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Point cloud synthesis, i.e. the generation of novel point clouds from an input distribution, remains a challenging task, for which numerous complex machine learning models have been devised. We develop a novel method that encodes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ernst Röell , Bastian Rieck

Point cloud denoising aims to restore clean point clouds from raw observations corrupted by noise and outliers while preserving the fine-grained details. We present a novel deep learning-based denoising model, that incorporates normalizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Aihua Mao , Zihui Du , Yu-Hui Wen , Jun Xuan , Yong-Jin Liu

Pre-training a model and then fine-tuning it on downstream tasks has demonstrated significant success in the 2D image and NLP domains. However, due to the unordered and non-uniform density characteristics of point clouds, it is non-trivial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xiao Zheng , Xiaoshui Huang , Guofeng Mei , Yuenan Hou , Zhaoyang Lyu , Bo Dai , Wanli Ouyang , Yongshun Gong

Diffusion models have become the go-to method for many generative tasks, particularly for image-to-image generation tasks such as super-resolution and inpainting. Current diffusion-based methods do not provide statistical guarantees…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Eliahu Horwitz , Yedid Hoshen

Existing deep learning methods for the reconstruction and denoising of point clouds rely on small datasets of 3D shapes. We circumvent the problem by leveraging deep learning methods trained on billions of images. We propose a method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Pietro Bonazzi , Marie-Julie Rakatosaona , Marco Cannici , Federico Tombari , Davide Scaramuzza

Recently, diffusion models have been used to solve various inverse problems in an unsupervised manner with appropriate modifications to the sampling process. However, the current solvers, which recursively apply a reverse diffusion step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hyungjin Chung , Byeongsu Sim , Dohoon Ryu , Jong Chul Ye

We present two novel generative geometric deep learning frameworks, termed Flow Matching PointNet and Diffusion PointNet, for predicting fluid flow variables on irregular geometries by incorporating PointNet into flow matching and diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Kashefi

Much effort has been put into developing samplers with specific properties, such as producing blue noise, low-discrepancy, lattice or Poisson disk samples. These samplers can be slow if they rely on optimization processes, may rely on a…

Diffusion models are a powerful framework for tackling ill-posed problems, with recent advancements extending their use to point cloud upsampling. Despite their potential, existing diffusion models struggle with inefficiencies as they map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Lei Li

Point clouds produced by 3D scanning are often sparse, non-uniform, and noisy. Recent upsampling approaches aim to generate a dense point set, while achieving both distribution uniformity and proximity-to-surface, and possibly amending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ruihui Li , Xianzhi Li , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu

In this paper, we present a novel shape reconstruction method leveraging diffusion model to generate 3D sparse point cloud for the object captured in a single RGB image. Recent methods typically leverage global embedding or local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yan Di , Chenyangguang Zhang , Pengyuan Wang , Guangyao Zhai , Ruida Zhang , Fabian Manhardt , Benjamin Busam , Xiangyang Ji , Federico Tombari

Point cloud upsampling focuses on generating a dense, uniform and proximity-to-surface point set. Most previous approaches accomplish these objectives by carefully designing a single-stage network, which makes it still challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hang Du , Xuejun Yan , Jingjing Wang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

Diffusion generative models transform noise into data by inverting a process that progressively adds noise to data samples. Inspired by concepts from the renormalization group in physics, which analyzes systems across different scales, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mathis Gerdes , Max Welling , Miranda C. N. Cheng

We introduce a diffusion-based generative model to describe the distribution of galaxies in our Universe directly as a collection of points in 3-D space (coordinates) optionally with associated attributes (e.g., velocities and masses),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

Crowd counting is an important problem in computer vision due to its wide range of applications in image understanding. Currently, this problem is typically addressed using deep learning approaches, such as Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Zhen Wang , Yuelei Li , Jia Wan , Nuno Vasconcelos

Diffusion models have been recently studied as powerful generative inverse problem solvers, owing to their high quality reconstructions and the ease of combining existing iterative solvers. However, most works focus on solving simple linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Jeongsol Kim , Michael T. Mccann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

Existing learning-based point cloud upsampling methods often overlook the intrinsic data distribution charac?teristics of point clouds, leading to suboptimal results when handling sparse and non-uniform point clouds. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yaohui Fang , Xingce Wang

A diffusion probabilistic model (DPM), which constructs a forward diffusion process by gradually adding noise to data points and learns the reverse denoising process to generate new samples, has been shown to handle complex data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zhengxiong Luo , Dayou Chen , Yingya Zhang , Yan Huang , Liang Wang , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou , Tieniu Tan

Surface reconstruction from an unorganized point cloud is an important problem due to its widespread applications. White noise, possibly clustered outliers, and noisy perturbation may be generated when a point cloud is sampled from a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Siu-Wing Cheng , Man-Kit Lau

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