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Both humans and deep learning models can recognize objects from 3D shapes depicted with sparse visual information, such as a set of points randomly sampled from the surfaces of 3D objects (termed a point cloud). Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shuhao Fu , Philip J. Kellman , Hongjing Lu

In this paper, we revisit the classical representation of 3D point clouds as linear shape models. Our key insight is to leverage deep learning to represent a collection of shapes as affine transformations of low-dimensional linear shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Romain Loiseau , Tom Monnier , Mathieu Aubry , Loïc Landrieu

Establishing point-to-point correspondences across multiple 3D shapes is a fundamental problem in computer vision and graphics. In this paper, we introduce DcMatch, a novel unsupervised learning framework for non-rigid multi-shape matching.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Tianwei Ye , Yong Ma , Xiaoguang Mei

In this paper, we propose to exploit the rich hierarchical features of deep convolutional neural networks to improve the accuracy and robustness of visual tracking. Deep neural networks trained on object recognition datasets consist of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Chao Ma , Jia-Bin Huang , Xiaokang Yang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

3D Morphable Model (3DMM) fitting has widely benefited face analysis due to its strong 3D priori. However, previous reconstructed 3D faces suffer from degraded visual verisimilitude due to the loss of fine-grained geometry, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Xiangyu Zhu , Chang Yu , Di Huang , Zhen Lei , Hao Wang , Stan Z. Li

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have massively impacted visual recognition in 2D images, and are now ubiquitous in state-of-the-art approaches. CNNs do not easily extend, however, to data that are not represented by regular grids, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Nitika Verma , Edmond Boyer , Jakob Verbeek

Most attempts to represent 3D shapes for deep learning have focused on volumetric grids, multi-view images and point clouds. In this paper we look at the most popular representation of 3D shapes in computer graphics - a triangular mesh -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Alon Lahav , Ayellet Tal

This study introduces a method for efficiently detecting objects within 3D point clouds using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our approach adopts a unique feature-centric voting mechanism to construct convolutional layers that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Tianyi Lyu , Dian Gu , Peiyuan Chen , Yaoting Jiang , Zhenhong Zhang , Huadong Pang , Li Zhou , Yiping Dong

Recovering 3D face models from 2D in-the-wild images has gained considerable attention in the computer vision community due to its wide range of potential applications. However, the lack of ground-truth labeled datasets and the complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Danling Cao

The matching of 3D shapes has been extensively studied for shapes represented as surface meshes, as well as for shapes represented as point clouds. While point clouds are a common representation of raw real-world 3D data (e.g. from laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dongliang Cao , Florian Bernard

We introduce a novel learning-based method for encoding and manipulating 3D surface meshes. Our method is specifically designed to create an interpretable embedding space for deformable shape collections. Unlike previous 3D mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Sara Hahner , Souhaib Attaiki , Jochen Garcke , Maks Ovsjanikov

Recent advances in large vision-language models (VLMs) have shown significant promise for 3D scene understanding. Existing VLM-based approaches typically align 3D scene features with the VLM's embedding space. However, this implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chen Li , Eric Peh , Basura Fernando

In this paper, a level-wise mixture model (LMM) is developed by embedding visual hierarchy with deep networks to support large-scale visual recognition (i.e., recognizing thousands or even tens of thousands of object classes), and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Tianyi Zhao , Baopeng Zhang , Wei Zhang , Ning Zhou , Jun Yu , Jianping Fan

This paper introduces a deep architecture for segmenting 3D objects into their labeled semantic parts. Our architecture combines image-based Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) and surface-based Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Evangelos Kalogerakis , Melinos Averkiou , Subhransu Maji , Siddhartha Chaudhuri

Multispectral pan-sharpening aims at producing a high resolution (HR) multispectral (MS) image in both spatial and spectral domains by fusing a panchromatic (PAN) image and a corresponding MS image. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Dong Wang , Yunpeng Bai , Ying Li

We investigate the problem of learning to generate 3D parametric surface representations for novel object instances, as seen from one or more views. Previous work on learning shape reconstruction from multiple views uses discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Jiahui Lei , Srinath Sridhar , Paul Guerrero , Minhyuk Sung , Niloy Mitra , Leonidas J. Guibas

The deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) became very popular as a fundamental technique for image classification and objects recognition. To improve the recognition accuracy for the more complex tasks, deeper networks have being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Hideki Oki , Takio Kurita

3D geometry is a very informative cue when interacting with and navigating an environment. This writing proposes a new approach to 3D reconstruction and scene understanding, which implicitly learns 3D geometry from depth maps pairing a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Dario Rethage , Federico Tombari , Felix Achilles , Nassir Navab

The task of lane detection has garnered considerable attention in the field of autonomous driving due to its complexity. Lanes can present difficulties for detection, as they can be narrow, fragmented, and often obscured by heavy traffic.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Jia-Qi Zhang , Hao-Bin Duan , Jun-Long Chen , Ariel Shamir , Miao Wang

Despite the effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification, our understanding of the relationship between shape of convolution kernels and learned representations is limited. In this work, we explore and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani