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ComPC: Completing a 3D Point Cloud with 2D Diffusion Priors

arXiv 2404.06814 ↗First posted 10 Apr 2024cs.CVcited by 6

On the map: Diffusion models → 3D, point cloud and scene generation

Abstract (arXiv)

3D point clouds directly collected from objects through sensors are often incomplete due to self-occlusion. Conventional methods for completing these partial point clouds rely on manually organized training sets and are usually limited to object categories seen during training. In this work, we propose a test-time framework for completing partial point clouds across unseen categories without any requirement for training. Leveraging point rendering via Gaussian Splatting, we develop techniques of Partial Gaussian Initialization, Zero-shot Fractal Completion, and Point Cloud Extraction that utilize priors from pre-trained 2D diffusion models to infer missing regions and extract uniform completed point clouds. Experimental results on both synthetic and real-world scanned point clouds demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing methods in completing a variety of objects. Our project page is at urlhttps://tianxinhuang.github.io/projects/ComPC/.

Key facts. Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in 3D, point cloud and scene generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 35 of its 47 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 10 Apr 2024.

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35 of 47 references.

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  1. 2023DiffComplete: Diffusion-based Generative 3D Shape Completion28 Jun
  2. 2023Point-Cloud Completion with Pretrained Text-to-image Diffusion Models18 Jun
  3. 2023Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object20 Mar
  4. 2022Score Jacobian Chaining: Lifting Pretrained 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Generation1 Dec
  5. 2022Diffusion-SDF: Conditional Generative Modeling of Signed Distance Functions24 Nov
  6. 2022DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion29 Sep

Other references · 29

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  1. 2018PCN: Point Completion Networkcited by 384
  2. 2021Text2Mesh: Text-Driven Neural Stylization for Meshescited by 334
  3. 2021PoinTr: Diverse Point Cloud Completion with Geometry-Aware Transformerscited by 286
  4. 2022CLIP-Mesh: Generating textured meshes from text using pretrained image-text modelscited by 281
  5. 2020Neural-Pull: Learning Signed Distance Functions from Point Clouds by Learning to Pull Space onto Surfacescited by 147
  6. 2020PF-Net: Point Fractal Network for 3D Point Cloud Completioncited by 146
  7. 2020Cascaded Refinement Network for Point Cloud Completioncited by 112
  8. 2022ShapeFormer: Transformer-based Shape Completion via Sparse Representationcited by 106
  9. 2020PMP-Net: Point Cloud Completion by Learning Multi-step Point Moving Pathscited by 97
  10. 2022SeedFormer: Patch Seeds based Point Cloud Completion with Upsample Transformercited by 83
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  13. 2016A Large Dataset of Object Scanscited by 64
  14. 2022PointAttN: You Only Need Attention for Point Cloud Completioncited by 44
  15. 2023ProxyFormer: Proxy Alignment Assisted Point Cloud Completion with Missing Part Sensitive Transformercited by 43
  16. 2022Snowflake Point Deconvolution for Point Cloud Completion and Generation with Skip-Transformercited by 38
  17. 2023SVDFormer: Complementing Point Cloud via Self-view Augmentation and Self-structure Dual-generatorcited by 34

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  1. 2024Digging into Intrinsic Contextual Information for High-fidelity 3D Point Cloud Completion
  2. 2021A Conditional Point Diffusion-Refinement Paradigm for 3D Point Cloud Completion
  3. 2025GAP: Gaussianize Any Point Clouds with Text Guidance
  4. 2024RealDiff: Real-world 3D Shape Completion using Self-Supervised Diffusion Models
  5. 2024PCDreamer: Point Cloud Completion Through Multi-view Diffusion Priors
  6. 2025SuperPC: A Single Diffusion Model for Point Cloud Completion, Upsampling, Denoising, and Colorization
  7. 2021Diffusion Probabilistic Models for 3D Point Cloud Generation
  8. 2024Diffusion-Occ: 3D Point Cloud Completion via Occupancy Diffusion