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Pseudo-LiDAR point cloud interpolation is a novel and challenging task in the field of autonomous driving, which aims to address the frequency mismatching problem between camera and LiDAR. Previous works represent the 3D spatial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Haojie Liu , Kang Liao , Chunyu Lin , Yao Zhao , Yulan Guo

Numerous diffusion model (DM)-based methods have been proposed for solving inverse imaging problems. Among these, a recent line of work has demonstrated strong performance by formulating sampling as an optimization procedure that enforces…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Shijun Liang , Ismail Alkhouri , Qing Qu , Rongrong Wang , Saiprasad Ravishankar

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

Normalization layers have been shown to improve convergence in deep neural networks, and even add useful inductive biases. In many vision applications the local spatial context of the features is important, but most common normalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Anthony Ortiz , Caleb Robinson , Dan Morris , Olac Fuentes , Christopher Kiekintveld , Md Mahmudulla Hassan , Nebojsa Jojic

In this paper, we propose a normal estimation method for unstructured 3D point clouds. In this method, a feature constraint mechanism called Local Plane Features Constraint (LPFC) is used and then a multi-scale selection strategy is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jun Zhou , Hua Huang , Bin Liu , Xiuping Liu

Generative models have proven effective at modeling 3D shapes and their statistical variations. In this paper we investigate their application to point clouds, a 3D shape representation widely used in computer vision for which, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Roman Klokov , Edmond Boyer , Jakob Verbeek

3D point cloud-based place recognition is highly demanded by autonomous driving in GPS-challenged environments and serves as an essential component (i.e. loop-closure detection) in lidar-based SLAM systems. This paper proposes a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Zhicheng Zhou , Cheng Zhao , Daniel Adolfsson , Songzhi Su , Yang Gao , Tom Duckett , Li Sun

To reduce cost in storing, processing and visualizing a large-scale point cloud, we consider a randomized resampling strategy to select a representative subset of points while preserving application-dependent features. The proposed strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Siheng Chen , Dong Tian , Chen Feng , Anthony Vetro , Jelena Kovačević

Layer normalization (LN) is a fundamental component in modern deep learning, but its per-sample centering and scaling introduce non-negligible inference overhead. RMSNorm improves efficiency by removing the centering operation, yet this may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuxin Guo , Yihao Yue , Yunhao Ni , Yizhou Ruan , Jie Luo , Wenjun Wu , Lei Huang

Diffusion probabilistic models are traditionally used to generate colors at fixed pixel positions in 2D images. Building on this, we extend diffusion models to point cloud semantic segmentation, where point positions also remain fixed, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yong He , Hongshan Yu , Mingtao Feng , Tongjia Chen , Zechuan Li , Anwaar Ulhaq , Saeed Anwar , Ajmal Saeed Mian

The development of 3D scanning technology has enabled the acquisition of massive point cloud models with diverse structures and large scales, thereby presenting significant challenges in point cloud processing. Fast neighboring points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shurui Wang , Yuhe Zhang , Ruizhe Guo , Yaning Zhang , Yifei Xie , Xinyu Zhou

Storing and transmitting LiDAR point cloud data is essential for many AV applications, such as training data collection, remote control, cloud services or SLAM. However, due to the sparsity and unordered structure of the data, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Till Beemelmanns , Yuchen Tao , Bastian Lampe , Lennart Reiher , Raphael van Kempen , Timo Woopen , Lutz Eckstein

Recently normalizing flows (NFs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on modeling 3D point clouds while allowing sampling with arbitrary resolution at inference time. However, these flow-based models still require long training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Janis Postels , Mengya Liu , Riccardo Spezialetti , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

Acquired 3D point cloud data, whether from active sensors directly or from stereo-matching algorithms indirectly, typically contain non-negligible noise. To address the point cloud denoising problem, we propose a fast graph-based local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-01 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic , Cheng Yang

In the era of AIGC, the demand for low-budget or even on-device applications of diffusion models emerged. In terms of compressing the Stable Diffusion models (SDMs), several approaches have been proposed, and most of them leveraged the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Dingkun Zhang , Sijia Li , Chen Chen , Qingsong Xie , Haonan Lu

InvertibleNetworks.jl is a Julia package designed for the scalable implementation of normalizing flows, a method for density estimation and sampling in high-dimensional distributions. This package excels in memory efficiency by leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Rafael Orozco , Philipp Witte , Mathias Louboutin , Ali Siahkoohi , Gabrio Rizzuti , Bas Peters , Felix J. Herrmann

By enabling capturing of 3D point clouds that reflect the geometry of the immediate environment, LiDAR has emerged as a primary sensor for autonomous systems. If a LiDAR scan is too sparse, occluded by obstacles, or too small in range,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Ryan Faulkner , Luke Haub , Simon Ratcliffe , Anh-Dzung Doan , Ian Reid , Tat-Jun Chin

We present a computer simulation study of a (6,12)-Lennard-Jones fluid confined to a slit pore, formed by two uniform planes. These interact via a (3,9)-Lennard-Jones potential with the fluid particles. When the fluid approaches the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-21 N. Gribova , A. Arnold , H. Maleki , T. Schilling , C. Holm

Deep neural networks have achieved significant success in 3D point cloud classification while relying on large-scale, annotated point cloud datasets, which are labor-intensive to build. Compared to capturing data with LiDAR sensors and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Huantao Ren , Minmin Yang , Senem Velipasalar

LiDAR point clouds contain measurements of complicated natural scenes and can be used to update digital elevation models, glacial monitoring, detecting faults and measuring uplift detecting, forest inventory, detect shoreline and beach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 F. Patricia Medina , Randy Paffenroth