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We propose CaSPR, a method to learn object-centric Canonical Spatiotemporal Point Cloud Representations of dynamically moving or evolving objects. Our goal is to enable information aggregation over time and the interrogation of object state…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Davis Rempe , Tolga Birdal , Yongheng Zhao , Zan Gojcic , Srinath Sridhar , Leonidas J. Guibas

Deep learning has demonstrated strong capability in compressing point clouds. Within this area, entropy modeling for lossless compression is widely investigated. However, most methods rely solely on parent/sibling contexts and level-wise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Yuchen Gao , Qi Zhang

Producing traversability maps and understanding the surroundings are crucial prerequisites for autonomous navigation. In this paper, we address the problem of traversability assessment using point clouds. We propose a novel pillar feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yirui Chen , Pengjin Wei , Zhenhuan Liu , Bingchao Wang , Jie Yang , Wei Liu

With the development of 3D sensing technologies, point clouds have attracted increasing attention in a variety of applications for 3D object representation, such as autonomous driving, 3D immersive tele-presence and heritage reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Junkun Qi , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

Point cloud filtering, the main bottleneck of which is removing noise (outliers) while preserving geometric features, is a fundamental problem in 3D field. The two-step schemes involving normal estimation and position update have been shown…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Dening Lu , Xuequan Lu , Yangxing Sun , Jun Wang

We present a simple and general framework for feature learning from point clouds. The key to the success of CNNs is the convolution operator that is capable of leveraging spatially-local correlation in data represented densely in grids…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yangyan Li , Rui Bu , Mingchao Sun , Wei Wu , Xinhan Di , Baoquan Chen

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

Large and rich data is a prerequisite for effective training of deep neural networks. However, the irregularity of point cloud data makes manual annotation time-consuming and laborious. Self-supervised representation learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Xin Cao , Xinxin Han , Yifan Wang , Mengna Yang , Kang Li

We propose a method for the unsupervised reconstruction of a temporally-coherent sequence of surfaces from a sequence of time-evolving point clouds, yielding dense, semantically meaningful correspondences between all keyframes. We represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jan Bednarik , Vladimir G. Kim , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Shaifali Parashar , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua , Noam Aigerman

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 video representation learning is challenging due to complex structures and unordered spatial arrangement. Traditional methods struggle with frame-to-frame correlations and point-wise correspondence tracking. Recently, partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zhuoxu Huang , Zhenkun Fan , Tao Xu , Jungong Han

Point cloud denoising aims to restore clean point clouds from raw observations corrupted by noise and outliers while preserving the fine-grained details. We present a novel deep learning-based denoising model, that incorporates normalizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Aihua Mao , Zihui Du , Yu-Hui Wen , Jun Xuan , Yong-Jin Liu

Point cloud synthesis, i.e. the generation of novel point clouds from an input distribution, remains a challenging task, for which numerous complex machine learning models have been devised. We develop a novel method that encodes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ernst Röell , Bastian Rieck

In this paper, we deal with the problem to predict the future 3D motions of 3D object scans from previous two consecutive frames. Previous methods mostly focus on sparse motion prediction in the form of skeletons. While in this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Shuaihang Yuan , Xiang Li , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

We present an approach to learning features that represent the local geometry around a point in an unstructured point cloud. Such features play a central role in geometric registration, which supports diverse applications in robotics and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Marc Khoury , Qian-Yi Zhou , Vladlen Koltun

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

Point clouds are characterized by irregularity and unstructuredness, which pose challenges in efficient data exploitation and discriminative feature extraction. In this paper, we present an unsupervised deep neural architecture called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yue Qian , Yiming Zeng , Juyong Zhang , Ying He

Identifying changes in a pair of 3D aerial LiDAR point clouds, obtained during two distinct time periods over the same geographic region presents a significant challenge due to the disparities in spatial coverage and the presence of noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Peter Naylor , Diego Di Carlo , Arianna Traviglia , Makoto Yamada , Marco Fiorucci

Point cloud filtering and normal estimation are two fundamental research problems in the 3D field. Existing methods usually perform normal estimation and filtering separately and often show sensitivity to noise and/or inability to preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Xuequan Lu , Gang Li , Antonio Robles-Kelly

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