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Though a number of point cloud learning methods have been proposed to handle unordered points, most of them are supervised and require labels for training. By contrast, unsupervised learning of point cloud data has received much less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Jincen Jiang , Xuequan Lu , Wanli Ouyang , Meili Wang

Statistical shape modeling is the computational process of discovering significant shape parameters from segmented anatomies captured by medical images (such as MRI and CT scans), which can fully describe subject-specific anatomy in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Krithika Iyer , Shireen Elhabian

Point cloud completion aims to recover the complete shape based on a partial observation. Existing methods require either complete point clouds or multiple partial observations of the same object for learning. In contrast to previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Ruikai Cui , Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Jiawei Liu , Chaoyue Xing , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

Skeletonization is a popular shape analysis technique that models an object's interior as opposed to just its boundary. Fitting template-based skeletal models is a time-consuming process requiring much manual parameter tuning. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Nicolás Gaggion , Enzo Ferrante , Beatriz Paniagua , Jared Vicory

Point cloud analysis has drawn broader attentions due to its increasing demands in various fields. Despite the impressive performance has been achieved on several databases, researchers neglect the fact that the orientation of those point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Xiao Sun , Zhouhui Lian , Jianguo Xiao

We introduce Coverage Axis++, a novel and efficient approach to 3D shape skeletonization. The current state-of-the-art approaches for this task often rely on the watertightness of the input or suffer from substantial computational costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Zimeng Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Rui Xu , Cheng Lin , Yuan Liu , Xiaoxiao Long , Shiqing Xin , Taku Komura , Xiaoming Yuan , Wenping Wang

Among 2D convolutional networks on point clouds, point-based approaches consume point clouds of fixed size directly. By analysis of PointNet, a pioneer in introducing deep learning into point sets, we reveal that current point-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Zhenpeng Chen , Yuan li

Fully exploring correlation among points in point clouds is essential for their feature modeling. This paper presents a novel end-to-end graph model, named Point2Node, to represent a given point cloud. Point2Node can dynamically explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Wenkai Han , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang , Xin Li , Qing Li

The irregularity and permutation invariance of point cloud data pose challenges for effective learning. Conventional methods for addressing this issue involve converting raw point clouds to intermediate representations such as 3D voxel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Athrva Atul Pandhare

Quad meshes are essential in geometric modeling and computational mechanics. Although learning-based methods for triangle mesh demonstrate considerable advancements, quad mesh generation remains less explored due to the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zezeng Li , Zhihui Qi , Weimin Wang , Ziliang Wang , Junyi Duan , Na Lei

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

In this paper, we propose Neural Points, a novel point cloud representation and apply it to the arbitrary-factored upsampling task. Different from traditional point cloud representation where each point only represents a position or a local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wanquan Feng , Jin Li , Hongrui Cai , Xiaonan Luo , Juyong Zhang

Shape-Text matching is an important task of high-level shape understanding. Current methods mainly represent a 3D shape as multiple 2D rendered views, which obviously can not be understood well due to the structural ambiguity caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Chuan Tang , Xi Yang , Bojian Wu , Zhizhong Han , Yi Chang

Recovering CAD models from point clouds requires reconstructing their topology and sketch-based extrusion primitives. A dominant paradigm for representing sketches involves implicit neural representations such as Signed Distance Fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinzhu Ma , Cheng Wang , Chen Tang , Bin Wang , Shixiang Tang , Yuan Meng , Yunhong Wang , Di Huang

Self-supervised pre-training paradigms have been extensively explored in the field of skeleton-based action recognition. In particular, methods based on masked prediction have pushed the performance of pre-training to a new height. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Ruizhuo Xu , Linzhi Huang , Mei Wang , Jiani Hu , Weihong Deng

Learning to generate 3D point clouds without 3D supervision is an important but challenging problem. Current solutions leverage various differentiable renderers to project the generated 3D point clouds onto a 2D image plane, and train deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Chen Chao , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

With the rapid advancement of technology, 3D data acquisition and utilization have become increasingly prevalent across various fields, including computer vision, robotics, and geospatial analysis. 3D data, captured through methods such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Siming Yan

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

Since the PointNet was proposed, deep learning on point cloud has been the concentration of intense 3D research. However, existing point-based methods usually are not adequate to extract the local features and the spatial pattern of a point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Weikun Wu , Yan Zhang , David Wang , Yunqi Lei

We present a technique for visualizing point clouds using a neural network. Our technique allows for an instant preview of any point cloud, and bypasses the notoriously difficult surface reconstruction problem or the need to estimate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Gal Metzer , Rana Hanocka , Raja Giryes , Niloy J. Mitra , Daniel Cohen-Or