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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,922 Views
13 Pages

Data-Driven Point Cloud Objects Completion

  • Yang Zhang,
  • Zhen Liu,
  • Xiang Li and
  • Yu Zang

28 March 2019

With the development of the laser scanning technique, it is easier to obtain 3D large-scale scene rapidly. However, many scanned objects may suffer serious incompletion caused by the scanning angles or occlusion, which has severely impacted their fut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
315 Views
20 Pages

5 January 2026

Existing 3D reconstruction algorithms commonly struggle with modeling specific local objects within large-scale scenes, often resulting in a lack of local detail and incomplete geometric structures. While current mainstream point cloud completion met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,794 Views
18 Pages

3DPCTN: Two 3D Local-Object Point-Cloud-Completion Transformer Networks Based on Self-Attention and Multi-Resolution

  • Shuyan Huang,
  • Zhijing Yang,
  • Yukai Shi,
  • Junpeng Tan,
  • Hao Li and
  • Yongqiang Cheng

Acquiring high-fidelity 3D models from real-world scans is challenging. Existing shape completion-methods are incapable of generating details of objects or learning complex point distributions. To address this problem, we propose two transformer-base...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,969 Views
16 Pages

3D-PCGR: Colored Point Cloud Generation and Reconstruction with Surface and Scale Constraints

  • Chaofeng Yuan,
  • Jinghui Pan,
  • Zhaoxiang Zhang,
  • Min Qi and
  • Yuelei Xu

13 March 2024

In the field of 3D point cloud data, the 3D representation of objects is often affected by factors such as lighting, occlusion, and noise, leading to issues of information loss and incompleteness in the collected point cloud data. Point cloud complet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,033 Views
18 Pages

3 December 2021

Recently, unstructured 3D point clouds have been widely used in remote sensing application. However, inevitable is the appearance of an incomplete point cloud, primarily due to the angle of view and blocking limitations. Therefore, point cloud comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,288 Views
15 Pages

With the continuous development of digital agriculture and intelligent forestry, the demand for three-dimensional modeling of trees or plants using agricultural robots is also increasing. Laser radar technology has gradually become an important techn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,387 Views
17 Pages

EPGNet: Enhanced Point Cloud Generation for 3D Object Detection

  • Qingsheng Chen,
  • Cien Fan,
  • Weizheng Jin,
  • Lian Zou,
  • Fangyu Li,
  • Xiaopeng Li,
  • Hao Jiang,
  • Minyuan Wu and
  • Yifeng Liu

4 December 2020

Three-dimensional object detection from point cloud data is becoming more and more significant, especially for autonomous driving applications. However, it is difficult for lidar to obtain the complete structure of an object in a real scene due to it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,343 Views
12 Pages

Point Cloud Completion Network Applied to Vehicle Data

  • Xuehan Ma,
  • Xueyan Li and
  • Junfeng Song

27 September 2022

With the development of autonomous driving, augmented reality, and other fields, it is becoming increasingly important for machines to more accurately and comprehensively perceive their surrounding environment. LiDAR is one of the most important tool...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,263 Views
27 Pages

Tree Completion Net: A Novel Vegetation Point Clouds Completion Model Based on Deep Learning

  • Binfu Ge,
  • Shengyi Chen,
  • Weibing He,
  • Xiaoyong Qiang,
  • Jingmei Li,
  • Geer Teng and
  • Fang Huang

10 October 2024

To improve the integrity of vegetation point clouds, the missing vegetation point can be compensated through vegetation point clouds completion technology. Further, it can enhance the accuracy of these point clouds’ applications, particularly i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,509 Views
13 Pages

Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Point Cloud Object Detection Based on Original Point Cloud and Projection

  • Zhikang Zhang,
  • Zhongjie Zhu,
  • Yongqiang Bai,
  • Yiwen Jin and
  • Ming Wang

Existing point cloud object detection algorithms struggle to effectively capture spatial features across different scales, often resulting in inadequate responses to changes in object size and limited feature extraction capabilities, thereby affectin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,337 Views
27 Pages

Point Cloud Scene Completion of Obstructed Building Facades with Generative Adversarial Inpainting

  • Jingdao Chen,
  • John Seon Keun Yi,
  • Mark Kahoush,
  • Erin S. Cho and
  • Yong K. Cho

