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In neural decoding research, one of the most intriguing topics is the reconstruction of perceived natural images based on fMRI signals. Previous studies have succeeded in re-creating different aspects of the visuals, such as low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Furkan Ozcelik , Rufin VanRullen

Open-world 3D scene understanding is a critical challenge that involves recognizing and distinguishing diverse objects and categories from 3D data, such as point clouds, without relying on manual annotations. Traditional methods struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yuru Wang , Pei Liu , Songtao Wang , Zehan Zhang , Xinyan Lu , Changwei Cai , Hao Li , Fu Liu , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang

Recent advancements in Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models have significantly improved 3D point cloud generation. However, existing methods primarily focus on local feature extraction while overlooking global topological information, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zechao Guan , Feng Yan , Shuai Du , Lin Ma , Qingshan Liu

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D annotations, making labeled samples difficult to obtain. Beyond annotation scarcity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thenukan Pathmanathan , Kanchan Keisham , Thangarajah Akilan

3D point cloud interpretation is a challenging task due to the randomness and sparsity of the component points. Many of the recently proposed methods like PointNet and PointCNN have been focusing on learning shape descriptions from point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Zhaoyu Su , Pin Siang Tan , Junkang Chow , Jimmy Wu , Yehur Cheong , Yu-Hsing Wang

The vector quantization is a widely used method to map continuous representation to discrete space and has important application in tokenization for generative mode, bottlenecking information and many other tasks in machine learning. Vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingyuan Yan , Jiawei Wu , Rushi Shah , Dianbo Liu

Text-to-image models are showcasing the impressive ability to create high-quality and diverse generative images. Nevertheless, the transition from freehand sketches to complex scene images remains challenging using diffusion models. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Tianyu Zhang , Xiaoxuan Xie , Xusheng Du , Haoran Xie

Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE) has become a fundamental framework for learning discrete representations in image modeling. However, VQ-VAE models must tokenize entire images using a finite set of codebook vectors, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jaeyung Kim , YoungJoon Yoo

We present a novel method for constructing Variational Autoencoder (VAE). Instead of using pixel-by-pixel loss, we enforce deep feature consistency between the input and the output of a VAE, which ensures the VAE's output to preserve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Xianxu Hou , Linlin Shen , Ke Sun , Guoping Qiu

Point cloud compression significantly reduces data volume but sacrifices reconstruction quality, highlighting the need for advanced quality enhancement techniques. Most existing approaches focus primarily on point-to-point fidelity, often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Tian Guo , Hui Yuan , Qi Liu , Honglei Su , Raouf Hamzaoui , Sam Kwong

Synthesizing realistic and diverse indoor 3D scene layouts in a controllable fashion opens up applications in simulated navigation and virtual reality. As concise and robust representations of a scene, scene graphs have proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Pietro Bonazzi , Mengqi Wang , Diego Martin Arroyo , Fabian Manhardt , Nico Messikomer , Federico Tombari , Davide Scaramuzza

Large language models (LLMs) based on the generative pre-training transformer (GPT) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness across a diverse range of downstream tasks. Inspired by the advancements of the GPT, we present PointGPT, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Guangyan Chen , Meiling Wang , Yi Yang , Kai Yu , Li Yuan , Yufeng Yue

The goal of open-vocabulary detection is to identify novel objects based on arbitrary textual descriptions. In this paper, we address open-vocabulary 3D point-cloud detection by a dividing-and-conquering strategy, which involves: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yuheng Lu , Chenfeng Xu , Xiaobao Wei , Xiaodong Xie , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

Video diffusion models have recently made great progress in generation quality, but are still limited by the high memory and computational requirements. This is because current video diffusion models often attempt to process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Sihyun Yu , Weili Nie , De-An Huang , Boyi Li , Jinwoo Shin , Anima Anandkumar

Efficient image tokenization with high compression ratios remains a critical challenge for training generative models. We present SoftVQ-VAE, a continuous image tokenizer that leverages soft categorical posteriors to aggregate multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hao Chen , Ze Wang , Xiang Li , Ximeng Sun , Fangyi Chen , Jiang Liu , Jindong Wang , Bhiksha Raj , Zicheng Liu , Emad Barsoum

Point cloud based retrieval for place recognition is still a challenging problem due to drastic appearance and illumination changes of scenes in changing environments. Existing deep learning based global descriptors for the retrieval task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Le Hui , Mingmei Cheng , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

Learning useful representations without supervision remains a key challenge in machine learning. In this paper, we propose a simple yet powerful generative model that learns such discrete representations. Our model, the Vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Aaron van den Oord , Oriol Vinyals , Koray Kavukcuoglu

In this paper, we propose a new method for mapping a 3D point cloud to the latent space of a 3D generative adversarial network. Our generative model for 3D point clouds is based on SP-GAN, a state-of-the-art sphere-guided 3D point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Jaeyeon Kim , Binh-Son Hua , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Sai-Kit Yeung

Recent advances in motion diffusion models have substantially improved the realism of human motion synthesis. However, existing approaches either rely on full-sequence diffusion models with bidirectional generation, which limits temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Qing Yu , Akihisa Watanabe , Kent Fujiwara

In this paper, we proposed a novel Style-based Point Generator with Adversarial Rendering (SpareNet) for point cloud completion. Firstly, we present the channel-attentive EdgeConv to fully exploit the local structures as well as the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Chulin Xie , Chuxin Wang , Bo Zhang , Hao Yang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen