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Point cloud is an important type of 3D representation. However, directly applying convolutions on point clouds is challenging due to the sparse, irregular and unordered data structure. In this paper, we propose a novel Interpolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Jiageng Mao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

A fundamental challenge in text-to-3D face generation is achieving high-quality geometry. The core difficulty lies in the arbitrary and intricate distribution of vertices in 3D space, making it challenging for existing models to establish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Junyi Zhang , Yiming Wang , Yunhong Lu , Qichao Wang , Wenzhe Qian , Xiaoyin Xu , David Gu , Min Zhang

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the utilization of deep learning methods, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which have emerged as the dominant approach in various domains that involve structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chester Luo , Kevin Lai

Both humans and deep learning models can recognize objects from 3D shapes depicted with sparse visual information, such as a set of points randomly sampled from the surfaces of 3D objects (termed a point cloud). Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shuhao Fu , Philip J. Kellman , Hongjing Lu

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

Point cloud analysis is an area of increasing interest due to the development of 3D sensors that are able to rapidly measure the depth of scenes accurately. Unfortunately, applying deep learning techniques to perform point cloud analysis is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Junming Zhang , Ming-Yuan Yu , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Scene understanding has been of high interest in computer vision. It encompasses not only identifying objects in a scene, but also their relationships within the given context. With this goal, a recent line of works tackles 3D semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Johanna Wald , Helisa Dhamo , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Graph convolutional neural networks (Graph-CNNs) extend traditional CNNs to handle data that is supported on a graph. Major challenges when working with data on graphs are that the support set (the vertices of the graph) do not typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yingxue Zhang , Michael Rabbat

High-quality 3D object recognition is an important component of many vision and robotics systems. We tackle the object recognition problem using two data representations, to achieve leading results on the Princeton ModelNet challenge. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Vishakh Hegde , Reza Zadeh

Volumetric image segmentation with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) encounters several challenges, which are specific to medical images. Among these challenges are large volumes of interest, high class imbalances, and difficulties in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Fabian Balsiger , Yannick Soom , Olivier Scheidegger , Mauricio Reyes

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

One challenge that remains open in 3D deep learning is how to efficiently represent 3D data to feed deep networks. Recent works have relied on volumetric or point cloud representations, but such approaches suffer from a number of issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Jhony K. Pontes , Chen Kong , Sridha Sridharan , Simon Lucey , Anders Eriksson , Clinton Fookes

Three dimensional (3D) object recognition is becoming a key desired capability for many computer vision systems such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and surveillance drones to operate more effectively in unstructured environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Chenxi Xiao , Juan Wachs

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

Point cloud stands as the most widely adopted format for representing 3D shapes and scenes due to its simplicity and geometric fidelity. However, its inherent unordered and irregular nature, exacerbated by sensor noise and occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhas Kamal , Hiranya Garbha Kumar , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

The analysis of 3D point clouds has diverse applications in robotics, vision and graphics. Processing them presents specific challenges since they are naturally sparse, can vary in spatial resolution and are typically unordered. Graph-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Mohammad Khodadad , Morteza Rezanejad , Ali Shiraee Kasmaee , Kaleem Siddiqi , Dirk Walther , Hamidreza Mahyar

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have emerged as a powerful strategy for most object detection tasks on 2D images. However, their power has not been fully realised for detecting 3D objects in point clouds directly without converting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Mingtao Feng , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Yaonan Wang , Liang Zhang , Ajmal Mian

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in various vision tasks, e.g. image classification, semantic segmentation, etc. Unfortunately, standard 2D CNNs are not well suited for spherical signals such as panorama images or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Yuqi Liu , Yin Wang , Haikuan Du , Shen Cai

In this paper, we present an InSphereNet method for the problem of 3D object classification. Unlike previous methods that use points, voxels, or multi-view images as inputs of deep neural network (DNN), the proposed method constructs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Hui Cao , Haikuan Du , Siyu Zhang , Shen Cai