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Point clouds are unstructured and unordered data, as opposed to images. Thus, most machine learning approach developed for image cannot be directly transferred to point clouds. In this paper, we propose a generalization of discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Alexandre Boulch

Exploiting fine-grained semantic features on point cloud is still challenging due to its irregular and sparse structure in a non-Euclidean space. Among existing studies, PointNet provides an efficient and promising approach to learn shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Although accurate and fast point cloud classification is a fundamental task in 3D applications, it is difficult to achieve this purpose due to the irregularity and disorder of point clouds that make it challenging to achieve effective and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Dening Lu , Qian Xie , Linlin Xu , Jonathan Li

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

Point cloud analysis is attracting attention from Artificial Intelligence research since it can be widely used in applications such as robotics, Augmented Reality, self-driving. However, it is always challenging due to irregularities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

This work proposes a general-purpose, fully-convolutional network architecture for efficiently processing large-scale 3D data. One striking characteristic of our approach is its ability to process unorganized 3D representations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Dario Rethage , Johanna Wald , Jürgen Sturm , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Analyzing the geometric and semantic properties of 3D point clouds through the deep networks is still challenging due to the irregularity and sparsity of samplings of their geometric structures. This paper presents a new method to define…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Artem Komarichev , Zichun Zhong , Jing Hua

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are capable of learning unprecedentedly effective features from images. Some researchers have struggled to enhance the parameters' efficiency using grouped convolution. However, the relation between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Yujia Chen , Ce Li

Remarkable performance from Transformer networks in Natural Language Processing promote the development of these models in dealing with computer vision tasks such as image recognition and segmentation. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Qi Zhong , Xian-Feng Han

Deep neural networks are widely used for understanding 3D point clouds. At each point convolution layer, features are computed from local neighborhoods of 3D points and combined for subsequent processing in order to extract semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiayun Wang , Rudrasis Chakraborty , Stella X. Yu

In recent years, point cloud analysis methods based on the Transformer architecture have made significant progress, particularly in the context of multimedia applications such as 3D modeling, virtual reality, and autonomous systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Qiang Zheng , Chao Zhang , Jian Sun

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the utilization of deep learning methods, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which have emerged as the dominant approach in various domains that involve structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chester Luo , Kevin Lai

Current methodologies in point cloud analysis predominantly explore 3D geometries, often achieved through the introduction of intricate learnable geometric extractors in the encoder or by deepening networks with repeated blocks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Lipeng Gu , Xuefeng Yan , Liangliang Nan , Dingkun Zhu , Honghua Chen , Weiming Wang , Mingqiang Wei

Point cloud representation has recently become a research hotspot in the field of computer vision and has been utilized for autonomous vehicles. However, adapting deep learning networks for point cloud data recognition is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Younggun Kim , Mohamed Abdel-Aty , Beomsik Cho , Seonghoon Ryoo , Soomok Lee

Point clouds have grown in importance in the way computers perceive the world. From LIDAR sensors in autonomous cars and drones to the time of flight and stereo vision systems in our phones, point clouds are everywhere. Despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Vinit Sarode , Animesh Dhagat , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Nicolas Zevallos , Simon Lucey , Howie Choset

Exploiting convolutional neural networks for point cloud processing is quite challenging, due to the inherent irregular distribution and discrete shape representation of point clouds. To address these problems, many handcrafted convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Xing Nie , Yongcheng Liu , Shaohong Chen , Jianlong Chang , Chunlei Huo , Gaofeng Meng , Qi Tian , Weiming Hu , Chunhong Pan

Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) models are the foundation of contemporary point cloud processing. However, their complex network architectures obscure the source of their strength and limit the application of these models. In this article, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yanmei Zou , Hongshan Yu , Yaonan Wang , Zhengeng Yang , Xieyuanli Chen , Kailun Yang , Naveed Akhtar

Point cloud analysis is an area of increasing interest due to the development of 3D sensors that are able to rapidly measure the depth of scenes accurately. Unfortunately, applying deep learning techniques to perform point cloud analysis is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Junming Zhang , Ming-Yuan Yu , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Extending the translation equivariance property of convolutional neural networks to larger symmetry groups has been shown to reduce sample complexity and enable more discriminative feature learning. Further, exploiting additional symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Lisa Weijler , Pedro Hermosilla

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