Advances in neural rendering

A Tewari, J Thies, B Mildenhall… - Computer Graphics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Synthesizing photo‐realistic images and videos is at the heart of computer graphics and has
been the focus of decades of research. Traditionally, synthetic images of a scene are …

Mixture of volumetric primitives for efficient neural rendering

S Lombardi, T Simon, G Schwartz… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Real-time rendering and animation of humans is a core function in games, movies, and
telepresence applications. Existing methods have a number of drawbacks we aim to …

A review on deep learning approaches for 3D data representations in retrieval and classifications

AS Gezawa, Y Zhang, Q Wang, L Yunqi - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning approach has been used extensively in image analysis tasks. However,
implementing the methods in 3D data is a bit complex because most of the previously …

Geometric back-projection network for point cloud classification

S Qiu, S Anwar, N Barnes - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the basic task of point cloud analysis, classification is fundamental but always
challenging. To address some unsolved problems of existing methods, we propose a …

Transfer learning from synthetic to real lidar point cloud for semantic segmentation

A Xiao, J Huang, D Guan, F Zhan, S Lu - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract Knowledge transfer from synthetic to real data has been widely studied to mitigate
data annotation constraints in various computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation …

[HTML][HTML] Point cloud semantic segmentation using a deep learning framework for cultural heritage

R Pierdicca, M Paolanti, F Matrone, M Martini… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) domain, the semantic segmentation of 3D Point
Clouds with Deep Learning (DL) techniques can help to recognize historical architectural …

Differentiable surface splatting for point-based geometry processing

W Yifan, F Serena, S Wu, C Öztireli… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We propose Differentiable Surface Splatting (DSS), a high-fidelity differentiable renderer for
point clouds. Gradients for point locations and normals are carefully designed to handle …

A survey on deep learning advances on different 3D data representations

E Ahmed, A Saint, AER Shabayek… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
3D data is a valuable asset the computer vision filed as it provides rich information about the
full geometry of sensed objects and scenes. Recently, with the availability of both large 3D …

Point attention network for semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds

M Feng, L Zhang, X Lin, SZ Gilani, A Mian - Pattern Recognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have performed extremely well on data
represented by regularly arranged grids such as images. However, directly leveraging the …

Pulsar: Efficient sphere-based neural rendering

C Lassner, M Zollhofer - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose Pulsar, an efficient sphere-based differentiable rendering module that is orders
of magnitude faster than competing techniques, modular, and easy-to-use due to its tight …