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We consider a Beckmann formulation of an unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem. The $\Gamma$-convergence of this formulation of UOT to the corresponding optimal transport (OT) problem is established as the balancing parameter $\alpha$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Zhe Xiong , Lei Li , Ya-Nan Zhu , Xiaoqun Zhang

An optimal transport (OT) problem seeks to find the cheapest mapping between two distributions with equal total density, given the cost of transporting density from one place to another. Unbalanced OT allows for different total density in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Jacob J. M. Francis , Colin J. Cotter , Marion P. Mittermaier

Unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) is a natural extension of optimal transport (OT) allowing comparison between measures of different masses. It arises naturally in machine learning by offering a robustness against outliers. The aim of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Luca Nenna , Paul Pegon , Louis Tocquec

The Optimal Transport (OT) problem investigates a transport map that connects two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. Finding such a transport map has diverse applications in machine learning, such as generative modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi

In this paper, we propose a Point Fractal Network (PF-Net), a novel learning-based approach for precise and high-fidelity point cloud completion. Unlike existing point cloud completion networks, which generate the overall shape of the point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zitian Huang , Yikuan Yu , Jiawen Xu , Feng Ni , Xinyi Le

This paper explores a rapid, optimal smooth path-planning algorithm for robots (e.g., autonomous vehicles) in point cloud environments. Derivative maps such as dense point clouds, mesh maps, Octomaps, etc. are frequently used for path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Zhaoliang Zheng , Thomas R. Bewley , Falko Kuester , Jiaqi Ma

This paper introduces a trajectory planning algorithm for search and coverage missions with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based on an uncertainty map that represents prior knowledge of the target region, modeled by a Gaussian Mixture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hugo Matias , Daniel Silvestre

3D point clouds directly collected from objects through sensors are often incomplete due to self-occlusion. Conventional methods for completing these partial point clouds rely on manually organized training sets and are usually limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Tianxin Huang , Zhiwen Yan , Yuyang Zhao , Gim Hee Lee

We study the Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) between two measures of possibly different masses with at most $n$ components, where the marginal constraints of standard Optimal Transport (OT) are relaxed via Kullback-Leibler divergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Quang Minh Nguyen , Hoang H. Nguyen , Yi Zhou , Lam M. Nguyen

Optimal transport (OT) has become exceedingly popular in machine learning, data science, and computer vision. The core assumption in the OT problem is the equal total amount of mass in source and target measures, which limits its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yikun Bai , Berhnard Schmitzer , Mathew Thorpe , Soheil Kolouri

Unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) extends optimal transport (OT) to take into account mass variations to compare distributions. This is crucial to make OT successful in ML applications, making it robust to data normalization and outliers.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Thibault Séjourné , François-Xavier Vialard , Gabriel Peyré

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful framework to compare probability measures, a fundamental task in many statistical and machine learning problems. Substantial advances have been made in designing OT variants which are either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Clément Bonet , Kimia Nadjahi , Thibault Séjourné , Kilian Fatras , Nicolas Courty

The point cloud based 3D single object tracking has drawn increasing attention. Although many breakthroughs have been achieved, we also reveal two severe issues. By extensive analysis, we find the prediction manner of current approaches is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Pan Wang , Liangliang Ren , Shengkai Wu , Jinrong Yang , En Yu , Hangcheng Yu , Xiaoping Li

Topological data analysis is a powerful tool for describing topological signatures in real world data. An important challenge in topological data analysis is matching significant topological signals across distinct systems. In geometry and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Stephen Y Zhang , Michael P H Stumpf , Tom Needham , Agnese Barbensi

Scanning real-life scenes with modern registration devices typically give incomplete point cloud representations, mostly due to the limitations of the scanning process and 3D occlusions. Therefore, completing such partial representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Przemysław Spurek , Artur Kasymov , Marcin Mazur , Diana Janik , Sławomir Tadeja , Łukasz Struski , Jacek Tabor , Tomasz Trzciński

To further promote the development of multimodal point cloud completion, we contribute a large-scale multimodal point cloud completion benchmark ModelNet-MPC with richer shape categories and more diverse test data, which contains nearly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Xinpu Liu , Baolin Hou , Hanyun Wang , Ke Xu , Jianwei Wan , Yulan Guo

Point cloud completion aims at completing geometric and topological shapes from a partial observation. However, some topology of the original shape is missing, existing methods directly predict the location of complete points, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Junshu Tang , Zhijun Gong , Ran Yi , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

In this paper, we tackle the challenging problem of point cloud completion from the perspective of feature learning. Our key observation is that to recover the underlying structures as well as surface details, given partial input, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Zejia Su , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

Point cloud completion is essential for robust 3D perception in safety-critical applications such as robotics and augmented reality. However, existing models perform static inference and rely heavily on inductive biases learned during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Linlian Jiang , Rui Ma , Li Gu , Ziqiang Wang , Xinxin Zuo , Yang Wang

Autonomous driving is the key technology of intelligent logistics in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In autonomous driving, the appearance of incomplete point clouds losing geometric and semantic information is inevitable owing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jingzhi Tu , Gang Mei , Francesco Piccialli