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There is a growing number of tasks that work directly on point clouds. As the size of the point cloud grows, so do the computational demands of these tasks. A possible solution is to sample the point cloud first. Classic sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Itai Lang , Asaf Manor , Shai Avidan

We study the problem of computing Chamfer distance in the fully dynamic setting, where two set of points $A, B \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$, each of size up to $n$, dynamically evolve through point insertions or deletions and the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Gramoz Goranci , Shaofeng Jiang , Peter Kiss , Eva Szilagyi , Qiaoyuan Yang

High quality upsampling of sparse 3D point clouds is critically useful for a wide range of geometric operations such as reconstruction, rendering, meshing, and analysis. In this paper, we propose a data-driven algorithm that enables an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Wentai Zhang , Haoliang Jiang , Zhangsihao Yang , Soji Yamakawa , Kenji Shimada , Levent Burak Kara

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

In this paper, we propose PCPNet, a deep-learning based approach for estimating local 3D shape properties in point clouds. In contrast to the majority of prior techniques that concentrate on global or mid-level attributes, e.g., for shape…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Paul Guerrero , Yanir Kleiman , Maks Ovsjanikov , Niloy J. Mitra

To achieve point cloud denoising, traditional methods heavily rely on geometric priors, and most learning-based approaches suffer from outliers and loss of details. Recently, the gradient-based method was proposed to estimate the gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yaping Zhao , Haitian Zheng , Zhongrui Wang , Jiebo Luo , Edmund Y. Lam

Designing a point cloud upsampler, which aims to generate a clean and dense point cloud given a sparse point representation, is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. A line of attempts achieves this goal by establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Pingping Cai , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Song Wang

In this paper, we present a new self-supervised scene flow estimation approach for a pair of consecutive point clouds. The key idea of our approach is to represent discrete point clouds as continuous probability density functions using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Pan He , Patrick Emami , Sanjay Ranka , Anand Rangarajan

Matching 3D rigid point clouds in complex environments robustly and accurately is still a core technique used in many applications. This paper proposes a new architecture combining error estimation from sample covariances and dual global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Can Pu , Nanbo Li , Robert B Fisher

Point cloud is often regarded as a discrete sampling of Riemannian manifold and plays a pivotal role in the 3D image interpretation. Particularly, rotation perturbation, an unexpected small change in rotation caused by various factors (like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xinyu Xu , Huazhen Liu , Feiming Wei , Huilin Xiong , Wenxian Yu , Tao Zhang

Digital dentistry has made significant advancements, yet numerous challenges remain. This paper introduces the FDI 16 dataset, an extensive collection of tooth meshes and point clouds. Additionally, we present a novel approach: Variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Johan Ziruo Ye , Thomas Ørkild , Peter Lempel Søndergaard , Søren Hauberg

In this article we describe a new convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify 3D point clouds of urban or indoor scenes. Solutions are given to the problems encountered working on scene point clouds, and a network is described that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Xavier Roynard , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette

We present a novel deep learning framework for flow field predictions in irregular domains when the solution is a function of the geometry of either the domain or objects inside the domain. Grid vertices in a computational fluid dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ali Kashefi , Davis Rempe , Leonidas J. Guibas

Reliable quality assessment of decoded point cloud geometry is essential to evaluate the compression performance of emerging point cloud coding solutions and guarantee some target quality of experience. This paper proposes a novel point…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Alireza Javaheri , Catarina Brites , Fernando Pereira , Joao Ascenso

This paper presents an end-to-end differentiable algorithm for robust and detail-preserving surface normal estimation on unstructured point-clouds. We utilize graph neural networks to iteratively parameterize an adaptive anisotropic kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Jan Eric Lenssen , Christian Osendorfer , Jonathan Masci

3D point cloud - a new signal representation of volumetric objects - is a discrete collection of triples marking exterior object surface locations in 3D space. Conventional imperfect acquisition processes of 3D point cloud - e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Jin Zeng , Gene Cheung , Michael Ng , Jiahao Pang , Cheng Yang

Establishing a consistent normal orientation for point clouds is a notoriously difficult problem in geometry processing, requiring attention to both local and global shape characteristics. The normal direction of a point is a function of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Gal Metzer , Rana Hanocka , Denis Zorin , Raja Giryes , Daniele Panozzo , Daniel Cohen-Or

In this paper, we propose a point cloud classification method based on graph neural network and manifold learning. Different from the conventional point cloud analysis methods, this paper uses manifold learning algorithms to embed point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Dinghao Yang , Wei Gao

Geometric estimation is required for scene understanding and analysis in panoramic 360{\deg} images. Current methods usually predict a single feature, such as depth or surface normal. These methods can lack robustness, especially when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Kun Huang , Fang-Lue Zhang , Fangfang Zhang , Yu-Kun Lai , Paul L. Rosin , Neil A. Dodgson

The digitalization of society is rapidly developing toward the realization of the digital twin and metaverse. In particular, point clouds are attracting attention as a media format for 3D space. Point cloud data is contaminated with noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kosuke Nakayama , Hiroto Fukuta , Hiroshi Watanabe