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Deep neural networks have enjoyed remarkable success for various vision tasks, however it remains challenging to apply CNNs to domains lacking a regular underlying structures such as 3D point clouds. Towards this we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Yifan Xu , Tianqi Fan , Mingye Xu , Long Zeng , Yu Qiao

We present a novel spatial hashing based data structure to facilitate 3D shape analysis using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our method well utilizes the sparse occupancy of 3D shape boundary and builds hierarchical hash tables for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Tianjia Shao , Yin Yang , Yanlin Weng , Qiming Hou , Kun Zhou

We present a novel algorithm for point cloud segmentation. Our approach transforms unstructured point clouds into regular voxel grids, and further uses a kernel-based interpolated variational autoencoder (VAE) architecture to encode the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Hsien-Yu Meng , Lin Gao , YuKun Lai , Dinesh Manocha

Surface meshes are widely used shape representations and capture finer geometry data than point clouds or volumetric grids, but are challenging to apply CNNs directly due to their non-Euclidean structure. We use parallel frames on surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Yuqi Yang , Shilin Liu , Hao Pan , Yang Liu , Xin Tong

We present Spline-based Convolutional Neural Networks (SplineCNNs), a variant of deep neural networks for irregular structured and geometric input, e.g., graphs or meshes. Our main contribution is a novel convolution operator based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Matthias Fey , Jan Eric Lenssen , Frank Weichert , Heinrich Müller

Point cloud is a principal data structure adopted for 3D geometric information encoding. Unlike other conventional visual data, such as images and videos, these irregular points describe the complex shape features of 3D objects, which makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Chaoyi Zhang , Yang Song , Lina Yao , Weidong Cai

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance in the task of semantically segmenting images. Applying the same methods on 3D data still poses challenges due to the heavy memory requirements and the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Radu Alexandru Rosu , Peer Schütt , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

In this paper, we propose a graph neural network to detect objects from a LiDAR point cloud. Towards this end, we encode the point cloud efficiently in a fixed radius near-neighbors graph. We design a graph neural network, named Point-GNN,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Weijing Shi , Ragunathan , Rajkumar

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

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

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance in the task of semantically segmenting images. However, applying the same methods on 3D data still poses challenges due to the heavy memory requirements and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Radu Alexandru Rosu , Peer Schütt , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

A symmetry on rigid motion is one of the salient factors in efficient learning of 3D point cloud problems. Group convolution has been a representative method to extract equivariant features, but its realizations have struggled to retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jaein Kim , Hee Bin Yoo , Dong-Sig Han , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Joint image filters are used to transfer structural details from a guidance picture used as a prior to a target image, in tasks such as enhancing spatial resolution and suppressing noise. Previous methods based on convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Beomjun Kim , Jean Ponce , Bumsub Ham

The convolution operator at the core of many modern neural architectures can effectively be seen as performing a dot product between an input matrix and a filter. While this is readily applicable to data such as images, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Luca Cosmo , Giorgia Minello , Alessandro Bicciato , Michael Bronstein , Emanuele Rodolà , Luca Rossi , Andrea Torsello

The convolutional neural network (CNN) is one of the most commonly used architectures for computer vision tasks. The key building block of a CNN is the convolutional kernel that aggregates information from the pixel neighborhood and shares…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Tianyu Ma , Alan Q. Wang , Adrian V. Dalca , Mert R. Sabuncu

The availability of graph data with node attributes that can be either discrete or real-valued is constantly increasing. While existing kernel methods are effective techniques for dealing with graphs having discrete node labels, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Giovanni Da San Martino , Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti

The analyses relying on 3D point clouds are an utterly complex task, often involving million of points, but also requiring computationally efficient algorithms because of many real-time applications; e.g. autonomous vehicle. However, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Graph kernels are widely used for measuring the similarity between graphs. Many existing graph kernels, which focus on local patterns within graphs rather than their global properties, suffer from significant structure information loss when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Lingfei Wu , Ian En-Hsu Yen , Zhen Zhang , Kun Xu , Liang Zhao , Xi Peng , Yinglong Xia , Charu Aggarwal

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

3D point cloud interpretation is a challenging task due to the randomness and sparsity of the component points. Many of the recently proposed methods like PointNet and PointCNN have been focusing on learning shape descriptions from point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Zhaoyu Su , Pin Siang Tan , Junkang Chow , Jimmy Wu , Yehur Cheong , Yu-Hsing Wang