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We present a powerful method to extract per-point semantic class labels from aerialphotogrammetry data. Labeling this kind of data is important for tasks such as environmental modelling, object classification and scene understanding. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Carlos Becker , Nicolai Häni , Elena Rosinskaya , Emmanuel d'Angelo , Christoph Strecha

3D point cloud segmentation has a wide range of applications in areas such as autonomous driving, augmented reality, virtual reality and digital twins. The point cloud data collected in real scenes often contain small objects and categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chade Li , Pengju Zhang , Jiaming Zhang , Yihong Wu

Existing deep learning methods for the reconstruction and denoising of point clouds rely on small datasets of 3D shapes. We circumvent the problem by leveraging deep learning methods trained on billions of images. We propose a method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Pietro Bonazzi , Marie-Julie Rakatosaona , Marco Cannici , Federico Tombari , Davide Scaramuzza

We present a novel lightweight convolutional neural network for point cloud analysis. In contrast to many current CNNs which increase receptive field by downsampling point cloud, our method directly operates on the entire point sets without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Xu Wang , Yuyan Li , Ye Duan

With the rise of large-scale models trained on broad data, in-context learning has become a new learning paradigm that has demonstrated significant potential in natural language processing and computer vision tasks. Meanwhile, in-context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Zhongbin Fang , Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Joachim M. Buhmann , Chen Change Loy , Mengyuan Liu

This paper studies point cloud perception within outdoor environments. Existing methods face limitations in recognizing objects located at a distance or occluded, due to the sparse nature of outdoor point clouds. In this work, we observe a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Tianyu Sun , Jianhao Li , Xueqian Zhang , Zhongdao Wang , Bailan Feng , Hengshuang Zhao

We present a technique for visualizing point clouds using a neural network. Our technique allows for an instant preview of any point cloud, and bypasses the notoriously difficult surface reconstruction problem or the need to estimate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Gal Metzer , Rana Hanocka , Raja Giryes , Niloy J. Mitra , Daniel Cohen-Or

The popularisation of acquisition devices capable of capturing volumetric information such as LiDAR scans and depth cameras has lead to an increased interest in point clouds as an imaging modality. Due to the high amount of data needed for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Davi Lazzarotto , Touradj Ebrahimi

3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation (PCSS) is attracting increasing interest, due to its applicability in remote sensing, computer vision and robotics, and due to the new possibilities offered by deep learning techniques. In order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Yuxing Xie , Jiaojiao Tian , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance in the task of semantically segmenting images. However, applying the same methods on 3D data still poses challenges due to the heavy memory requirements and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Radu Alexandru Rosu , Peer Schütt , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

While point-based neural architectures have demonstrated their efficacy, the time-consuming sampler currently prevents them from performing real-time reasoning on scene-level point clouds. Existing methods attempt to overcome this issue by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Junyuan Ouyang , Xiao Liu , Haoyao Chen

Representing 3D shape in deep learning frameworks in an accurate, efficient and compact manner still remains an open challenge. Most existing work addresses this issue by employing voxel-based representations. While these approaches benefit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Dominic Jack , Jhony K. Pontes , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes , Sareh Shirazi , Frederic Maire , Anders Eriksson

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D annotations, making labeled samples difficult to obtain. Beyond annotation scarcity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thenukan Pathmanathan , Kanchan Keisham , Thangarajah Akilan

Point cloud surface reconstruction has improved in accuracy with advances in deep learning, enabling applications such as infrastructure inspection. Recent approaches that reconstruct from small local regions rather than entire point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Eito Ogawa , Taiga Hayami , Hiroshi Watanabe

Point cloud completion is a generation and estimation issue derived from the partial point clouds, which plays a vital role in the applications in 3D computer vision. The progress of deep learning (DL) has impressively improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Ben Fei , Weidong Yang , Wenming Chen , Zhijun Li , Yikang Li , Tao Ma , Xing Hu , Lipeng Ma

As 3D point cloud analysis has received increasing attention, the insufficient scale of point cloud datasets and the weak generalization ability of networks become prominent. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jinlai Zhang , Lyujie Chen , Bo Ouyang , Binbin Liu , Jihong Zhu , Yujing Chen , Yanmei Meng , Danfeng Wu

Compressing a set of unordered points is far more challenging than compressing images/videos of regular sample grids, because of the difficulties in characterizing neighboring relations in an irregular layout of points. Many researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hao Xu , Xi Zhang , Xiaolin Wu

3D point cloud semantic segmentation is a challenging topic in the computer vision field. Most of the existing methods in literature require a large amount of fully labeled training data, but it is extremely time-consuming to obtain these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Shuang Deng , Qiulei Dong , Bo Liu , Zhanyi Hu

Zero-shot point cloud segmentation aims to make deep models capable of recognizing novel objects in point cloud that are unseen in the training phase. Recent trends favor the pipeline which transfers knowledge from seen classes with labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yuhang Lu , Qi Jiang , Runnan Chen , Yuenan Hou , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma

Estimation of differential geometric quantities in discrete 3D data representations is one of the crucial steps in the geometry processing pipeline. Specifically, estimating normals and sharp feature lines from raw point cloud helps improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Albert Matveev , Alexey Artemov , Denis Zorin , Evgeny Burnaev