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Generating 3D point clouds is challenging yet highly desired. This work presents a novel autoregressive model, PointGrow, which can generate diverse and realistic point cloud samples from scratch or conditioned on semantic contexts. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Yongbin Sun , Yue Wang , Ziwei Liu , Joshua E. Siegel , Sanjay E. Sarma

In recent years, the challenge of 3D shape analysis within point cloud data has gathered significant attention in computer vision. Addressing the complexities of effective 3D information representation and meaningful feature extraction for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Md Meraz , Md Afzal Ansari , Mohammed Javed , Pavan Chakraborty

Point cloud denoising task aims to recover the clean point cloud from the scanned data coupled with different levels or patterns of noise. The recent state-of-the-art methods often train deep neural networks to update the point locations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zhaonan Wang , Manyi Li , ShiQing Xin , Changhe Tu

Point clouds obtained with 3D scanners or by image-based reconstruction techniques are often corrupted with significant amount of noise and outliers. Traditional methods for point cloud denoising largely rely on local surface fitting (e.g.,…

We present PointInfinity, an efficient family of point cloud diffusion models. Our core idea is to use a transformer-based architecture with a fixed-size, resolution-invariant latent representation. This enables efficient training with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zixuan Huang , Justin Johnson , Shoubhik Debnath , James M. Rehg , Chao-Yuan Wu

The increased availability of massive point clouds coupled with their utility in a wide variety of applications such as robotics, shape synthesis, and self-driving cars has attracted increased attention from both industry and academia.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Charu Sharma , Manohar Kaul

Although recent point cloud analysis achieves impressive progress, the paradigm of representation learning from a single modality gradually meets its bottleneck. In this work, we take a step towards more discriminative 3D point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xu Yan , Heshen Zhan , Chaoda Zheng , Jiantao Gao , Ruimao Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

With the proliferation of Lidar sensors and 3D vision cameras, 3D point cloud analysis has attracted significant attention in recent years. After the success of the pioneer work PointNet, deep learning-based methods have been increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jiajing Chen , Burak Kakillioglu , Senem Velipasalar

Feature learning for 3D object detection from point clouds is very challenging due to the irregularity of 3D point cloud data. In this paper, we propose Pointformer, a Transformer backbone designed for 3D point clouds to learn features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xuran Pan , Zhuofan Xia , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang

Diffusion models have been popular for point cloud generation tasks. Existing works utilize the forward diffusion process to convert the original point distribution into a noise distribution and then learn the reverse diffusion process to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yukun Li , Liping Liu

3D point clouds are often perturbed by noise due to the inherent limitation of acquisition equipments, which obstructs downstream tasks such as surface reconstruction, rendering and so on. Previous works mostly infer the displacement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Shitong Luo , Wei Hu

Point cloud analysis (such as 3D segmentation and detection) is a challenging task, because of not only the irregular geometries of many millions of unordered points, but also the great variations caused by depth, viewpoint, occlusion, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang , Qinghua Zheng

The popularity of pre-trained large models has revolutionized downstream tasks across diverse fields, such as language, vision, and multi-modality. To minimize the adaption cost for downstream tasks, many Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yiwen Tang , Ray Zhang , Zoey Guo , Dong Wang , Zhigang Wang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Pre-training strategies play a critical role in advancing the performance of transformer-based models for 3D point cloud tasks. In this paper, we introduce Point-RTD (Replaced Token Denoising), a novel pretraining strategy designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gunner Stone , Youngsook Choi , Alireza Tavakkoli , Ankita Shukla

Object classification using LiDAR 3D point cloud data is critical for modern applications such as autonomous driving. However, labeling point cloud data is labor-intensive as it requires human annotators to visualize and inspect the 3D data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Wang , Reza Arablouei , Jiajun Liu , Paulo Borges , Greg Bishop-Hurley , Nicholas Heaney

Point cloud filtering is a fundamental problem in geometry modeling and processing. Despite of significant advancement in recent years, the existing methods still suffer from two issues: 1) they are either designed without preserving sharp…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Dongbo Zhang , Xuequan Lu , Hong Qin , Ying He

It is a long-term vision for Autonomous Driving (AD) community that the perception models can learn from a large-scale point cloud dataset, to obtain unified representations that can achieve promising results on different tasks or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jiakang Yuan , Bo Zhang , Xiangchao Yan , Tao Chen , Botian Shi , Yikang Li , Yu Qiao

3D point cloud is an important 3D representation for capturing real world 3D objects. However, real-scanned 3D point clouds are often incomplete, and it is important to recover complete point clouds for downstream applications. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Zhaoyang Lyu , Zhifeng Kong , Xudong Xu , Liang Pan , Dahua Lin

Transformers have been seldom employed in point cloud roof plane instance segmentation, which is the focus of this study, and existing superpoint Transformers suffer from limited performance due to the use of low-quality superpoints. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Cheng Zeng , Xiatian Qi , Chi Chen , Kai Sun , Wangle Zhang , Yuxuan Liu , Yan Meng , Bisheng Yang

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for point cloud generation. A key component that drives the impressive performance for generating high-quality samples from noise is iteratively denoise for thousands of steps. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Lemeng Wu , Dilin Wang , Chengyue Gong , Xingchao Liu , Yunyang Xiong , Rakesh Ranjan , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Vikas Chandra , Qiang Liu