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We propose a fully-convolutional conditional generative model, the latent transformation neural network (LTNN), capable of view synthesis using a light-weight neural network suited for real-time applications. In contrast to existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Sangpil Kim , Nick Winovich , Guang Lin , Karthik Ramani

3D point cloud has been widely used in many mobile application scenarios, including autonomous driving and 3D sensing on mobile devices. However, existing 3D point cloud models tend to be large and cumbersome, making them hard to deploy on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Zhiyuan Yang , Yunjiao Zhou , Lihua Xie , Jianfei Yang

In the field of resource-constrained robots and the need for effective place recognition in multi-robotic systems, this article introduces RecNet, a novel approach that concurrently addresses both challenges. The core of RecNet's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos , Mario A. V. Saucedo , Anton Koval , George Nikolakopoulos

Point clouds provide a compact and efficient representation of 3D shapes. While deep neural networks have achieved impressive results on point cloud learning tasks, they require massive amounts of manually labeled data, which can be costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Han Qiao , Nayun Xu , Vladimir G. Kim

The annotation of 3D datasets is required for semantic-segmentation and object detection in scene understanding. In this paper we present a framework for the weakly supervision of a point clouds transformer that is used for 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Zuojin Tang , Bo Sun , Tongwei Ma , Daosheng Li , Zhenhui Xu

We introduce RPM-Net, a deep learning-based approach which simultaneously infers movable parts and hallucinates their motions from a single, un-segmented, and possibly partial, 3D point cloud shape. RPM-Net is a novel Recurrent Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Zihao Yan , Ruizhen Hu , Xingguang Yan , Luanmin Chen , Oliver van Kaick , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

Point cloud analysis has drawn broader attentions due to its increasing demands in various fields. Despite the impressive performance has been achieved on several databases, researchers neglect the fact that the orientation of those point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Xiao Sun , Zhouhui Lian , Jianguo Xiao

Rotational invariance is a popular inductive bias used by many fields in machine learning, such as computer vision and machine learning for quantum chemistry. Rotation-invariant machine learning methods set the state of the art for many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Owen Melia , Eric Jonas , Rebecca Willett

Conditional computation for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) reduce overall computational load and improve model accuracy by running a subset of the network. In this work, we present a runtime throttleable neural network (TNN) that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Hengyue Liu , Samyak Parajuli , Jesse Hostetler , Sek Chai , Bir Bhanu

This paper proposes a computationally efficient approach to detecting objects natively in 3D point clouds using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In particular, this is achieved by leveraging a feature-centric voting scheme to implement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Martin Engelcke , Dushyant Rao , Dominic Zeng Wang , Chi Hay Tong , Ingmar Posner

Point cloud obtained from 3D scanning is often sparse, noisy, and irregular. To cope with these issues, recent studies have been separately conducted to densify, denoise, and complete inaccurate point cloud. In this paper, we advocate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jaesung Choe , Byeongin Joung , Francois Rameau , Jaesik Park , In So Kweon

Point cloud, an efficient 3D object representation, has become popular with the development of depth sensing and 3D laser scanning techniques. It has attracted attention in various applications such as 3D tele-presence, navigation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Gusi Te , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo , Amin Zheng

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end learning network to predict future frames in a point cloud sequence. As main novelty, an initial layer learns topological information of point clouds as geometric features, to form representative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Pedro Gomes , Silvia Rossi , Laura Toni

We introduce tensor field neural networks, which are locally equivariant to 3D rotations, translations, and permutations of points at every layer. 3D rotation equivariance removes the need for data augmentation to identify features in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Nathaniel Thomas , Tess Smidt , Steven Kearnes , Lusann Yang , Li Li , Kai Kohlhoff , Patrick Riley

Semantic pattern of an object point cloud is determined by its topological configuration of local geometries. Learning discriminative representations can be challenging due to large shape variations of point sets in local regions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Longkun Zou , Wanru Zhu , Ke Chen , Lihua Guo , Kailing Guo , Kui Jia , Yaowei Wang

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been intensively used for multi-class segmentation of data from different modalities and achieved state-of-the-art performances. However, a common problem when dealing with large, high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Chengjia Wang , Tom MacGillivray , Gillian Macnaught , Guang Yang , David Newby

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer an attractive and energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their sparse binary activation. When SNN meets Transformer, it shows great potential in 2D image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Peixi Wu , Bosong Chai , Hebei Li , Menghua Zheng , Yansong Peng , Zeyu Wang , Xuan Nie , Yueyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Sun

The landscape of video recognition has evolved significantly, shifting from traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to Transformer-based architectures for improved accuracy. While 3D CNNs have been effective at capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Hayat Ullah , Muhammad Ali Shafique , Abbas Khan , Arslan Munir

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

Point cloud processing has become a cornerstone technology in many 3D vision tasks. However, arbitrary rotations introduce variations in point cloud orientations, posing a long-standing challenge for effective representation learning. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Chenyu Hu , Xiaotong Li , Hao Zhu , Biao Hou