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In recent years, zero-shot learning has attracted the focus of many researchers, due to its flexibility and generality. Many approaches have been proposed to achieve the zero-shot classification of the point clouds for 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Jiayi Han , Zidi Cao , Weibo Zheng , Xiangguo Zhou , Xiangjian He , Yuanfang Zhang , Daisen Wei

Manual annotation of large-scale point cloud dataset for varying tasks such as 3D object classification, segmentation and detection is often laborious owing to the irregular structure of point clouds. Self-supervised learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mohamed Afham , Isuru Dissanayake , Dinithi Dissanayake , Amaya Dharmasiri , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Ranga Rodrigo

In contrast to supervised backpropagation-based feature learning in deep neural networks (DNNs), an unsupervised feedforward feature (UFF) learning scheme for joint classification and segmentation of 3D point clouds is proposed in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Min Zhang , Pranav Kadam , Shan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure. Due to its irregular format, most researchers transform such data to regular 3D voxel grids or collections of images. This, however, renders data unnecessarily voluminous and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Charles R. Qi , Hao Su , Kaichun Mo , Leonidas J. Guibas

Recovering high-quality surfaces from irregular point cloud is ill-posed unless strong geometric priors are available. We introduce an implicit self-prior approach that distills a shape-specific prior directly from the input point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kyle Fogarty , Chenyue Cai , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Cengiz Öztireli

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

In this work, we propose to learn local descriptors for point clouds in a self-supervised manner. In each iteration of the training, the input of the network is merely one unlabeled point cloud. On top of our previous work, that directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yijun Yuan , Jiawei Hou , Andreas Nüchter , Sören Schwertfeger

In real-world scenarios, scanned point clouds are often incomplete due to occlusion issues. The tasks of self-supervised and weakly-supervised point cloud completion involve reconstructing missing regions of these incomplete objects without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Lintai Wu , Xianjing Cheng , Yong Xu , Huanqiang Zeng , Junhui Hou

Deep learning with 3D data such as reconstructed point clouds and CAD models has received great research interests recently. However, the capability of using point clouds with convolutional neural network has been so far not fully explored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Binh-Son Hua , Minh-Khoi Tran , Sai-Kit Yeung

Point cloud filtering is a fundamental problem in geometry modeling and processing. Despite of significant advancement in recent years, the existing methods still suffer from two issues: 1) they are either designed without preserving sharp…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Dongbo Zhang , Xuequan Lu , Hong Qin , Ying He

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

We propose a novel learning-based approach for robust 3D shape matching. Our method builds upon deep functional maps and can be trained in a fully unsupervised manner. Previous deep functional map methods mainly focus on predicting…

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

We show that denoising of 3D point clouds can be learned unsupervised, directly from noisy 3D point cloud data only. This is achieved by extending recent ideas from learning of unsupervised image denoisers to unstructured 3D point clouds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Pedro Hermosilla , Tobias Ritschel , Timo Ropinski

Semantic segmentation of point clouds usually requires exhausting efforts of human annotations, hence it attracts wide attention to the challenging topic of learning from unlabeled or weaker forms of annotations. In this paper, we take the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Zisheng Chen , Hongbin Xu , Weitao Chen , Zhipeng Zhou , Haihong Xiao , Baigui Sun , Xuansong Xie , Wenxiong Kang

Point clouds captured by scanning devices are often incomplete due to occlusion. To overcome this limitation, point cloud completion methods have been developed to predict the complete shape of an object based on its partial input. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lintai Wu , Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yong Xu

We are interested in reconstructing the mesh representation of object surfaces from point clouds. Surface reconstruction is a prerequisite for downstream applications such as rendering, collision avoidance for planning, animation, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Minghua Liu , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Hao Su

Point cloud processing is very challenging, as the diverse shapes formed by irregular points are often indistinguishable. A thorough grasp of the elusive shape requires sufficiently contextual semantic information, yet few works devote to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yongcheng Liu , Bin Fan , Gaofeng Meng , Jiwen Lu , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

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

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

Accurate 3D geometry acquisition is essential for a wide range of applications, such as computer graphics, autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. However, raw point clouds acquired in real-world environments are often…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jinxi Wang , Ben Fei , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Zheng Liu , Ying He , Xuequan Lu