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Point clouds are a basic data type that is increasingly of interest as 3D content becomes more ubiquitous. Applications using point clouds include virtual, augmented, and mixed reality and autonomous driving. We propose a more efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Ryan Killea , Yun Li , Saeed Bastani , Paul McLachlan

In this paper, we propose a point cloud classification method based on graph neural network and manifold learning. Different from the conventional point cloud analysis methods, this paper uses manifold learning algorithms to embed point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Dinghao Yang , Wei Gao

Canonicalization is a widely used strategy in equivariant machine learning, enforcing symmetry in neural networks by mapping each input to a standard form. Yet, it often introduces discontinuities that can affect stability during training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ya-Wei Eileen Lin , Ron Levie

In this paper, we focus on recognizing 3D shapes from arbitrary views, i.e., arbitrary numbers and positions of viewpoints. It is a challenging and realistic setting for view-based 3D shape recognition. We propose a canonical view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xin Wei , Yifei Gong , Fudong Wang , Xing Sun , Jian Sun

We present a novel approach to learning a point-wise, meaningful embedding for point-clouds in an unsupervised manner, through the use of neural-networks. The domain of point-cloud processing via neural-networks is rapidly evolving, with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Matan Shoef , Sharon Fogel , Daniel Cohen-Or

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

As the basic task of point cloud analysis, classification is fundamental but always challenging. To address some unsolved problems of existing methods, we propose a network that captures geometric features of point clouds for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

Point clouds are unstructured and unordered data, as opposed to images. Thus, most machine learning approach developed for image cannot be directly transferred to point clouds. In this paper, we propose a generalization of discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Alexandre Boulch

In this paper, we propose Neural Points, a novel point cloud representation and apply it to the arbitrary-factored upsampling task. Different from traditional point cloud representation where each point only represents a position or a local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wanquan Feng , Jin Li , Hongrui Cai , Xiaonan Luo , Juyong Zhang

We introduce a simple permutation equivariant layer for deep learning with set structure.This type of layer, obtained by parameter-sharing, has a simple implementation and linear-time complexity in the size of each set. We use deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-27 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

Though a number of point cloud learning methods have been proposed to handle unordered points, most of them are supervised and require labels for training. By contrast, unsupervised learning of point cloud data has received much less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Jincen Jiang , Xuequan Lu , Wanli Ouyang , Meili Wang

Analyzing the geometric and semantic properties of 3D point clouds through the deep networks is still challenging due to the irregularity and sparsity of samplings of their geometric structures. This paper presents a new method to define…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Artem Komarichev , Zichun Zhong , Jing Hua

Point cloud processing poses two fundamental challenges: establishing consistent point ordering and effectively learning fine-grained geometric features. Current architectures rely on complex operations that limit expressivity while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Benjy Friedmann , Michael Werman

Existing networks directly learn feature representations on 3D point clouds for shape analysis. We argue that 3D point clouds are highly redundant and hold irregular (permutation-invariant) structure, which makes it difficult to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sameera Ramasinghe , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes , Stephen Gould

Deep learning is increasingly being used to perform machine vision tasks such as classification, object detection, and segmentation on 3D point cloud data. However, deep learning inference is computationally expensive. The limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Mateen Ulhaq , Ivan V. Bajić

Point clouds provide a flexible geometric representation suitable for countless applications in computer graphics; they also comprise the raw output of most 3D data acquisition devices. While hand-designed features on point clouds have long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yue Wang , Yongbin Sun , Ziwei Liu , Sanjay E. Sarma , Michael M. Bronstein , Justin M. Solomon

We explore a new idea for learning based shape reconstruction from a point cloud, based on the recently popularized implicit neural shape representations. We cast the problem as a few-shot learning of implicit neural signed distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Amine Ouasfi , Adnane Boukhayma

Learning 3D representations that generalize well to arbitrarily oriented inputs is a challenge of practical importance in applications varying from computer vision to physics and chemistry. We propose a novel multi-resolution convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 James Fox , Bo Zhao , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Rampi Ramprasad , Le Song

We introduce Point-LN, a novel lightweight framework engineered for efficient 3D point cloud classification. Point-LN integrates essential non-parametric components-such as Farthest Point Sampling (FPS), k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN), and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Marzieh Mohammadi , Amir Salarpour , Pedram MohajerAnsari

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