4 September 2020

Collecting 3D point cloud data of buildings is important for many applications such as urban mapping, renovation, preservation, and energy simulation. However, laser-scanned point clouds are often difficult to analyze, visualize, and interpret due to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,371 Views
14 Pages

13 April 2023

Point cloud completion is a necessary task in real-world applications of recovering a complete geometry from missing regions of 3D objects. Furthermore, model efficiency is of vital importance in computer vision. In this paper, we present an efficien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,079 Views
20 Pages

A Small-Object-Detection Algorithm Based on LiDAR Point-Cloud Clustering for Autonomous Vehicles

  • Zhibing Duan,
  • Jinju Shao,
  • Meng Zhang,
  • Jinlei Zhang and
  • Zhipeng Zhai

22 August 2024

3D object-detection based on LiDAR point clouds can help driverless vehicles detect obstacles. However, the existing point-cloud-based object-detection methods are generally ineffective in detecting small objects such as pedestrians and cyclists. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,161 Views
18 Pages

13 November 2021

For the engineering application of manipulator grasping objects, mechanical arm occlusion and limited imaging angle produce various holes in the reconstructed 3D point clouds of objects. Acquiring a complete point cloud model of the grasped object pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,339 Views
14 Pages

The environment of ski resorts is usually complex and changeable, and there are few characteristic objects in the background, which creates many difficulties for the registration of ski-resort point cloud datasets. However, in the traditional iterati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,843 Views
14 Pages

Masked Autoencoder for Pre-Training on 3D Point Cloud Object Detection

  • Guangda Xie,
  • Yang Li,
  • Hongquan Qu and
  • Zaiming Sun

28 September 2022

In autonomous driving, the 3D LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) point cloud data of the target are missing due to long distance and occlusion. It makes object detection more difficult. This paper proposes Point Cloud Masked Autoencoder (PCMAE), whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,643 Views
19 Pages

24 February 2024

In urban settings, roadside infrastructure LiDAR is a ground-based remote sensing system that collects 3D sparse point clouds for the traffic object detection of vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists. Current anchor-free algorithms for 3D point cloud o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,867 Views
24 Pages

25 April 2022

TLS can quickly and accurately capture object surface coordinates. However, TLS point clouds cannot cover the entire surface of the target object, due to block of view and limitation of measurement condition. Thus, using it to monitor deformation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,643 Views
24 Pages

Completing 3D Point Clouds of Thin Corn Leaves for Phenotyping Using 3D Gridding Convolutional Neural Networks

  • Ying Zhang,
  • Wei Su,
  • Wancheng Tao,
  • Ziqian Li,
  • Xianda Huang,
  • Ziyue Zhang and
  • Caisen Xiong

9 November 2023

Estimating the complete 3D points of crop plants from incomplete points is vital for phenotyping and smart agriculture management. Compared with the completion of regular man-made objects such as airplanes, chairs, and desks, the completion of corn p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,727 Views
14 Pages

27 October 2023

Due to the numerous objects with regular structures in indoor environments, identifying and modeling the regular objects in scenes aids indoor robots in sensing unknown environments. Typically, point cloud preprocessing can obtain highly complete obj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,648 Views
20 Pages

Part2Point: A Part-Oriented Point Cloud Reconstruction Framework

  • Yu-Cheng Feng,
  • Sheng-Yun Zeng and
  • Tyng-Yeu Liang

20 December 2023

Three-dimensional object modeling is necessary for developing virtual and augmented reality applications. Traditionally, application engineers must manually use art software to edit object shapes or exploit LIDAR to scan physical objects for construc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,536 Views
19 Pages

28 March 2024

In this contribution we evaluate the 3D geometry reconstructed by Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) of an object’s occluded parts behind obstacles through a point cloud comparison in 3D space against traditional Multi-View Stereo (MVS), addressing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
421 Views
20 Pages

23 December 2025

Accurate scene understanding from 3D point cloud data is fundamental to intelligent transportation systems and geospatial digital twins. However, point clouds acquired from lidar sensors in urban environments suffer from incompleteness due to occlusi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,852 Views
18 Pages

Semantic Segmentation-Driven Integration of Point Clouds from Mobile Scanning Platforms in Urban Environments

  • Joanna Koszyk,
  • Aleksandra Jasińska,
  • Karolina Pargieła,
  • Anna Malczewska,
  • Kornelia Grzelka,
  • Agnieszka Bieda and
  • Łukasz Ambroziński

