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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

Deep learning approaches have made tremendous progress in the field of semantic segmentation over the past few years. However, most current approaches operate in the 2D image space. Direct semantic segmentation of unstructured 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Francis Engelmann , Theodora Kontogianni , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

Transfer learning is a machine learning technique that uses previously acquired knowledge from a source domain to enhance learning in a target domain by reusing learned weights. This technique is ubiquitous because of its great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nermeen Abou Baker , Nico Zengeler , Uwe Handmann

Point clouds, as a primary representation of 3D data, can be categorized into scene domain point clouds and object domain point clouds. Point cloud self-supervised learning (SSL) has become a mainstream paradigm for learning 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yaohua Zha , Tao Dai , Hang Guo , Yanzi Wang , Bin Chen , Ke Chen , Shu-Tao Xia

Deep neural networks have established themselves as the state-of-the-art methodology in almost all computer vision tasks to date. But their application to processing data lying on non-Euclidean domains is still a very active area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Suresh Manandhar

With the emergence of large-scale pre-trained neural networks, methods to adapt such "foundation" models to data-limited downstream tasks have become a necessity. Fine-tuning, preference optimization, and transfer learning have all been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Javan Tahir , Surya Ganguli , Grant M. Rotskoff

Self-supervised methods have been proven effective for learning deep representations of 3D point cloud data. Although recent methods in this domain often rely on random masking of inputs, the results of this approach can be improved. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Michał Szachniewicz , Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba

With the rise of large-scale models trained on broad data, in-context learning has become a new learning paradigm that has demonstrated significant potential in natural language processing and computer vision tasks. Meanwhile, in-context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Zhongbin Fang , Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Joachim M. Buhmann , Chen Change Loy , Mengyuan Liu

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

We propose a new supervized learning framework for oversegmenting 3D point clouds into superpoints. We cast this problem as learning deep embeddings of the local geometry and radiometry of 3D points, such that the border of objects presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Loic Landrieu , Mohamed Boussaha

Point clouds have attracted increasing attention. Significant progress has been made in methods for point cloud analysis, which often requires costly human annotation as supervision. To address this issue, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Bi'an Du , Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Xin Li

The success of deep learning methods led to significant breakthroughs in 3-D point cloud processing tasks with applications in remote sensing. Existing methods utilize convolutions that have some limitations, as they assume a uniform input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Dimple A Shajahan , Mukund Varma T , Ramanathan Muthuganapathy

Diffusion-based models, widely used in text-to-image generation, have proven effective in 2D representation learning. Recently, this framework has been extended to 3D self-supervised learning by constructing a conditional point generator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yiyang Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Lunhao Duan , Changxing Ding , Dacheng Tao

As the development of 3D sensors, registration of 3D data (e.g. point cloud) coming from different kind of sensor is dispensable and shows great demanding. However, point cloud registration between different sensors is challenging because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Xiaoshui Huang

Deep clustering against self-supervised learning is a very important and promising direction for unsupervised visual representation learning since it requires little domain knowledge to design pretext tasks. However, the key component,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Weijie Chen , Shiliang Pu , Di Xie , Shicai Yang , Yilu Guo , Luojun Lin

The ability to transfer knowledge from prior experiences to novel tasks stands as a pivotal capability of intelligent agents, including both humans and computational models. This principle forms the basis of transfer learning, where large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Sudarshan Babu

The application of deep learning to 3D point clouds is challenging due to its lack of order. Inspired by the point embeddings of PointNet and the edge embeddings of DGCNNs, we propose three improvements to the task of point cloud analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Suresh Manandhar

Fully-supervised category-level pose estimation aims to determine the 6-DoF poses of unseen instances from known categories, requiring expensive mannual labeling costs. Recently, various self-supervised category-level pose estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jingtao Sun , Yaonan Wang , Mingtao Feng , Chao Ding , Mike Zheng Shou , Ajmal Saeed Mian

Contrastive learning has recently demonstrated great potential for unsupervised pre-training in 3D scene understanding tasks. However, most existing work randomly selects point features as anchors while building contrast, leading to a clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Kangcheng Liu , Xinhu Zheng , Chaoqun Wang , Kai Tang , Ming Liu , Baoquan Chen

Although recent point cloud analysis achieves impressive progress, the paradigm of representation learning from a single modality gradually meets its bottleneck. In this work, we take a step towards more discriminative 3D point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xu Yan , Heshen Zhan , Chaoda Zheng , Jiantao Gao , Ruimao Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li