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The scale diversity of point cloud data presents significant challenges in developing unified representation learning techniques for 3D vision. Currently, there are few unified 3D models, and no existing pre-training method is equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ziyi Wang , Yanran Zhang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Although supervised deep normal estimators have recently shown impressive results on synthetic benchmarks, their performance deteriorates significantly in real-world scenarios due to the domain gap between synthetic and real data. Building…

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Contrastive visual pretraining based on the instance discrimination pretext task has made significant progress. Notably, recent work on unsupervised pretraining has shown to surpass the supervised counterpart for finetuning downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Nanxuan Zhao , Zhirong Wu , Rynson W. H. Lau , Stephen Lin

Local and global patterns of an object are closely related. Although each part of an object is incomplete, the underlying attributes about the object are shared among all parts, which makes reasoning the whole object from a single part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Yongming Rao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Unsupervised learning on 3D point clouds has undergone a rapid evolution, especially thanks to data augmentation-based contrastive methods. However, data augmentation is not ideal as it requires a careful selection of the type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Guofeng Mei , Cristiano Saltori , Fabio Poiesi , Jian Zhang , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe , Qiang Wu

Geometry and color information provided by the point clouds are both crucial for 3D scene understanding. Two pieces of information characterize the different aspects of point clouds, but existing methods lack an elaborate design for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Guofan Fan , Zekun Qi , Wenkai Shi , Kaisheng Ma

Unsupervised 3D representation learning reduces the burden of labeling multimodal 3D data for fusion perception tasks. Among different pre-training paradigms, differentiable-rendering-based methods have shown most promise. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Runjian Chen , Hang Zhang , Avinash Ravichandran , Hyoungseob Park , Wenqi Shao , Alex Wong , Ping Luo

Point Transformers are near state-of-the-art models for classification, segmentation, and detection tasks on Point Cloud data. They utilize a self attention based mechanism to model large range spatial dependencies between multiple point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Kartik Gupta , Rahul Vippala , Sahima Srivastava

The 3D point cloud (3DPC) has significantly evolved and benefited from the advance of deep learning (DL). However, the latter faces various issues, including the lack of data or annotated data, the existence of a significant gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shahab Saquib Sohail , Yassine Himeur , Hamza Kheddar , Abbes Amira , Fodil Fadli , Shadi Atalla , Abigail Copiaco , Wathiq Mansoor

3D point cloud semantic and instance segmentation is crucial and fundamental for 3D scene understanding. Due to the complex structure, point sets are distributed off balance and diversely, which appears as both category imbalance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Tong He , Dong Gong , Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen

We propose a novel approach to self-supervised learning of point cloud representations by differentiable neural rendering. Motivated by the fact that informative point cloud features should be able to encode rich geometry and appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Di Huang , Sida Peng , Tong He , Honghui Yang , Xiaowei Zhou , Wanli Ouyang

The recent success of pre-trained 2D vision models is mostly attributable to learning from large-scale datasets. However, compared with 2D image datasets, the current pre-training data of 3D point cloud is limited. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yuan Yao , Yuanhan Zhang , Zhenfei Yin , Jiebo Luo , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaoshui Huang

State-of-the-art 3D models, which excel in recognition tasks, typically depend on large-scale datasets and well-defined category sets. Recent advances in multi-modal pre-training have demonstrated potential in learning 3D representations by…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Ben Fei , Yixuan Li , Weidong Yang , Lipeng Ma , Ying He

Deep learning-based point cloud registration models are often generalized from extensive training over a large volume of data to learn the ability to predict the desired geometric transformation to register 3D point clouds. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Lingjing Wang , Yu Hao , Xiang Li , Yi Fang

The difficulties in both data acquisition and annotation substantially restrict the sample sizes of training datasets for 3D medical imaging applications. As a result, constructing high-performance 3D convolutional neural networks from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Shu Zhang , Zihao Li , Hong-Yu Zhou , Jiechao Ma , Yizhou Yu

Deep learning methods, which have found successful applications in fields like image classification and natural language processing, have recently been applied to source code analysis too, due to the enormous amount of freely available…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Rocìo Cabrera Lozoya , Arnaud Baumann , Antonino Sabetta , Michele Bezzi

Annotating 3D LiDAR point clouds for perception tasks is fundamental for many applications e.g., autonomous driving, yet it still remains notoriously labor-intensive. Pretraining-finetuning approach can alleviate the labeling burden by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xiangchao Yan , Runjian Chen , Bo Zhang , Hancheng Ye , Renqiu Xia , Jiakang Yuan , Hongbin Zhou , Xinyu Cai , Botian Shi , Wenqi Shao , Ping Luo , Yu Qiao , Tao Chen , Junchi Yan

The development of practical applications, such as autonomous driving and robotics, has brought increasing attention to 3D point cloud understanding. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success on image-based tasks, there are many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Haoming Lu , Humphrey Shi

3D point cloud understanding has made great progress in recent years. However, one major bottleneck is the scarcity of annotated real datasets, especially compared to 2D object detection tasks, since a large amount of labor is involved in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yongming Rao , Benlin Liu , Yi Wei , Jiwen Lu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jie Zhou

Deep neural network models have achieved remarkable progress in 3D scene understanding while trained in the closed-set setting and with full labels. However, the major bottleneck is that these models do not have the capacity to recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Kangcheng Liu , Yong-Jin Liu , Baoquan Chen