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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

Unlike images which are represented in regular dense grids, 3D point clouds are irregular and unordered, hence applying convolution on them can be difficult. In this paper, we extend the dynamic filter to a new convolution operation, named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Wenxuan Wu , Zhongang Qi , Li Fuxin

A point cloud is a crucial geometric data structure utilized in numerous applications. The adoption of deep neural networks referred to as Point Cloud Neural Networks (PC- NNs), for processing 3D point clouds, has significantly advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Amrijit Biswas , Md. Ismail Hossain , M M Lutfe Elahi , Ali Cheraghian , Fuad Rahman , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Deep learning techniques for point clouds have achieved strong performance on a range of 3D vision tasks. However, it is costly to annotate large-scale point sets, making it critical to learn generalizable representations that can transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Chao Huang , Zhangjie Cao , Yunbo Wang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Recently, zero-shot and few-shot learning via Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training (CLIP) have shown inspirational performance on 2D visual recognition, which learns to match images with their corresponding texts in open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Wei Zhang , Kunchang Li , Xupeng Miao , Bin Cui , Yu Qiao , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li

This paper investigates multi-scale feature approximation and transferable features for object detection from point clouds. Multi-scale features are critical for object detection from point clouds. However, multi-scale feature learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hao Peng , Hong Sang , Yajing Ma , Ping Qiu , Chao Ji

Multi-view projection methods have demonstrated promising performance on 3D understanding tasks like 3D classification and segmentation. However, it remains unclear how to combine such multi-view methods with the widely available 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Abdullah Hamdi , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

The purpose of intrinsic decomposition is to separate an image into its albedo (reflective properties) and shading components (illumination properties). This is challenging because it's an ill-posed problem. Conventional approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Xiaoyan Xing , Konrad Groh , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

The 3D point cloud representation plays a crucial role in preserving the geometric fidelity of the physical world, enabling more accurate complex 3D environments. While humans naturally comprehend the intricate relationships between objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Vishal Thengane , Xiatian Zhu , Salim Bouzerdoum , Son Lam Phung , Yunpeng Li

Modern neural architectures for 3D point cloud processing contain both convolutional layers and attention blocks, but the best way to assemble them remains unclear. We analyse the role of different computational blocks in 3D point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuanwen Yue , Damien Robert , Jianyuan Wang , Sunghwan Hong , Jan Dirk Wegner , Christian Rupprecht , Konrad Schindler

Recent studies on visual reinforcement learning (visual RL) have explored the use of 3D visual representations. However, none of these work has systematically compared the efficacy of 3D representations with 2D representations across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zhan Ling , Yunchao Yao , Xuanlin Li , Hao Su

This paper presents DeepI2P: a novel approach for cross-modality registration between an image and a point cloud. Given an image (e.g. from a rgb-camera) and a general point cloud (e.g. from a 3D Lidar scanner) captured at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Jiaxin Li , Gim Hee Lee

Point clouds, being the simple and compact representation of surface geometry of 3D objects, have gained increasing popularity with the evolution of deep learning networks for classification and segmentation tasks. Unlike human, teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Sindhu Hegde , Shankar Gangisetty

Knowledge of 3D properties of objects is a necessity in order to build effective computer vision systems. However, lack of large scale 3D datasets can be a major constraint for data-driven approaches in learning such properties. We consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Navaneet K L , Priyanka Mandikal , Mayank Agarwal , R. Venkatesh Babu

The 3D point cloud (3DPC) has significantly evolved and benefited from the advance of deep learning (DL). However, the latter faces various issues, including the lack of data or annotated data, the existence of a significant gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shahab Saquib Sohail , Yassine Himeur , Hamza Kheddar , Abbes Amira , Fodil Fadli , Shadi Atalla , Abigail Copiaco , Wathiq Mansoor

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model reconstruction from point clouds is an important problem at the intersection of computer vision, graphics, and machine learning; it saves the designer significant time when iterating on in-the-wild objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Yujia Liu , Anton Obukhov , Jan Dirk Wegner , Konrad Schindler

Recent advances in deep learning for 3D point clouds have shown great promises in scene understanding tasks thanks to the introduction of convolution operators to consume 3D point clouds directly in a neural network. Point cloud data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zhiyuan Zhang , Binh-Son Hua , Wei Chen , Yibin Tian , Sai-Kit Yeung

Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure. Due to its irregular format, most researchers transform such data to regular 3D voxel grids or collections of images. This, however, renders data unnecessarily voluminous and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Charles R. Qi , Hao Su , Kaichun Mo , Leonidas J. Guibas

We present an image-conditioned point cloud completion approach that treats images as the primary geometric source rather than a secondary guide. To this end, we introduce an Image-to-Point (I2P) module that can reconstruct complete point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Azhar Hussian , Marina Ritthaler , André Kaup , Vasileios Belagiannis

Existing networks directly learn feature representations on 3D point clouds for shape analysis. We argue that 3D point clouds are highly redundant and hold irregular (permutation-invariant) structure, which makes it difficult to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sameera Ramasinghe , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes , Stephen Gould