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The prevalence of accessible depth sensing and 3D laser scanning techniques has enabled the convenient acquisition of 3D dynamic point clouds, which provide efficient representation of arbitrarily-shaped objects in motion. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Wei Hu , Qianjiang Hu , Zehua Wang , Xiang Gao

This paper presents a novel non-local part-aware deep neural network to denoise point clouds by exploring the inherent non-local self-similarity in 3D objects and scenes. Different from existing works that explore small local patches, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Chao Huang , Ruihui Li , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu

Point cloud filtering is a fundamental problem in geometry modeling and processing. Despite of significant advancement in recent years, the existing methods still suffer from two issues: 1) they are either designed without preserving sharp…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Dongbo Zhang , Xuequan Lu , Hong Qin , Ying He

Graph-based methods have proven to be effective in capturing relationships among points for 3D point cloud analysis. However, these methods often suffer from suboptimal graph structures, particularly due to sparse connections at boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Shangbo Yuan , Jie Xu , Ping Hu , Xiaofeng Zhu , Na Zhao

With the burst development of neural networks in recent years, the task of normal estimation has once again become a concern. By introducing the neural networks to classic methods based on problem-specific knowledge, the adaptability of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Jun Zhou , Wei Jin , Mingjie Wang , Xiuping Liu , Zhiyang Li , Zhaobin Liu

Semantic scene understanding from point clouds is particularly challenging as the points reflect only a sparse set of the underlying 3D geometry. Previous works often convert point cloud into regular grids (e.g. voxels or bird-eye view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yinyu Nie , Ji Hou , Xiaoguang Han , Matthias Nießner

It is important to estimate an accurate signed distance function (SDF) from a point cloud in many computer vision applications. The latest methods learn neural SDFs using either a data-driven based or an overfitting-based strategy. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Normal estimation for unstructured point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Current methods achieve encouraging results by mapping local patches to normal vectors or learning local surface fitting using neural networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shujuan Li , Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

High-quality point cloud data is a critical foundation for tasks such as autonomous driving and 3D reconstruction. However, LiDAR-based point cloud acquisition is often affected by various disturbances, resulting in a large number of noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Ge Zhang , Chunyang Wang , Bin Liu , Guan Xi

In this paper, we propose a normal estimation method for unstructured 3D point clouds. In this method, a feature constraint mechanism called Local Plane Features Constraint (LPFC) is used and then a multi-scale selection strategy is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jun Zhou , Hua Huang , Bin Liu , Xiuping Liu

We propose Neural Gradient Learning (NGL), a deep learning approach to learn gradient vectors with consistent orientation from 3D point clouds for normal estimation. It has excellent gradient approximation properties for the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Kanle Shi , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

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

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

This paper presents an effective normal estimation method adopting multi-patch stitching for an unstructured point cloud. The majority of learning-based approaches encode a local patch around each point of a whole model and estimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jun Zhou , Wei Jin , Mingjie Wang , Xiuping Liu , Zhiyang Li , Zhaobin Liu

To achieve point cloud denoising, traditional methods heavily rely on geometric priors, and most learning-based approaches suffer from outliers and loss of details. Recently, the gradient-based method was proposed to estimate the gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yaping Zhao , Haitian Zheng , Zhongrui Wang , Jiebo Luo , Edmund Y. Lam

This work presents an accurate and robust method for estimating normals from point clouds. In contrast to predecessor approaches that minimize the deviations between the annotated and the predicted normals directly, leading to direction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yingrui Wu , Mingyang Zhao , Keqiang Li , Weize Quan , Tianqi Yu , Jianfeng Yang , Xiaohong Jia , Dong-Ming Yan

Point cloud salient object detection has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. Since existing works do not fully utilize the geometry context of 3D objects, blurry boundaries are generated when segmenting objects with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Chen Wang , Liyuan Zhang , Le Hui , Qi Liu , Yuchao Dai

In recent years, point cloud normal estimation, as a classical and foundational algorithm, has garnered extensive attention in the field of 3D geometric processing. Despite the remarkable performance achieved by current Neural Network-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jun Zhou , Yaoshun Li , Hongchen Tan , Mingjie Wang , Nannan Li , Xiuping Liu

Estimation of differential geometric quantities in discrete 3D data representations is one of the crucial steps in the geometry processing pipeline. Specifically, estimating normals and sharp feature lines from raw point cloud helps improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Albert Matveev , Alexey Artemov , Denis Zorin , Evgeny Burnaev

The quality of point clouds is often limited by noise introduced during their capture process. Consequently, a fundamental 3D vision task is the removal of noise, known as point cloud filtering or denoising. State-of-the-art learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Xuequan Lu , Zhiwen Shao , Gang Li , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Ying He