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Neural implicit surfaces can be used to recover accurate 3D geometry from imperfect point clouds. In this work, we show that state-of-the-art techniques work by minimizing an approximation of a one-sided Chamfer distance. This shape metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Linus Härenstam-Nielsen , Lu Sang , Abhishek Saroha , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers

As a popular representation of 3D data, point cloud may contain noise and need to be filtered before use. Existing point cloud filtering methods either cannot preserve sharp features or result in uneven point distribution in the filtered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Shuaijun Chen , Jinxi Wang , Wei Pan , Shang Gao , Meili Wang , Xuequan Lu

This paper proposes a fast and accurate surface normal estimation method which can be directly used on depth maps (organized point clouds). The surface normal estimation process is formulated as a closed-form expression. In order to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Saed Moradi , Alireza Memarmoghadam , Denis Laurendeau

Point cloud analysis is challenging due to the irregularity of the point cloud data structure. Existing works typically employ the ad-hoc sampling-grouping operation of PointNet++, followed by sophisticated local and/or global feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Shen Zheng , Jinqian Pan , Changjie Lu , Gaurav Gupta

The Chamfer Distance (CD) is a cornerstone objective function for point cloud completion, yet its inherent symmetric weighting mechanism limits the quality of the generated results. By penalizing local detail deviations and global coverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jie Li , Shengwei Tian , Long Yu , Xin Ning

Point cloud analysis is challenging due to irregularity and unordered data structure. To capture the 3D geometries, prior works mainly rely on exploring sophisticated local geometric extractors using convolution, graph, or attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xu Ma , Can Qin , Haoxuan You , Haoxi Ran , Yun Fu

This work presents FG-Net, a general deep learning framework for large-scale point clouds understanding without voxelizations, which achieves accurate and real-time performance with a single NVIDIA GTX 1080 GPU. First, a novel noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Kangcheng Liu , Zhi Gao , Feng Lin , Ben M. Chen

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

Robust and discriminative feature learning is critical for high-quality point cloud registration. However, existing deep learning-based methods typically rely on Euclidean neighborhood-based strategies for feature extraction, which struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Shuyuan Lin , Wenwu Peng , Junjie Huang , Qiang Qi , Miaohui Wang , Jian Weng

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

We present a fast feature-metric point cloud registration framework, which enforces the optimisation of registration by minimising a feature-metric projection error without correspondences. The advantage of the feature-metric projection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Xiaoshui Huang , Guofeng Mei , Jian Zhang

3D dynamic point clouds provide a natural discrete representation of real-world objects or scenes in motion, with a wide range of applications in immersive telepresence, autonomous driving, surveillance, \etc. Nevertheless, dynamic point…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Wei Hu , Qianjiang Hu , Zehua Wang , Xiang Gao

Point cloud registration for 3D objects is a challenging task due to sparse and noisy measurements, incomplete observations and large transformations. In this work, we propose \textbf{G}raph \textbf{M}atching \textbf{C}onsensus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Liang Pan , Zhongang Cai , Ziwei Liu

Three dimensional (3D) object recognition is becoming a key desired capability for many computer vision systems such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and surveillance drones to operate more effectively in unstructured environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Chenxi Xiao , Juan Wachs

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.,…

Point cloud completion aims to recover complete 3D geometry from partial observations caused by limited viewpoints and occlusions. Existing learning-based works, including 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based, point-based, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jiangyuan Liu , Yuhao Zhao , Hongxuan Ma , Zhe Liu , Jian Wang , Wei Zou

Current learning-based methods predict NeRF or 3D Gaussians from point clouds to achieve photo-realistic rendering but still depend on categorical priors, dense point clouds, or additional refinements. Hence, we introduce a novel point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ma Changfeng , Bi Ran , Guo Jie , Wang Chongjun , Guo Yanwen

We consider the problem of positioning a cloud of points in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, using noisy measurements of a subset of pairwise distances. This task has applications in various areas, such as sensor network localization and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Adel Javanmard , Andrea Montanari

Accurate 3D geometry acquisition is essential for a wide range of applications, such as computer graphics, autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. However, raw point clouds acquired in real-world environments are often…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jinxi Wang , Ben Fei , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Zheng Liu , Ying He , Xuequan Lu

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