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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

Transparent object perception remains a major challenge in computer vision research, as transparency confounds both depth estimation and semantic segmentation. Recent work has explored multi-task learning frameworks to improve robustness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Gbenga Omotara , Ramy Farag , Seyed Mohamad Ali Tousi , G. N. DeSouza

In this paper, we address the problem of reconstructing an object's surface from a single image using generative networks. First, we represent a 3D surface with an aggregation of dense point clouds from multiple views. Each point cloud is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Jinglu Wang , Bo Sun , Yan Lu

In this work, we present a novel approach for reconstructing shape point clouds using planar sparse cross-sections with the help of generative modeling. We present unique challenges pertaining to the representation and reconstruction in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Aradhya N. Mathur , Apoorv Khattar , Ojaswa Sharma

We present a lightweight post-processing method to refine the semantic segmentation results of point cloud sequences. Most existing methods usually segment frame by frame and encounter the inherent ambiguity of the problem: based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yutaka Momma , Weimin Wang , Edgar Simo-Serra , Satoshi Iizuka , Ryosuke Nakamura , Hiroshi Ishikawa

This paper addresses the problem of generating uniform dense point clouds to describe the underlying geometric structures from given sparse point clouds. Due to the irregular and unordered nature, point cloud densification as a generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Yue Qian , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Ying He

We present a method for reconstructing triangle meshes from point clouds. Existing learning-based methods for mesh reconstruction mostly generate triangles individually, making it hard to create manifold meshes. We leverage the properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Paul Guerrero , Noam Aigerman , Niloy Mitra , Maks Ovsjanikov

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense and uniformly distributed point sets from sparse point clouds. Existing point cloud upsampling methods typically approach the task as an interpolation problem. They achieve upsampling by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Ziming Nie , Qiao Wu , Chenlei Lv , Siwen Quan , Zhaoshuai Qi , Muze Wang , Jiaqi Yang

Surface reconstruction from sparse views aims to reconstruct a 3D shape or scene from few RGB images. The latest methods are either generalization-based or overfitting-based. However, the generalization-based methods do not generalize well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Liang Han , Xu Zhang , Haichuan Song , Kanle Shi , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

With their meaningful geometry and their omnipresence in the 3D world, edges are extremely useful primitives in computer vision. 3D edges comprise of lines and curves, and methods to reconstruct them use either multi-view images or point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Kunal Chelani , Assia Benbihi , Torsten Sattler , Fredrik Kahl

Implicit functions represented as deep learning approximations are powerful for reconstructing 3D surfaces. However, they can only produce static surfaces that are not controllable, which provides limited ability to modify the resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Cristian Sminchisescu , Christian Theobalt , Gerard Pons-Moll

We propose a level set method to reconstruct unknown surfaces from point clouds, without assuming that the connections between points are known. We consider a variational formulation with a curvature constraint that minimizes the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Silvia Preda , Matteo Semplice

We present a novel approach for generating isotropic surface triangle meshes directly from unoriented 3D point clouds, with the mesh density adapting to the estimated local feature size (LFS). Popular reconstruction pipelines first…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Rao Fu , Kai Hormann , Pierre Alliez

This paper proposes to learn high-performance deep ConvNets with sparse neural connections, referred to as sparse ConvNets, for face recognition. The sparse ConvNets are learned in an iterative way, each time one additional layer is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Yi Sun , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaoou Tang

Accurate surface geometry representation is crucial in 3D visual computing. Explicit representations, such as polygonal meshes, and implicit representations, like signed distance functions, each have distinct advantages, making efficient…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Christian Stippel , Felix Mujkanovic , Thomas Leimkühler , Pedro Hermosilla

We present a learning-based approach to reconstruct buildings as 3D polygonal meshes from airborne LiDAR point clouds. What makes 3D building reconstruction from airborne LiDAR hard is the large diversity of building designs and especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yujia Liu , Anton Obukhov , Jan Dirk Wegner , Konrad Schindler

Reconstruction of 3D open surfaces (e.g., non-watertight meshes) is an underexplored area of computer vision. Recent learning-based implicit techniques have removed previous barriers by enabling reconstruction in arbitrary resolutions. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammad Samiul Arshad , William J. Beksi

Polygonal mesh reconstruction of a raw point cloud is a valuable topic in the field of computer graphics and 3D vision. Especially to 3D architectural models, polygonal mesh provides concise expressions for fundamental geometric structures…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xin He , Chenlei Lv , Pengdi Huang , Hui Huang

Edges are one of the most basic parametric primitives to describe structural information in 3D. In this paper, we study parametric 3D edge reconstruction from calibrated multi-view images. Previous methods usually reconstruct a 3D edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Haiyang Ying , Matthias Zwicker

While three-dimensional (3D) building models play an increasingly pivotal role in many real-world applications, obtaining a compact representation of buildings remains an open problem. In this paper, we present a novel framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhaiyu Chen , Hugo Ledoux , Seyran Khademi , Liangliang Nan