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We present Voxel Transformer (VoTr), a novel and effective voxel-based Transformer backbone for 3D object detection from point clouds. Conventional 3D convolutional backbones in voxel-based 3D detectors cannot efficiently capture large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Jiageng Mao , Yujing Xue , Minzhe Niu , Haoyue Bai , Jiashi Feng , Xiaodan Liang , Hang Xu , Chunjing Xu

Generative modeling aims to generate new data samples that resemble a given dataset, with diffusion models recently becoming the most popular generative model. One of the main challenges of diffusion models is solving the problem in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Wonjun Lee , Riley C. W. O'Neill , Dongmian Zou , Jeff Calder , Gilad Lerman

We propose a novel shape representation useful for analyzing and processing shape collections, as well for a variety of learning and inference tasks. Unlike most approaches that capture variability in a collection by using a template model…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Ruqi Huang , Panos Achlioptas , Leonidas Guibas , Maks Ovsjanikov

Autoregressive models have proven to be very powerful in NLP text generation tasks and lately have gained popularity for image generation as well. However, they have seen limited use for the synthesis of 3D shapes so far. This is mainly due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Moritz Ibing , Gregor Kobsik , Leif Kobbelt

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models capable of learning compact latent representations. However, conventional VAEs often generate relatively blurry images due to their assumption of an isotropic Gaussian latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Andrew Kiruluta

We introduce a new generative model that combines latent diffusion with persistent homology to create 3D shapes with high diversity, with a special emphasis on their topological characteristics. Our method involves representing 3D shapes as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Jiangbei Hu , Ben Fei , Baixin Xu , Fei Hou , Weidong Yang , Shengfa Wang , Na Lei , Chen Qian , Ying He

Learning robust representations of 3D shapes from voxelized data is essential for advancing AI methods in biomedical imaging. However, most contemporary 3D computer vision approaches operate on point clouds, meshes, or octrees, while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Rui Li , Artsemi Yushkevich , Mikhail Kudryashev , Artur Yakimovich

Recent advancements in open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding heavily rely on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to register vision-language features into 3D space. However, we identify two critical limitations in these approaches: the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Fusang Wang , Nathan Piasco , Moussab Bennehar , Luis Roldão , Dzmitry Tsishkou , Fabien Moutarde

3D data that contains rich geometry information of objects and scenes is valuable for understanding 3D physical world. With the recent emergence of large-scale 3D datasets, it becomes increasingly crucial to have a powerful 3D generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Jianwen Xie , Zilong Zheng , Ruiqi Gao , Wenguan Wang , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

In this work, we present a dense tracking and mapping system named Vox-Fusion, which seamlessly fuses neural implicit representations with traditional volumetric fusion methods. Our approach is inspired by the recently developed implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Xingrui Yang , Hai Li , Hongjia Zhai , Yuhang Ming , Yuqian Liu , Guofeng Zhang

In this work, we address the lack of 3D understanding of generative neural networks by introducing a persistent 3D feature embedding for view synthesis. To this end, we propose DeepVoxels, a learned representation that encodes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Vincent Sitzmann , Justus Thies , Felix Heide , Matthias Nießner , Gordon Wetzstein , Michael Zollhöfer

Reconstructing accurate surfaces with radiance fields has progressed rapidly, yet two promising explicit representations, 3D Gaussian Splatting and sparse-voxel rasterization, exhibit complementary strengths and weaknesses. 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ting-Hsun Chi , Chu-Rong Chen , Chi-Tun Hsu , Hsuan-Ting Lin , Sheng-Yu Huang , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

We propose a novel approach for probabilistic generative modeling of 3D shapes. Unlike most existing models that learn to deterministically translate a latent vector to a shape, our model, Point-Voxel Diffusion (PVD), is a unified,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Linqi Zhou , Yilun Du , Jiajun Wu

Learning a disentangled, interpretable, and structured latent representation in 3D generative models of faces and bodies is still an open problem. The problem is particularly acute when control over identity features is required. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Simone Foti , Bongjin Koo , Danail Stoyanov , Matthew J. Clarkson

Can the latent spaces of modern generative neural rendering models serve as representations for 3D-aware discriminative visual understanding tasks? We use retrieval as a proxy for measuring the metric learning properties of the latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Michael Tang , David Shustin

The high dimensionality of images presents architecture and sampling-efficiency challenges for likelihood-based generative models. Previous approaches such as VQ-VAE use deep autoencoders to obtain compact representations, which are more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Charlie Nash , Jacob Menick , Sander Dieleman , Peter W. Battaglia

We investigate the problem of training generative models on a very sparse collection of 3D models. We use geometrically motivated energies to augment and thus boost a sparse collection of example (training) models. We analyze the Hessian of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Sanjeev Muralikrishnan , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir Kim , Matthew Fisher , Niloy Mitra

The dominant paradigm for high-fidelity 3D generation relies on a VAE-Diffusion pipeline, where the VAE's reconstruction capability sets a firm upper bound on generation quality. A fundamental challenge limiting existing VAEs is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Guan Luo , Xiu Li , Rui Chen , Xuanyu Yi , Jing Lin , Chia-Hao Chen , Jiahang Liu , Song-Hai Zhang , Jianfeng Zhang

Recent progress in deep generative models has led to tremendous breakthroughs in image generation. However, while existing models can synthesize photorealistic images, they lack an understanding of our underlying 3D world. We present a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Jun-Yan Zhu , Zhoutong Zhang , Chengkai Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , William T. Freeman

We present VoxScene, a novel anchor-conditioned voxel diffusion framework tailored for 3D scene synthesis. Current data-driven layout generation techniques typically rely on bounding proxies or implicit representations, which overlook…