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We present a novel adaptive machine-learning based approach for reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) crystals from coherent diffraction imaging (CDI). We represent the crystals using spherical harmonics (SH) and generate corresponding…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Alexander Scheinker , Reeju Pokharel

Three-dimensional geometric data offer an excellent domain for studying representation learning and generative modeling. In this paper, we look at geometric data represented as point clouds. We introduce a deep AutoEncoder (AE) network with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Panos Achlioptas , Olga Diamanti , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Leonidas Guibas

To better address challenging issues of the irregularity and inhomogeneity inherently present in 3D point clouds, researchers have been shifting their focus from the design of hand-craft point feature towards the learning of 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Xiang Li , Mingyang Wang , Congcong Wen , Lingjing Wang , Nan Zhou , Yi Fang

3D meshes are fundamental data representations for capturing complex geometric shapes in computer vision and graphics applications. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have excelled in structured data like images, extending them to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Saqib Nazir , Olivier Lézoray , Sébastien Bougleux

Point cloud is a principal data structure adopted for 3D geometric information encoding. Unlike other conventional visual data, such as images and videos, these irregular points describe the complex shape features of 3D objects, which makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Chaoyi Zhang , Yang Song , Lina Yao , Weidong Cai

Processing information on 3D objects requires methods stable to rigid-body transformations, in particular rotations, of the input data. In image processing tasks, convolutional neural networks achieve this property using…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-07 Ilia Igashov , Nikita Pavlichenko , Sergei Grudinin

We propose a spherical kernel for efficient graph convolution of 3D point clouds. Our metric-based kernels systematically quantize the local 3D space to identify distinctive geometric relationships in the data. Similar to the regular grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Huan Lei , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

The point cloud is gaining prominence as a method for representing 3D shapes, but its irregular format poses a challenge for deep learning methods. The common solution of transforming the data into a 3D voxel grid introduces its own…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Michael Lindenbaum , Anath Fischer

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

Point clouds are an increasingly relevant data type but they are often corrupted by noise. We propose a deep neural network based on graph-convolutional layers that can elegantly deal with the permutation-invariance problem encountered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Francesca Pistilli , Giulia Fracastoro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

With the increased availability of 3D scanning technology, point clouds are moving into the focus of computer vision as a rich representation of everyday scenes. However, they are hard to handle for machine learning algorithms due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Sergey Prokudin , Christoph Lassner , Javier Romero

While object semantic understanding is essential for most service robotic tasks, 3D object classification is still an open problem. Learning from artificial 3D models alleviates the cost of annotation necessary to approach this problem, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Jean-Baptiste Weibel , Timothy Patten , Markus Vincze

In this article we describe a new convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify 3D point clouds of urban or indoor scenes. Solutions are given to the problems encountered working on scene point clouds, and a network is described that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Xavier Roynard , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette

Rotational symmetry plays a central role in physics, providing an elegant framework to describe how the properties of 3D objects -- from atoms to the macroscopic scale -- transform under the action of rigid rotations. Equivariant models of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Michelangelo Domina , Filippo Bigi , Paolo Pegolo , Michele Ceriotti

We propose a fast and accurate surface reconstruction algorithm for unorganized point clouds using an implicit representation. Recent learning methods are either single-object representations with small neural models that allow for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Siddhant Ranade , Gonçalo Dias Pais , Ross Tyler Whitaker , Jacinto C. Nascimento , Pedro Miraldo , Srikumar Ramalingam

We propose a novel and efficient representation for single-view depth estimation using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Point-cloud is generally used for CNN-based 3D scene reconstruction; however it has some drawbacks: (1) it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Masaya Kaneko , Ken Sakurada , Kiyoharu Aizawa

In this paper, we evaluate the quality of knowledge representations encoded in deep neural networks (DNNs) for 3D point cloud processing. We propose a method to disentangle the overall model vulnerability into the sensitivity to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Wen Shen , Qihan Ren , Dongrui Liu , Quanshi Zhang

Convolution is an efficient technique to obtain abstract feature representations using hierarchical layers in deep networks. Although performing convolution in Euclidean geometries is fairly straightforward, its extension to other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Sameera Ramasinghe , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes

Developing deep learning techniques for geometric data is an active and fruitful research area. This paper tackles the problem of sphere-type surface learning by developing a novel surface-to-image representation. Using this representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Niv Haim , Nimrod Segol , Heli Ben-Hamu , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

Neural representations of 3D data have been widely adopted across various applications, particularly in recent work leveraging coordinate-based networks to model scalar or vector fields. However, these approaches face inherent challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Biao Zhang , Jing Ren , Peter Wonka