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Despite considerable progress being achieved in point cloud geometry compression, there still remains a challenge in effectively compressing large-scale scenes with sparse surfaces. Another key challenge lies in reducing decoding latency, a…

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Point cloud analysis has a wide range of applications in many areas such as computer vision, robotic manipulation, and autonomous driving. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success on image-based tasks, there are many unique…

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Assessing the quality of 3D printed models before they are printed remains a challeng- ing problem, particularly when considering point cloud-based models. This paper introduces an approach to quality assessment, which uses techniques from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Paul Rosen , Mustafa Hajij , Junyi Tu , Tanvirul Arafin , Les Piegl

For many important network types (e.g., sensor networks in complex harsh environments and social networks) physical coordinate systems (e.g., Cartesian), and physical distances (e.g., Euclidean), are either difficult to discern or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Anura P. Jayasumana , Randy Paffenroth , Gunjan Mahindre , Sridhar Ramasamy , Kelum Gajamannage

In recent years, 3D point clouds (PCs) have gained significant attention due to their diverse applications across various fields, such as computer vision (CV), condition monitoring (CM), virtual reality, robotics, autonomous driving, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Anju Rani , Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo , Petar Durdevic

Real-world environment-derived point clouds invariably exhibit noise across varying modalities and intensities. Hence, point cloud denoising (PCD) is essential as a preprocessing step to improve downstream task performance. Deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chengwei Zhang , Xueyi Zhang , Mingrui Lao , Tao Jiang , Xinhao Xu , Wenjie Li , Fubo Zhang , Longyong Chen

We propose a novel approach aimed at object and semantic scene completion from a partial scan represented as a 3D point cloud. Our architecture relies on three novel layers that are used successively within an encoder-decoder structure and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yida Wang , David Joseph Tan , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

The universality of the point cloud format enables many 3D applications, making the compression of point clouds a critical phase in practice. Sampled as discrete 3D points, a point cloud approximates 2D surface(s) embedded in 3D with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Jiahao Pang , Kevin Bui , Dong Tian

As 3D scanning devices and depth sensors mature, point clouds have attracted increasing attention as a format for 3D object representation, with applications in various fields such as tele-presence, navigation and heritage reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Zeqing Fu , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) involves techniques of analyzing the underlying structure and connectivity of data. However, traditional methods like persistent homology can be computationally demanding, motivating the development of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Dylan Peek , Matthew P. Skerritt , Siddharth Pritam , Stephan Chalup

An increased interest in immersive applications has drawn attention to emerging 3D imaging representation formats, notably light fields and point clouds (PCs). Nowadays, PCs are one of the most popular 3D media formats, due to recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Alireza Javaheri , Catarina Brites , Fernando Pereira , João Ascenso

Surface parametrization is a crucial part in various fields, having applications in computer graphic, medical imaging, scientific computing and computational engineering. The majority of surface parametrization approaches are performed on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ka Ho Lai , Lok Ming Lui

Real data is often given as a point cloud, i.e. a finite set of points with pairwise distances between them. An important problem is to detect the topological shape of data --- for example, to approximate a point cloud by a low-dimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Sara Kalisnik Verovsek , Vitaliy Kurlin , Davorin Lesnik

Recently, numerous learning-based compression methods have been developed with outstanding performance for the coding of the geometry information of point clouds. On the contrary, limited explorations have been devoted to point cloud…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Jianqiang Wang , Zhan Ma

Deep neural networks are widely used for understanding 3D point clouds. At each point convolution layer, features are computed from local neighborhoods of 3D points and combined for subsequent processing in order to extract semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiayun Wang , Rudrasis Chakraborty , Stella X. Yu

Persistent homology is perhaps the most popular and useful tool offered by topological data analysis, with point-cloud data being the most common setup. Its older cousin, the Euler characteristic curve (ECC) is less expressive, but far…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Fan Wang , Hubert Wagner , Chao Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel variable rate deep compression architecture that operates on raw 3D point cloud data. The majority of learning-based point cloud compression methods work on a downsampled representation of the data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Md Ahmed Al Muzaddid , William J. Beksi

Neural networks have advanced combinatorial optimization, with Transformer-based solvers achieving near-optimal solutions on the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) in milliseconds. However, these models operate as black boxes, providing no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Reuben Narad , Leonard Boussioux , Michael Wagner

We present a new permutation-invariant network for 3D point cloud processing. Our network is composed of a recurrent set encoder and a convolutional feature aggregator. Given an unordered point set, the encoder firstly partitions its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Pengxiang Wu , Chao Chen , Jingru Yi , Dimitris Metaxas

Motion skeletons drive 3D character animation by transforming bone hierarchies, but differences in proportions or structure make motion data hard to transfer across skeletons, posing challenges for data-driven motion synthesis. Temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Clinton Ansun Mo , Kun Hu , Chengjiang Long , Dong Yuan , Wan-Chi Siu , Zhiyong Wang