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Although unsupervised feature learning has demonstrated its advantages to reducing the workload of data labeling and network design in many fields, existing unsupervised 3D learning methods still cannot offer a generic network for various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Peng-Shuai Wang , Yu-Qi Yang , Qian-Fang Zou , Zhirong Wu , Yang Liu , Xin Tong

The core of self-supervised point cloud learning lies in setting up appropriate pretext tasks, to construct a pre-training framework that enables the encoder to perceive 3D objects effectively. In this paper, we integrate two prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yun Liu , Peng Li , Xuefeng Yan , Liangliang Nan , Bing Wang , Honghua Chen , Lina Gong , Wei Zhao , Mingqiang Wei

We propose DeepMapping, a novel registration framework using deep neural networks (DNNs) as auxiliary functions to align multiple point clouds from scratch to a globally consistent frame. We use DNNs to model the highly non-convex mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Li Ding , Chen Feng

We propose a method for generalizing deep learning for 3D point cloud registration on new, totally different datasets. It is based on two components, MS-SVConv and UDGE. Using Multi-Scale Sparse Voxel Convolution, MS-SVConv is a fast deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Sofiane Horache , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette

Point cloud filtering is a fundamental problem in geometry modeling and processing. Despite of significant advancement in recent years, the existing methods still suffer from two issues: 1) they are either designed without preserving sharp…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Dongbo Zhang , Xuequan Lu , Hong Qin , Ying He

Point cloud registration aligns multiple unposed point clouds into a common reference frame and is a core step for 3D reconstruction and robot localization without initial guess. In this work, we cast registration as conditional generation:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Pan , Tao Sun , Liyuan Zhu , Lucas Nunes , Iro Armeni , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

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

In recent years, point cloud representation has become one of the research hotspots in the field of computer vision, and has been widely used in many fields, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality, robotics, etc. Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Huang Zhang , Changshuo Wang , Shengwei Tian , Baoli Lu , Liping Zhang , Xin Ning , Xiao Bai

Cross-source point cloud registration, which aims to align point cloud data from different sensors, is a fundamental task in 3D vision. However, compared to the same-source point cloud registration, cross-source registration faces two core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zongyi Xu , Zhongpeng Lang , Yilong Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Xiaoshui Huang , Yifan Zuo , Yan Zhang , Qianni Zhang , Xinbo Gao

Point cloud registration involves aligning one point cloud with another or with a three-dimensional (3D) model, enabling the integration of multimodal data into a unified representation. This is essential in applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mehdi Maboudi , Said Harb , Jackson Ferrao , Kourosh Khoshelham , Yelda Turkan , Karam Mawas

3D point cloud registration in remote sensing field has been greatly advanced by deep learning based methods, where the rigid transformation is either directly regressed from the two point clouds (correspondences-free approaches) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Zhiyuan Zhang , Jiadai Sun , Yuchao Dai , Dingfu Zhou , Xibin Song , Mingyi He

Learning local descriptors is an important problem in computer vision. While there are many techniques for learning local patch descriptors for 2D images, recently efforts have been made for learning local descriptors for 3D points. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Siddharth Srivastava , Brejesh Lall

3D Point cloud registration is still a very challenging topic due to the difficulty in finding the rigid transformation between two point clouds with partial correspondences, and it's even harder in the absence of any initial estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Zhijian Qiao , Huanshu Wei , Zhe Liu , Chuanzhe Suo , Hesheng Wang

Point cloud data now are popular data representations in a number of three-dimensional (3D) vision research realms. However, due to the limited performance of sensors and sensing noise, the raw data usually suffer from sparsity, noise, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Siwen Quan , Junhao Yu , Ziming Nie , Muze Wang , Sijia Feng , Pei An , Jiaqi Yang

In recent years, implicit functions have drawn attention in the field of 3D reconstruction and have successfully been applied with Deep Learning. However, for incremental reconstruction, implicit function-based registrations have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yijun Yuan , Andreas Nuechter

As a popular geometric representation, point clouds have attracted much attention in 3D vision, leading to many applications in autonomous driving and robotics. One important yet unsolved issue for learning on point cloud is that point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yuefan Shen , Yanchao Yang , Mi Yan , He Wang , Youyi Zheng , Leonidas Guibas

Point cloud registration is a fundamental technique in 3-D computer vision with applications in graphics, autonomous driving, and robotics. However, registration tasks under challenging conditions, under which noise or perturbations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Rui She , Qiyu Kang , Sijie Wang , Wee Peng Tay , Kai Zhao , Yang Song , Tianyu Geng , Yi Xu , Diego Navarro Navarro , Andreas Hartmannsgruber

Current semantic segmentation approaches for point cloud scenes heavily rely on manual labeling, while research on unsupervised semantic segmentation methods specifically for raw point clouds is still in its early stages. Unsupervised point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Lixin Zhan , Jie Jiang , Tianjian Zhou , Yukun Du , Yan Zheng , Xuehu Duan

Cortical surface registration is a fundamental tool for neuroimaging analysis that has been shown to improve the alignment of functional regions relative to volumetric approaches. Classically, image registration is performed by optimizing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mohamed A. Suliman , Logan Z. J. Williams , Abdulah Fawaz , Emma C. Robinson

In recent years, zero-shot learning has attracted the focus of many researchers, due to its flexibility and generality. Many approaches have been proposed to achieve the zero-shot classification of the point clouds for 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Jiayi Han , Zidi Cao , Weibo Zheng , Xiangguo Zhou , Xiangjian He , Yuanfang Zhang , Daisen Wei