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Representing shapes as level sets of neural networks has been recently proved to be useful for different shape analysis and reconstruction tasks. So far, such representations were computed using either: (i) pre-computed implicit shape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Amos Gropp , Lior Yariv , Niv Haim , Matan Atzmon , Yaron Lipman

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

This paper addresses the problem of generating dense point clouds from given sparse point clouds to model the underlying geometric structures of objects/scenes. To tackle this challenging issue, we propose a novel end-to-end learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yue Qian , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Ying He

Semantic shape completion is a challenging problem in 3D computer vision where the task is to generate a complete 3D shape using a partial 3D shape as input. We propose a learning-based approach to complete incomplete 3D shapes through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Swaminathan Gurumurthy , Shubham Agrawal

Reconstructing a continuous surface from an unoritented 3D point cloud is a fundamental task in 3D shape processing. In recent years, several methods have been proposed to address this problem using implicit neural representations (INRs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ryutaro Yamauchi , Jinya Sakurai , Ryo Furukawa , Tatsushi Matsubayashi

We present a powerful method to extract per-point semantic class labels from aerialphotogrammetry data. Labeling this kind of data is important for tasks such as environmental modelling, object classification and scene understanding. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Carlos Becker , Nicolai Häni , Elena Rosinskaya , Emmanuel d'Angelo , Christoph Strecha

In this paper, we focus on Novel Class Discovery for Point Cloud Segmentation (3D-NCD), aiming to learn a model that can segment unlabeled (novel) 3D classes using only the supervision from labeled (base) 3D classes. The key to this task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yang Li , Aming Wu , Zihao Zhang , Yahong Han

Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud analysis has become one of the attractive subjects in realistic imaging and machine visions due to its simplicity, flexibility and powerful capacity of visualization. Actually, the representation of scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Omar Elharrouss , Kawther Hassine , Ayman Zayyan , Zakariyae Chatri , Noor almaadeed , Somaya Al-Maadeed , Khalid Abualsaud

Recently Transformer-based models have advanced point cloud understanding by leveraging self-attention mechanisms, however, these methods often overlook latent information in less prominent regions, leading to increased sensitivity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Yi Wang , Jiaze Wang , Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Donghao Zhou , Guangyong Chen , Anfeng Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Neural networks for point clouds, which respect their natural invariance to permutation and rigid motion, have enjoyed recent success in modeling geometric phenomena, from molecular dynamics to recommender systems. Yet, to date, no model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Snir Hordan , Tal Amir , Steven J. Gortler , Nadav Dym

Recent investigations on rotation invariance for 3D point clouds have been devoted to devising rotation-invariant feature descriptors or learning canonical spaces where objects are semantically aligned. Examinations of learning frameworks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Jianhui Yu , Chaoyi Zhang , Weidong Cai

Recent techniques have been successful in reconstructing surfaces as level sets of learned functions (such as signed distance fields) parameterized by deep neural networks. Many of these methods, however, learn only closed surfaces and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 David Palmer , Dmitriy Smirnov , Stephanie Wang , Albert Chern , Justin Solomon

We propose a unified point cloud video self-supervised learning framework for object-centric and scene-centric data. Previous methods commonly conduct representation learning at the clip or frame level and cannot well capture fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Xiaoxiao Sheng , Zhiqiang Shen , Gang Xiao , Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Hehe Fan

We present a novel attention-based mechanism to learn enhanced point features for point cloud processing tasks, e.g., classification and segmentation. Unlike prior works, which were trained to optimize the weights of a pre-selected set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Liqiang Lin , Pengdi Huang , Chi-Wing Fu , Kai Xu , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

This paper provides a novel framework that learns canonical embeddings for non-rigid shape matching. In contrast to prior work in this direction, our framework is trained end-to-end and thus avoids instabilities and constraints associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Abhishek Sharma , Maks Ovsjanikov

Transformer-based models have significantly advanced natural language processing and computer vision in recent years. However, due to the irregular and disordered structure of point cloud data, transformer-based models for 3D deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Xincheng Yang , Mingze Jin , Weiji He , Qian Chen

Point clouds provide a flexible and natural representation usable in countless applications such as robotics or self-driving cars. Recently, deep neural networks operating on raw point cloud data have shown promising results on supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Jonathan Sauder , Bjarne Sievers

Reinforcement Learning (RL) from raw visual input has achieved impressive successes in recent years, yet it remains fragile to out-of-distribution variations such as changes in lighting, color, and viewpoint. Point Cloud Reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Michael Bezick , Vittorio Giammarino , Ahmed H. Qureshi

Point cloud analysis is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision. Most previous works have conducted experiments on synthetic datasets with well-aligned data; while real-world point clouds are often not pre-aligned. How to achieve rotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Chen Zhao , Jiaqi Yang , Xin Xiong , Angfan Zhu , Zhiguo Cao , Xin Li

Many generative tasks in chemistry and science involve distributions invariant to group symmetries (e.g., permutation and rotation). A common strategy enforces invariance and equivariance through architectural constraints such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Cai Zhou , Zijie Chen , Zian Li , Jike Wang , Kaiyi Jiang , Pan Li , Rose Yu , Muhan Zhang , Stephen Bates , Tommi Jaakkola