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Estimating the complete 3D point cloud from an incomplete one is a key problem in many vision and robotics applications. Mainstream methods (e.g., PCN and TopNet) use Multi-layer Perceptrons (MLPs) to directly process point clouds, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Haozhe Xie , Hongxun Yao , Shangchen Zhou , Jiageng Mao , Shengping Zhang , Wenxiu Sun

We propose a novel method that renders point clouds as if they are surfaces. The proposed method is differentiable and requires no scene-specific optimization. This unique capability enables, out-of-the-box, surface normal estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Wei-Yu Chen , Anurag Ranjan , Kwang Moo Yi , Oncel Tuzel

Comprehending the environment and accurately detecting objects in 3D space are essential for advancing autonomous vehicle technologies. Integrating Camera and LIDAR data has emerged as an effective approach for achieving high accuracy in 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Marcelo Eduardo Pederiva , José Mario De Martino , Alessandro Zimmer

We present a new system (NPBG++) for the novel view synthesis (NVS) task that achieves high rendering realism with low scene fitting time. Our method efficiently leverages the multiview observations and the point cloud of a static scene to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Ruslan Rakhimov , Andrei-Timotei Ardelean , Victor Lempitsky , Evgeny Burnaev

We present RadarGen, a diffusion model for synthesizing realistic automotive radar point clouds from multi-view camera imagery. RadarGen adapts efficient image-latent diffusion to the radar domain by representing radar measurements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tomer Borreda , Fangqiang Ding , Sanja Fidler , Shengyu Huang , Or Litany

Dynamic surface reconstruction of objects from point cloud sequences is a challenging field in computer graphics. Existing approaches either require multiple regularization terms or extensive training data which, however, lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Julian Kaltheuner , Alexander Oebel , Hannah Droege , Patrick Stotko , Reinhard Klein

Autonomous driving requires an understanding of the static environment from sensor data. Learned Bird's-Eye View (BEV) encoders are commonly used to fuse multiple inputs, and a vector decoder predicts a vectorized map representation from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Thomas Monninger , Zihan Zhang , Zhipeng Mo , Md Zafar Anwar , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding

Point clouds offer an attractive source of information to complement images in neural scene representations, especially when few images are available. Neural rendering methods based on point clouds do exist, but they do not perform well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Weiwei Sun , Eduard Trulls , Yang-Che Tseng , Sneha Sambandam , Gopal Sharma , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Kwang Moo Yi

4D radar measurements offer an affordable and weather-robust solution for 3D perception. However, the inherent sparsity and noise of radar point clouds present significant challenges for accurate 3D object detection, underscoring the need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xiaokai Bai , Jiahao Cheng , Songkai Wang , Yixuan Luo , Lianqing Zheng , Xiaohan Zhang , Si-Yuan Cao , Hui-Liang Shen

Deep neural networks face several challenges in hyperspectral image classification, including high-dimensional data, sparse distribution of ground objects, and spectral redundancy, which often lead to classification overfitting and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Guandong Li , Mengxia Ye

We present Kernel Point Convolution (KPConv), a new design of point convolution, i.e. that operates on point clouds without any intermediate representation. The convolution weights of KPConv are located in Euclidean space by kernel points,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hugues Thomas , Charles R. Qi , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , Beatriz Marcotegui , François Goulette , Leonidas J. Guibas

3D object detection with LiDAR point clouds plays an important role in autonomous driving perception module that requires high speed, stability and accuracy. However, the existing point-based methods are challenging to reach the speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Jiahui Fu , Guanghui Ren , Yunpeng Chen , Si Liu

The emerging 4D millimeter-wave radar, measuring the range, azimuth, elevation, and Doppler velocity of objects, is recognized for its cost-effectiveness and robustness in autonomous driving. Nevertheless, its point clouds exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yuzhi Wu , Li Xiao , Jun Liu , Guangfeng Jiang , XiangGen Xia

Integrating LiDAR and camera information into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation has emerged as a crucial aspect of 3D object detection in autonomous driving. However, existing methods are susceptible to the inaccurate calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ziying Song , Lei Yang , Shaoqing Xu , Lin Liu , Dongyang Xu , Caiyan Jia , Feiyang Jia , Li Wang

To enhance the ability of neural networks to extract local point cloud features and improve their quality, in this paper, we propose a multiscale graph generation method and a self-adaptive graph convolution method. First, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Bo Wu , Bo Lang

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation has emerged as a mainstream paradigm for multi-view 3D object detection, demonstrating impressive perceptual capabilities. However, existing methods overlook the geometric quality of BEV representation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jinqing Zhang , Yanan Zhang , Yunlong Qi , Zehua Fu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

In this paper, we present a novel point generation model, referred to as Pillar-based Point Generation Network (PillarGen), which facilitates the transformation of point clouds from one domain into another. PillarGen can produce synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Jisong Kim , Geonho Bang , Kwangjin Choi , Minjae Seong , Jaechang Yoo , Eunjong Pyo , Jun Won Choi

Point cloud is an important type of 3D representation. However, directly applying convolutions on point clouds is challenging due to the sparse, irregular and unordered data structure. In this paper, we propose a novel Interpolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Jiageng Mao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Current methodologies in point cloud analysis predominantly explore 3D geometries, often achieved through the introduction of intricate learnable geometric extractors in the encoder or by deepening networks with repeated blocks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Lipeng Gu , Xuefeng Yan , Liangliang Nan , Dingkun Zhu , Honghua Chen , Weiming Wang , Mingqiang Wei

3D object detection in Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) space has recently emerged as a prevalent approach in the field of autonomous driving. Despite the demonstrated improvements in accuracy and velocity estimation compared to perspective view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuxin Li , Qiang Han , Mengying Yu , Yuxin Jiang , Chaikiat Yeo , Yiheng Li , Zihang Huang , Nini Liu , Hsuanhan Chen , Xiaojun Wu