Hyperbolic Chamfer Distance for Point Cloud Completion

Fangzhou Lin, Yun Yue, Songlin Hou, Xuechu Yu, Yajun Xu +2 more
2/14/2026

Abstract

Chamfer distance (CD) is a standard metric to measure the shape dissimilarity between point clouds in point cloud completion, as well as a loss function for (deep) learning. However, it is well known that CD is vulnerable to outliers, leading to the drift towards suboptimal models. In contrast to the literature where most works address such issues in Euclidean space, we propose an extremely simple yet powerful metric for point cloud completion, namely Hyperbolic Chamfer Distance (HyperCD), that computes CD in hyperbolic space. In backpropagation, HyperCD consistently assigns higher weights to the matched point pairs with smaller Euclidean distances. In this way, good point matches are likely to be preserved while bad matches can be updated gradually, leading to better completion results. We demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on the benchmark datasets, i.e. PCN, ShapeNet-55, and ShapeNet34, and show from visualization that HyperCD can significantly improve the surface smoothness. Code is available at: https://github.com/Zhang-VISLab.

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@article{lin2026hyperbolic,
  title  = {Hyperbolic Chamfer Distance for Point Cloud Completion},
  author = {Fangzhou Lin and Yun Yue and Songlin Hou and Xuechu Yu and Yajun Xu and Kazunori D. Yamada and Ziming Zhang},
  year   = {2026},
  doi    = {10.1109/ICCV51070.2023.01342},
  url    = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV51070.2023.01342},
  journal = {ICCV 2023 2023}
}

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