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Many inverse problems are ill-posed and need to be complemented by prior information that restricts the class of admissible models. Bayesian approaches encode this information as prior distributions that impose generic properties on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Julian L. Möbius , Michael Habeck

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

Diffusion models learn strong image priors that can be leveraged to solve inverse problems like medical image reconstruction. However, for real-world applications such as 3D Computed Tomography (CT) imaging, directly training diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Taewon Yang , Jason Hu , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Liyue Shen

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

3D AI-generated content (AIGC) has made it increasingly accessible for anyone to become a 3D content creator. While recent methods leverage Score Distillation Sampling to distill 3D objects from pretrained image diffusion models, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuxiao Yang , Peihao Li , Yuhong Zhang , Junzhe Lu , Xianglong He , Minghan Qin , Weitao Wang , Haoqian Wang

In this paper, we present Position-to-Structure Attention Transformers (PS-Former), a Transformer-based algorithm for 3D point cloud recognition. PS-Former deals with the challenge in 3D point cloud representation where points are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Zheng Ding , James Hou , Zhuowen Tu

We study the problem of generating point clouds of 3D objects. Instead of discretizing the object into 3D voxels with huge computational cost and resolution limitations, we propose a novel geometry image based generator (GIG) to convert the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Lei Wang , Yuchun Huang , Pengjie Tao , Yaolin Hou , Yuxuan Liu

Data plays a crucial role in training learning-based methods for 3D point cloud registration. However, the real-world dataset is expensive to build, while rendering-based synthetic data suffers from domain gaps. In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Suyi Chen , Hao Xu , Haipeng Li , Kunming Luo , Guanghui Liu , Chi-Wing Fu , Ping Tan , Shuaicheng Liu

Change detection from traditional \added{2D} optical images has limited capability to model the changes in the height or shape of objects. Change detection using 3D point cloud \added{from photogrammetry or LiDAR surveying} can fill this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Iris de Gélis , Sudipan Saha , Muhammad Shahzad , Thomas Corpetti , Sébastien Lefèvre , Xiao Xiang Zhu

In this work, we propose a novel method for generating 3D point clouds that leverage properties of hyper networks. Contrary to the existing methods that learn only the representation of a 3D object, our approach simultaneously finds a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Przemysław Spurek , Sebastian Winczowski , Jacek Tabor , Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Tomasz Trzciński

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

Point cloud completion aims to recover the complete 3D shape of an object from partial observations. While approaches relying on synthetic shape priors achieved promising results in this domain, their applicability and generalizability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Başak Melis Öcal , Maxim Tatarchenko , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled real-time, photorealistic scene reconstruction. However, conventional 3DGS frameworks typically rely on sparse point clouds derived from Structure-from-Motion (SfM), which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yan Fang , Jianfei Ge , Jiangjian Xiao

Existing multi-view 3D object reconstruction methods heavily rely on sufficient overlap between input views, where occlusions and sparse coverage in practice frequently yield severe reconstruction incompleteness. Recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiahao Chang , Chongjie Ye , Yushuang Wu , Yuantao Chen , Yidan Zhang , Zhongjin Luo , Chenghong Li , Yihao Zhi , Xiaoguang Han

3D point cloud is an important 3D representation for capturing real world 3D objects. However, real-scanned 3D point clouds are often incomplete, and it is important to recover complete point clouds for downstream applications. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Zhaoyang Lyu , Zhifeng Kong , Xudong Xu , Liang Pan , Dahua Lin

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive performance in synthesizing high-fidelity novel views. Nonetheless, its effectiveness critically depends on the quality of the initialized point cloud. Specifically, achieving uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yikang Zhang , Rui Fan

Generating pose-aligned 3D objects is challenging due to the spatial mismatches and transformation ambiguities inherent in decoupled canonical-then-rotate paradigms. To this end, we introduce Pose-Aware Diffusion (PAD), a novel end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zihan Zhou , Luxi Chen , Jingzhi Zhou , Yuhao Wan , Min Zhao , Baoyu Fan , Chongxuan Li

The core of self-supervised point cloud learning lies in setting up appropriate pretext tasks, to construct a pre-training framework that enables the encoder to perceive 3D objects effectively. In this paper, we integrate two prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yun Liu , Peng Li , Xuefeng Yan , Liangliang Nan , Bing Wang , Honghua Chen , Lina Gong , Wei Zhao , Mingqiang Wei

Diffusion models have been popular for point cloud generation tasks. Existing works utilize the forward diffusion process to convert the original point distribution into a noise distribution and then learn the reverse diffusion process to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yukun Li , Liping Liu

Rendering high-fidelity images from sparse point clouds is still challenging. Existing learning-based approaches suffer from either hole artifacts, missing details, or expensive computations. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jiaxu Wang , Ziyi Zhang , Junhao He , Renjing Xu