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Synthesizing photo-realistic images from a point cloud is challenging because of the sparsity of point cloud representation. Recent Neural Radiance Fields and extensions are proposed to synthesize realistic images from 2D input. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Tao Hu , Xiaogang Xu , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

Existing state-of-the-art 3D point cloud understanding methods merely perform well in a fully supervised manner. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no unified framework that simultaneously solves the downstream high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Kangcheng Liu

Pseudo-LiDAR point cloud interpolation is a novel and challenging task in the field of autonomous driving, which aims to address the frequency mismatching problem between camera and LiDAR. Previous works represent the 3D spatial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Haojie Liu , Kang Liao , Chunyu Lin , Yao Zhao , Yulan Guo

Multispectral point cloud (MPC) captures 3D spatial-spectral information from the observed scene, which can be used for scene understanding and has a wide range of applications. However, most of the existing classification methods were…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 TianZhu Liu , BangYan Hu , YanFeng Gu , Xian Li , Aleksandra Pižurica

Moving object segmentation is a crucial task for safe and reliable autonomous mobile systems like self-driving cars, improving the reliability and robustness of subsequent tasks like SLAM or path planning. While the segmentation of camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Leon Schwarzer , Matthias Zeller , Daniel Casado Herraez , Simon Dierl , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

We propose a novel method that renders point clouds as if they are surfaces. The proposed method is differentiable and requires no scene-specific optimization. This unique capability enables, out-of-the-box, surface normal estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Wei-Yu Chen , Anurag Ranjan , Kwang Moo Yi , Oncel Tuzel

Aligning partial views of a scene into a single whole is essential to understanding one's environment and is a key component of numerous robotics tasks such as SLAM and SfM. Recent approaches have proposed end-to-end systems that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Mohamed El Banani , Luya Gao , Justin Johnson

LiDAR-based 3D object detection is an important task for autonomous driving and current approaches suffer from sparse and partial point clouds of distant and occluded objects. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage approach, namely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Yanan Zhang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Point cloud analysis (such as 3D segmentation and detection) is a challenging task, because of not only the irregular geometries of many millions of unordered points, but also the great variations caused by depth, viewpoint, occlusion, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang , Qinghua Zheng

Object retrieval and classification in point cloud data is challenged by noise, irregular sampling density and occlusion. To address this issue, we propose a point pair descriptor that is robust to noise and occlusion and achieves high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Dmytro Bobkov , Sili Chen , Ruiqing Jian , Muhammad Iqbal , Eckehard Steinbach

In recent years new application areas have emerged in which one aims to capture the geometry of objects by means of three-dimensional point clouds. Often the obtained data consist of a dense sampling of the object's surface, containing many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Daniel Tenbrinck , Fjedor Gaede , Martin Burger

Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud analysis has become one of the attractive subjects in realistic imaging and machine visions due to its simplicity, flexibility and powerful capacity of visualization. Actually, the representation of scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Omar Elharrouss , Kawther Hassine , Ayman Zayyan , Zakariyae Chatri , Noor almaadeed , Somaya Al-Maadeed , Khalid Abualsaud

Pre-trained point cloud analysis models have shown promising advancements in various downstream tasks, yet their effectiveness is typically suffering from low-quality point cloud (i.e., noise and incompleteness), which is a common issue in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Zixiang Ai , Zhenyu Cui , Yuxin Peng , Jiahuan Zhou

Point clouds, as a primary representation of 3D data, can be categorized into scene domain point clouds and object domain point clouds. Point cloud self-supervised learning (SSL) has become a mainstream paradigm for learning 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yaohua Zha , Tao Dai , Hang Guo , Yanzi Wang , Bin Chen , Ke Chen , Shu-Tao Xia

Clouds classification is a great challenge in meteorological research. The different types of clouds, currently known and present in our skies, can produce radioactive effects that impact on the variation of atmospheric conditions, with the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Mario Manzo , Simone Pellino

Point cloud has drawn more and more research attention as well as real-world applications. However, many of these applications (e.g. autonomous driving and robotic manipulation) are actually based on sequential point clouds (i.e. four…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Haiyan Wang , Yingli Tian

We introduce Neural Point Light Fields that represent scenes implicitly with a light field living on a sparse point cloud. Combining differentiable volume rendering with learned implicit density representations has made it possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Julian Ost , Issam Laradji , Alejandro Newell , Yuval Bahat , Felix Heide

Recent studies on visual reinforcement learning (visual RL) have explored the use of 3D visual representations. However, none of these work has systematically compared the efficacy of 3D representations with 2D representations across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zhan Ling , Yunchao Yao , Xuanlin Li , Hao Su

The irregular domain and lack of ordering make it challenging to design deep neural networks for point cloud processing. This paper presents a novel framework named Point Cloud Transformer(PCT) for point cloud learning. PCT is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Meng-Hao Guo , Jun-Xiong Cai , Zheng-Ning Liu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Ralph R. Martin , Shi-Min Hu

3D vision with real-time LiDAR-based point cloud data became a vital part of autonomous system research, especially perception and prediction modules use for object classification, segmentation, and detection. Despite their success, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Arup Kumar Sarker , Farzana Yasmin Ahmad , Matthew B. Dwyer