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Deep learning offers powerful tools for anticipating tipping points in complex systems, yet its potential for detecting flickering (noise-driven switching between coexisting stable states) remains unexplored. Flickering is a hallmark of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Yazdan Babazadeh Maghsoodlo , Madhur Anand , Chris T. Bauch

Deep learning with 3D data has progressed significantly since the introduction of convolutional neural networks that can handle point order ambiguity in point cloud data. While being able to achieve good accuracies in various scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zhiyuan Zhang , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

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 analysis (such as 3D segmentation and detection) is a challenging task, because of not only the irregular geometries of many millions of unordered points, but also the great variations caused by depth, viewpoint, occlusion, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang , Qinghua Zheng

Local density of point clouds is crucial for representing local details, but has been overlooked by existing point cloud compression methods. To address this, we propose a novel deep point cloud compression method that preserves local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yun He , Xinlin Ren , Danhang Tang , Yinda Zhang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Learning on point cloud is eagerly in demand because the point cloud is a common type of geometric data and can aid robots to understand environments robustly. However, the point cloud is sparse, unstructured, and unordered, which cannot be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Kuangen Zhang , Ming Hao , Jing Wang , Clarence W. de Silva , Chenglong Fu

This paper introduces a new method for 3D point cloud registration based on deep learning. The architecture is composed of three distinct blocs: (i) an encoder composed of a convolutional graph-based descriptor that encodes the immediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Karim Slimani , Brahim Tamadazte , Catherine Achard

Image and Point Clouds provide different information for robots. Finding the correspondences between data from different sensors is crucial for various tasks such as localization, mapping, and navigation. Learning-based descriptors have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Peng Jiang , Srikanth Saripalli

The paper presents a simple and effective learning-based method for computing a discriminative 3D point cloud descriptor for place recognition purposes. Recent state-of-the-art methods have relatively complex architectures such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Jacek Komorowski

In this paper, we propose a deep hierarchical attention context model for lossless attribute compression of point clouds, leveraging a multi-resolution spatial structure and residual learning. A simple and effective Level of Detail (LoD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yueru Chen , Wei Zhang , Dingquan Li , Jing Wang , Ge Li

Current data-driven methodologies for point cloud matching demand extensive training time and computational resources, presenting significant challenges for model deployment and application. In the point cloud matching task, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Alessandro Riva , Alessandro Raganato , Simone Melzi

Recent advancements in machine learning, particularly through deep learning architectures like PointNet, have transformed the processing of three-dimensional (3D) point clouds, significantly improving 3D object classification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sanaz Mahmoodi Takaghaj

We train a novel deep learning architecture to perform likelihood-free inference on the value of the cosmological parameters from halo catalogs of the Quijote N-body simulations. Our model takes as input a halo catalog where each halo is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Atrideb Chatterjee , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

We propose a variational functional and fast algorithms to reconstruct implicit surface from point cloud data with a curvature constraint. The minimizing functional balances the distance function from the point cloud and the mean curvature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yuchen He , Sung Ha Kang , Hao Liu

Existing point cloud feature learning networks often incorporate sequences of sampling, neighborhood grouping, neighborhood-wise feature learning, and feature aggregation to learn high-semantic point features that represent the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Kevin Tirta Wijaya , Dong-Hee Paek , Seung-Hyun Kong

The efficient treatment of long-range interactions for point clouds is a challenging problem in many scientific machine learning applications. To extract global information, one usually needs a large window size, a large number of layers,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-13 Yifan Peng , Lin Lin , Lexing Ying , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

Point clouds are gaining prominence as a method for representing 3D shapes, but their irregular structure poses a challenge for deep learning methods. In this paper we propose CloudWalker, a novel method for learning 3D shapes using random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Adi Mesika , Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Ayellet Tal

In order to achieve better performance for point cloud analysis, many researchers apply deeper neural networks using stacked Multi-Layer-Perceptron (MLP) convolutions over irregular point cloud. However, applying dense MLP convolutions over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Due to the sparsity and irregularity of the point cloud data, methods that directly consume points have become popular. Among all point-based models, graph convolutional networks (GCN) lead to notable performance by fully preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Qiangeng Xu , Xudong Sun , Cho-Ying Wu , Panqu Wang , Ulrich Neumann

Point clouds have become increasingly vital across various applications thanks to their ability to realistically depict 3D objects and scenes. Nevertheless, effectively compressing unstructured, high-precision point cloud data remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hongning Ruan , Yulin Shao , Qianqian Yang , Liang Zhao , Dusit Niyato