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Automatic discovery of category-specific 3D keypoints from a collection of objects of some category is a challenging problem. One reason is that not all objects in a category necessarily have the same semantic parts. The level of difficulty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Clara Fernandez-Labrador , Ajad Chhatkuli , Danda Pani Paudel , Jose J. Guerrero , Cédric Demonceaux , Luc Van Gool

This paper focuses on the challenging task of learning 3D object surface reconstructions from single RGB images. Existing methods achieve varying degrees of success by using different geometric representations. However, they all have their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jiapeng Tang , Xiaoguang Han , Junyi Pan , Kui Jia , Xin Tong

This article proposes a novel unsupervised learning framework for detecting the number of tunnel junctions in subterranean environments based on acquired 2D point clouds. The implementation of the framework provides valuable information for…

We introduce Point2Skeleton, an unsupervised method to learn skeletal representations from point clouds. Existing skeletonization methods are limited to tubular shapes and the stringent requirement of watertight input, while our method aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Cheng Lin , Changjian Li , Yuan Liu , Nenglun Chen , Yi-King Choi , Wenping Wang

Unsupervised 3D keypoints estimation from Point Cloud Data (PCD) is a complex task, even more challenging when an object shape is deforming. As keypoints should be semantically and geometrically consistent across all the 3D frames - each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Mohammad Zohaib , Luca Cosmo , Alessio Del Bue

Analyzing and training 3D body posture models depend heavily on the availability of joint labels that are commonly acquired through laborious manual annotation of body joints or via marker-based joint localization using carefully curated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Sina Honari , Chen Zhao , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Multimodal 3D object detection based on deep neural networks has indeed made significant progress. However, it still faces challenges due to the misalignment of scale and spatial information between features extracted from 2D images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Bonan Ding , Jin Xie , Jing Nie , Jiale Cao

Point cloud registration, a fundamental task in 3D vision, has achieved remarkable success with learning-based methods in outdoor environments. Unsupervised outdoor point cloud registration methods have recently emerged to circumvent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kezheng Xiong , Haoen Xiang , Qingshan Xu , Chenglu Wen , Siqi Shen , Jonathan Li , Cheng Wang

Deep learning-based 3D human pose estimation performs best when trained on large amounts of labeled data, making combined learning from many datasets an important research direction. One obstacle to this endeavor are the different skeleton…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 István Sárándi , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

Maintaining robust 3D perception under dynamic and unpredictable test-time conditions remains a critical challenge for autonomous driving systems. Existing test-time adaptation (TTA) methods often fail in high-variance tasks like 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Huitong Yang , Zhuoxiao Chen , Fengyi Zhang , Zi Huang , Yadan Luo

Deep learning has attained remarkable success in many 3D visual recognition tasks, including shape classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. However, many of these results rely on manually collecting densely annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Fernando Julio Cendra , Lan Ma , Jiajun Shen , Xiaojuan Qi

Domain adaptation for Cross-LiDAR 3D detection is challenging due to the large gap on the raw data representation with disparate point densities and point arrangements. By exploring domain-invariant 3D geometric characteristics and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Xidong Peng , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma

Feature matching is a fundamental problem in computer vision with wide-ranging applications, including simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), image stitching, and 3D reconstruction. While recent advances in deep learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ronald Nap , Andy Xiao

We propose a deep autoencoder with graph topology inference and filtering to achieve compact representations of unorganized 3D point clouds in an unsupervised manner. Many previous works discretize 3D points to voxels and then use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Siheng Chen , Chaojing Duan , Yaoqing Yang , Duanshun Li , Chen Feng , Dong Tian

Accurately describing and detecting 2D and 3D keypoints is crucial to establishing correspondences across images and point clouds. Despite a plethora of learning-based 2D or 3D local feature descriptors and detectors having been proposed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Bing Wang , Changhao Chen , Zhaopeng Cui , Jie Qin , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Zhengdi Yu , Peijun Zhao , Zhen Dong , Fan Zhu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Self-supervised learning (SSL), which aims to learn meaningful prior representations from unlabeled data, has been proven effective for skeleton-based action understanding. Different from the image domain, skeleton data possesses sparser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jiahang Zhang , Lilang Lin , Shuai Yang , Jiaying Liu

High-resolution 3D point clouds are highly effective for detecting subtle structural anomalies in industrial inspection. However, their dense and irregular nature imposes significant challenges, including high computational cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zi Wang , Katsuya Hotta , Koichiro Kamide , Yawen Zou , Chao Zhang , Jun Yu

Deep learning-based image fusion approaches have obtained wide attention in recent years, achieving promising performance in terms of visual perception. However, the fusion module in the current deep learning-based methods suffers from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Dongyu Rao , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu , Guoyang Chen

The recent development of high-precision subsea optical scanners allows for 3D keypoint detectors and feature descriptors to be leveraged on point cloud scans from subsea environments. However, the literature lacks a comprehensive survey to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Kyungmin Jung , Thomas Hitchcox , James Richard Forbes

This paper proposes a new method to infer keypoints from arbitrary object categories in practical scenarios where point cloud data (PCD) are noisy, down-sampled and arbitrarily rotated. Our proposed model adheres to the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Mohammad Zohaib , Alessio Del Bue