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Point cloud processing has become a cornerstone technology in many 3D vision tasks. However, arbitrary rotations introduce variations in point cloud orientations, posing a long-standing challenge for effective representation learning. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Chenyu Hu , Xiaotong Li , Hao Zhu , Biao Hou

We introduce Position Adaptive Convolution (PAConv), a generic convolution operation for 3D point cloud processing. The key of PAConv is to construct the convolution kernel by dynamically assembling basic weight matrices stored in Weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Mutian Xu , Runyu Ding , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiaojuan Qi

We propose a precise and efficient normal estimation method that can deal with noise and nonuniform density for unstructured 3D point clouds. Unlike existing approaches that directly take patches and ignore the local neighborhood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Keqiang Li , Mingyang Zhao , Huaiyu Wu , Dong-Ming Yan , Zhen Shen , Fei-Yue Wang , Gang Xiong

Point cloud sequences are irregular and unordered in the spatial dimension while exhibiting regularities and order in the temporal dimension. Therefore, existing grid based convolutions for conventional video processing cannot be directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Hehe Fan , Xin Yu , Yuhang Ding , Yi Yang , Mohan Kankanhalli

We present the first approach for 3D point-cloud to image translation based on conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGAN). The model handles multi-modal information sources from different domains, i.e. raw point-sets and images. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Stefan Milz , Martin Simon , Kai Fischer , Maximillian Pöpperl

Point cloud based retrieval for place recognition is an emerging problem in vision field. The main challenge is how to find an efficient way to encode the local features into a discriminative global descriptor. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Wenxiao Zhang , Chunxia Xiao

Deep neural networks have achieved significant success in 3D point cloud classification while relying on large-scale, annotated point cloud datasets, which are labor-intensive to build. Compared to capturing data with LiDAR sensors and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Huantao Ren , Minmin Yang , Senem Velipasalar

The semantic segmentation of point clouds is an important part of the environment perception for robots. However, it is difficult to directly adopt the traditional 3D convolution kernel to extract features from raw 3D point clouds because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Guangming Wang , Yehui Yang , Huixin Zhang , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Adversary and invisibility are two fundamental but conflict characters of adversarial perturbations. Previous adversarial attacks on 3D point cloud recognition have often been criticized for their noticeable point outliers, since they just…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Qidong Huang , Xiaoyi Dong , Dongdong Chen , Hang Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

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

Successful point cloud registration relies on accurate correspondences established upon powerful descriptors. However, existing neural descriptors either leverage a rotation-variant backbone whose performance declines under large rotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Hao Yu , Ji Hou , Zheng Qin , Mahdi Saleh , Ivan Shugurov , Kai Wang , Benjamin Busam , Slobodan Ilic

Point cloud segmentation is the foundation of 3D environmental perception for modern intelligent systems. To solve this problem and image segmentation, conditional random fields (CRFs) are usually formulated as discrete models in label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Fei Yang , Franck Davoine , Huan Wang , Zhong Jin

Point cloud is point sets defined in 3D metric space. Point cloud has become one of the most significant data format for 3D representation. Its gaining increased popularity as a result of increased availability of acquisition devices, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Saifullahi Aminu Bello , Shangshu Yu , Cheng Wang

How to learn long-range dependencies from 3D point clouds is a challenging problem in 3D point cloud analysis. Addressing this problem, we propose a global attention network for point cloud semantic segmentation, named as GA-Net, consisting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Shuang Deng , Qiulei Dong

Point cloud completion is a generation and estimation issue derived from the partial point clouds, which plays a vital role in the applications in 3D computer vision. The progress of deep learning (DL) has impressively improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Ben Fei , Weidong Yang , Wenming Chen , Zhijun Li , Yikang Li , Tao Ma , Xing Hu , Lipeng Ma

Point clouds provide a compact and efficient representation of 3D shapes. While deep neural networks have achieved impressive results on point cloud learning tasks, they require massive amounts of manually labeled data, which can be costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Han Qiao , Nayun Xu , Vladimir G. Kim

Point cloud processing as a fundamental task in the field of geomatics and computer vision, has been supporting tasks and applications at different scales from air to ground, including mapping, environmental monitoring, urban/tree structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zhenxin Zhang , Zhihua Xu , Yuwei Cao , Ningli Xu , Shuye Wang , Shen'ao Cui , Zhen Li , Rongjun Qin

The paper presents a simple and effective learning-based method for computing a discriminative 3D point cloud descriptor for place recognition purposes. Recent state-of-the-art methods have relatively complex architectures such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Jacek Komorowski

Transformer-based networks have achieved impressive performance in 3D point cloud understanding. However, most of them concentrate on aggregating local features, but neglect to directly model global dependencies, which results in a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Hengjia Li , Tu Zheng , Zhihao Chi , Zheng Yang , Wenxiao Wang , Boxi Wu , Binbin Lin , Deng Cai

We propose a Point-Voxel DeConvolution (PVDeConv) module for 3D data autoencoder. To demonstrate its efficiency we learn to synthesize high-resolution point clouds of 10k points that densely describe the underlying geometry of Computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Kseniya Cherenkova , Djamila Aouada , Gleb Gusev