IPCD: Intrinsic Point-Cloud Decomposition

Shogo Sato, Takuhiro Kaneko, Shoichiro Takeda, Tomoyasu Shimada, Kazuhiko Murasaki, Taiga Yoshida, Ryuichi Tanida, Akisato Kimura; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026, pp. 7094-7103

Point clouds are widely used in various fields, including augmented reality (AR) and robotics, where relighting and texture editing are crucial for realistic visualization. Achieving these tasks requires accurately separating albedo from shade. However, performing this separation on point clouds presents two key challenges: (1) the non-grid structure of point clouds makes conventional image-based decomposition models ineffective, and (2) point-cloud models designed for other tasks do not explicitly consider global-light direction, resulting in inaccurate shade. In this paper, we introduce Intrinsic Point-Cloud Decomposition (IPCD), which extends image decomposition to the direct decomposition of colored point clouds into albedo and shade. To overcome challenge (1), we propose IPCD-Net that extends image-based model with point-wise feature aggregation for non-grid data processing. For challenge (2), we introduce Projection-based Luminance Distribution (PLD) with a hierarchical feature refinement, capturing global-light ques via multi-view projection. For comprehensive evaluation, we create a synthetic outdoor-scene dataset. Experimental results demonstrate that IPCD-Net reduces cast shadows in albedo and enhances color accuracy in shade. Furthermore, we showcase its applications in texture editing, relighting, and point-cloud registration under varying illumination. Finally, we verify the real-world applicability of IPCD-Net.