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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

Accurate segmentation of retinal fluids in 3D Optical Coherence Tomography images is key for diagnosis and personalized treatment of eye diseases. While deep learning has been successful at this task, trained supervised models often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Alvaro Gomariz , Huanxiang Lu , Yun Yvonna Li , Thomas Albrecht , Andreas Maunz , Fethallah Benmansour , Alessandra M. Valcarcel , Jennifer Luu , Daniela Ferrara , Orcun Goksel

Global registration of point clouds aims to find an optimal alignment of a sequence of 2D or 3D point sets. In this paper, we present a novel method that takes advantage of current deep learning techniques for unsupervised learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Lingjing Wang , Yi Shi , Xiang Li , Yi Fang

In computer-aided design (CAD) community, the point cloud data is pervasively applied in reverse engineering, where the point cloud analysis plays an important role. While a large number of supervised learning methods have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cheng Zhang , Jian Shi , Xuan Deng , Zizhao Wu

Deep clustering against self-supervised learning is a very important and promising direction for unsupervised visual representation learning since it requires little domain knowledge to design pretext tasks. However, the key component,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Weijie Chen , Shiliang Pu , Di Xie , Shicai Yang , Yilu Guo , Luojun Lin

The scale diversity of point cloud data presents significant challenges in developing unified representation learning techniques for 3D vision. Currently, there are few unified 3D models, and no existing pre-training method is equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ziyi Wang , Yanran Zhang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Point cloud data now are popular data representations in a number of three-dimensional (3D) vision research realms. However, due to the limited performance of sensors and sensing noise, the raw data usually suffer from sparsity, noise, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Siwen Quan , Junhao Yu , Ziming Nie , Muze Wang , Sijia Feng , Pei An , Jiaqi Yang

Deep learning with 3D data such as reconstructed point clouds and CAD models has received great research interests recently. However, the capability of using point clouds with convolutional neural network has been so far not fully explored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Binh-Son Hua , Minh-Khoi Tran , Sai-Kit Yeung

Self-supervised representation learning has shown significant improvement in Natural Language Processing and 2D Computer Vision. However, existing methods face difficulties in representing 3D data because of its unordered and uneven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Pengbo Li , Yiding Sun , Haozhe Cheng

Deep learning systems extensively use convolution operations to process input data. Though convolution is clearly defined for structured data such as 2D images or 3D volumes, this is not true for other data types such as sparse point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Pedro Hermosilla , Tobias Ritschel , Pere-Pau Vázquez , Àlvar Vinacua , Timo Ropinski

3D point cloud semantic segmentation (PCSS) is a cornerstone for environmental perception in robotic systems and autonomous driving, enabling precise scene understanding through point-wise classification. While unsupervised domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Junjie Chen , Yuecong Xu , Haosheng Li , Kemi Ding

The recent success of pre-trained 2D vision models is mostly attributable to learning from large-scale datasets. However, compared with 2D image datasets, the current pre-training data of 3D point cloud is limited. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yuan Yao , Yuanhan Zhang , Zhenfei Yin , Jiebo Luo , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaoshui Huang

The scale and quality of point cloud datasets constrain the advancement of point cloud learning. Recently, with the development of multi-modal learning, the incorporation of domain-agnostic prior knowledge from other modalities, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yanmin Wu , Qiankun Gao , Renrui Zhang , Jian Zhang

Features that are equivariant to a larger group of symmetries have been shown to be more discriminative and powerful in recent studies. However, higher-order equivariant features often come with an exponentially-growing computational cost.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Haiwei Chen , Shichen Liu , Weikai Chen , Hao Li

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

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

Self-supervised learning on point clouds has gained a lot of attention recently, since it addresses the label-efficiency and domain-gap problems on point cloud tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised framework to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Meng-Shiun Tsai , Pei-Ze Chiang , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu

In response to the growing demand for 3D object detection in applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality, this work focuses on the evaluation of semi-supervised learning approaches for point cloud data. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Maksim Golyadkin , Alexander Gambashidze , Ildar Nurgaliev , Ilya Makarov

This paper tackles the problem of parts-aware point cloud generation. Unlike existing works which require the point cloud to be segmented into parts a priori, our parts-aware editing and generation are performed in an unsupervised manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Shidi Li , Miaomiao Liu , Christian Walder