IRIS-VIS: A New Dataset for Visibility Estimation in an Industrial Environment

Flavien Armangeon, Thibaud Ehret, Enric Meinhardt-Llopis, Rafael Grompone von Gioi, Guillaume Thibault, Marc Petit, Gabriele Facciolo; Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025, pp. 7235-7243

Point cloud visibility estimation is fundamental as it is useful for many computer vision applications including surface reconstruction 3D segmentation from paired images and point densification. Previous works showed outstanding results on simple object and outdoor datasets. However unlike the previously studied scenes the most challenging environments are those providing a high amount of object points in the same direction typically in complex indoor scenes. In this kind of environments due to the lack of real data ground truth quantitative analysis are either missing or based on simulated data. In this work we present IRIS-VIS (Industrial Room In Saclay - VISibility) a new dataset for point visibility estimation in an indoor environment. It is a high complexity scene due to the large variety in the shape size and orientation of the objects. To our knowledge this is the first dataset on real indoor data providing a dense LiDAR station-based point cloud along with a well-fitted CAD model. The latter is useful to compute automatically quickly and accurately the visibility from any given viewpoint enabling evaluations under infinite conditions. We propose new metrics for the visibility estimation task and evaluate state-of-the-art methods in both sparse and dense conditions with the proposed dataset.