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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved promising results in medical image segmentation. However, CNNs require lots of training data and are incapable of handling pose and deformation of objects. Furthermore, their pooling layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Minh Tran , Viet-Khoa Vo-Ho , Ngan T. H. Le

Affordance detection from visual input is a fundamental step in autonomous robotic manipulation. Existing solutions to the problem of affordance detection rely on convolutional neural networks. However, these networks do not consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez , Simon Haller-Seeber , David Peer , Chris Engelhardt , Jakob Mittelberger , Matteo Saveriano

In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based pipeline for partially overlapping 3D point cloud registration. The proposed model includes an iterative distance-aware similarity matrix convolution module to incorporate information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Jiahao Li , Changhao Zhang , Ziyao Xu , Hangning Zhou , Chi Zhang

PointNet has recently emerged as a popular representation for unstructured point cloud data, allowing application of deep learning to tasks such as object detection, segmentation and shape completion. However, recent works in literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Vinit Sarode , Xueqian Li , Hunter Goforth , Yasuhiro Aoki , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Simon Lucey , Howie Choset

Point cloud registration plays a crucial role in various fields, including robotics, computer graphics, and medical imaging. This process involves determining spatial relationships between different sets of points, typically within a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Yikun Bai , Huy Tran , Steven B. Damelin , Soheil Kolouri

It has witnessed a growing demand for efficient representation learning on point clouds in many 3D computer vision applications. Behind the success story of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is that the data (e.g., images) are Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Zhongpai Gao , Guangtao Zhai , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Efficiently processing structured point cloud data while preserving multiscale information is a key challenge across domains, from graphics to atomistic modeling. Using a curated dataset of simulated galaxy positions and properties,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Julia Balla , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Tommi Jaakkola , Tess Smidt

Point cloud compression (PCC) is a key enabler for various 3-D applications, owing to the universality of the point cloud format. Ideally, 3D point clouds endeavor to depict object/scene surfaces that are continuous. Practically, as a set…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-12 Jiahao Pang , Muhammad Asad Lodhi , Dong Tian

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

This project considers Capsule Networks, a recently introduced machine learning model that has shown promising results regarding generalization and preservation of spatial information with few parameters. The Capsule Network's inner routing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Gonçalo Faria

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

In healthcare, accurately classifying medical images is vital, but conventional methods often hinge on medical data with a consistent grid structure, which may restrict their overall performance. Recent medical research has been focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Kishore Babu Nampalle , Pradeep Singh , Vivek Narayan Uppala , Sumit Gangwar , Rajesh Singh Negi , Balasubramanian Raman

Point clouds are often sparse and incomplete. Existing shape completion methods are incapable of generating details of objects or learning the complex point distributions. To this end, we propose a cascaded refinement network together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Xiaogang Wang , Marcelo H Ang , Gim Hee Lee

We present a framework to use recently introduced Capsule Networks for solving the problem of Optical Flow, one of the fundamental computer vision tasks. Most of the existing state of the art deep architectures either uses a correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rahul Chand , Rajat Arora , K Ram Prabhakar , R Venkatesh Babu

Unlike images which are represented in regular dense grids, 3D point clouds are irregular and unordered, hence applying convolution on them can be difficult. In this paper, we extend the dynamic filter to a new convolution operation, named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Wenxuan Wu , Zhongang Qi , Li Fuxin

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental task in robotics and computer vision. Recently, many learning-based point cloud registration methods based on correspondences have emerged. However, these methods heavily rely on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lifa Zhu , Dongrui Liu , Changwei Lin , Rui Yan , Francisco Gómez-Fernández , Ninghua Yang , Ziyong Feng

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) have demonstrated to be a promising alternative to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, they often fall short of state-of-the-art accuracies on large-scale high-dimensional datasets. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Aryan Mobiny , Pengyu Yuan , Pietro Antonio Cicalese , Hien Van Nguyen

Deep neural networks have established themselves as the state-of-the-art methodology in almost all computer vision tasks to date. But their application to processing data lying on non-Euclidean domains is still a very active area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Suresh Manandhar

Learning-based point cloud registration methods can handle clean point clouds well, while it is still challenging to generalize to noisy, partial, and density-varying point clouds. To this end, we propose a novel point cloud registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Leida Zhang , Zhengda Lu , Kai Liu , Yiqun Wang

The analysis of 3D point clouds has diverse applications in robotics, vision and graphics. Processing them presents specific challenges since they are naturally sparse, can vary in spatial resolution and are typically unordered. Graph-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Mohammad Khodadad , Morteza Rezanejad , Ali Shiraee Kasmaee , Kaleem Siddiqi , Dirk Walther , Hamidreza Mahyar