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Panoptic segmentation as an integrated task of both static environmental understanding and dynamic object identification, has recently begun to receive broad research interest. In this paper, we propose a new computationally efficient LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ryan Razani , Ran Cheng , Enxu Li , Ehsan Taghavi , Yuan Ren , Liu Bingbing

We study the problem of generating point clouds of 3D objects. Instead of discretizing the object into 3D voxels with huge computational cost and resolution limitations, we propose a novel geometry image based generator (GIG) to convert the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Lei Wang , Yuchun Huang , Pengjie Tao , Yaolin Hou , Yuxuan Liu

We introduce PointGauss, a novel point cloud-guided framework for real-time multi-object segmentation in Gaussian Splatting representations. Unlike existing methods that suffer from prolonged initialization and limited multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Wentao Sun , Hanqing Xu , Quanyun Wu , Dedong Zhang , Yiping Chen , Lingfei Ma , John S. Zelek , Jonathan Li

Point cloud registration is fundamental in 3D vision applications, including autonomous driving, robotics, and medical imaging, where precise alignment of multiple point clouds is essential for accurate environment reconstruction. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yongqiang Wang , Weigang Li , Wenping Liu , Zhiqiang Tian , Jinling Li

In this paper, based on the assumption that the object boundaries (e.g., buildings) from the over-view data should coincide with footprints of fa\c{c}ade 3D points generated from street-view photogrammetric images, we aim to address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xiao Ling , Rongjun Qin

Point cloud registration refers to the problem of finding the rigid transformation that aligns two given point clouds, and is crucial for many applications in robotics and computer vision. The main insight of this paper is that we can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Richard Cheng , Chavdar Papozov , Dan Helmick , Mark Tjersland

Accurate Point Cloud Registration (PCR) is an important task in 3D data processing, involving the estimation of a rigid transformation between two point clouds. While deep-learning methods have addressed key limitations of traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yasaman Kashefbahrami , Erkut Akdag , Panagiotis Meletis , Evgeniya Balmashnova , Dip Goswami , Egor Bondarau

In single-photon light detection and ranging (SP-LiDAR) systems, the histogram distortion due to hardware dead time fundamentally limits the precision of depth estimation. To compensate for the dead time effects, the photon registration…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Weijian Zhang , Hashan K. Weerasooriya , Prateek Chennuri , Stanley H. Chan

Rigid Point Cloud Registration (PCR) algorithms aim to estimate the 6-DOF relative motion between two point clouds, which is important in various fields, including autonomous driving. Recent years have seen a significant improvement in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Amnon Drory , Shai Avidan , Raja Giryes

Point clouds or depth images captured by current RGB-D cameras often suffer from low resolution, rendering them insufficient for applications such as 3D reconstruction and robots. Existing point cloud super-resolution (PCSR) methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zheng Fang , Ke Ye , Yaofang Liu , Gongzhe Li , Xianhong Zhao , Jialong Li , Ruxin Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Xiangyang Ji , Qilin Sun

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a transformative method in the field of real-time novel synthesis. Based on 3DGS, recent advancements cope with large-scale scenes via spatial-based partition strategy to reduce video memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Tengfei Wang , Xin Wang , Yongmao Hou , Yiwei Xu , Wendi Zhang , Zongqian Zhan

Sparse LiDAR point clouds cause severe loss of detail of static structures and reduce the density of static points available for navigation. Reduced density can be detrimental to navigation under several scenarios. We observe that despite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Prashant Kumar , Kshitij Madhav Bhat , Vedang Bhupesh Shenvi Nadkarni , Prem Kalra

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Amit Vishwakarma , KS Subrahamanian Moosath

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are crucial in the field of artificial intelligence and are widely used in downstream tasks, such as question-answering (QA). The construction of KGs typically requires significant effort from domain experts. Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Rui Yang , Boming Yang , Aosong Feng , Sixun Ouyang , Moritz Blum , Tianwei She , Yuang Jiang , Freddy Lecue , Jinghui Lu , Irene Li

Point cloud registration is a fundamental task in 3D vision. Most existing methods only use geometric information for registration. Recently proposed RGB-D registration methods primarily focus on feature fusion or improving feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Congjia Chen , Shen Yan , Yufu Qu

Modern feed-forward 3D reconstruction methods like VGGT predict pixel-aligned pointmaps in camera-centric coordinate frames. However, this choice of coordinate frame is not always optimal. We propose instead to predict pointmaps in upright,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Bharath Raj Nagoor Kani , Noah Snavely

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated its potential in reconstructing scenes from unposed images. However, optimization-based 3DGS methods struggle with sparse views due to limited prior knowledge. Meanwhile, feed-forward Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Chong Cheng , Yu Hu , Sicheng Yu , Beizhen Zhao , Zijian Wang , Hao Wang

We present a novel non-iterative learnable method for partial-to-partial 3D shape registration. The partial alignment task is extremely complex, as it jointly tries to match between points and identify which points do not appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Dvir Ginzburg , Dan Raviv

Global registration of heterogeneous ground and aerial mapping data is a challenging task. This is especially difficult in disaster response scenarios when we have no prior information on the environment and cannot assume the regular order…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Abel Gawel , Renaud Dubé , Hartmut Surmann , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

We present a novel and effective method for detecting 3D primitives in cluttered, unorganized point clouds, without axillary segmentation or type specification. We consider the quadric surfaces for encapsulating the basic building blocks of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Tolga Birdal , Benjamin Busam , Nassir Navab , Slobodan Ilic , Peter Sturm