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As a fundamental yet challenging problem in intelligent transportation systems, point cloud registration attracts vast attention and has been attained with various deep learning-based algorithms. The unsupervised registration algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Dongrui Liu , Chuanchuan Chen , Changqing Xu , Robert Qiu , Lei Chu

Existing approaches for unsupervised point cloud pre-training are constrained to either scene-level or point/voxel-level instance discrimination. Scene-level methods tend to lose local details that are crucial for recognizing the road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Junbo Yin , Dingfu Zhou , Liangjun Zhang , Jin Fang , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Jianbing Shen , Wenguan Wang

An unsupervised shape analysis is proposed to learn concepts reflecting shape commonalities. Our approach is two-fold: i) a spatial topology analysis of point cloud segment constellations within objects is used in which constellations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Christian A. Mueller , Andreas Birk

We study the problem of unsupervised 3D semantic segmentation on raw point clouds without needing human labels in training. Existing methods usually formulate this problem into learning per-point local features followed by a simple grouping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zihui Zhang , Weisheng Dai , Hongtao Wen , Bo Yang

In this work, we propose to learn local descriptors for point clouds in a self-supervised manner. In each iteration of the training, the input of the network is merely one unlabeled point cloud. On top of our previous work, that directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yijun Yuan , Jiawei Hou , Andreas Nüchter , Sören Schwertfeger

Automatic discovery of category-specific 3D keypoints from a collection of objects of some category is a challenging problem. One reason is that not all objects in a category necessarily have the same semantic parts. The level of difficulty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Clara Fernandez-Labrador , Ajad Chhatkuli , Danda Pani Paudel , Jose J. Guerrero , Cédric Demonceaux , Luc Van Gool

The matching of 3D shapes has been extensively studied for shapes represented as surface meshes, as well as for shapes represented as point clouds. While point clouds are a common representation of raw real-world 3D data (e.g. from laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dongliang Cao , Florian Bernard

Object classification using LiDAR 3D point cloud data is critical for modern applications such as autonomous driving. However, labeling point cloud data is labor-intensive as it requires human annotators to visualize and inspect the 3D data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Wang , Reza Arablouei , Jiajun Liu , Paulo Borges , Greg Bishop-Hurley , Nicholas Heaney

Deep learning techniques for point clouds have achieved strong performance on a range of 3D vision tasks. However, it is costly to annotate large-scale point sets, making it critical to learn generalizable representations that can transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Chao Huang , Zhangjie Cao , Yunbo Wang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

The success of supervised learning requires large-scale ground truth labels which are very expensive, time-consuming, or may need special skills to annotate. To address this issue, many self- or un-supervised methods are developed. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Longlong Jing , Yucheng Chen , Ling Zhang , Mingyi He , Yingli Tian

Learning structures of 3D shapes is a fundamental problem in the field of computer graphics and geometry processing. We present a simple yet interpretable unsupervised method for learning a new structural representation in the form of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Nenglun Chen , Lingjie Liu , Zhiming Cui , Runnan Chen , Duygu Ceylan , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

We propose a local-to-global representation learning algorithm for 3D point cloud data, which is appropriate to handle various geometric transformations, especially rotation, without explicit data augmentation with respect to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Seohyun Kim , Jaeyoo Park , Bohyung Han

Progress in self-supervised learning has brought strong general image representation learning methods. Yet so far, it has mostly focused on image-level learning. In turn, tasks such as unsupervised image segmentation have not benefited from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Adrian Ziegler , Yuki M. Asano

Understanding and representing the structure of 3D objects in an unsupervised manner remains a core challenge in computer vision and graphics. Most existing unsupervised keypoint methods are not designed for unconditional generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Rhys Newbury , Juyan Zhang , Tin Tran , Hanna Kurniawati , Dana Kulić

Unsupervised point cloud completion aims at estimating the corresponding complete point cloud of a partial point cloud in an unpaired manner. It is a crucial but challenging problem since there is no paired partial-complete supervision that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yingjie Cai , Kwan-Yee Lin , Chao Zhang , Qiang Wang , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

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

Pre-training on large-scale unlabeled datasets contribute to the model achieving powerful performance on 3D vision tasks, especially when annotations are limited. However, existing rendering-based self-supervised frameworks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Hao Liu , Minglin Chen , Yanni Ma , Haihong Xiao , Ying He

We show that denoising of 3D point clouds can be learned unsupervised, directly from noisy 3D point cloud data only. This is achieved by extending recent ideas from learning of unsupervised image denoisers to unstructured 3D point clouds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Pedro Hermosilla , Tobias Ritschel , Timo Ropinski

Point cloud processing and 3D shape understanding are very challenging tasks for which deep learning techniques have demonstrated great potentials. Still further progresses are essential to allow artificial intelligent agents to interact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Antonio Alliegro , Davide Boscaini , Tatiana Tommasi

Recent studies on visual reinforcement learning (visual RL) have explored the use of 3D visual representations. However, none of these work has systematically compared the efficacy of 3D representations with 2D representations across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zhan Ling , Yunchao Yao , Xuanlin Li , Hao Su