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The benefits of having digital twins of urban buildings are numerous. However, a major difficulty encountered in their creation from airborne LiDAR point clouds is the effective means of accurately reconstructing significant occlusions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Perpetual Hope Akwensi , Akshay Bharadwaj , Ruisheng Wang

We present an approach to inform the reconstruction of a surface from a point scan through topological priors. The reconstruction is based on basis functions which are optimized to provide a good fit to the point scan while satisfying…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Rickard Brüel-Gabrielsson , Vignesh Ganapathi-Subramanian , Primoz Skraba , Leonidas J. Guibas

Point cloud stands as the most widely adopted format for representing 3D shapes and scenes due to its simplicity and geometric fidelity. However, its inherent unordered and irregular nature, exacerbated by sensor noise and occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhas Kamal , Hiranya Garbha Kumar , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

The growing size of point clouds enlarges consumptions of storage, transmission, and computation of 3D scenes. Raw data is redundant, noisy, and non-uniform. Therefore, simplifying point clouds for achieving compact, clean, and uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yuanqi Li , Jianwei Guo , Xinran Yang , Shun Liu , Jie Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yanwen Guo

A key step in any scanning-based asset creation workflow is to convert unordered point clouds to a surface. Classical methods (e.g., Poisson reconstruction) start to degrade in the presence of noisy and partial scans. Hence, deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Philipp Erler , Paul Guerrero , Stefan Ohrhallinger , Michael Wimmer , Niloy J. Mitra

This study showcases the utilisation of OpenCV for extracting features from photos of 2D engineering drawings. These features are then employed to reconstruct 3D CAD models in SCAD format and generate 3D point cloud data similar to LIDAR…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Ajay B. Harish , Abhishek Rajendra Prasad

3D modeling based on point clouds is an efficient way to reconstruct and create detailed 3D content. However, the geometric procedure may lose accuracy due to high redundancy and the absence of an explicit structure. In this work, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Xusheng Du , Yi He , Xi Yang , Chia-Ming Chang , Haoran Xie

Point cloud reconstruction from raw point cloud has been an important topic in computer graphics for decades, especially due to its high demand in modeling and rendering applications. An important way to solve this problem is establishing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Hui Tian , Kai Xu

We propose a fast and accurate surface reconstruction algorithm for unorganized point clouds using an implicit representation. Recent learning methods are either single-object representations with small neural models that allow for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Siddhant Ranade , Gonçalo Dias Pais , Ross Tyler Whitaker , Jacinto C. Nascimento , Pedro Miraldo , Srikumar Ramalingam

Recently, learning multi-view neural surface reconstruction with the supervision of point clouds or depth maps has been a promising way. However, due to the underutilization of prior information, current methods still struggle with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Chen Zhang , Wanjuan Su , Qingshan Xu , Wenbing Tao

As the basic task of point cloud analysis, classification is fundamental but always challenging. To address some unsolved problems of existing methods, we propose a network that captures geometric features of point clouds for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

We propose a Point-Voxel DeConvolution (PVDeConv) module for 3D data autoencoder. To demonstrate its efficiency we learn to synthesize high-resolution point clouds of 10k points that densely describe the underlying geometry of Computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Kseniya Cherenkova , Djamila Aouada , Gleb Gusev

3D urban reconstruction of buildings from remotely sensed imagery has drawn significant attention during the past two decades. While aerial imagery and LiDAR provide higher resolution, satellite imagery is cheaper and more efficient to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Bo Xu , Xu Zhang , Zhixin Li , Matt Leotta , Shih-Fu Chang , Jie Shan

Being able to reverse engineer from point cloud data to obtain 3D models is important in modeling. As our main contribution, we present a new method to obtain a tensor product B-spline representation from point cloud data by fitting…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Lavanya Sita Tekumalla , Elaine Cohen

3D reconstruction from single view images is an ill-posed problem. Inferring the hidden regions from self-occluded images is both challenging and ambiguous. We propose a two-pronged approach to address these issues. To better incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Priyanka Mandikal , K L Navaneet , Mayank Agarwal , R. Venkatesh Babu

Point cloud data represents a crucial category of information for mathematical modeling, and surface reconstruction from such data is an important task across various disciplines. However, during the scanning process, the collected point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hao Liu

A key step during industrial design is the passing of design information from computer aided design (CAD) to analysis tools (CAE) and vice versa. Here, one is faced with a severe incompatibility in geometry representation: While CAD is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sebastian Hube , Roxana Pohlmann , Stefanie Elgeti

Generation of 3D data by deep neural network has been attracting increasing attention in the research community. The majority of extant works resort to regular representations such as volumetric grids or collection of images; however, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Haoqiang Fan , Hao Su , Leonidas Guibas

Point clouds provide a flexible and natural representation usable in countless applications such as robotics or self-driving cars. Recently, deep neural networks operating on raw point cloud data have shown promising results on supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Jonathan Sauder , Bjarne Sievers

Point cloud registration involves aligning one point cloud with another or with a three-dimensional (3D) model, enabling the integration of multimodal data into a unified representation. This is essential in applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mehdi Maboudi , Said Harb , Jackson Ferrao , Kourosh Khoshelham , Yelda Turkan , Karam Mawas