Course 3D Point Cloud and Modeling (“Nuages de Points et Modélisation 3D” – NPM3D)
Registrations are possible for MVA and IASD students. Other students, and auditors are subject to validation (email to jean-emmanuel.deschaud@minesparis.psl.eu).
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The course is taking place at Mines Paris - PSL, 60 bd. Saint Michel, Paris 6th - RER Luxembourg.
Language: Courses taught in French, all documents are provided in English. Practical courses documents are in English, questions can be in French or English
Program
This course provides an overview of the concepts and techniques for acquiring, processing, and visualizing 3D point clouds, and their mathematical and algorithmic foundations.
Courses and Practical Work (TP)
| Session | Date, hour | Room | |||
| 1/ 3D perception, sensors and calibration 2 hours of lessons + 2 hours of practical work (course: FG, TP: SBM) | 08/01/2025, 14h-18h | L108B | |||
| 2/ Registration 2 hours of lessons + 2 hours of practical work (course: FG, TP: US) | 15/01/2025, 14h-18h | L109 | |||
| 3/ Splatting and reconstruction And presentation of projects 2 hours of lessons + 2 hours of practical work (course: JED, TP: JED) | 22/01/2025, 14h-18h | L108B | |||
| 4/ Point cloud rendering 2 hours of lessons – without practical work (course: TB) | 29/01/2025, 14h-16h | L117 | |||
| 5/ Local description of curves and surfaces 2 hours of lessons + 2 hours of practical work (course: FG, TP: ZY) | 05/02/2025, 14h-18h | ? | |||
| End of project allocation | 07/02/2025 | ||||
| 6/ Modeling and segmentation 2 hours of lessons + 2 hours of practical work (course: FG, TP: ?) | 12/02/2025, 14h-18h | ? | |||
| 7/ Deep learning for 3D point clouds 2 hours of lessons + 2 hours of practical work (course: JED, TP: AO) | 19/02/2025, 14h-18h | ? | |||
| Project submission: report and code | 20/03/2025 23H59 AoE |
Validation
Validation is carried out by practical work reports and a project, based on a research article. Each project is organized as follows:
- choice of a research article among proposals,
- implementation and testing of the algorithm(s) described in the article,
- analysis of the algorithm, its results, proposal for variant(s),
- submission of a report explaining the method and the results; and the code produced.
MATERIALS
Cours NuagesPoints3D Presentation 2026
Software and environment for practical work
The practical sessions are carried out by the students on their personal portable computer, which must have Python and CloudCompare software installed.
Information
TEACHING TEAM
- Teachers: François Goulette (FG), Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud (JED), and Tamy Boubekeur (TB).
- Teaching Assistants: Souheib Ben Mabrouk (SBM), Ugo Insalaco (US), Zhi Yan (ZY), Alexandre Olech (AO)
- Contact: jean-emmanuel.deschaud@minesparis.psl.eu
- Course period: January to March.
Course location: Mines Paris - PSL, 60 bd. Saint Michel, 75006 Paris, RER Luxembourg.
REGISTRATIONs
The course is given as part of the following training courses:
- Master 2 Modélisation / Vision / Apprentissage (MVA) – ENS Paris-Saclay
- Master 2 Intelligence Artificielle, Systèmes et Données (IASD) – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)
To participate as an external participant, contact us before the start of the course.
REfErences
- Images de profondeur, dir. J. Gallice, 2001, Hermès Science.
- Modélisation 3D automatique, F. Goulette, 1998, Presses de l’Ecole des Mines.
- Traitement de nuages de points denses et modélisation 3D d’environnements par système mobile LiDAR / Caméra, 2010, thèse de doctorat Mines - PSL.
- Point-based graphics, M. Gross and H. Pfister editors, 2007, Morgan Kaufmann.
- Computer Graphics: Principle and Practice
- Physically-based Rendering
- Polygon Mesh Processing
- OpenGL Programming Guide