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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to both extract more information than the traditional two-point statistics from cosmological fields, and marginalise over astrophysical effects extremely well. However, CNNs require large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-28 Christian Pedersen , Michael Eickenberg , Shirley Ho

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

Normal estimation for unstructured point clouds is an important task in 3D computer vision. Current methods achieve encouraging results by mapping local patches to normal vectors or learning local surface fitting using neural networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shujuan Li , Junsheng Zhou , Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

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

Semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds is a challenging problem with numerous real-world applications. While deep learning has revolutionized the field of image semantic segmentation, its impact on point cloud data has been limited so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Felix Järemo Lawin , Martin Danelljan , Patrik Tosteberg , Goutam Bhat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Michael Felsberg

Point cloud is point sets defined in 3D metric space. Point cloud has become one of the most significant data format for 3D representation. Its gaining increased popularity as a result of increased availability of acquisition devices, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Saifullahi Aminu Bello , Shangshu Yu , Cheng Wang

Point clouds are a widely available and canonical data modality which convey the 3D geometry of a scene. Despite significant progress in classification and segmentation from point clouds, policy learning from such a modality remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Daniel Seita , Yufei Wang , Sarthak J. Shetty , Edward Yao Li , Zackory Erickson , David Held

Point cloud filtering is a fundamental problem in geometry modeling and processing. Despite of significant advancement in recent years, the existing methods still suffer from two issues: 1) they are either designed without preserving sharp…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Dongbo Zhang , Xuequan Lu , Hong Qin , Ying He

This paper demonstrates spherical convolutional neural networks (S-CNN) offer distinct advantages over conventional fully-connected networks (FCN) at estimating scalar parameters of tissue microstructure from diffusion MRI (dMRI). Such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Tobias Goodwin-Allcock , Jason McEwen , Robert Gray , Parashkev Nachev , Hui Zhang

This paper presents Point Convolutional Neural Networks (PCNN): a novel framework for applying convolutional neural networks to point clouds. The framework consists of two operators: extension and restriction, mapping point cloud functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Matan Atzmon , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

Learning powerful feature representations with CNNs is hard when training data are limited. Pre-training is one way to overcome this, but it requires large datasets sufficiently similar to the target domain. Another option is to design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Jörn-Henrik Jacobsen , Jan van Gemert , Zhongyu Lou , Arnold W. M. Smeulders

Deep learning on point clouds has made a lot of progress recently. Many point cloud dedicated deep learning frameworks, such as PointNet and PointNet++, have shown advantages in accuracy and speed comparing to those using traditional 3D…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Guanghua Pan , Jun Wang , Rendong Ying , Peilin Liu

Recent investigations on rotation invariance for 3D point clouds have been devoted to devising rotation-invariant feature descriptors or learning canonical spaces where objects are semantically aligned. Examinations of learning frameworks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Jianhui Yu , Chaoyi Zhang , Weidong Cai

Deep learning with 3D data has progressed significantly since the introduction of convolutional neural networks that can handle point order ambiguity in point cloud data. While being able to achieve good accuracies in various scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zhiyuan Zhang , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

Histology images are inherently symmetric under rotation, where each orientation is equally as likely to appear. However, this rotational symmetry is not widely utilised as prior knowledge in modern Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs),…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Simon Graham , David Epstein , Nasir Rajpoot

In recent years, the task of learned point cloud compression has gained prominence. An important type of point cloud, the spinning LiDAR point cloud, is generated by spinning LiDAR on vehicles. This process results in numerous circular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Ao Luo , Linxin Song , Keisuke Nonaka , Kyohei Unno , Heming Sun , Masayuki Goto , Jiro Katto

The high computational complexity and increasing parameter counts of deep neural networks pose significant challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments, such as edge devices or real-time systems. To address this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Laura Erb , Tommaso Boccato , Alexandru Vasilache , Juergen Becker , Nicola Toschi

Early and accurate assessment of brain microstructure using diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is crucial for identifying neurodevelopmental disorders in neonates, but remains challenging due to low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Haykel Snoussi , Davood Karimi

Feedforward fully convolutional neural networks currently dominate in semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds. Despite their great success, they suffer from the loss of local information at low-level layers, posing significant challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Shenglan Du , Nail Ibrahimli , Jantien Stoter , Julian Kooij , Liangliang Nan

This paper investigates the problem of temporally interpolating dynamic 3D point clouds with large non-rigid deformation. We formulate the problem as estimation of point-wise trajectories (i.e., smooth curves) and further reason that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yiming Zeng , Yue Qian , Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yixuan Yuan , Ying He