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Point clouds produced by 3D sensors are often sparse and noisy, posing challenges for tasks requiring dense and high-fidelity 3D representations. Prior work has explored both implicit feature-based upsampling and distance-function learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mahmoud Khater , Mona Strauss , Philipp von Olshausen , Alexander Reiterer

Point cloud upsampling is to densify a sparse point set acquired from 3D sensors, providing a denser representation for the underlying surface. Existing methods divide the input points into small patches and upsample each patch separately,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chen Long , Wenxiao Zhang , Ruihui Li , Hao Wang , Zhen Dong , Bisheng Yang

Flow matching (FM) trains a time-dependent vector field that transports samples from a simple prior to a complex data distribution. However, for high-dimensional images, each training sample supervises only a single trajectory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 George Stoica , Sayak Paul , Matthew Wallingford , Vivek Ramanujan , Abhay Nori , Winson Han , Ali Farhadi , Ranjay Krishna , Judy Hoffman

Established sampling protocols for 3D point cloud learning, such as Farthest Point Sampling (FPS) and Fixed Sample Size (FSS), have long been relied upon. However, real-world data often suffer from corruptions, such as sensor noise, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chongshou Li , Pin Tang , Xinke Li , Yuheng Liu , Tianrui Li

Existing learning-based point cloud upsampling methods often overlook the intrinsic data distribution charac?teristics of point clouds, leading to suboptimal results when handling sparse and non-uniform point clouds. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yaohui Fang , Xingce Wang

Point clouds acquired by 3D scanning devices are often sparse, noisy, and non-uniform, causing a loss of geometric features. To facilitate the usability of point clouds in downstream applications, given such input, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Guangshun Wei , Hao Pan , Shaojie Zhuang , Yuanfeng Zhou , Changjian Li

Recently, arbitrary-scale point cloud upsampling mechanism became increasingly popular due to its efficiency and convenience for practical applications. To achieve this, most previous approaches formulate it as a problem of surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Hang Du , Xuejun Yan , Jingjing Wang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

Point cloud upsampling is vital for the quality of the mesh in three-dimensional reconstruction. Recent research on point cloud upsampling has achieved great success due to the development of deep learning. However, the existing methods…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Shuquan Ye , Dongdong Chen , Songfang Han , Ziyu Wan , Jing Liao

Current discriminative depth estimation methods often produce blurry artifacts, while generative approaches suffer from slow sampling due to curvatures in the noise-to-depth transport. Our method addresses these challenges by framing depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Ulrich Prestel , Pingchuan Ma , Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense and uniformly distributed point sets from sparse point clouds. Existing point cloud upsampling methods typically approach the task as an interpolation problem. They achieve upsampling by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Ziming Nie , Qiao Wu , Chenlei Lv , Siwen Quan , Zhaoshuai Qi , Muze Wang , Jiaqi Yang

We introduce Coupled Flow Matching (CPFM), a framework that integrates controllable dimensionality reduction and high-fidelity reconstruction. CPFM learns coupled continuous flows for both the high-dimensional data x and the low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-28 Wenxi Cai , Yuheng Wang , Naichen Shi

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for point cloud generation. A key component that drives the impressive performance for generating high-quality samples from noise is iteratively denoise for thousands of steps. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Lemeng Wu , Dilin Wang , Chengyue Gong , Xingchao Liu , Yunyang Xiong , Rakesh Ranjan , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Vikas Chandra , Qiang Liu

We present two novel generative geometric deep learning frameworks, termed Flow Matching PointNet and Diffusion PointNet, for predicting fluid flow variables on irregular geometries by incorporating PointNet into flow matching and diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Kashefi

Point cloud completion concerns to predict missing part for incomplete 3D shapes. A common strategy is to generate complete shape according to incomplete input. However, unordered nature of point clouds will degrade generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Xin Wen , Peng Xiang , Zhizhong Han , Yan-Pei Cao , Pengfei Wan , Wen Zheng , Yu-Shen Liu

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

Generative models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving physics systems and modeling complex spatiotemporal dynamics. However, achieving high physical accuracy without incurring high computational cost remains a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jiahe Huang , Sihan Xu , Sharvaree Vadgama , Rose Yu

Recovering high quality surfaces from noisy point clouds, known as point cloud denoising, is a fundamental yet challenging problem in geometry processing. Most of the existing methods either directly denoise the noisy input or filter raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zheng Liu , Yaowu Zhao , Sijing Zhan , Yuanyuan Liu , Renjie Chen , Ying He

3D scene flow estimation aims to estimate point-wise motions between two consecutive frames of point clouds. Superpoints, i.e., points with similar geometric features, are usually employed to capture similar motions of local regions in 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Yaqi Shen , Le Hui , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

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

Point clouds produced by 3D scanning are often sparse, non-uniform, and noisy. Recent upsampling approaches aim to generate a dense point set, while achieving both distribution uniformity and proximity-to-surface, and possibly amending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ruihui Li , Xianzhi Li , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu