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3D object detection aims to predict object centers, dimensions, and rotations from LiDAR point clouds. Despite its simplicity, LiDAR captures only the near side of objects, making center-based detectors prone to poor localization accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Ruixiao Zhang , Runwei Guan , Xiangyu Chen , Adam Prugel-Bennett , Xiaohao Cai

As a collection of 3D points sampled from surfaces of objects, a 3D point cloud is widely used in robotics, autonomous driving and augmented reality. Due to the physical limitations of 3D sensing devices, 3D point clouds are usually noisy,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Chaojing Duan , Siheng Chen , Jelena Kovačević

We propose 3DSmoothNet, a full workflow to match 3D point clouds with a siamese deep learning architecture and fully convolutional layers using a voxelized smoothed density value (SDV) representation. The latter is computed per interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Zan Gojcic , Caifa Zhou , Jan D. Wegner , Andreas Wieser

Diffusion models learn strong image priors that can be leveraged to solve inverse problems like medical image reconstruction. However, for real-world applications such as 3D Computed Tomography (CT) imaging, directly training diffusion…

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Depth estimation is a core task in 3D computer vision. Recent methods investigate the task of monocular depth trained with various depth sensor modalities. Every sensor has its advantages and drawbacks caused by the nature of estimates. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 HyunJun Jung , Patrick Ruhkamp , Guangyao Zhai , Nikolas Brasch , Yitong Li , Yannick Verdie , Jifei Song , Yiren Zhou , Anil Armagan , Slobodan Ilic , Ales Leonardis , Benjamin Busam

Atmospheric structure, represented by backscatter coefficients (BC) recovered from satellite LiDAR attenuated backscatter (ATB), provides a volumetric view of clouds, aerosols, and molecules, playing a critical role in human activities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Tianchi Xu

Accurately capturing the complex interaction between CO2 and water in porous media at the pore scale is essential for various geoscience applications, including carbon capture and storage (CCS). We introduce a comprehensive dataset…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Alhasan Abdellatif , Hannah P. Menke , Julien Maes , Ahmed H. Elsheikh , Florian Doster

Underwater 3D object detection remains one of the most challenging frontiers in computer vision, where traditional approaches struggle with the harsh acoustic environment and scarcity of training data. While deep learning has revolutionized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 M. Salman Shaukat , Yannik Käckenmeister , Sebastian Bader , Thomas Kirste

The alignment of pre-trained LLMs continues to draw significant attention from both industry and academia, aiming to ensure responses that are helpful, harmless, and honest. However, identifying a point in the model's representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Selim Furkan Tekin , Fatih Ilhan , Tiansheng Huang , Sihao Hu , Yichang Xu , Zachary Yahn , Ling Liu

LiDAR-based 3D sensors provide point clouds, a canonical 3D representation used in various scene understanding tasks. Modern LiDARs face key challenges in several real-world scenarios, such as long-distance or low-albedo objects, producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Bhavya Goyal , Felipe Gutierrez-Barragan , Wei Lin , Andreas Velten , Yin Li , Mohit Gupta

This work proposes a method for depth completion of sparse LiDAR data using a convolutional neural network which can be used to generate semi-dense depth maps and "almost" full 3D point-clouds with significantly lower root mean squared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Hamid Hekmatian , Jingfu Jin , Samir Al-Stouhi

The surface roughness of a recently exhumed strikeslip fault plane has been measured by three independent 3D portable laser scanners. Digital elevation models of several fault surface areas, from 1 m2 to 600 m2, have been measured at a…

Geophysics · Physics 2008-01-04 Francois Renard , Christophe Voisin , Davd Marsan , Jean Schmittbuhl

The 3D modelling of indoor environments and the generation of process simulations play an important role in factory and assembly planning. In brownfield planning cases existing data are often outdated and incomplete especially for older…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-05 Christina Petschnigg , Markus Spitzner , Lucas Weitzendorf , Jürgen Pilz

Cloud removal is a significant and challenging problem in remote sensing, and in recent years, there have been notable advancements in this area. However, two major issues remain hindering the development of cloud removal: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Fang Xu , Yilei Shi , Patrick Ebel , Wen Yang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

We present Scan2CAD, a novel data-driven method that learns to align clean 3D CAD models from a shape database to the noisy and incomplete geometry of a commodity RGB-D scan. For a 3D reconstruction of an indoor scene, our method takes as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Armen Avetisyan , Manuel Dahnert , Angela Dai , Manolis Savva , Angel X. Chang , Matthias Nießner

Large-scale point cloud generated from 3D sensors is more accurate than its image-based counterpart. However, it is seldom used in visual pose estimation due to the difficulty in obtaining 2D-3D image to point cloud correspondences. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Mengdan Feng , Sixing Hu , Marcelo Ang , Gim Hee Lee

Point cloud normal estimation is a fundamental task in 3D geometry processing. While recent learning-based methods achieve notable advancements in normal prediction, they often overlook the critical aspect of equivariance. This results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hanxiao Wang , Mingyang Zhao , Weize Quan , Zhen Chen , Dong-ming Yan , Peter Wonka

Porosity variations in tubular scaffolds are critical to reproducible, sophisticated applications of electrospun fibers in biomedicine. Established laser micrometry techniques produced ~14,000 datapoints enabling thickness and porosity…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Y. Liu , F. J. Chaparro , Z. Gray , J. Gaumer , D. B. Cybyk , L. Ross , P. Gosser , Z. Tian , Y. Jia , T. Dull , A. L. Yarin , J. J. Lannutti

We propose a Point-Voxel DeConvolution (PVDeConv) module for 3D data autoencoder. To demonstrate its efficiency we learn to synthesize high-resolution point clouds of 10k points that densely describe the underlying geometry of Computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Kseniya Cherenkova , Djamila Aouada , Gleb Gusev

In this paper, we present a case study that performs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based fine-scale 3D change detection and monitoring of progressive collapse performance of a building during a demolition event. Multi-temporal oblique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Ningli Xu , Debao Huang , Shuang Song , Xiao Ling , Chris Strasbaugh , Alper Yilmaz , Halil Sezen , Rongjun Qin