the object's surface, containing many…
Though a number of point cloud learning methods have been proposed to handle unordered points, most of them are supervised and require labels for training. By contrast, unsupervised learning of point cloud data has received much less…
Point cloud compression plays a crucial role in reducing the huge cost of data storage and transmission. However, distortions can be introduced into the decompressed point clouds due to quantization. In this paper, we propose a novel…
In this paper, we introduce a novel method for comparing 3D point clouds, a critical task in various machine learning applications. By interpreting point clouds as samples from underlying probability density functions, the statistical…
Compared to 2D images, 3D point clouds are much more sensitive to rotations. We expect the point features describing certain patterns to keep invariant to the rotation transformation. There are many recent SOTA works dedicated to…
This work proposes a general-purpose, fully-convolutional network architecture for efficiently processing large-scale 3D data. One striking characteristic of our approach is its ability to process unorganized 3D representations such as…