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Point clouds are often sparse and incomplete. Existing shape completion methods are incapable of generating details of objects or learning the complex point distributions. To this end, we propose a cascaded refinement network together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Xiaogang Wang , Marcelo H Ang , Gim Hee Lee

Geometrical structures and the internal local region relationship, such as symmetry, regular array, junction, etc., are essential for understanding a 3D shape. This paper proposes a point cloud feature extraction network named PointSCNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Xingye Chen , Yiqi Wu , Wenjie Xu , Jin Li , Huaiyi Dong , Yilin Chen

Recent breakthroughs in 3D generative modeling have yielded remarkable progress in static shape synthesis, yet high-fidelity dynamic 4D generation remains elusive, hindered by temporal artifacts and prohibitive computational demand. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Minghao Yin , Wenbo Hu , Jiale Xu , Ying Shan , Kai Han

In recent years, point cloud generation has gained significant attention in 3D generative modeling. Among existing approaches, point-based methods directly generate point clouds without relying on other representations such as latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Petr Molodyk , Jaemoo Choi , David W. Romero , Ming-Yu Liu , Yongxin Chen

Recent progress in 3D generation has been driven largely by models conditioned on images or text, while readily available 3D priors are still underused. In many real-world scenarios, the visible-region point cloud are easy to obtain from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jiatong Xia , Zicheng Duan , Anton van den Hengel , Lingqiao Liu

Object pose estimation from a single view remains a challenging problem. In particular, partial observability, occlusions, and object symmetries eventually result in pose ambiguity. To account for this multimodality, this work proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Christian Möller , Niklas Funk , Jan Peters

By enabling capturing of 3D point clouds that reflect the geometry of the immediate environment, LiDAR has emerged as a primary sensor for autonomous systems. If a LiDAR scan is too sparse, occluded by obstacles, or too small in range,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Ryan Faulkner , Luke Haub , Simon Ratcliffe , Anh-Dzung Doan , Ian Reid , Tat-Jun Chin

3D shape generation aims to produce innovative 3D content adhering to specific conditions and constraints. Existing methods often decompose 3D shapes into a sequence of localized components, treating each element in isolation without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Ruikai Cui , Weizhe Liu , Weixuan Sun , Senbo Wang , Taizhang Shang , Yang Li , Xibin Song , Han Yan , Zhennan Wu , Shenzhou Chen , Hongdong Li , Pan Ji

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

3D generative shape modeling is a fundamental research area in computer vision and interactive computer graphics, with many real-world applications. This paper investigates the novel problem of generating 3D shape point cloud geometry from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Kaichun Mo , He Wang , Xinchen Yan , Leonidas J. Guibas

We introduce a diffusion-based generative model to describe the distribution of galaxies in our Universe directly as a collection of points in 3-D space (coordinates) optionally with associated attributes (e.g., velocities and masses),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

We introduce a novel framework for multiway point cloud mosaicking (named Wednesday), designed to co-align sets of partially overlapping point clouds -- typically obtained from 3D scanners or moving RGB-D cameras -- into a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shengze Jin , Iro Armeni , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath

Point cloud completion is a fundamental yet not well-solved problem in 3D vision. Current approaches often rely on 3D coordinate information and/or additional data (e.g., images and scanning viewpoints) to fill in missing parts. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhe Zhu , Honghua Chen , Xing He , Mingqiang Wei

Point clouds are crucial for capturing three-dimensional data but often suffer from incompleteness due to limitations such as resolution and occlusion. Traditional methods typically rely on point-based approaches within discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Guoqing Zhang , Jian Liu

Text- or image-to-3D generators and 3D scanners can now produce 3D assets with high-quality shapes and textures. These assets typically consist of a single, fused representation, like an implicit neural field, a Gaussian mixture, or a mesh,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Minghao Chen , Roman Shapovalov , Iro Laina , Tom Monnier , Jianyuan Wang , David Novotny , Andrea Vedaldi

Diffusion generative models transform noise into data by inverting a process that progressively adds noise to data samples. Inspired by concepts from the renormalization group in physics, which analyzes systems across different scales, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mathis Gerdes , Max Welling , Miranda C. N. Cheng

3D building generation with low data acquisition costs, such as single image-to-3D, becomes increasingly important. However, most of the existing single image-to-3D building creation works are restricted to those images with specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Yao Wei , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Generating a 3D point cloud from a single 2D image is of great importance for 3D scene understanding applications. To reconstruct the whole 3D shape of the object shown in the image, the existing deep learning based approaches use either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yao Wei , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Unlike image or text domains that benefit from an abundance of large-scale datasets, point cloud learning techniques frequently encounter limitations due to the scarcity of extensive datasets. To overcome this limitation, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ivan Sipiran , Gustavo Santelices , Lucas Oyarzún , Andrea Ranieri , Chiara Romanengo , Silvia Biasotti , Bianca Falcidieno

Image completion techniques have made significant progress in filling missing regions (i.e., holes) in images. However, large-hole completion remains challenging due to limited structural information. In this paper, we address this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Daichi Horita , Jiaolong Yang , Dong Chen , Yuki Koyama , Kiyoharu Aizawa , Nicu Sebe