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Producing traversability maps and understanding the surroundings are crucial prerequisites for autonomous navigation. In this paper, we address the problem of traversability assessment using point clouds. We propose a novel pillar feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yirui Chen , Pengjin Wei , Zhenhuan Liu , Bingchao Wang , Jie Yang , Wei Liu

Point clouds captured in real-world applications are often incomplete due to the limited sensor resolution, single viewpoint, and occlusion. Therefore, recovering the complete point clouds from partial ones becomes an indispensable task in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Xumin Yu , Yongming Rao , Ziyi Wang , Zuyan Liu , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Point cloud completion is an indispensable task for recovering complete point clouds due to incompleteness caused by occlusion, limited sensor resolution, etc. The family of coarse-to-fine generation architectures has recently exhibited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yi Rong , Haoran Zhou , Lixin Yuan , Cheng Mei , Jiahao Wang , Tong Lu

We propose a new framework that formulates point cloud registration as a denoising diffusion process from noisy transformation to object transformation. During training stage, object transformation diffuses from ground-truth transformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yue Wu , Yongzhe Yuan , Xiaolong Fan , Xiaoshui Huang , Maoguo Gong , Qiguang Miao

Designing a point cloud upsampler, which aims to generate a clean and dense point cloud given a sparse point representation, is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. A line of attempts achieves this goal by establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Pingping Cai , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Song Wang

Manual annotation of large-scale point cloud dataset for varying tasks such as 3D object classification, segmentation and detection is often laborious owing to the irregular structure of point clouds. Self-supervised learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mohamed Afham , Isuru Dissanayake , Dinithi Dissanayake , Amaya Dharmasiri , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Ranga Rodrigo

Three-dimensional point clouds can be viewed as discrete samples of smooth manifolds, allowing spectral analysis using the Laplace-Beltrami operator (LBO). However, the traditional point cloud manifold harmonic transform (PMHT) is limited…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Jiamian Li , Bing-Zhao Li

This paper is not motivated to seek innovation within the attention mechanism. Instead, it focuses on overcoming the existing trade-offs between accuracy and efficiency within the context of point cloud processing, leveraging the power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xiaoyang Wu , Li Jiang , Peng-Shuai Wang , Zhijian Liu , Xihui Liu , Yu Qiao , Wanli Ouyang , Tong He , Hengshuang Zhao

Recently the Transformer structure has shown good performances in graph learning tasks. However, these Transformer models directly work on graph nodes and may have difficulties learning high-level information. Inspired by the vision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Han Gao , Xu Han , Jiaoyang Huang , Jian-Xun Wang , Li-Ping Liu

Point clouds can be regarded as discrete samples of smooth manifolds and are typically analyzed via the eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. This paper extends manifold spectral analysis to the fractional domain, enabling…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Jiamian Li , Bing-Zhao Li

Most audio processing pipelines involve transformations that act on fixed-dimensional input representations of audio. For example, when using the Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) the DFT size specifies a fixed dimension for the input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Krishna Subramani , Paris Smaragdis

Surface reconstruction from raw point clouds has been studied for decades in the computer graphics community, which is highly demanded by modeling and rendering applications nowadays. Classic solutions, such as Poisson surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Hui Tian , Zheng Qin , Renjiao Yi , Chenyang Zhu , Kai Xu

In recent years, the challenge of 3D shape analysis within point cloud data has gathered significant attention in computer vision. Addressing the complexities of effective 3D information representation and meaningful feature extraction for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Md Meraz , Md Afzal Ansari , Mohammed Javed , Pavan Chakraborty

Over the last decade, the demand for better segmentation and classification algorithms in 3D spaces has significantly grown due to the popularity of new 3D sensor technologies and advancements in the field of robotics. Point-clouds are one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Felipe Gomez Marulanda , Pieter Libin , Timothy Verstraeten , Ann Nowé

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

Point cloud registration is a key problem for computer vision applied to robotics, medical imaging, and other applications. This problem involves finding a rigid transformation from one point cloud into another so that they align. Iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Yue Wang , Justin M. Solomon

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

LiDAR sensors are an integral part of modern autonomous vehicles as they provide an accurate, high-resolution 3D representation of the vehicle's surroundings. However, it is computationally difficult to make use of the ever-increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Marc Uecker , Tobias Fleck , Marcel Pflugfelder , J. Marius Zöllner

The recent success of neural networks enables a better interpretation of 3D point clouds, but processing a large-scale 3D scene remains a challenging problem. Most current approaches divide a large-scale scene into small regions and combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chunghyun Park , Yoonwoo Jeong , Minsu Cho , Jaesik Park

Point cloud registration involves determining a rigid transformation to align a source point cloud with a target point cloud. This alignment is fundamental in applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and medical imaging, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yu-Xin Zhang , Jie Gui , Baosheng Yu , Xiaofeng Cong , Xin Gong , Wenbing Tao , Dacheng Tao