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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

Diffusion models have shown superior performance on unsupervised anomaly detection tasks. Since trained with normal data only, diffusion models tend to reconstruct normal counterparts of test images with certain noises added. However, these…

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Underwater 3D scene reconstruction faces severe challenges from light absorption, scattering, and turbidity, which degrade geometry and color fidelity in traditional methods like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). While NeRF extensions such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Wenpeng Xing , Jie Chen , Zaifeng Yang , Changting Lin , Jianfeng Dong , Chaochao Chen , Xun Zhou , Meng Han

We propose a novel end-to-end deep scene flow model, called PointPWC-Net, on 3D point clouds in a coarse-to-fine fashion. Flow computed at the coarse level is upsampled and warped to a finer level, enabling the algorithm to accommodate for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Wenxuan Wu , Zhiyuan Wang , Zhuwen Li , Wei Liu , Li Fuxin

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 present a generalizable method for 3D surface reconstruction from raw point clouds or pre-estimated 3D Gaussians by 3DGS from RGB images. Unlike existing coordinate-based methods which are often computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shenxing Wei , Jinxi Li , Yafei Yang , Siyuan Zhou , Bo Yang

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

Reconstruction of a continuous surface of two-dimensional manifold from its raw, discrete point cloud observation is a long-standing problem. The problem is technically ill-posed, and becomes more difficult considering that various sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Zhangjin Huang , Yuxin Wen , Zihao Wang , Jinjuan Ren , Kui Jia

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense point clouds from given sparse ones, which is a challenging task due to the irregular and unordered nature of point sets. To address this issue, we present a novel deep learning-based model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Aihua Mao , Zihui Du , Junhui Hou , Yaqi Duan , Yong-jin Liu , Ying He

Neural surface reconstruction has been dominated by implicit representations with marching cubes for explicit surface extraction. However, those methods typically require high-quality normals for accurate reconstruction. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Huan Lei

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…

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Generative models that produce point clouds have emerged as a powerful tool to represent 3D surfaces, and the best current ones rely on learning an ensemble of parametric representations. Unfortunately, they offer no control over the…

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Differentiable renderers have been used successfully for unsupervised 3D structure learning from 2D images because they can bridge the gap between 3D and 2D. To optimize 3D shape parameters, current renderers rely on pixel-wise losses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zhizhong Han , Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

In 3D reconstruction of underwater scenes, traditional methods based on atmospheric optical models cannot effectively deal with the selective attenuation of light wavelengths and the effect of suspended particle scattering, which are unique…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jiachen Li , Guangzhi Han , Jin Wan , Yuan Gao , Delong Han

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a powerful representation for image-based object reconstruction, yet its performance drops sharply in sparse-view settings. Prior works address this limitation by employing diffusion models to repair…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hung Nguyen , Runfa Li , An Le , Truong Nguyen

In this paper, we employ a 1D deep convolutional generative adversarial network (DCGAN) for sequential anomaly detection in energy time series data. Anomaly detection involves gradient descent to reconstruct energy sub-sequences,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Hardik Prabhu , Jayaraman Valadi , Pandarasamy Arjunan

Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) is an advanced imaging technique commonly used in neuroscience and neurological clinical research through a Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) model. Volumetric scalar metrics including fractional anisotropy,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Zihao Tang , Xinyi Wang , Lihaowen Zhu , Mariano Cabezas , Dongnan Liu , Michael Barnett , Weidong Cai , Chengyu Wang

Single-image point cloud reconstruction must infer complete 3D geometry, including occluded parts, from a single RGB image. While diffusion-based reconstructors achieve high accuracy, they typically require many denoising iterations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yuta Baba , Keiji Yanai

We present a new method for image reconstruction which replaces the projector in a projected gradient descent (PGD) with a convolutional neural network (CNN). CNNs trained as high-dimensional (image-to-image) regressors have recently been…

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