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Learning 3D representations that generalize well to arbitrarily oriented inputs is a challenge of practical importance in applications varying from computer vision to physics and chemistry. We propose a novel multi-resolution convolutional…

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Transformers have significantly impacted domains like natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics, where they improve performance compared to other neural networks. This survey explores how transformers are used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Pranav Agarwal , Aamer Abdul Rahman , Pierre-Luc St-Charles , Simon J. D. Prince , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Point clouds are a fundamental 3D representation in computer vision, enabling a wide range of perception tasks. However, real-world point clouds often suffer from degradations such as incompleteness, noise, outliers, and irregular density,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Haoqing Wu , Alexa Nawotki , Jochen Garcke

Advanced 3D metrology technologies such as Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and laser 3D scanners have facilitated the collection of massive point cloud data, beneficial for process monitoring, control and optimization. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Hao Yan , Kamran Paynabar , Massimo Pacella

Recently Transformer-based models have advanced point cloud understanding by leveraging self-attention mechanisms, however, these methods often overlook latent information in less prominent regions, leading to increased sensitivity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Yi Wang , Jiaze Wang , Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Donghao Zhou , Guangyong Chen , Anfeng Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Existing convolutional learning methods for 3D point cloud data are divided into two paradigms: point-based methods that preserve geometric precision but often face performance challenges, and voxel-based methods that achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Lihan Li , Haofeng Zhong , Rui Bu , Mingchao Sun , Wenzheng Chen , Baoquan Chen , Yangyan Li

The process of segmenting point cloud data into several homogeneous areas with points in the same region having the same attributes is known as 3D segmentation. Segmentation is challenging with point cloud data due to substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir , Hyunsik Ahn

3D vision with real-time LiDAR-based point cloud data became a vital part of autonomous system research, especially perception and prediction modules use for object classification, segmentation, and detection. Despite their success, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Arup Kumar Sarker , Farzana Yasmin Ahmad , Matthew B. Dwyer

Transformer, the latest technological advance of deep learning, has gained prevalence in natural language processing or computer vision. Since medical imaging bear some resemblance to computer vision, it is natural to inquire about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jun Li , Junyu Chen , Yucheng Tang , Ce Wang , Bennett A. Landman , S. Kevin Zhou

With the rapid progress of multimodal foundation models and predictive pre-training, an important open question is how to equip 3D point clouds with a pre-training paradigm that is better aligned with next-token and next-embedding learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yumeng Yao , Jingzhi Dong , Haowen Gu , Tao Chen , Zonghan Wu , Xiaoshui Huang , Yazhou Yao

Transformer has demonstrated promising performance in many 2D vision tasks. However, it is cumbersome to compute the self-attention on large-scale point cloud data because point cloud is a long sequence and unevenly distributed in 3D space.…

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Deep learning-based algorithms have seen a massive popularity in different areas of remote sensing image analysis over the past decade. Recently, transformers-based architectures, originally introduced in natural language processing, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Abdulaziz Amer Aleissaee , Amandeep Kumar , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Salman Khan , Hisham Cholakkal , Gui-Song Xia , Fahad Shahbaz khan

Point clouds are unstructured and unordered in the embedded 3D space. In order to produce consistent responses under different permutation layouts, most existing methods aggregate local spatial points through maximum or summation operation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Yuan Fang , Chunyan Xu , Zhen Cui , Yuan Zong , Jian Yang

3D object detection is an essential vision technique for various robotic systems, such as augmented reality and domestic robots. Transformers as versatile network architectures have recently seen great success in 3D point cloud object…

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The astounding performance of transformers in natural language processing (NLP) has motivated researchers to explore their applications in computer vision tasks. DEtection TRansformer (DETR) introduces transformers to object detection tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Tahira Shehzadi , Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

We present multiresolution tree-structured networks to process point clouds for 3D shape understanding and generation tasks. Our network represents a 3D shape as a set of locality-preserving 1D ordered list of points at multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Matheus Gadelha , Rui Wang , Subhransu Maji

The importance of training robust neural network grows as 3D data is increasingly utilized in deep learning for vision tasks in robotics, drone control, and autonomous driving. One commonly used 3D data type is 3D point clouds, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Daniel Liu , Ronald Yu , Hao Su

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), architectures consisting of convolutional layers, have been the standard choice in vision tasks. Recent studies have shown that Vision Transformers (VTs), architectures based on self-attention modules,…

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