16 September 2024

Precise and complete 3D representations of architectural structures or industrial sites are essential for various applications, including structural monitoring or cadastre. However, acquiring these datasets can be time-consuming, particularly for lar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,014 Views
23 Pages

Automatic Recognition of Pole-Like Objects from Mobile Laser Scanning Point Clouds

  • Zhenwei Shi,
  • Zhizhong Kang,
  • Yi Lin,
  • Yu Liu and
  • Wei Chen

27 November 2018

Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) point cloud data contains rich three-dimensional (3D) information on road ancillary facilities such as street lamps, traffic signs and utility poles. Automatically recognizing such information from point cloud would provid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,567 Views
18 Pages

25 August 2023

Point cloud data are used to create an as-built building information model (as-built BIM) that reflects the actual status of any building, whether being constructed or already completed. However, indoor clutter objects in the point cloud data, such a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
11,828 Views
24 Pages

Automatic Detection and Classification of Pole-Like Objects in Urban Point Cloud Data Using an Anomaly Detection Algorithm

  • Borja Rodríguez-Cuenca,
  • Silverio García-Cortés,
  • Celestino Ordóñez and
  • Maria C. Alonso

28 September 2015

Detecting and modeling urban furniture are of particular interest for urban management and the development of autonomous driving systems. This paper presents a novel method for detecting and classifying vertical urban objects and trees from unstructu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,089 Views
22 Pages

Moving Object Detection and Tracking with Doppler LiDAR

  • Yuchi Ma,
  • John Anderson,
  • Stephen Crouch and
  • Jie Shan

14 May 2019

In this paper, we present a model-free detection-based tracking approach for detecting and tracking moving objects in street scenes from point clouds obtained via a Doppler LiDAR that can not only collect spatial information (e.g., point clouds) but...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,963 Views
12 Pages

Point Cloud Repair Method via Convex Set Theory

  • Tianzhen Dong,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Mengying Li and
  • Yuntao Bai

31 January 2023

The point cloud is the basis for 3D object surface reconstruction. An incomplete point cloud significantly reduces the accuracy of downstream work such as 3D object reconstruction and recognition. Therefore, point-cloud repair is indispensable work....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,203 Views
16 Pages

Partition-Based Point Cloud Completion Network with Density Refinement

  • Jianxin Li,
  • Guannan Si,
  • Xinyu Liang,
  • Zhaoliang An,
  • Pengxin Tian and
  • Fengyu Zhou

2 July 2023

In this paper, we propose a novel method for point cloud complementation called PADPNet. Our approach uses a combination of global and local information to infer missing elements in the point cloud. We achieve this by dividing the input point cloud i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,984 Views
14 Pages

Object detection in 3D point clouds is still a challenging task in autonomous driving. Due to the inherent occlusion and density changes of the point cloud, the data distribution of the same object will change dramatically. Especially, the incomplete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,165 Views
19 Pages

17 September 2024

The popularity of mobile laser scanning systems as a surveying tool is growing among construction contractors, architects, land surveyors, and urban planners. The user-friendliness and rapid capture of precise and complete data on places and objects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
13,790 Views
20 Pages

18 December 2018

An objective dietary assessment system can help users to understand their dietary behavior and enable targeted interventions to address underlying health problems. To accurately quantify dietary intake, measurement of the portion size or food volume...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,277 Views
17 Pages

13 December 2024

Semantic scene reconstruction from sparse and incomplete point clouds is a vital task in understanding point scenes. This task involves assigning semantic labels to objects and reconstructing their complete shapes as meshes. In recent years, research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,811 Views
22 Pages

8 February 2024

Indoor 3D reconstruction is particularly challenging due to complex scene structures involving object occlusion and overlap. This paper presents a hybrid indoor reconstruction method that segments the room point cloud into internal and external compo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,088 Views
17 Pages

24 April 2023

Efficient models capable of handling large numbers of data points in point cloud research are in high demand in computer vision. Despite recent advancements in 3D classification and segmentation tasks in point cloud processing, the deep learning Poin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,096 Views
22 Pages

Pairwise Registration Algorithm for Large-Scale Planar Point Cloud Used in Flatness Measurement

  • Zichao Shu,
  • Songxiao Cao,
  • Qing Jiang,
  • Zhipeng Xu,
  • Jianbin Tang and
  • Qiaojun Zhou

