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Estimating normals for noisy point clouds is a persistent challenge in 3D geometry processing, particularly for end-to-end oriented normal estimation. Existing methods generally address relatively clean data and rely on supervised priors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Xun Gong , Yu-Shen Liu

We propose a novel normal estimation method called HSurf-Net, which can accurately predict normals from point clouds with noise and density variations. Previous methods focus on learning point weights to fit neighborhoods into a geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Qing Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Jin-San Cheng , Cheng Wang , Yi Fang , Zhizhong Han

Normal estimation for unstructured point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Current methods achieve encouraging results by mapping local patches to normal vectors or learning local surface fitting using neural networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shujuan Li , Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

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 precise and efficient normal estimation method that can deal with noise and nonuniform density for unstructured 3D point clouds. Unlike existing approaches that directly take patches and ignore the local neighborhood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Keqiang Li , Mingyang Zhao , Huaiyu Wu , Dong-Ming Yan , Zhen Shen , Fei-Yue Wang , Gang Xiong

We propose Neural Gradient Learning (NGL), a deep learning approach to learn gradient vectors with consistent orientation from 3D point clouds for normal estimation. It has excellent gradient approximation properties for the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Kanle Shi , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Most existing approaches for point cloud normal estimation aim to locally fit a geometric surface and calculate the normal from the fitted surface. Recently, learning-based methods have adopted a routine of predicting point-wise weights to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hang Du , Xuejun Yan , Jingjing Wang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

In recent years, point cloud normal estimation, as a classical and foundational algorithm, has garnered extensive attention in the field of 3D geometric processing. Despite the remarkable performance achieved by current Neural Network-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jun Zhou , Yaoshun Li , Hongchen Tan , Mingjie Wang , Nannan Li , Xiuping Liu

Point normal, as an intrinsic geometric property of 3D objects, not only serves conventional geometric tasks such as surface consolidation and reconstruction, but also facilitates cutting-edge learning-based techniques for shape analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Haoran Zhou , Honghua Chen , Yingkui Zhang , Mingqiang Wei , Haoran Xie , Jun Wang , Tong Lu , Jing Qin , Xiao-Ping Zhang

We propose the use of a Transformer to accurately predict normals from point clouds with noise and density variations. Previous learning-based methods utilize PointNet variants to explicitly extract multi-scale features at different input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Barry Shichen Hu , Siyun Liang , Johannes Paetzold , Huy H. Nguyen , Isao Echizen , Jiapeng Tang

We propose a novel method called SHS-Net for oriented normal estimation of point clouds by learning signed hyper surfaces, which can accurately predict normals with global consistent orientation from various point clouds. Almost all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Kanle Shi , Yue Gao , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Surface reconstruction for point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Most of the latest methods resolve this problem by learning signed distance functions from point clouds, which are limited to reconstructing closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Shujuan Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Yi Fang , Zhizhong Han

Learning to generate 3D point clouds without 3D supervision is an important but challenging problem. Current solutions leverage various differentiable renderers to project the generated 3D point clouds onto a 2D image plane, and train deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Chen Chao , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Existing normal estimation methods for point clouds are often less robust to severe noise and complex geometric structures. Also, they usually ignore the contributions of different neighbouring points during normal estimation, which leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Weijia Wang , Xuequan Lu , Di Shao , Xiao Liu , Richard Dazeley , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Wei Pan

Representing shapes as level sets of neural networks has been recently proved to be useful for different shape analysis and reconstruction tasks. So far, such representations were computed using either: (i) pre-computed implicit shape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Amos Gropp , Lior Yariv , Niv Haim , Matan Atzmon , Yaron Lipman

It is vital to infer signed distance functions (SDFs) from 3D point clouds. The latest methods rely on generalizing the priors learned from large scale supervision. However, the learned priors do not generalize well to various geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Point cloud filtering, the main bottleneck of which is removing noise (outliers) while preserving geometric features, is a fundamental problem in 3D field. The two-step schemes involving normal estimation and position update have been shown…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Dening Lu , Xuequan Lu , Yangxing Sun , Jun Wang

Although supervised deep normal estimators have recently shown impressive results on synthetic benchmarks, their performance deteriorates significantly in real-world scenarios due to the domain gap between synthetic and real data. Building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jie Zhang , Minghui Nie , Changqing Zou , Jian Liu , Ligang Liu , Junjie Cao

The reconstruction of real-world surfaces is on high demand in various applications. Most existing reconstruction approaches apply 3D scanners for creating point clouds which are generally sparse and of low density. These points clouds will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rajat Sharma , Tobias Schwandt , Christian Kunert , Steffen Urban , Wolfgang Broll

We present a robust refinement method for estimating oriented normals from unstructured point clouds. In contrast to previous approaches that either suffer from high computational complexity or fail to achieve desirable accuracy, our novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yingrui Wu , Mingyang Zhao , Weize Quan , Jian Shi , Xiaohong Jia , Dong-Ming Yan
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