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With their meaningful geometry and their omnipresence in the 3D world, edges are extremely useful primitives in computer vision. 3D edges comprise of lines and curves, and methods to reconstruct them use either multi-view images or point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Kunal Chelani , Assia Benbihi , Torsten Sattler , Fredrik Kahl

3D Shape represented as point cloud has achieve advancements in multimodal pre-training to align image and language descriptions, which is curial to object identification, classification, and retrieval. However, the discrete representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Haoyuan Li , Yanpeng Zhou , Yihan Zeng , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

We introduce PointGauss, a novel point cloud-guided framework for real-time multi-object segmentation in Gaussian Splatting representations. Unlike existing methods that suffer from prolonged initialization and limited multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Wentao Sun , Hanqing Xu , Quanyun Wu , Dedong Zhang , Yiping Chen , Lingfei Ma , John S. Zelek , Jonathan Li

Recent years have witnessed the growth of point cloud based applications because of its realistic and fine-grained representation of 3D objects and scenes. However, it is a challenging problem to compress sparse, unstructured, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Jianqiang Wang , Dandan Ding , Zhu Li , Zhan Ma

Dense colored point clouds enhance visual perception and are of significant value in various robotic applications. However, existing learning-based point cloud upsampling methods are constrained by computational resources and batch…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zixuan Guo , Yifan Xie , Weijing Xie , Peng Huang , Fei Ma , Fei Richard Yu

Point cloud analysis is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision. Most previous works have conducted experiments on synthetic datasets with well-aligned data; while real-world point clouds are often not pre-aligned. How to achieve rotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Chen Zhao , Jiaqi Yang , Xin Xiong , Angfan Zhu , Zhiguo Cao , Xin Li

This paper focuses on motion prediction for point cloud sequences in the challenging case of deformable 3D objects, such as human body motion. First, we investigate the challenges caused by deformable shapes and complex motions present in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Pedro Gomes , Silvia Rossi , Laura Toni

Evaluating uncertainty is critical for reliable use of Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) point clouds in many high-precision applications such as Scan-to-BIM, deformation analysis, and 3D modeling. However, obtaining the ground truth (GT) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Ziyang Xu , Olaf Wysocki , Christoph Holst

This paper focuses on the recently popular task of point cloud completion guided by multimodal information. Although existing methods have achieved excellent performance by fusing auxiliary images, there are still some deficiencies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Wei Song , Jun Zhou , Mingjie Wang , Hongchen Tan , Nannan Li , Xiuping Liu

With the rapid advancement of 3D sensing technologies, obtaining 3D shape information of objects has become increasingly convenient. Lidar technology, with its capability to accurately capture the 3D information of objects at long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Weixiao Gao , Ravi Peters , Jantien Stoter

Point cloud compression (PCC) is a key enabler for various 3-D applications, owing to the universality of the point cloud format. Ideally, 3D point clouds endeavor to depict object/scene surfaces that are continuous. Practically, as a set…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-12 Jiahao Pang , Muhammad Asad Lodhi , Dong Tian

We propose a novel clustering approach for point-cloud segmentation based on supervised contrastive metric learning (CML). Rather than predicting cluster assignments or object-centric variables, the method learns a latent representation in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-25 Max Marriott-Clarke , Lazar Novakovic , Elizabeth Ratzer , Robert J. Bainbridge , Loukas Gouskos , Benedikt Maier

In this paper, we propose a graph neural network to detect objects from a LiDAR point cloud. Towards this end, we encode the point cloud efficiently in a fixed radius near-neighbors graph. We design a graph neural network, named Point-GNN,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Weijing Shi , Ragunathan , Rajkumar

The reconstruction of an object's shape or surface from a set of 3D points plays an important role in medical image analysis, e.g. in anatomy reconstruction from tomographic measurements or in the process of aligning intra-operative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Florian Bernard , Luis Salamanca , Johan Thunberg , Alexander Tack , Dennis Jentsch , Hans Lamecker , Stefan Zachow , Frank Hertel , Jorge Goncalves , Peter Gemmar

In this paper, we propose a novel 3D registration paradigm, Generative Point Cloud Registration, which bridges advanced 2D generative models with 3D matching tasks to enhance registration performance. Our key idea is to generate cross-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Haobo Jiang , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Liang Yu , Jianmin Zheng

Point cloud completion aims to recover partial geometric and topological shapes caused by equipment defects or limited viewpoints. Current methods either solely rely on the 3D coordinates of the point cloud to complete it or incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Feng Zhou , Qi Zhang , Ju Dai , Lei Li , Qing Fan , Junliang Xing

Generative models have proven effective at modeling 3D shapes and their statistical variations. In this paper we investigate their application to point clouds, a 3D shape representation widely used in computer vision for which, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Roman Klokov , Edmond Boyer , Jakob Verbeek

Point cloud registration is a fundamental task for estimating rigid transformations between point clouds. Previous studies have used geometric information for extracting features, matching and estimating transformation. Recently, owing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Congjia Chen , Xiaoyu Jia , Yanhong Zheng , Yufu Qu

Representation and generative learning, as reconstruction-based methods, have demonstrated their potential for mutual reinforcement across various domains. In the field of point cloud processing, although existing studies have adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Hongliang Zeng , Ping Zhang , Fang Li , Jiahua Wang , Tingyu Ye , Pengteng Guo

Enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with 3D environments is challenging. Existing approaches extract point clouds either from ground truth (GT) geometry or 3D scenes reconstructed by auxiliary models. Text-image aligned 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Tao Chu , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuhang Zang , Qiong Liu , Jiaqi Wang