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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

Generative diffusion models have shown empirical successes in point cloud resampling, generating a denser and more uniform distribution of points from sparse or noisy 3D point clouds by progressively refining noise into structure. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Wenqiang Xu , Wenrui Dai , Duoduo Xue , Ziyang Zheng , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

Point cloud analysis is challenging due to the irregularity of the point cloud data structure. Existing works typically employ the ad-hoc sampling-grouping operation of PointNet++, followed by sophisticated local and/or global feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Shen Zheng , Jinqian Pan , Changjie Lu , Gaurav Gupta

Flow-matching models have recently emerged as a powerful framework for continuous generative modeling, including 3D point cloud synthesis. However, their deployment is limited by the need for multiple sequential sampling steps at inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Elaheh Akbari , Shansita Sharma , Ping He , Ahmadreza Moradipari , Kyungtae Han , Hamed Pirsiavash , Yikun Bai , Soheil Kolouri

Point cloud panoptic segmentation is a challenging task that seeks a holistic solution for both semantic and instance segmentation to predict groupings of coherent points. Previous approaches treat semantic and instance segmentation as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Shihao Su , Jianyun Xu , Huanyu Wang , Zhenwei Miao , Xin Zhan , Dayang Hao , Xi Li

Fine-grained urban flow inference is crucial for urban planning and intelligent transportation systems, enabling precise traffic management and resource allocation. However, the practical deployment of existing methods is hindered by two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuanshao Zhu , Xiangyu Zhao , Zijian Zhang , Xuetao Wei , James Jianqiao Yu

Optical flow is a regression task where convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have led to major breakthroughs. However, this comes at major computational demands due to the use of cost-volumes and pyramidal representations. This was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Michael Felsberg

Single-photon sensing has generated great interest as a prominent technique of long-distance and ultra-sensitive imaging, however, it tends to yield sparse and spatially biased point clouds, thus limiting its practical utility. In this…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 Jinyi Liu , Guoyang Zhao , Lijun Liu , Yiguang Hong , Weiping Zhang , Shuming Cheng

We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Heli Ben-Hamu , Maximilian Nickel , Matt Le

Deep generative models have recently been applied to physical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs), offering scalable simulation and uncertainty-aware inference. However, enforcing physical constraints, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Utkarsh Utkarsh , Pengfei Cai , Alan Edelman , Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli , Christopher Vincent Rackauckas

We introduce Prior-Informed Flow Matching (PIFM), a conditional flow model for graph reconstruction. Reconstructing graphs from partial observations remains a key challenge; classical embedding methods often lack global consistency, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Harvey Chen , Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra

Recent diffusion and flow matching models have demonstrated strong capabilities in image generation and editing by progressively removing noise through iterative sampling. While this enables flexible inversion for semantic-preserving edits,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yasong Dai , Zeeshan Hayder , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Hongdong Li

3D perception in point clouds is transforming the perception ability of future intelligent machines. Point cloud algorithms, however, are plagued by irregular memory accesses, leading to massive inefficiencies in the memory sub-system,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yu Feng , Gunnar Hammonds , Yiming Gan , Yuhao Zhu

3D point cloud completion, the task of inferring the complete geometric shape from a partial point cloud, has been attracting attention in the community. For acquiring high-fidelity dense point clouds and avoiding uneven distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Minghua Liu , Lu Sheng , Sheng Yang , Jing Shao , Shi-Min Hu

Flow matching has emerged as a simulation-free alternative to diffusion-based generative modeling, producing samples by solving an ODE whose time-dependent velocity field is learned along an interpolation between a simple source…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-10 Shivam Kumar , Yixin Wang , Lizhen Lin

Flow matching offers a robust and stable approach to training diffusion models. However, directly applying flow matching to neural vocoders can result in subpar audio quality. In this work, we present WaveFM, a reparameterized flow matching…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Tianze Luo , Xingchen Miao , Wenbo Duan

We tackle the task of scene flow estimation from point clouds. Given a source and a target point cloud, the objective is to estimate a translation from each point in the source point cloud to the target, resulting in a 3D motion vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yushan Zhang , Johan Edstedt , Bastian Wandt , Per-Erik Forssén , Maria Magnusson , Michael Felsberg

While generative modeling has achieved remarkable success on tasks like natural language-conditioned image generation, enabling model adaptation from example data points remains a relatively underexplored and challenging problem. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tyler Ingebrand , Ruihan Zhao , Kushagra Gupta , David Fridovich-Keil , Sandeep P. Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu

Scene flow estimation aims to generate the 3D motion field of points between two consecutive frames of point clouds, which has wide applications in various fields. Existing point-based methods ignore the irregularity of point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xuezhi Xiang , Xi Wang , Lei Zhang , Denis Ombati , Himaloy Himu , Xiantong Zhen

Optical Flow algorithms are of high importance for many applications. Recently, the Flow Field algorithm and its modifications have shown remarkable results, as they have been evaluated with top accuracy on different data sets. In our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 René Schuster , Christian Bailer , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker