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We introduce a novel self-attention-based normal estimation network that is able to focus softly on relevant points and adjust the softness by learning a temperature parameter, making it able to work naturally and effectively within a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Zirui Wang , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

Photo-realistic point cloud capture and transmission are the fundamental enablers for immersive visual communication. The coding process of dynamic point clouds, especially video-based point cloud compression (V-PCC) developed by the MPEG…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Anique Akhtar , Wen Gao , Li Li , Zhu Li , Wei Jia , Shan Liu

We present Topological Point Cloud Clustering (TPCC), a new method to cluster points in an arbitrary point cloud based on their contribution to global topological features. TPCC synthesizes desirable features from spectral clustering and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

Assessing the quality of 3D printed models before they are printed remains a challeng- ing problem, particularly when considering point cloud-based models. This paper introduces an approach to quality assessment, which uses techniques from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Paul Rosen , Mustafa Hajij , Junyi Tu , Tanvirul Arafin , Les Piegl

In this paper, we present a comprehensive point cloud semantic segmentation network that aggregates both local and global multi-scale information. First, we propose an Angle Correlation Point Convolution (ACPConv) module to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Yuyan Li , Ye Duan

We present an improved approach for 3D object detection in point cloud data based on the Frustum PointNet (F-PointNet). Compared to the original F-PointNet, our newly proposed method considers the point neighborhood when computing point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Chengzhi Wu , Julius Pfrommer , Jürgen Beyerer , Kangning Li , Boris Neubert

No-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) aims to measure the image quality without reference image. However, contrast distortion has been overlooked in the current research of NR-IQA. In this paper, we propose a very simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Jia Yan , Jie Li , Xin Fu

Three dimensional (3D) object recognition is becoming a key desired capability for many computer vision systems such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and surveillance drones to operate more effectively in unstructured environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Chenxi Xiao , Juan Wachs

Despite the extensive usage of point clouds in 3D vision, relatively limited data are available for training deep neural networks. Although data augmentation is a standard approach to compensate for the scarcity of data, it has been less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Sihyeon Kim , Sanghyeok Lee , Dasol Hwang , Jaewon Lee , Seong Jae Hwang , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Point cloud compression (PCC) has made remarkable achievement in recent years. In the mean time, point cloud quality assessment (PCQA) also realize gratifying development. Some recently emerged metrics present robust performance on public…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Yipeng Liu , Qi Yang , Yiling Xu , Zhan Ma

Normal estimation on 3D point clouds is a fundamental problem in 3D vision and graphics. Current methods often show limited accuracy in predicting normals at sharp features (e.g., edges and corners) and less robustness to noise. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Weijia Wang , Xuequan Lu , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Xiao Liu , Antonio Robles-Kelly

We propose a novel and efficient representation for single-view depth estimation using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Point-cloud is generally used for CNN-based 3D scene reconstruction; however it has some drawbacks: (1) it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Masaya Kaneko , Ken Sakurada , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Very few studies have addressed quality enhancement for compressed dynamic point clouds. In particular, the effective exploitation of spatial-temporal correlations between point cloud frames remains largely unexplored. Addressing this gap,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tian Guo , Hui Yuan , Xiaolong Mao , Shiqi Jiang , Raouf Hamzaoui , Sam Kwong

Understanding the implication of point cloud is still challenging to achieve the goal of classification or segmentation due to the irregular and sparse structure of point cloud. As we have known, PointNet architecture as a ground-breaking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Xi-An Li , Lei Zhang , Li-Yan Wang , Jian Lu

Robust point cloud classification is crucial for real-world applications, as consumer-type 3D sensors often yield partial and noisy data, degraded by various artifacts. In this work we propose a general ensemble framework, based on partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Meir Yossef Levi , Guy Gilboa

Point clouds obtained from 3D sensors are usually sparse. Existing methods mainly focus on upsampling sparse point clouds in a supervised manner by using dense ground truth point clouds. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Yifan Zhao , Le Hui , Jin Xie

In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have proven to be efficient analysis tools for processing point clouds, e.g., for reconstruction, segmentation and classification. In this paper, we focus on the classification of edges…

Exploiting fine-grained semantic features on point cloud is still challenging due to its irregular and sparse structure in a non-Euclidean space. Among existing studies, PointNet provides an efficient and promising approach to learn shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Point cloud completion is an indispensable task for recovering complete point clouds due to incompleteness caused by occlusion, limited sensor resolution, etc. The family of coarse-to-fine generation architectures has recently exhibited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yi Rong , Haoran Zhou , Lixin Yuan , Cheng Mei , Jiahao Wang , Tong Lu

The task of point cloud upsampling aims to acquire dense and uniform point sets from sparse and irregular point sets. Although significant progress has been made with deep learning models, state-of-the-art methods require ground-truth dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xinhai Liu , Xinchen Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han