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This paper tries to address a fundamental question in point cloud self-supervised learning: what is a good signal we should leverage to learn features from point clouds without annotations? To answer that, we introduce a point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xiaoyu Tian , Haoxi Ran , Yue Wang , Hang Zhao

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

Recently, deep learning methods have shown promising results in point cloud compression. For octree-based point cloud compression, previous works show that the information of ancestor nodes and sibling nodes are equally important for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yiqi Jin , Ziyu Zhu , Tongda Xu , Yuhuan Lin , Yan Wang

Despite considerable progress being achieved in point cloud geometry compression, there still remains a challenge in effectively compressing large-scale scenes with sparse surfaces. Another key challenge lies in reducing decoding latency, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Kang You , Kai Liu , Li Yu , Pan Gao , Dandan Ding

The evolution of 3D visualization techniques has fundamentally transformed how we interact with digital content. At the forefront of this change is point cloud technology, offering an immersive experience that surpasses traditional 2D…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Xiao Huo , Junhui Hou , Shuai Wan , Fuzheng Yang

Likelihood-based generative models are the backbones of lossless compression due to the guaranteed existence of codes with lengths close to negative log likelihood. However, there is no guaranteed existence of computationally efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Jonathan Ho , Evan Lohn , Pieter Abbeel

The sparse LiDAR point clouds become more and more popular in various applications, e.g., the autonomous driving. However, for this type of data, there exists much under-explored space in the corresponding compression framework proposed by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Qian Yin , Qingshan Ren , Lili Zhao , Wenyi Wang , Jianwen Chen

Lossy compression relies on an autoencoder to transform a point cloud into latent points for storage, leaving the inherent redundancy of latent representations unexplored. To reduce redundancy in latent points, we propose a diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Xiaoge Zhang , Zijie Wu , Mehwish Nasim , Mingtao Feng , Saeed Anwar , Ajmal Mian

Learning-based lossy image compression usually involves the joint optimization of rate-distortion performance. Most existing methods adopt spatially invariant bit length allocation and incorporate discrete entropy approximation to constrain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Mu Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Shuhang Gu , Jane You , David Zhang

In point cloud compression, exploiting temporal redundancy for inter predictive coding is challenging because of the irregular geometry. This paper proposes an efficient block-based inter-coding scheme for color attribute compression. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Haoran Hong , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega , Ryosuke Watanabe , Keisuke Nonaka

The non-uniform distribution and extremely sparse nature of the LiDAR point cloud (LPC) bring significant challenges to its high-efficient compression. This paper proposes a novel end-to-end, fully-factorized deep framework that encodes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Tingyu Fan , Linyao Gao , Yiling Xu , Dong Wang , Zhu Li

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

3D dynamic point cloud (DPC) compression relies on mining its temporal context, which faces significant challenges due to DPC's sparsity and non-uniform structure. Existing methods are limited in capturing sufficient temporal dependencies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Shuting Xia , Tingyu Fan , Yiling Xu , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Zhu Li

The widespread usage of point clouds (PC) for immersive visual applications has resulted in the use of very heterogeneous receiving conditions and devices, notably in terms of network, hardware, and display capabilities. In this scenario,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Daniele Mari , André F. R. Guarda , Nuno M. M. Rodrigues , Simone Milani , Fernando Pereira

The ever-increasing demand for 3D modeling in the emerging immersive applications has made point clouds an essential class of data for 3D image and video processing. Tree based structures are commonly used for representing point clouds…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Hoda Roodaki , Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi

Existing methods for learning 3D representations are deep neural networks trained and tested on classical hardware. Quantum machine learning architectures, despite their theoretically predicted advantages in terms of speed and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Lakshika Rathi , Edith Tretschk , Christian Theobalt , Rishabh Dabral , Vladislav Golyanik

Video-based point cloud compression (V-PCC) converts the dynamic point cloud data into video sequences using traditional video codecs for efficient encoding. However, this lossy compression scheme introduces artifacts that degrade the color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jingwei Bao , Yu Liu , Zeliang Li , Shuyuan Zhu , Siu-Kei Au Yeung

Point cloud processing methods exploit local point features and global context through aggregation which does not explicity model the internal correlations between local and global features. To address this problem, we propose full point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yong He , Hongshan Yu , Zhengeng Yang , Xiaoyan Liu , Wei Sun , Ajmal Mian

Coding images for machines with minimal bitrate and strong analysis performance is key to effective edge-cloud systems. Several approaches deploy an image codec and perform analysis on the reconstructed image. Other methods compress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xinyu Wang , Zikun Zhou , Yingjian Li , Xin An , Hongpeng Wang

Data compression is an efficient technique to save data storage and transmission costs. However, traditional data compression methods always ignore the impact of user preferences on the statistical distributions of symbols transmitted over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Yawei Lu , Wei Chen , H. Vincent Poor