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We present a new permutation-invariant network for 3D point cloud processing. Our network is composed of a recurrent set encoder and a convolutional feature aggregator. Given an unordered point set, the encoder firstly partitions its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Pengxiang Wu , Chao Chen , Jingru Yi , Dimitris Metaxas

Point cloud completion aims to reconstruct complete shapes from partial observations. Although current methods have achieved remarkable performance, they still have some limitations: Supervised methods heavily rely on ground truth, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jingjing Lu , Huilong Pi , Yunchuan Qin , Zhuo Tang , Ruihui Li

Pre-trained point cloud analysis models have shown promising advancements in various downstream tasks, yet their effectiveness is typically suffering from low-quality point cloud (i.e., noise and incompleteness), which is a common issue in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Zixiang Ai , Zhenyu Cui , Yuxin Peng , Jiahuan Zhou

Recently, there have been some attempts of Transformer in 3D point cloud classification. In order to reduce computations, most existing methods focus on local spatial attention, but ignore their content and fail to establish relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yahui Liu , Bin Tian , Yisheng Lv , Lingxi Li , Feiyue Wang

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

Hypergraph spectral analysis has emerged as an effective tool processing complex data structures in data analysis. The surface of a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud and the multilateral relationship among their points can be naturally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Songyang Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Zhi Ding

Point clouds are often sparse and incomplete, which imposes difficulties for real-world applications. Existing shape completion methods tend to generate rough shapes without fine-grained details. Considering this, we introduce a two-branch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Xiaogang Wang , Marcelo H Ang , Gim Hee Lee

This paper introduces the 3DCapsule, which is a 3D extension of the recently introduced Capsule concept that makes it applicable to unordered point sets. The original Capsule relies on the existence of a spatial relationship between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Ali Cheraghian , Lars Petersson

Point clouds denote a prominent solution for the representation of 3D photo-realistic content in immersive applications. Similarly to other imaging modalities, quality predictions for point cloud contents are vital for a wide range of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Evangelos Alexiou , Xuemei Zhou , Irene Viola , Pablo Cesar

Point clouds have been recognized as a crucial data structure for 3D content and are essential in a number of applications such as virtual and mixed reality, autonomous driving, cultural heritage, etc. In this paper, we propose a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Maurice Quach , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux

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

The irregular domain and lack of ordering make it challenging to design deep neural networks for point cloud processing. This paper presents a novel framework named Point Cloud Transformer(PCT) for point cloud learning. PCT is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Meng-Hao Guo , Jun-Xiong Cai , Zheng-Ning Liu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Ralph R. Martin , Shi-Min Hu

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

Point clouds provide a flexible and natural representation usable in countless applications such as robotics or self-driving cars. Recently, deep neural networks operating on raw point cloud data have shown promising results on supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Jonathan Sauder , Bjarne Sievers

Point cloud segmentation and classification are some of the primary tasks in 3D computer vision with applications ranging from augmented reality to robotics. However, processing point clouds using deep learning-based algorithms is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Aadesh Desai , Saagar Parikh , Seema Kumari , Shanmuganathan Raman

The task of point cloud completion aims to predict the missing part for an incomplete 3D shape. A widely used strategy is to generate a complete point cloud from the incomplete one. However, the unordered nature of point clouds will degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xin Wen , Peng Xiang , Zhizhong Han , Yan-Pei Cao , Pengfei Wan , Wen Zheng , Yu-Shen Liu

In the practical application of point cloud completion tasks, real data quality is usually much worse than the CAD datasets used for training. A small amount of noisy data will usually significantly impact the overall system's accuracy. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jieqi Shi , Peiliang Li , Xiaozhi Chen , Shaojie Shen

Point cloud completion aims to reconstruct complete 3D shapes from partial observations, which is a challenging problem due to severe occlusions and missing geometry. Despite recent advances in multimodal techniques that leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wang Luo , Di Wu , Hengyuan Na , Yinlin Zhu , Miao Hu , Guocong Quan

Generative diffusion models have shown empirical successes in point cloud resampling, generating a denser and more uniform distribution of points from sparse or noisy 3D point clouds by progressively refining noise into structure. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Wenqiang Xu , Wenrui Dai , Duoduo Xue , Ziyang Zheng , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

In real-world scenarios, scanned point clouds are often incomplete due to occlusion issues. The tasks of self-supervised and weakly-supervised point cloud completion involve reconstructing missing regions of these incomplete objects without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Lintai Wu , Xianjing Cheng , Yong Xu , Huanqiang Zeng , Junhui Hou