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This paper presents a novel yet intuitive approach to unsupervised feature learning. Inspired by the human visual system, we explore whether low-level motion-based grouping cues can be used to learn an effective visual representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Deepak Pathak , Ross Girshick , Piotr Dollár , Trevor Darrell , Bharath Hariharan

We propose SegVec3D, a novel framework for 3D point cloud instance segmentation that integrates attention mechanisms, embedding learning, and cross-modal alignment. The approach builds a hierarchical feature extractor to enhance geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhihan Kang , Boyu Wang

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

To alleviate the cost of collecting and annotating large-scale point cloud datasets, we propose an unsupervised learning approach to learn features from unlabeled point cloud "3D object" dataset by using part contrasting and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ling Zhang , Zhigang Zhu

Object classification using LiDAR 3D point cloud data is critical for modern applications such as autonomous driving. However, labeling point cloud data is labor-intensive as it requires human annotators to visualize and inspect the 3D data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Wang , Reza Arablouei , Jiajun Liu , Paulo Borges , Greg Bishop-Hurley , Nicholas Heaney

A robot operating in a real-world environment needs to perform reasoning over a variety of sensor modalities such as vision, language and motion trajectories. However, it is extremely challenging to manually design features relating such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Jaeyong Sung , Ian Lenz , Ashutosh Saxena

The recent success of implicit neural scene representations has presented a viable new method for how we capture and store 3D scenes. Unlike conventional 3D representations, such as point clouds, which explicitly store scene properties in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Amit Kohli , Vincent Sitzmann , Gordon Wetzstein

Learning dense point-wise semantics from unstructured 3D point clouds with fewer labels, although a realistic problem, has been under-explored in literature. While existing weakly supervised methods can effectively learn semantics with only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yan Liu , Qingyong Hu , Yinjie Lei , Kai Xu , Jonathan Li , Yulan Guo

One of the long-standing challenges in lexical semantics consists in learning representations of words which reflect their semantic properties. The remarkable success of word embeddings for this purpose suggests that high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yixiao Wang , Zied Bouraoui , Luis Espinosa Anke , Steven Schockaert

Masked autoencoding has achieved great success for self-supervised learning in the image and language domains. However, mask based pretraining has yet to show benefits for point cloud understanding, likely due to standard backbones like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Haotian Liu , Mu Cai , Yong Jae Lee

The success of supervised learning requires large-scale ground truth labels which are very expensive, time-consuming, or may need special skills to annotate. To address this issue, many self- or un-supervised methods are developed. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Longlong Jing , Yucheng Chen , Ling Zhang , Mingyi He , Yingli Tian

The goal of unsupervised representation learning is to extract a new representation of data, such that solving many different tasks becomes easier. Existing methods typically focus on vectorized data and offer little support for relational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-29 Sebastijan Dumancic , Hendrik Blockeel

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach for acquiring transferable 3D representations from unlabeled 3D point clouds. Unlike 2D images, which are widely accessible, acquiring 3D assets requires specialized expertise or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xuweiyi Chen , Zezhou Cheng

Recent advances in representation learning have demonstrated an ability to represent information from different modalities such as video, text, and audio in a single high-level embedding vector. In this work we present a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Alexander H. Liu , SouYoung Jin , Cheng-I Jeff Lai , Andrew Rouditchenko , Aude Oliva , James Glass

Geospatial analysis lacks methods like the word vector representations and pre-trained networks that significantly boost performance across a wide range of natural language and computer vision tasks. To fill this gap, we introduce Tile2Vec,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Neal Jean , Sherrie Wang , Anshul Samar , George Azzari , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

We propose a unified point cloud video self-supervised learning framework for object-centric and scene-centric data. Previous methods commonly conduct representation learning at the clip or frame level and cannot well capture fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Xiaoxiao Sheng , Zhiqiang Shen , Gang Xiao , Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Hehe Fan

Existing state-of-the-art 3D point clouds understanding methods only perform well in a fully supervised manner. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no unified framework which simultaneously solves the downstream high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Kangcheng Liu

Understanding 3D object shapes necessitates shape representation by object parts abstracted from results of instance and semantic segmentation. Promising shape representations enable computers to interpret a shape with meaningful parts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiaxin Li , Hongxing Wang , Jiawei Tan , Zhilong Ou , Junsong Yuan

Representing complex 3D objects as simple geometric primitives, known as shape abstraction, is important for geometric modeling, structural analysis, and shape synthesis. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised shape abstraction method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Kaizhi Yang , Xuejin Chen

To endow machines with the ability to perceive the real-world in a three dimensional representation as we do as humans is a fundamental and long-standing topic in Artificial Intelligence. Given different types of visual inputs such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bo Yang