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This paper presents an end-to-end differentiable algorithm for robust and detail-preserving surface normal estimation on unstructured point-clouds. We utilize graph neural networks to iteratively parameterize an adaptive anisotropic kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Jan Eric Lenssen , Christian Osendorfer , Jonathan Masci

In this work we describe a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to accurately predict the scene illumination. Taking image patches as input, the CNN works in the spatial domain without using hand-crafted features that are employed by most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Simone Bianco , Claudio Cusano , Raimondo Schettini

We present an alternative way of solving the steerable kernel constraint that appears in the design of steerable equivariant convolutional neural networks. We find explicit real and complex bases which are ready to use, for different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alan Garbarz

In certain situations, neural networks are trained upon data that obey underlying symmetries. However, the predictions do not respect the symmetries exactly unless embedded in the network structure. In this work, we introduce architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Anwesh Bhattacharya , Marios Mattheakis , Pavlos Protopapas

Existing convolutional learning methods for 3D point cloud data are divided into two paradigms: point-based methods that preserve geometric precision but often face performance challenges, and voxel-based methods that achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Lihan Li , Haofeng Zhong , Rui Bu , Mingchao Sun , Wenzheng Chen , Baoquan Chen , Yangyan Li

Spherical CNNs generalize CNNs to functions on the sphere, by using spherical convolutions as the main linear operation. The most accurate and efficient way to compute spherical convolutions is in the spectral domain (via the convolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Carlos Esteves , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Ameesh Makadia

In this study, we propose a novel architecture, the Quantum Pointwise Convolution, which incorporates pointwise convolution within a quantum neural network framework. Our approach leverages the strengths of pointwise convolution to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 An Ning , Tai-Yue Li , Nan-Yow Chen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in various vision tasks, e.g. image classification, semantic segmentation, etc. Unfortunately, standard 2D CNNs are not well suited for spherical signals such as panorama images or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Yuqi Liu , Yin Wang , Haikuan Du , Shen Cai

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the method of choice for learning problems involving 2D planar images. However, a number of problems of recent interest have created a demand for models that can analyze spherical images.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Taco S. Cohen , Mario Geiger , Jonas Koehler , Max Welling

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) learn filters in order to capture local correlation patterns in feature space. We propose to learn these filters as combinations of preset spectral filters defined by the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Matej Ulicny , Vladimir A. Krylov , Rozenn Dahyot

Point Cloud Registration (PCR) is a critical and challenging task in computer vision. One of the primary difficulties in PCR is identifying salient and meaningful points that exhibit consistent semantic and geometric properties across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Qianliang Wu , Yaqing Ding , Lei Luo , Haobo Jiang , Shuo Gu , Chuanwei Zhou , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

When solving a segmentation task, shaped-base methods can be beneficial compared to pixelwise classification due to geometric understanding of the target object as shape, preventing the generation of anatomical implausible predictions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ron Keuth , Mattias Heinrich

Over the last decade, the demand for better segmentation and classification algorithms in 3D spaces has significantly grown due to the popularity of new 3D sensor technologies and advancements in the field of robotics. Point-clouds are one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Felipe Gomez Marulanda , Pieter Libin , Timothy Verstraeten , Ann Nowé

Compared to 2D images, 3D point clouds are much more sensitive to rotations. We expect the point features describing certain patterns to keep invariant to the rotation transformation. There are many recent SOTA works dedicated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Liang Xie , Yibo Yang , Wenxiao Wang , Binbin Lin , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Ronghua Liang

Recent advances in deep learning for 3D point clouds have shown great promises in scene understanding tasks thanks to the introduction of convolution operators to consume 3D point clouds directly in a neural network. Point cloud data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zhiyuan Zhang , Binh-Son Hua , Wei Chen , Yibin Tian , Sai-Kit Yeung

3D anomaly detection in point-cloud data is critical for industrial quality control, aiming to identify structural defects with high reliability. However, current memory bank-based methods often suffer from inconsistent feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yuyang Yu , Zhengwei Chen , Xuemiao Xu , Lei Zhang , Haoxin Yang , Yongwei Nie , Shengfeng He

We introduce a new approach for reconstruction and novel view synthesis of unbounded real-world scenes. In contrast to previous methods using either volumetric fields, grid-based models, or discrete point cloud proxies, we propose a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Florian Hahlbohm , Linus Franke , Moritz Kappel , Susana Castillo , Martin Eisemann , Marc Stamminger , Marcus Magnor

Even though convolutional neural networks (CNN) has achieved near-human performance in various computer vision tasks, its ability to tolerate scale variations is limited. The popular practise is making the model bigger first, and then train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Yichong Xu , Tianjun Xiao , Jiaxing Zhang , Kuiyuan Yang , Zheng Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) rely on fixed-size kernels scanning local patches, which limits their ability to capture global context or long-range dependencies without very deep architectures. Vision Transformers (ViTs), in turn,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Gijs Joppe Moens , Regina Beets-Tan , Eduardo H. P. Pooch

Many recent works show that a spatial manipulation module could boost the performances of deep neural networks (DNNs) for 3D point cloud analysis. In this paper, we aim to provide an insight into spatial manipulation modules. Firstly, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Shuang Deng , Bo Liu , Qiulei Dong , Zhanyi Hu