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3D generative modeling is accelerating as the technology allowing the capture of geometric data is developing. However, the acquired data is often inconsistent, resulting in unregistered meshes or point clouds. Many generative learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Thomas Besnier , Sylvain Arguillère , Emery Pierson , Mohamed Daoudi

The interest in matching non-rigidly deformed shapes represented as raw point clouds is rising due to the proliferation of low-cost 3D sensors. Yet, the task is challenging since point clouds are irregular and there is a lack of intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Huajian Zeng , Maolin Gao , Daniel Cremers

Domain generalization in 3D segmentation is a critical challenge in deploying models to unseen environments. Current methods mitigate the domain shift by augmenting the data distribution of point clouds. However, the model learns global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Pei He , Lingling Li , Licheng Jiao , Ronghua Shang , Fang Liu , Shuang Wang , Xu Liu , Wenping Ma

This paper proposes a novel point-cloud-based place recognition system that adopts a deep learning approach for feature extraction. By using a convolutional neural network pre-trained on color images to extract features from a range image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Ting Sun , Ming Liu , Haoyang Ye , Dit-Yan Yeung

A successful point cloud registration often lies on robust establishment of sparse matches through discriminative 3D local features. Despite the fast evolution of learning-based 3D feature descriptors, little attention has been drawn to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Xuyang Bai , Zixin Luo , Lei Zhou , Hongbo Fu , Long Quan , Chiew-Lan Tai

The analyses relying on 3D point clouds are an utterly complex task, often involving million of points, but also requiring computationally efficient algorithms because of many real-time applications; e.g. autonomous vehicle. However, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Geometry and topology constitute complementary descriptors of three-dimensional shape, yet existing benchmark datasets primarily capture geometric information while neglecting topological structure. This work addresses this limitation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Prachi Kudeshia , Jiju Poovvancheri

This paper aims at bringing some light and understanding to the field of deep learning for dynamic point cloud processing. Specifically, we focus on the hierarchical features learning aspect, with the ultimate goal of understanding which…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Pedro Gomes , Silvia Rossi , Laura Toni

In recent years, point cloud representation has become one of the research hotspots in the field of computer vision, and has been widely used in many fields, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality, robotics, etc. Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Huang Zhang , Changshuo Wang , Shengwei Tian , Baoli Lu , Liping Zhang , Xin Ning , Xiao Bai

Point cloud stands as the most widely adopted format for representing 3D shapes and scenes due to its simplicity and geometric fidelity. However, its inherent unordered and irregular nature, exacerbated by sensor noise and occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhas Kamal , Hiranya Garbha Kumar , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

Existing techniques to compress point cloud attributes leverage either geometric or video-based compression tools. We explore a radically different approach inspired by recent advances in point cloud representation learning. Point clouds…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Maurice Quach , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux

Among 2D convolutional networks on point clouds, point-based approaches consume point clouds of fixed size directly. By analysis of PointNet, a pioneer in introducing deep learning into point sets, we reveal that current point-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Zhenpeng Chen , Yuan li

In this paper, we present a deep learning architecture which addresses the problem of 3D semantic segmentation of unstructured point clouds. Compared to previous work, we introduce grouping techniques which define point neighborhoods in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Francis Engelmann , Theodora Kontogianni , Jonas Schult , Bastian Leibe

Exploiting fine-grained semantic features on point cloud is still challenging due to its irregular and sparse structure in a non-Euclidean space. Among existing studies, PointNet provides an efficient and promising approach to learn shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Point clouds, being the simple and compact representation of surface geometry of 3D objects, have gained increasing popularity with the evolution of deep learning networks for classification and segmentation tasks. Unlike human, teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Sindhu Hegde , Shankar Gangisetty

In this paper, we introduce a reinforcement learning approach utilizing a novel topology-based information gain metric for directing the next best view of a noisy 3D sensor. The metric combines the disjoint sections of an observed surface…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Christopher Collander , William J. Beksi , Manfred Huber

Recent advances in deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have motivated researchers to adapt CNNs to directly model points in 3D point clouds. Modeling local structure has been proven to be important for the success of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Shiyi Lan , Ruichi Yu , Gang Yu , Larry S. Davis

Learning discriminative feature directly on point clouds is still challenging in the understanding of 3D shapes. Recent methods usually partition point clouds into local region sets, and then extract the local region features with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Fangzhou Hong , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

3D point clouds deep learning is a promising field of research that allows a neural network to learn features of point clouds directly, making it a robust tool for solving 3D scene understanding tasks. While recent works show that point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Zhiyuan Zhang , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

Feature descriptors of point clouds are used in several applications, such as registration and part segmentation of 3D point clouds. Learning discriminative representations of local geometric features is unquestionably the most important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Seunghwan Jung , Yeong-Gil Shin , Minyoung Chung