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Brain surface analysis is essential to neuroscience, however, the complex geometry of the brain cortex hinders computational methods for this task. The difficulty arises from a discrepancy between 3D imaging data, which is represented in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Karthik Gopinath , Christian Desrosiers , Herve Lombaert

Semantic segmentation of raw 3D point clouds is an essential component in 3D scene analysis, but it poses several challenges, primarily due to the non-Euclidean nature of 3D point clouds. Although, several deep learning based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Saqib Ali Khan , Yilei Shi , Muhammad Shahzad , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Point clouds are unstructured and unordered data, as opposed to images. Thus, most machine learning approach developed for image cannot be directly transferred to point clouds. In this paper, we propose a generalization of discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Alexandre Boulch

Point cloud analysis (such as 3D segmentation and detection) is a challenging task, because of not only the irregular geometries of many millions of unordered points, but also the great variations caused by depth, viewpoint, occlusion, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang , Qinghua Zheng

State-of-the-art methods for driving-scene LiDAR-based perception (including point cloud semantic segmentation, panoptic segmentation and 3D detection, \etc) often project the point clouds to 2D space and then process them via 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xinge Zhu , Hui Zhou , Tai Wang , Fangzhou Hong , Wei Li , Yuexin Ma , Hongsheng Li , Ruigang Yang , Dahua Lin

Deep learning based on deep neural networks of various structures and architectures has been powerful in many practical applications, but it lacks enough theoretical verifications. In this paper, we consider a family of deep convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Zhiying Fang , Han Feng , Shuo Huang , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Filter-decomposition-based group equivariant convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown promising stability and data efficiency for 3D image feature extraction. However, these networks, which rely on parameter sharing and discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Wenzhao Zhao , Steffen Albert , Barbara D. Wichtmann , Angelika Maurer , Ulrike Attenberger , Frank G. Zöllner , Jürgen Hesser

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

The Euclidean scattering transform was introduced nearly a decade ago to improve the mathematical understanding of convolutional neural networks. Inspired by recent interest in geometric deep learning, which aims to generalize convolutional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-26 Michael Perlmutter , Feng Gao , Guy Wolf , Matthew Hirn

Contemporary deep neural networks offer state-of-the-art results when applied to visual reasoning, e.g., in the context of 3D point cloud data. Point clouds are important datatype for precise modeling of three-dimensional environments, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Maciej Zamorski , Michał Stypułkowski , Konrad Karanowski , Tomasz Trzciński , Maciej Zięba

Contemporary registration devices for 3D visual information, such as LIDARs and various depth cameras, capture data as 3D point clouds. In turn, such clouds are challenging to be processed due to their size and complexity. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Dominik Zimny , Joanna Waczyńska , Tomasz Trzciński , Przemysław Spurek

Understanding the internal representations and decision mechanisms of deep neural networks remains a critical open challenge. While existing interpretability methods often identify influential input regions, they may not elucidate how a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Farzaneh Mahdisoltani , Saeed Mahdisoltani , Roger B. Grosse , David J. Fleet

We introduce methods for obtaining pretrained Geometric Neural Operators (GNPs) that can serve as basal foundation models for use in obtaining geometric features. These can be used within data processing pipelines for machine learning tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Blaine Quackenbush , Paul J. Atzberger

We present a new permutation-invariant network for 3D point cloud processing. Our network is composed of a recurrent set encoder and a convolutional feature aggregator. Given an unordered point set, the encoder firstly partitions its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Pengxiang Wu , Chao Chen , Jingru Yi , Dimitris Metaxas

3D point clouds deep learning is a promising field of research that allows a neural network to learn features of point clouds directly, making it a robust tool for solving 3D scene understanding tasks. While recent works show that point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Zhiyuan Zhang , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

Implicit function based surface reconstruction has been studied for a long time to recover 3D shapes from point clouds sampled from surfaces. Recently, Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) and Occupany Functions are adopted in learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Meng Jia , Matthew Kyan

In this paper, we adopt 3D Convolutional Neural Networks to segment volumetric medical images. Although deep neural networks have been proven to be very effective on many 2D vision tasks, it is still challenging to apply them to 3D tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Zhuotun Zhu , Yingda Xia , Wei Shen , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

We start out by demonstrating that an elementary learning task, corresponding to the training of a single linear neuron in a convolutional neural network, can be solved for feature spaces of very high dimensionality. In a second step,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Marco Loog , François Lauze

Generative models for 3D geometric data arise in many important applications in 3D computer vision and graphics. In this paper, we focus on 3D deformable shapes that share a common topological structure, such as human faces and bodies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Giorgos Bouritsas , Sergiy Bokhnyak , Stylianos Ploumpis , Michael Bronstein , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Unsigned distance fields (UDFs) provide a versatile framework for representing a diverse array of 3D shapes, encompassing both watertight and non-watertight geometries. Traditional UDF learning methods typically require extensive training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiangbei Hu , Yanggeng Li , Fei Hou , Junhui Hou , Zhebin Zhang , Shengfa Wang , Na Lei , Ying He