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Most prior work represents the shapes of point clouds by coordinates. However, it is insufficient to describe the local geometry directly. In this paper, we present \textbf{RepSurf} (representative surfaces), a novel representation of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Haoxi Ran , Jun Liu , Chengjie Wang

Point cloud is a collection of 3D coordinates that are discrete geometric samples of an object's 2D surfaces. Imperfection in the acquisition process means that point clouds are often corrupted with noise. Building on recent advances in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-20 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic

Reconstructing continuous surfaces from unoriented and unordered 3D points is a fundamental challenge in computer vision and graphics. Recent advancements address this problem by training neural signed distance functions to pull 3D location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ruikai Cui , Binzhu Xie , Shi Qiu , Jiawei Liu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

Recovering high-quality surfaces from irregular point cloud is ill-posed unless strong geometric priors are available. We introduce an implicit self-prior approach that distills a shape-specific prior directly from the input point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kyle Fogarty , Chenyue Cai , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Cengiz Öztireli

In this work, we study the perception problem for sampled surfaces (possibly with boundary) using tools from computational topology, specifically, how to identify their underlying topology starting from point-cloud samples in space, such as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Franco Coltraro , Jaume Amorós , Maria Alberich-Carramiñana , Carme Torras

Pseudo-LiDAR point cloud interpolation is a novel and challenging task in the field of autonomous driving, which aims to address the frequency mismatching problem between camera and LiDAR. Previous works represent the 3D spatial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Haojie Liu , Kang Liao , Chunyu Lin , Yao Zhao , Yulan Guo

Over the past two decades, we have seen an exponentially increased amount of point clouds collected with irregular shapes in various areas. Motivated by the importance of solid modeling for point clouds, we develop a novel and efficient…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-21 Xinyi Li , Shan Yu , Yueying Wang , Guannan Wang , Ming-Jun Lai , Li Wang

The aim of this paper is the reconstruction of a smooth surface from an unorganized point cloud sampled by a closed surface, with the preservation of geometric shapes, without any further information other than the point cloud. Implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yesom Park , Taekyung Lee , Jooyoung Hahn , Myungjoo Kang

In this paper we describe a parallel implicit method based on radial basis functions (RBF) for surface reconstruction. The applicability of RBF methods is hindered by its computational demand, that requires the solution of linear systems of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-05-23 Salvatore Cuomo , Ardelio Gallettiy , Giulio Giuntay , Alfredo Staracey

We extend our recent curve-evolution framework based on localized B-spline interpolation to present an adaptive Lagrangian framework for the geometric evolution of point-cloud data representing smooth, codimension-one surfaces in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Muhammad Ammad , Leevan Ling

Recently, machine learning has been used to substitute parts of conventional computational fluid dynamics, e.g. the cell-face reconstruction in finite-volume solvers or the curvature computation in the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Aaron B. Buhendwa , Deniz A. Bezgin , Nikolaus Adams

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

Generating continuous surfaces from discrete point cloud data is a fundamental task in several 3D vision applications. Real-world point clouds are inherently noisy due to various technical and environmental factors. Existing data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Stuti Pathak , Rhys G. Evans , Gunther Steenackers , Rudi Penne

The growing size of point clouds enlarges consumptions of storage, transmission, and computation of 3D scenes. Raw data is redundant, noisy, and non-uniform. Therefore, simplifying point clouds for achieving compact, clean, and uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yuanqi Li , Jianwei Guo , Xinran Yang , Shun Liu , Jie Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yanwen Guo

Poisson Surface Reconstruction is a widely-used algorithm for reconstructing a surface from an oriented point cloud. To facilitate applications where only partial surface information is available, or scanning is performed sequentially, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Sidhanth Holalkere , David S. Bindel , Silvia Sellán , Alexander Terenin

Thin surfaces, such as the leaves of a plant, pose a significant challenge for implicit surface reconstruction techniques, which typically assume a closed, orientable surface. We show that by approximately interpolating a point cloud of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Riley M. Whebell , Timothy J. Moroney , Ian W. Turner , Ravindra Pethiyagoda , Scott W. McCue

We present a fully automatic approach for reconstructing compact 3D building models from large-scale airborne point clouds. A major challenge of urban reconstruction from airborne LiDAR point clouds lies in that the vertical walls are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jin Huang , Jantien Stoter , Ravi Peters , Liangliang Nan

In this paper, we propose several mathematical models for 3D surface reconstruction and volume estimation from a set of scattered cloud data. Three meshless methods including the interpolation-based method by RBF, PDE-based approach by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-12 T. Li , M. Lei , James Snead , C. S. Chen

This paper discusses a relation between the re-initialization equation of the level-set functions derived by Wac{\l}awczyk [J.Comp.Phys., 299, (2015)] and the condition for the phase equilibrium provided by the stationary solution to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-13 Tomasz Wacławczyk

Surface reconstruction from an unorganized point cloud is an important problem due to its widespread applications. White noise, possibly clustered outliers, and noisy perturbation may be generated when a point cloud is sampled from a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Siu-Wing Cheng , Man-Kit Lau