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Recently, great progress has been made in 3D deep learning with the emergence of deep neural networks specifically designed for 3D point clouds. These networks are often trained from scratch or from pre-trained models learned purely from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Bach Tran , Binh-Son Hua , Anh Tuan Tran , Minh Hoai

Existing position based point cloud filtering methods can hardly preserve sharp geometric features. In this paper, we rethink point cloud filtering from a non-learning non-local non-normal perspective, and propose a novel position based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Jinxi Wang , Jincen Jiang , Xuequan Lu , Meili Wang

Point cloud completion seeks to recover geometrically consistent shapes from partial or sparse 3D observations. Although recent methods have achieved reasonable global shape reconstruction, they often rely on Euclidean proximity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jianan Sun , Dongzhihan Wang , Mingyu Fan

The irregular domain and lack of ordering make it challenging to design deep neural networks for point cloud processing. This paper presents a novel framework named Point Cloud Transformer(PCT) for point cloud learning. PCT is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Meng-Hao Guo , Jun-Xiong Cai , Zheng-Ning Liu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Ralph R. Martin , Shi-Min Hu

Semantic understanding of 3D point clouds is important for various robotics applications. Given that point-wise semantic annotation is expensive, in this paper, we address the challenge of learning models with extremely sparse labels. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Liyi Luo , Beiwen Tian , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou

Geometrical structures and the internal local region relationship, such as symmetry, regular array, junction, etc., are essential for understanding a 3D shape. This paper proposes a point cloud feature extraction network named PointSCNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Xingye Chen , Yiqi Wu , Wenjie Xu , Jin Li , Huaiyi Dong , Yilin Chen

Autonomous driving can benefit from motion behavior comprehension when interacting with diverse traffic participants in highly dynamic environments. Recently, there has been a growing interest in estimating class-agnostic motion directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Chenxu Luo , Xiaodong Yang , Alan Yuille

Deep learning systems extensively use convolution operations to process input data. Though convolution is clearly defined for structured data such as 2D images or 3D volumes, this is not true for other data types such as sparse point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Pedro Hermosilla , Tobias Ritschel , Pere-Pau Vázquez , Àlvar Vinacua , Timo Ropinski

The reconstruction of real-world surfaces is on high demand in various applications. Most existing reconstruction approaches apply 3D scanners for creating point clouds which are generally sparse and of low density. These points clouds will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rajat Sharma , Tobias Schwandt , Christian Kunert , Steffen Urban , Wolfgang Broll

Aligning partial views of a scene into a single whole is essential to understanding one's environment and is a key component of numerous robotics tasks such as SLAM and SfM. Recent approaches have proposed end-to-end systems that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Mohamed El Banani , Luya Gao , Justin Johnson

Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) for point clouds have substantially improved 3D scene understanding without human annotations. Existing approaches emphasize semantic awareness by enforcing feature consistency across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Bin Yang , Mohamed Abdelsamad , Miao Zhang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Transformer-based Self-supervised Representation Learning methods learn generic features from unlabeled datasets for providing useful network initialization parameters for downstream tasks. Recently, self-supervised learning based upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jincen Jiang , Xuequan Lu , Lizhi Zhao , Richard Dazeley , Meili Wang

Efficient analysis of point clouds holds paramount significance in real-world 3D applications. Currently, prevailing point-based models adhere to the PointNet++ methodology, which involves embedding and abstracting point features within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jianan Li , Jie Wang , Tingfa Xu

Point cloud learning often rests on the premise that observed samples are noisy traces of an underlying geometric object, such as a manifold embedded in a high-dimensional feature space. Yet much of this geometry is not captured directly by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bruno Trentini , Jacob Hume , Vincenzo Antonio Isoldi , Philipp Misof , Ekaterina S. Ivshina , Kelly Maggs

Volumetric image segmentation with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) encounters several challenges, which are specific to medical images. Among these challenges are large volumes of interest, high class imbalances, and difficulties in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Fabian Balsiger , Yannick Soom , Olivier Scheidegger , Mauricio Reyes

We present a self-supervised task on point clouds, in order to learn meaningful point-wise features that encode local structure around each point. Our self-supervised network, named MortonNet, operates directly on unstructured/unordered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Ali Thabet , Humam Alwassel , Bernard Ghanem

3D object recognition has attracted wide research attention in the field of multimedia and computer vision. With the recent proliferation of deep learning, various deep models with different representations have achieved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Haoxuan You , Yifan Feng , Rongrong Ji , Yue Gao

This paper addresses the task of estimating the 6 degrees of freedom pose of a known 3D object from depth information represented by a point cloud. Deep features learned by convolutional neural networks from color information have been the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Ge Gao , Mikko Lauri , Yulong Wang , Xiaolin Hu , Jianwei Zhang , Simone Frintrop

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

Deep learning within the context of point clouds has gained much research interest in recent years mostly due to the promising results that have been achieved on a number of challenging benchmarks, such as 3D shape recognition and scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Ye Zhu , Sven Ewan Shepstone , Pablo Martínez-Nuevo , Miklas Strøm Kristoffersen , Fabien Moutarde , Zhuang Fu