# Rethinking Data Input for Point Cloud Upsampling

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04476 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.04476/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 19 of its 31 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 5 Jul 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 19 of 19)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Generative Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.00667/) (2022)
- [PointNet++: Deep Hierarchical Feature Learning on Point Sets in a Metric Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.02413/) (2017)
- [ShapeNet: An Information-Rich 3D Model Repository](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03012/) (2015)
- [Dynamic Graph CNN for Learning on Point Clouds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.07829/) (2018)
- [VoxelNet: End-to-End Learning for Point Cloud Based 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.06396/) (2017)
- [ABC: A Big CAD Model Dataset For Geometric Deep Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.06216/) (2018)
- [PU-Net: Point Cloud Upsampling Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.06761/) (2018)
- [PU-GAN: a Point Cloud Upsampling Adversarial Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.10844/) (2019)
- [Patch-based Progressive 3D Point Set Upsampling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.11286/) (2018)
- [PU-GCN: Point Cloud Upsampling using Graph Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.03264/) (2019)
- [Point Cloud Upsampling via Disentangled Refinement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.04779/) (2021)
- [Grad-PU: Arbitrary-Scale Point Cloud Upsampling via Gradient Descent with Learned Distance Functions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.11846/) (2023)
- [Point2CAD: Reverse Engineering CAD Models from 3D Point Clouds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.04962/) (2023)
- [PU-Transformer: Point Cloud Upsampling Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.12242/) (2021)
- [ASFM-Net: Asymmetrical Siamese Feature Matching Network for Point Completion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.09587/) (2021)
- [Indoor Scene Understanding in 2.5/3D for Autonomous Agents: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.03352/) (2018)
- [Self-Supervised Arbitrary-Scale Point Clouds Upsampling via Implicit Neural Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.08196/) (2022)
- [PU-Flow: a Point Cloud Upsampling Network with Normalizing Flows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.05893/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Representation Learning of Point Cloud Upsampling in Global and Local Inputs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.07076/) (2025)
- [Med-PU: Point Cloud Upsampling for High-Fidelity 3D Medical Shape Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.16716/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Point cloud upsampling is crucial for tasks like 3D reconstruction. While existing methods rely on patch-based inputs, and there is no research discussing the differences and principles between point cloud model full input and patch based input. Ergo, we propose a novel approach using whole model inputs i.e. Average Segment input. Our experiments on PU1K and ABC datasets reveal that patch-based inputs consistently outperform whole model inputs. To understand this, we will delve into factors in feature extraction, and network architecture that influence upsampling results.