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Recovering point clouds involves the sequential process of sampling and restoration, yet existing methods struggle to effectively leverage both topological and geometric attributes. To address this, we propose an end-to-end architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaiyue Zhou , Zelong Tan , Hongxiao Wang , Ya-Li Li , Shengjin Wang

The point cloud is gaining prominence as a method for representing 3D shapes, but its irregular format poses a challenge for deep learning methods. The common solution of transforming the data into a 3D voxel grid introduces its own…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Michael Lindenbaum , Anath Fischer

Machine learning for point clouds has been attracting much attention, with many applications in various fields, such as shape recognition and material science. For enhancing the accuracy of such machine learning methods, it is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Naoki Nishikawa , Yuichi Ike , Kenji Yamanishi

Real-time registration of partially overlapping point clouds has emerging applications in cooperative perception for autonomous vehicles and multi-agent SLAM. The relative translation between point clouds in these applications is higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Eduardo Arnold , Sajjad Mozaffari , Mehrdad Dianati

Edge points on 3D point clouds can clearly convey 3D geometry and surface characteristics, therefore, edge detection is widely used in many vision applications with high industrial and commercial demands. However, the fine-grained edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yifei Xie , Zhikun Tu , Tong Yang , Yuhe Zhang , Xinyu Zhou

Point cloud reconstruction from raw point cloud has been an important topic in computer graphics for decades, especially due to its high demand in modeling and rendering applications. An important way to solve this problem is establishing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Hui Tian , Kai Xu

Most existing learning-based point cloud descriptors for point cloud registration focus on perceiving local information of point clouds to generate distinctive features. However, a reasonable and broader receptive field is essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wentao Qu , Xiaoshui Huang , Liang Xiao

Exploiting fine-grained semantic features on point cloud is still challenging due to its irregular and sparse structure in a non-Euclidean space. Among existing studies, PointNet provides an efficient and promising approach to learn shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Processing point clouds using deep neural networks is still a challenging task. Most existing models focus on object detection and registration with deep neural networks using point clouds. In this paper, we propose a deep model that learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Farzan Erlik Nowruzi , Dhanvin Kolhatkar , Prince Kapoor , Robert Laganiere

We develop an effective point cloud rendering pipeline for novel view synthesis, which enables high fidelity local detail reconstruction, real-time rendering and user-friendly editing. In the heart of our pipeline is an adaptive frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yi Zhang , Xiaoyang Huang , Bingbing Ni , Teng Li , Wenjun Zhang

Point clouds have become an increasingly important representation for 3D medical imaging, offering a compact, surface-preserving alternative to traditional voxel or mesh-based approaches. Recent advances in deep learning have enabled rapid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Tongxu Zhang , Zhiming Liang , Bei Wang

Recent years have witnessed the growth of point cloud based applications because of its realistic and fine-grained representation of 3D objects and scenes. However, it is a challenging problem to compress sparse, unstructured, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Jianqiang Wang , Dandan Ding , Zhu Li , Zhan Ma

Registering point clouds of dressed humans to parametric human models is a challenging task in computer vision. Traditional approaches often rely on heavily engineered pipelines that require accurate manual initialization of human poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Shaofei Wang , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

Point clouds, being the simple and compact representation of surface geometry of 3D objects, have gained increasing popularity with the evolution of deep learning networks for classification and segmentation tasks. Unlike human, teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Sindhu Hegde , Shankar Gangisetty

3D surface reconstruction from point clouds is a key step in areas such as content creation, archaeology, digital cultural heritage, and engineering. Current approaches either try to optimize a non-data-driven surface representation to fit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Philipp Erler , Lizeth Fuentes , Pedro Hermosilla , Paul Guerrero , Renato Pajarola , Michael Wimmer

Exploring contextual information in the local region is important for shape understanding and analysis. Existing studies often employ hand-crafted or explicit ways to encode contextual information of local regions. However, it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Recent progress of semantic point clouds analysis is largely driven by synthetic data (e.g., the ModelNet and the ShapeNet), which are typically complete, well-aligned and noisy free. Therefore, representations of those ideal synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Li Yu , Hongchao Zhong , Longkun Zou , Ke Chen , Pan Gao

Point cloud video representation learning is challenging due to complex structures and unordered spatial arrangement. Traditional methods struggle with frame-to-frame correlations and point-wise correspondence tracking. Recently, partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zhuoxu Huang , Zhenkun Fan , Tao Xu , Jungong Han

Scanning real-life scenes with modern registration devices typically gives incomplete point cloud representations, primarily due to the limitations of partial scanning, 3D occlusions, and dynamic light conditions. Recent works on processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Haipeng Wang

Three-dimensional point clouds can be viewed as discrete samples of smooth manifolds, allowing spectral analysis using the Laplace-Beltrami operator (LBO). However, the traditional point cloud manifold harmonic transform (PMHT) is limited…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Jiamian Li , Bing-Zhao Li