16 July 2021

In this paper, an optimized three-dimensional (3D) pairwise point cloud registration algorithm is proposed, which is used for flatness measurement based on a laser profilometer. The objective is to achieve a fast and accurate six-degrees-of-freedom (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,599 Views
16 Pages

22 July 2017

In this paper, a novel 3D reconstruction framework is proposed to recover the 3D structural model of a space object from its multi-view images captured by a visible sensor. Given an image sequence, this framework first estimates the relative camera p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,129 Views
14 Pages

30 August 2022

Entire surface point clouds in complex objects cannot be captured in a single direction by using noncontact measurement methods, such as machine vision; therefore, different direction point clouds should be obtained and registered. However, high effi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,581 Views
18 Pages

The paper is concerned with the problem of multi-view three-dimensional (3D) point cloud registration. A novel global registration method is proposed to accurately register two series of scans into an object model underlying 3D imaging digitization b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,208 Views
18 Pages

Research on Point Cloud Registering Method of Tunneling Roadway Based on 3D NDT-ICP Algorithm

  • Jianjian Yang,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Wenjie Luo,
  • Yuchen Zhang,
  • Boshen Chang and
  • Miao Wu

29 June 2021

In order to meet the needs of intelligent perception of the driving environment, a point cloud registering method based on 3D NDT-ICP algorithm is proposed to improve the modeling accuracy of tunneling roadway environments. Firstly, Voxel Grid filter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
10,984 Views
19 Pages

Automation of Construction Progress Monitoring by Integrating 3D Point Cloud Data with an IFC-Based BIM Model

  • Paulius Kavaliauskas,
  • Jaime B. Fernandez,
  • Kevin McGuinness and
  • Andrius Jurelionis

20 October 2022

Automated construction progress monitoring using as-planned building information modeling (BIM) and as-built point cloud data integration has substantial potential and could lead to the fast-tracking of construction work and identifying discrepancies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,051 Views
27 Pages

Adaptive Clustering for Point Cloud

  • Zitao Lin,
  • Chuanli Kang,
  • Siyi Wu,
  • Xuanhao Li,
  • Lei Cai,
  • Dan Zhang and
  • Shiwei Wang

28 January 2024

The point cloud segmentation method plays an important role in practical applications, such as remote sensing, mobile robots, and 3D modeling. However, there are still some limitations to the current point cloud data segmentation method when applied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,936 Views
16 Pages

3D Point Cloud Stitching for Object Detection with Wide FoV Using Roadside LiDAR

  • Xiaowei Lan,
  • Chuan Wang,
  • Bin Lv,
  • Jian Li,
  • Mei Zhang and
  • Ziyi Zhang

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is widely used in the perception of physical environment to complete object detection and tracking tasks. The current methods and datasets are mainly developed for autonomous vehicles, which could not be directly u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,071 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2022

The point clouds registration is a key step in data processing for the 3D laser scanner to obtain complete information of the object surface, and there are many algorithms. In order to overcome the disadvantages of slow calculation speed and low accu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,740 Views
22 Pages

31 January 2024

Point cloud densification is essential for understanding the 3D environment. It provides crucial structural and semantic information for downstream tasks such as 3D object detection and tracking. However, existing registration-based methods struggle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,746 Views
16 Pages

8 April 2024

Fusing multiple sensor perceptions, specifically LiDAR and camera, is a prevalent method for target recognition in autonomous driving systems. Traditional object detection algorithms are limited by the sparse nature of LiDAR point clouds, resulting i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,562 Views
18 Pages

Historic Timber Roof Structure Reconstruction through Automated Analysis of Point Clouds

  • Taşkın Özkan,
  • Norbert Pfeifer,
  • Gudrun Styhler-Aydın,
  • Georg Hochreiner,
  • Ulrike Herbig and
  • Marina Döring-Williams

13 January 2022

We present a set of methods to improve the automation of the parametric 3D modeling of historic roof structures using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds. The final product of the TLS point clouds consist of 3D representation of all objects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,066 Views
23 Pages

11 February 2024

Global digitization affects all sectors, including construction. Indeed, 3D scanning and digital photogrammetry methods are increasingly being used to obtain 3D data of buildings. The data obtained by these methods are a cloud of points, and our rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,075 Views
22 Pages

4 January 2025

The key to building a 3D point cloud map is to ensure the consistency and accuracy of point cloud data. However, the hardware limitations of LiDAR lead to a sparse and uneven distribution of point cloud data in the edge region, which brings many chal...

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