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Graphics · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Sebastian Ochmann , Reinhard Klein

We present a comprehensive survey and benchmark of both traditional and learning-based methods for surface reconstruction from point clouds. This task is particularly challenging for real-world acquisitions due to factors such as noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Raphael Sulzer , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet , Loic Landrieu

Airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data is widely applied in building reconstruction, with studies reporting success in typical buildings. However, the reconstruction of curved buildings remains an open research problem. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Jingwei Song , Shaobo Xia , Jun Wang , Dong Chen

Point cloud surface reconstruction has improved in accuracy with advances in deep learning, enabling applications such as infrastructure inspection. Recent approaches that reconstruct from small local regions rather than entire point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Eito Ogawa , Taiga Hayami , Hiroshi Watanabe

Tomographic synthetic aperture radar (TomoSAR) imaging algorithms based on deep learning can effectively reduce computational costs. The idea of existing researches is to reconstruct the elevation for each range-azimuth cell in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Yu Ren , Xiaoling Zhang , Yunqiao Hu , Xu Zhan

Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to uncover low-dimensional structure in noisy point clouds. Prominent amongst the tools is persistence homology, which summarizes birth-death times of homological features using data objects…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-05 James Matuk , Sebastian Kurtek , Karthik Bharath

Accurate estimation of building heights using very high resolution (VHR) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is crucial for various urban applications. This paper introduces a Deep Learning (DL)-based methodology for automated building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Babak Memar , Luigi Russo , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Paolo Gamba

Reconstructing models from unorganized point clouds presents a significant challenge, especially when the models consist of multiple components represented by their surface point clouds. Such models often involve point clouds with noise…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yu Chen , Hongwei Lin

We present TreeON, a novel neural-based framework for reconstructing detailed 3D tree point clouds from sparse top-down geodata, using only a single orthophoto and its corresponding Digital Surface Model (DSM). Our method introduces a new…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Angeliki Grammatikaki , Johannes Eschner , Pedro Hermosilla , Oscar Argudo , Manuela Waldner

Identifying changes in a pair of 3D aerial LiDAR point clouds, obtained during two distinct time periods over the same geographic region presents a significant challenge due to the disparities in spatial coverage and the presence of noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Peter Naylor , Diego Di Carlo , Arianna Traviglia , Makoto Yamada , Marco Fiorucci

LiDAR-based perception in autonomous systems is constrained by fixed vertical beam resolution and further compromised by beam dropout resulting from environmental occlusions. This paper introduces SuperiorGAT, a graph attention-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Khalfalla Awedat , Mohamed Abidalrekab , Gurcan Comert , Mustafa Ayad

We address a data augmentation problem for LiDAR. Given a LiDAR scan of a scene from some position, how can one simulate new scans of that scene from different, secondary positions? The method defines criteria for selecting valid secondary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xavier Morin-Duchesne , Michael S Langer

The diversity of building architecture styles of global cities situated on various landforms, the degraded optical imagery affected by clouds and shadows, and the significant inter-class imbalance of roof types pose challenges for designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Guozhang Liu , Baochai Peng , Ting Liu , Pan Zhang , Mengke Yuan , Chaoran Lu , Ningning Cao , Sen Zhang , Simin Huang , Tao Wang

The benefits of having digital twins of urban buildings are numerous. However, a major difficulty encountered in their creation from airborne LiDAR point clouds is the effective means of accurately reconstructing significant occlusions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Perpetual Hope Akwensi , Akshay Bharadwaj , Ruisheng Wang

High-resolution optical satellite sensors, combined with dense stereo algorithms, have made it possible to reconstruct 3D city models from space. However, these models are, in practice, rather noisy and tend to miss small geometric features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Corinne Stucker , Bingxin Ke , Yuanwen Yue , Shengyu Huang , Iro Armeni , Konrad Schindler

Reconstructing 3D objects from 2D images is both challenging for our brains and machine learning algorithms. To support this spatial reasoning task, contextual information about the overall shape of an object is critical. However, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Dominik J. E. Waibel , Scott Atwell , Matthias Meier , Carsten Marr , Bastian Rieck

We present a novel method for reconstructing parametric, volumetric, multi-story building models from unstructured, unfiltered indoor point clouds by means of solving an integer linear optimization problem. Our approach overcomes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Sebastian Ochmann , Richard Vock , Reinhard Klein

Designing a point cloud upsampler, which aims to generate a clean and dense point cloud given a sparse point representation, is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. A line of attempts achieves this goal by establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Pingping Cai , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Song Wang

Storing and transmitting LiDAR point cloud data is essential for many AV applications, such as training data collection, remote control, cloud services or SLAM. However, due to the sparsity and unordered structure of the data, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Till Beemelmanns , Yuchen Tao , Bastian Lampe , Lennart Reiher , Raphael van Kempen , Timo Woopen , Lutz Eckstein

In this paper we tackle a very novel problem, namely height estimation from a single monocular remote sensing image, which is inherently ambiguous, and a technically ill-posed problem, with a large source of uncertainty coming from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu