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3D point cloud completion, the task of inferring the complete geometric shape from a partial point cloud, has been attracting attention in the community. For acquiring high-fidelity dense point clouds and avoiding uneven distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Minghua Liu , Lu Sheng , Sheng Yang , Jing Shao , Shi-Min Hu

Point clouds, a prominent method of 3D representation, are extensively utilized across industries such as autonomous driving, surveying, electricity, architecture, and gaming, and have been rigorously investigated for their accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Jingyuan Tang , Yuhuan Zhao , Songlin Sun , Yangang Cai

Ground segmentation of point clouds remains challenging because of the sparse and unordered data structure. This paper proposes the GSECnet - Ground Segmentation network for Edge Computing, an efficient ground segmentation framework of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Dong He , Jie Cheng , Jong-Hwan Kim

Point cloud has been the mainstream representation for advanced 3D applications, such as virtual reality and augmented reality. However, the massive data amounts of point clouds is one of the most challenging issues for transmission and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zixi Guo , Yun Zhang , Linwei Zhu , Hanli Wang , Gangyi Jiang

3D Point cloud registration is still a very challenging topic due to the difficulty in finding the rigid transformation between two point clouds with partial correspondences, and it's even harder in the absence of any initial estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Zhijian Qiao , Huanshu Wei , Zhe Liu , Chuanzhe Suo , Hesheng Wang

We present a novel compression framework for 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) data that leverages transform coding tools originally developed for point clouds. Contrary to existing 3DGS compression methods, our approach can produce compressed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Chenjunjie Wang , Shashank N. Sridhara , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega , Cheng Chang

As three-dimensional acquisition technologies like LiDAR cameras advance, the need for efficient transmission of 3D point clouds is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, we present a novel semantic communication (SemCom) approach…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Shangzhuo Xie , Qianqian Yang , Yuyi Sun , Tianxiao Han , Zhaohui Yang , Zhiguo Shi

The compression of satellite imagery remains an important research area as hundreds of terabytes of images are collected every day, which drives up storage and bandwidth costs. Although progress has been made in increasing the resolution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Justin Downes , Sam Saltwick , Anthony Chen

Machine vision systems, which can efficiently manage extensive visual perception tasks, are becoming increasingly popular in industrial production and daily life. Due to the challenge of simultaneously obtaining accurate depth and texture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Chongzhen Tian , Zhengxin Li , Hui Yuan , Raouf Hamzaoui , Liquan Shen , Sam Kwong

In this paper, we introduce a reinforcement learning approach utilizing a novel topology-based information gain metric for directing the next best view of a noisy 3D sensor. The metric combines the disjoint sections of an observed surface…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Christopher Collander , William J. Beksi , Manfred Huber

As 3D scanning devices and depth sensors advance, dynamic point clouds have attracted increasing attention as a format for 3D objects in motion, with applications in various fields such as immersive telepresence, navigation for autonomous…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Yiqun Xu , Wei Hu , Shanshe Wang , Xinfeng Zhang , Shiqi Wang , Siwei Ma , Zongming Guo , Wen Gao

Point cloud registration approaches often fail when the overlap between point clouds is low due to noisy point correspondences. This work introduces a novel cross-attention mechanism tailored for Transformer-based architectures that tackles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Weijie Wang , Guofeng Mei , Jian Zhang , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri , Fabio Poiesi

Point clouds, being the simple and compact representation of surface geometry of 3D objects, have gained increasing popularity with the evolution of deep learning networks for classification and segmentation tasks. Unlike human, teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Sindhu Hegde , Shankar Gangisetty

In this paper, we propose a deep hierarchical attention context model for lossless attribute compression of point clouds, leveraging a multi-resolution spatial structure and residual learning. A simple and effective Level of Detail (LoD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yueru Chen , Wei Zhang , Dingquan Li , Jing Wang , Ge Li

Point cloud is a critical 3D representation with many emerging applications. Because of the point sparsity and irregularity, high-quality rendering of point clouds is challenging and often requires complex computations to recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yueyu Hu , Ran Gong , Qi Sun , Yao Wang

Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure. Due to its irregular format, most researchers transform such data to regular 3D voxel grids or collections of images. This, however, renders data unnecessarily voluminous and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Charles R. Qi , Hao Su , Kaichun Mo , Leonidas J. Guibas

Designing a point cloud upsampler, which aims to generate a clean and dense point cloud given a sparse point representation, is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. A line of attempts achieves this goal by establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Pingping Cai , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Song Wang

We address the challenge of point cloud registration using color information, where traditional methods relying solely on geometric features often struggle in low-overlap and incomplete scenarios. To overcome these limitations, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiayi Tian , Haiduo Huang , Tian Xia , Wenzhe Zhao , Pengju Ren

We propose a method to generate 3D shapes using point clouds. Given a point-cloud representation of a 3D shape, our method builds a kd-tree to spatially partition the points. This orders them consistently across all shapes, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Matheus Gadelha , Subhransu Maji , Rui Wang

Explaining decisions made by deep neural networks is a rapidly advancing research topic. In recent years, several approaches have attempted to provide visual explanations of decisions made by neural networks designed for structured 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jawad Tayyub , Muhammad Sarmad , Nicolas Schönborn