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Point clouds are rich geometric data structures, where their three dimensional structure offers an excellent domain for understanding the representation learning and generative modeling in 3D space. In this work, we aim to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lingjie Kong , Pankaj Rajak , Siamak Shakeri

Generative diffusion models have shown empirical successes in point cloud resampling, generating a denser and more uniform distribution of points from sparse or noisy 3D point clouds by progressively refining noise into structure. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Wenqiang Xu , Wenrui Dai , Duoduo Xue , Ziyang Zheng , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

Precision measurement of hadronic final states presents complex experimental challenges. The study explores the concept of a gaseous Digital Hadronic Calorimeter (DHCAL) and discusses the potential benefits of employing Graph Neural Network…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-10 Maryna Borysova , Shikma Bressler , Eilam Gross , Nilotpal Kakati , Darina Zavazieva

We present LiDARGen, a novel, effective, and controllable generative model that produces realistic LiDAR point cloud sensory readings. Our method leverages the powerful score-matching energy-based model and formulates the point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Vlas Zyrianov , Xiyue Zhu , Shenlong Wang

This paper focuses on a novel generative approach for 3D point clouds that makes use of invertible flow-based models. The main idea of the method is to treat a point cloud as a probability density in 3D space that is modeled using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Jan Chorowski

Generative models are a promising tool to produce cosmological simulations but face significant challenges in scalability, physical consistency, and adherence to domain symmetries, limiting their utility as alternatives to $N$-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Diana-Alexandra Onutu , Yue Zhao , Joaquin Vanschoren , Vlado Menkovski

In this work, we propose a novel technique to generate shapes from point cloud data. A point cloud can be viewed as samples from a distribution of 3D points whose density is concentrated near the surface of the shape. Point cloud generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ruojin Cai , Guandao Yang , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Zekun Hao , Serge Belongie , Noah Snavely , Bharath Hariharan

We present CaloClouds3, a model for the fast simulation of photon showers in the barrel of a high granularity detector. This iteration demonstrates for the first time how a pointcloud model can employ angular conditioning to replicate…

Point cloud segmentation (PCS) is to classify each point in point clouds. The task enables robots to parse their 3D surroundings and run autonomously. According to different point cloud representations, existing PCS models can be roughly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Bike Chen , Antti Tikanmäki , Juha Röning

We propose a novel clustering approach for point-cloud segmentation based on supervised contrastive metric learning (CML). Rather than predicting cluster assignments or object-centric variables, the method learns a latent representation in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-25 Max Marriott-Clarke , Lazar Novakovic , Elizabeth Ratzer , Robert J. Bainbridge , Loukas Gouskos , Benedikt Maier

Simulation is crucial for all aspects of collider data analysis, but the available computing budget in the High Luminosity LHC era will be severely constrained. Generative machine learning models may act as surrogates to replace…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-04 Oz Amram , Kevin Pedro

Generating a 3D point cloud from a single 2D image is of great importance for 3D scene understanding applications. To reconstruct the whole 3D shape of the object shown in the image, the existing deep learning based approaches use either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yao Wei , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Simulations of particle showers in calorimeters are computationally time-consuming, as they have to reproduce both energy depositions and their considerable fluctuations. A new approach to ultra-fast simulations are generative models where…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-05 Martin Erdmann , Jonas Glombitza , Thorben Quast

A point cloud serves as a representation of the surface of a three-dimensional (3D) shape. Deep generative models have been adapted to model their variations typically using a map from a ball-like set of latent variables. However, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Takumi Kimura , Takashi Matsubara , Kuniaki Uehara

In High Energy Physics, detailed calorimeter simulations and reconstructions are essential for accurate energy measurements and particle identification, but their high granularity makes them computationally expensive. Developing data-driven…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-31 Andrea Cosso

Denoising diffusion models have gained prominence in various generative tasks, prompting their exploration for the generation of calorimeter responses. Given the computational challenges posed by detector simulations in high-energy physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-16 Dmitrii Kobylianskii , Nathalie Soybelman , Etienne Dreyer , Eilam Gross

The demands placed on computational resources by the simulation requirements of high energy physics experiments motivate the development of novel simulation tools. Machine learning based generative models offer a solution that is both fast…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-03 Sascha Diefenbacher , Engin Eren , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Anatolii Korol , Katja Krüger , Peter McKeown , Lennart Rustige

In particle physics, the demand for rapid and precise simulations is rising. The shift from traditional methods to machine learning-based approaches has led to significant advancements in simulating complex detector responses. CaloShowerGAN…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-12 Michele Faucci Giannelli , Rui Zhang

Generating realistic 3D point clouds is a fundamental problem in computer vision with applications in remote sensing, robotics, and digital object modeling. Existing generative approaches primarily capture geometry, and when semantics are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gunner Stone , Sushmita Sarker , Alireza Tavakkoli

Motivated by the high computational costs of classical simulations, machine-learned generative models can be extremely useful in particle physics and elsewhere. They become especially attractive when surrogate models can efficiently learn…