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Main Authors: Wang, Linhao, Zhang, Qichang, Yang, Yifan, Su, Ye, Wang, Hao
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13479
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author Wang, Linhao
Zhang, Qichang
Yang, Yifan
Su, Ye
Wang, Hao
author_facet Wang, Linhao
Zhang, Qichang
Yang, Yifan
Su, Ye
Wang, Hao
contents As 3D point clouds become the prevailing shape representation in computer vision, generating high-quality point clouds remains a challenging problem. Flow-based models have shown strong potential due to exact likelihood estimation and invertible mappings. However, existing flow-based methods for point clouds typically rely on point-wise feature extractors, which limits their ability to model long-range dependencies and global structural relationships among points. Inspired by the wide adoption of Transformers, we explored the complementary roles of self-attention mechanisms, CNN, and flow-based model. To this end, we propose EAGLE, a probabilistic generative model that integrates self-attention mechanisms with adaptive continuous normalizing flows. The self-attention module explicitly models pairwise dependencies among points, enabling effective capture of global contextual information. In addition, we introduce an adaptive bias correction mechanism within flow-based models, which dynamically adjusts to different input contexts and alleviates bias-drift issues. Extensive experiments on ShapeNet and ModelNet datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.
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spellingShingle EAGLE: Contextual Point Cloud Generation via Adaptive Continuous Normalizing Flow with Self-Attention
Wang, Linhao
Zhang, Qichang
Yang, Yifan
Su, Ye
Wang, Hao
Signal Processing
As 3D point clouds become the prevailing shape representation in computer vision, generating high-quality point clouds remains a challenging problem. Flow-based models have shown strong potential due to exact likelihood estimation and invertible mappings. However, existing flow-based methods for point clouds typically rely on point-wise feature extractors, which limits their ability to model long-range dependencies and global structural relationships among points. Inspired by the wide adoption of Transformers, we explored the complementary roles of self-attention mechanisms, CNN, and flow-based model. To this end, we propose EAGLE, a probabilistic generative model that integrates self-attention mechanisms with adaptive continuous normalizing flows. The self-attention module explicitly models pairwise dependencies among points, enabling effective capture of global contextual information. In addition, we introduce an adaptive bias correction mechanism within flow-based models, which dynamically adjusts to different input contexts and alleviates bias-drift issues. Extensive experiments on ShapeNet and ModelNet datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.
title EAGLE: Contextual Point Cloud Generation via Adaptive Continuous Normalizing Flow with Self-Attention
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13479