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Generating dense point clouds from sparse raw data benefits downstream 3D understanding tasks, but existing models are limited to a fixed upsampling ratio or to a short range of integer values. In this paper, we present APU-SMOG, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Anthony Dell'Eva , Marco Orsingher , Massimo Bertozzi

In recent years new application areas have emerged in which one aims to capture the geometry of objects by means of three-dimensional point clouds. Often the obtained data consist of a dense sampling of the object's surface, containing many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Daniel Tenbrinck , Fjedor Gaede , Martin Burger

This letter presents a continuous probabilistic modeling methodology for spatial point cloud data using finite Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) where the number of components are adapted based on the scene complexity. Few hierarchical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Kshitij Goel , Nathan Michael , Wennie Tabib

Recently, immersive media and autonomous driving applications have significantly advanced through 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), which offers high-fidelity rendering and computational efficiency. Despite these advantages, 3DGS as a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kangli Wang , Shihao Li , Qianxi Yi , Wei Gao

The demand for high-resolution point clouds has increased throughout the last years. However, capturing high-resolution point clouds is expensive and thus, frequently replaced by upsampling of low-resolution data. Most state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Viktoria Heimann , Andreas Spruck , André Kaup

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

Semantic segmentation of aerial point cloud data can be utilised to differentiate which points belong to classes such as ground, buildings, or vegetation. Point clouds generated from aerial sensors mounted to drones or planes can utilise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Matthew Howe , Boris Repasky , Timothy Payne

In this paper, we propose Neural Points, a novel point cloud representation and apply it to the arbitrary-factored upsampling task. Different from traditional point cloud representation where each point only represents a position or a local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wanquan Feng , Jin Li , Hongrui Cai , Xiaonan Luo , Juyong Zhang

Driven by the increasing demand for accurate and efficient representation of 3D data in various domains, point cloud sampling has emerged as a pivotal research topic in 3D computer vision. Recently, learning-to-sample methods have garnered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chengzhi Wu , Yuxin Wan , Hao Fu , Julius Pfrommer , Zeyun Zhong , Junwei Zheng , Jiaming Zhang , Jürgen Beyerer

Efficient processing and feature extraction of largescale point clouds are important in related computer vision and cyber-physical systems. This work investigates point cloud resampling based on hypergraph signal processing (HGSP) to better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Qinwen Deng , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

In recent years, we have witnessed the presence of point cloud data in many aspects of our life, from immersive media, autonomous driving to healthcare, although at the cost of a tremendous amount of data. In this paper, we present an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Dat Thanh Nguyen , Andre Kaup

Point clouds are a fundamental representation for robotic perception tasks such as localization, mapping, and object pose estimation. However, LiDAR-acquired point clouds are inherently sparse and non-uniform, providing incomplete…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jinwoo Lee , Jiwoo Kim , Woojae Shin , Giseop Kim , Hyondong Oh

Sampling, grouping, and aggregation are three important components in the multi-scale analysis of point clouds. In this paper, we present a novel data-driven sampler learning strategy for point-wise analysis tasks. Unlike the widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yiqun Lin , Lichang Chen , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Xiaoguang Han , Shuguang Cui

For large-scale point cloud processing, resampling takes the important role of controlling the point number and density while keeping the geometric consistency. % in related tasks. However, current methods cannot balance such different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xianhe Jiao , Chenlei Lv , Junli Zhao , Ran Yi , Yu-Hui Wen , Zhenkuan Pan , Zhongke Wu , Yong-jin Liu

Diffusion models have been popular for point cloud generation tasks. Existing works utilize the forward diffusion process to convert the original point distribution into a noise distribution and then learn the reverse diffusion process to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yukun Li , Liping Liu

Deep point cloud registration methods face challenges to partial overlaps and rely on labeled data. To address these issues, we propose UDPReg, an unsupervised deep probabilistic registration framework for point clouds with partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Guofeng Mei , Hao Tang , Xiaoshui Huang , Weijie Wang , Juan Liu , Jian Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Qiang Wu

Mixed-based point cloud augmentation is a popular solution to the problem of limited availability of large-scale public datasets. But the mismatch between mixed points and corresponding semantic labels hinders the further application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Tianfang Zhu , Yue Guan , Anan Li

Point clouds acquired from 3D sensors are usually sparse and noisy. Point cloud upsampling is an approach to increase the density of the point cloud so that detailed geometric information can be restored. In this paper, we propose a Dual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zhi-Song Liu , Zijia Wang , Zhen 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

Local density of point clouds is crucial for representing local details, but has been overlooked by existing point cloud compression methods. To address this, we propose a novel deep point cloud compression method that preserves local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yun He , Xinlin Ren , Danhang Tang , Yinda Zhang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu