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In real-world scenarios, scanned point clouds are often incomplete due to occlusion issues. The tasks of self-supervised and weakly-supervised point cloud completion involve reconstructing missing regions of these incomplete objects without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Lintai Wu , Xianjing Cheng , Yong Xu , Huanqiang Zeng , Junhui Hou

Processing large point clouds is a challenging task. Therefore, the data is often downsampled to a smaller size such that it can be stored, transmitted and processed more efficiently without incurring significant performance degradation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yang Ye , Xiulong Yang , Shihao Ji

Recent advances in generative modeling have demonstrated strong promise for high-quality point cloud upsampling. In this work, we present PUFM++, an enhanced flow-matching framework for reconstructing dense and accurate point clouds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Roland Maier , Andreas Rupp

Point cloud is an important type of 3D representation. However, directly applying convolutions on point clouds is challenging due to the sparse, irregular and unordered data structure. In this paper, we propose a novel Interpolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Jiageng Mao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Upsampling LiDAR point clouds in autonomous driving scenarios remains a significant challenge due to the inherent sparsity and complex 3D structures of the data. Recent studies have attempted to address this problem by converting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Chuang Chen , Xiaolin Qin , Jing Hu , Wenyi Ge

Unsupervised point cloud segmentation is critical for embodied artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, as it mitigates the prohibitive cost of dense point-level annotations required by fully supervised methods. While integrating 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yixiao Song , Qingyong Li , Wen Wang , Zhicheng Yan

Reconstruction-based methods have demonstrated very promising results for 3D anomaly detection. However, these methods face great challenges in handling high-precision point clouds due to the large scale and complex structure. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Hanzhe Liang , Jie Zhang , Tao Dai , Linlin Shen , Jinbao Wang , Can Gao

LiDAR point cloud streams are usually sparse in time dimension, which is limited by hardware performance. Generally, the frame rates of mechanical LiDAR sensors are 10 to 20 Hz, which is much lower than other commonly used sensors like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Fan Lu , Guang Chen , Sanqing Qu , Zhijun Li , Yinlong Liu , Alois Knoll

Point cloud denoising task aims to recover the clean point cloud from the scanned data coupled with different levels or patterns of noise. The recent state-of-the-art methods often train deep neural networks to update the point locations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zhaonan Wang , Manyi Li , ShiQing Xin , Changhe Tu

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

Point clouds are often sparse and incomplete, which imposes difficulties for real-world applications. Existing shape completion methods tend to generate rough shapes without fine-grained details. Considering this, we introduce a two-branch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Xiaogang Wang , Marcelo H Ang , Gim Hee Lee

Point cloud completion helps restore partial incomplete point clouds suffering occlusions. Current self-supervised methods fail to give high fidelity completion for large objects with missing surfaces and unbalanced distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aocheng Li , James R. Zimmer-Dauphinee , Rajesh Kalyanam , Ian Lindsay , Parker VanValkenburgh , Steven Wernke , Daniel Aliaga

We are interested in reconstructing the mesh representation of object surfaces from point clouds. Surface reconstruction is a prerequisite for downstream applications such as rendering, collision avoidance for planning, animation, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Minghua Liu , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Hao Su

Point set is arguably the most direct approximation of an object or scene surface, yet its practical acquisition often suffers from the shortcoming of being noisy, sparse, and possibly incomplete, which restricts its use for a high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Jiehong Lin , Xian Shi , Yuan Gao , Ke Chen , Kui Jia

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

Pre-trained point cloud analysis models have shown promising advancements in various downstream tasks, yet their effectiveness is typically suffering from low-quality point cloud (i.e., noise and incompleteness), which is a common issue in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Zixiang Ai , Zhenyu Cui , Yuxin Peng , Jiahuan Zhou

This paper introduces data augmentation for point clouds by interpolation between examples. Data augmentation by interpolation has shown to be a simple and effective approach in the image domain. Such a mixup is however not directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Yunlu Chen , Vincent Tao Hu , Efstratios Gavves , Thomas Mensink , Pascal Mettes , Pengwan Yang , Cees G. M. Snoek

Point cloud downsampling is a crucial pre-processing operation to downsample points in order to unify data size and reduce computational cost, to name a few. Recent research on point cloud downsampling has achieved great success which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Peng Zhang , Ruoyin Xie , Jinsheng Sun , Weiqing Li , Zhiyong Su

Data augmentation is an effective regularization strategy for mitigating overfitting in deep neural networks, and it plays a crucial role in 3D vision tasks, where the point cloud data is relatively limited. While mixing-based augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yi Wang , Jiaze Wang , Jinpeng Li , Zixu Zhao , Guangyong Chen , Anfeng Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng

In this paper we study the task of a single-view image-guided point cloud completion. Existing methods have got promising results by fusing the information of image into point cloud explicitly or implicitly. However, given that the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Aihua Mao , Yuxuan Tang , Jiangtao Huang , Ying He