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We present a generative neural network which enables us to generate plausible 3D indoor scenes in large quantities and varieties, easily and highly efficiently. Our key observation is that indoor scene structures are inherently…

Flow-based generative models have highly desirable properties like exact log-likelihood evaluation and exact latent-variable inference, however they are still in their infancy and have not received as much attention as alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Albert Pumarola , Stefan Popov , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Vittorio Ferrari

Deep neural networks with discrete latent variables offer the promise of better symbolic reasoning, and learning abstractions that are more useful to new tasks. There has been a surge in interest in discrete latent variable models, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Aurko Roy , Ashish Vaswani , Arvind Neelakantan , Niki Parmar

Scene flow is the three-dimensional (3D) motion field of a scene. It provides information about the spatial arrangement and rate of change of objects in dynamic environments. Current learning-based approaches seek to estimate the scene flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jhony Kaesemodel Pontes , James Hays , Simon Lucey

We propose an out-of-distribution detection method that combines density and restoration-based approaches using Vector-Quantized Variational Auto-Encoders (VQ-VAEs). The VQ-VAE model learns to encode images in a categorical latent space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sergio Naval Marimont , Giacomo Tarroni

Representing 3D shape is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence, which has numerous applications within computer vision and graphics. One avenue that has recently begun to be explored is the use of latent representations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Allan Jepson , Sven Dickinson

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities across various low-level vision tasks. However, their potential for point cloud completion remains underexplored due to the unstructured and irregular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zijun Li , Hongyu Yan , Shijie Li , Kunming Luo , Li Lu , Xulei Yang , Weisi Lin

The ultimate aim of the study is to explore the inverse design of porous metamaterials using a deep learning-based generative framework. Specifically, we develop a property-variational autoencoder (pVAE), a variational autoencoder (VAE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Phu Thien Nguyen , Yousef Heider , Dennis M. Kochmann , Fadi Aldakheel

We propose an approach to instance segmentation from 3D point clouds based on dynamic convolution. This enables it to adapt, at inference, to varying feature and object scales. Doing so avoids some pitfalls of bottom up approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Tong He , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Recent advances in Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model interpretability have led to impressive progress in visualizing and understanding model predictions. In particular, gradient-based visual attention methods have driven much recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Wenqian Liu , Runze Li , Meng Zheng , Srikrishna Karanam , Ziyan Wu , Bir Bhanu , Richard J. Radke , Octavia Camps

Domain generalization in 3D segmentation is a critical challenge in deploying models to unseen environments. Current methods mitigate the domain shift by augmenting the data distribution of point clouds. However, the model learns global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Pei He , Lingling Li , Licheng Jiao , Ronghua Shang , Fang Liu , Shuang Wang , Xu Liu , Wenping Ma

Latent Video Diffusion Models (LVDMs) rely on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to compress videos into compact latent representations. For continuous Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), achieving higher compression rates is desirable; yet, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yubo Dong , Linchao Zhu

Object detection in 3D point clouds is a crucial task in a range of computer vision applications including robotics, autonomous cars, and augmented reality. This work addresses the object detection task in 3D point clouds using a highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Sultan Abu Ghazal , Jean Lahoud , Rao Anwer

Recent progress in diffusion-based visual generation has largely relied on latent diffusion models with variational autoencoders (VAEs). While effective for high-fidelity synthesis, this VAE+diffusion paradigm suffers from limited training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minglei Shi , Haolin Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Ziyang Yuan , Xiaoshi Wu , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

We propose a multi-layer variational autoencoder method, we call HR-VQVAE, that learns hierarchical discrete representations of the data. By utilizing a novel objective function, each layer in HR-VQVAE learns a discrete representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Mohammad Adiban , Kalin Stefanov , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Giampiero Salvi

Generative models have been widely applied to world modeling for environment simulation and future state prediction. With advancements in autonomous driving, there is a growing demand not only for high-fidelity video generation under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Tianrui Zhang , Yichen Liu , Zilin Guo , Yuxin Guo , Jingcheng Ni , Chenjing Ding , Dan Xu , Lewei Lu , Zehuan Wu

3D LiDAR scanners are playing an increasingly important role in autonomous driving as they can generate depth information of the environment. However, creating large 3D LiDAR point cloud datasets with point-level labels requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Xiangyu Yue , Bichen Wu , Sanjit A. Seshia , Kurt Keutzer , Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

We propose a novel point cloud U-Net diffusion architecture for 3D generative modeling capable of generating high-quality and diverse 3D shapes while maintaining fast generation times. Our network employs a dual-branch architecture,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ioannis Romanelis , Vlassios Fotis , Athanasios Kalogeras , Christos Alexakos , Konstantinos Moustakas , Adrian Munteanu

Visual generative models (e.g., diffusion models) typically operate in compressed latent spaces to balance training efficiency and sample quality. In parallel, there has been growing interest in leveraging high-quality pre-trained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yuan Gao , Chen Chen , Tianrong Chen , Jiatao Gu

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditional methods typically produce a single segmentation mask, failing to capture inherent uncertainty. Recent generative models enable the creation of…

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