English
Related papers

Related papers: Neural varifolds: an aggregate representation for …

200 papers

The matching of 3D shapes has been extensively studied for shapes represented as surface meshes, as well as for shapes represented as point clouds. While point clouds are a common representation of raw real-world 3D data (e.g. from laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dongliang Cao , Florian Bernard

Point clouds are an increasingly relevant data type but they are often corrupted by noise. We propose a deep neural network based on graph-convolutional layers that can elegantly deal with the permutation-invariance problem encountered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Francesca Pistilli , Giulia Fracastoro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

We present a comprehensive survey and benchmark of both traditional and learning-based methods for surface reconstruction from point clouds. This task is particularly challenging for real-world acquisitions due to factors such as noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Raphael Sulzer , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet , Loic Landrieu

Photo-realistic point cloud capture and transmission are the fundamental enablers for immersive visual communication. The coding process of dynamic point clouds, especially video-based point cloud compression (V-PCC) developed by the MPEG…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Anique Akhtar , Wen Gao , Li Li , Zhu Li , Wei Jia , Shan Liu

3D point cloud interpretation is a challenging task due to the randomness and sparsity of the component points. Many of the recently proposed methods like PointNet and PointCNN have been focusing on learning shape descriptions from point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Zhaoyu Su , Pin Siang Tan , Junkang Chow , Jimmy Wu , Yehur Cheong , Yu-Hsing Wang

Choosing the right representation for geometry is crucial for making 3D models compatible with existing applications. Focusing on piecewise-smooth man-made shapes, we propose a new representation that is usable in conventional CAD modeling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Dmitriy Smirnov , Mikhail Bessmeltsev , Justin Solomon

We propose to explore the properties of raw point clouds through the \emph{winding clearness}, a concept we first introduce for measuring the clarity of the interior/exterior relationships represented by the winding number field of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Dong Xiao , Yueji Ma , Zuoqiang Shi , Shiqing Xin , Wenping Wang , Bailin Deng , Bin Wang

Three-dimensional point clouds provide highly accurate digital representations of objects, essential for applications in computer graphics, photogrammetry, computer vision, and robotics. However, comparing point clouds faces significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Amit Vishwakarma , K. S. Subrahamanian Moosath

Feature descriptors of point clouds are used in several applications, such as registration and part segmentation of 3D point clouds. Learning discriminative representations of local geometric features is unquestionably the most important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Seunghwan Jung , Yeong-Gil Shin , Minyoung Chung

In the last few years, deep neural networks opened the doors for big advances in novel view synthesis. Many of these approaches are based on a (coarse) proxy geometry obtained by structure from motion algorithms. Small deficiencies in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Linus Franke , Darius Rückert , Laura Fink , Matthias Innmann , Marc Stamminger

PointNet has recently emerged as a popular representation for unstructured point cloud data, allowing application of deep learning to tasks such as object detection, segmentation and shape completion. However, recent works in literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Vinit Sarode , Xueqian Li , Hunter Goforth , Yasuhiro Aoki , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Simon Lucey , Howie Choset

We propose a precise and efficient normal estimation method that can deal with noise and nonuniform density for unstructured 3D point clouds. Unlike existing approaches that directly take patches and ignore the local neighborhood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Keqiang Li , Mingyang Zhao , Huaiyu Wu , Dong-Ming Yan , Zhen Shen , Fei-Yue Wang , Gang Xiong

Comparison of data representations is a complex multi-aspect problem that has not enjoyed a complete solution yet. We propose a method for comparing two data representations. We introduce the Representation Topology Divergence (RTD),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Serguei Barannikov , Ilya Trofimov , Nikita Balabin , Evgeny Burnaev

Existing networks directly learn feature representations on 3D point clouds for shape analysis. We argue that 3D point clouds are highly redundant and hold irregular (permutation-invariant) structure, which makes it difficult to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sameera Ramasinghe , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes , Stephen Gould

Recent studies on visual reinforcement learning (visual RL) have explored the use of 3D visual representations. However, none of these work has systematically compared the efficacy of 3D representations with 2D representations across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zhan Ling , Yunchao Yao , Xuanlin Li , Hao Su

We are interested in reconstructing the mesh representation of object surfaces from point clouds. Surface reconstruction is a prerequisite for downstream applications such as rendering, collision avoidance for planning, animation, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Minghua Liu , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Hao Su

We proposed a generalized method, NeuralSSD, for reconstructing a 3D implicit surface from the widely-available point cloud data. NeuralSSD is a solver-based on the neural Galerkin method, aimed at reconstructing higher-quality and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zi-Chen Xi , Jiahui Huang , Hao-Xiang Chen , Francis Williams , Qun-Ce Xu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

In the field of Connectomics, a primary problem is that of 3D neuron segmentation. Although deep learning-based methods have achieved remarkable accuracy, errors still exist, especially in regions with image defects. One common type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Jules Berman , Dmitri B. Chklovskii , Jingpeng Wu

Point cloud analysis has a wide range of applications in many areas such as computer vision, robotic manipulation, and autonomous driving. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success on image-based tasks, there are many unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Sushmita Sarker , Prithul Sarker , Gunner Stone , Ryan Gorman , Alireza Tavakkoli , George Bebis , Javad Sattarvand

Despite significant advances in the field of deep learning in applications to various fields, explaining the inner processes of deep learning models remains an important and open question. The purpose of this article is to describe and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 German Magai , Anton Ayzenberg