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Self-supervised methods have been proven effective for learning deep representations of 3D point cloud data. Although recent methods in this domain often rely on random masking of inputs, the results of this approach can be improved. We…

In this paper, we present a novel deep method to reconstruct a point cloud of an object from a single still image. Prior arts in the field struggle to reconstruct an accurate and scalable 3D model due to either the inefficient and expensive…

Point cloud segmentation is one of the most important tasks in computer vision with widespread scientific, industrial, and commercial applications. The research thereof has resulted in many breakthroughs in 3D object and scene…

In this paper, we introduce a reinforcement learning approach utilizing a novel topology-based information gain metric for directing the next best view of a noisy 3D sensor. The metric combines the disjoint sections of an observed surface…

Common deep learning models for 3D environment perception often use pillarization/voxelization methods to convert point cloud data into pillars/voxels and then process it with a 2D/3D convolutional neural network (CNN). The pioneer work…

We propose a novel approach aimed at object and semantic scene completion from a partial scan represented as a 3D point cloud. Our architecture relies on three novel layers that are used successively within an encoder-decoder structure and…

Recent advances in generative modeling have demonstrated strong promise for high-quality point cloud upsampling. In this work, we present PUFM++, an enhanced flow-matching framework for reconstructing dense and accurate point clouds from…

The recent advances in 3D sensing technology have made possible the capture of point clouds in significantly high resolution. However, increased detail usually comes at the expense of high storage, as well as computational costs in terms of…

Recent state-of-the-art methods for point cloud processing are based on the notion of point convolution, for which several approaches have been proposed. In this paper, inspired by discrete convolution in image processing, we provide a…

This paper presents Point Convolutional Neural Networks (PCNN): a novel framework for applying convolutional neural networks to point clouds. The framework consists of two operators: extension and restriction, mapping point cloud functions…

Deep neural networks require specific layers to process point clouds, as the scattered and irregular location of 3D points prevents the use of conventional convolutional filters. We introduce the composite layer, a flexible and general…

Large and rich data is a prerequisite for effective training of deep neural networks. However, the irregularity of point cloud data makes manual annotation time-consuming and laborious. Self-supervised representation learning, which…

Edge points on 3D point clouds can clearly convey 3D geometry and surface characteristics, therefore, edge detection is widely used in many vision applications with high industrial and commercial demands. However, the fine-grained edge…

The PointHop method was recently proposed by Zhang et al. for 3D point cloud classification with unsupervised feature extraction. It has an extremely low training complexity while achieving state-of-the-art classification performance. In…

Point clouds and images could provide complementary information when representing 3D objects. Fusing the two kinds of data usually helps to improve the detection results. However, it is challenging to fuse the two data modalities, due to…

In recent years, with the development of computing resources and LiDAR, point cloud semantic segmentation has attracted many researchers. For the sparsity of point clouds, although there is already a way to deal with sparse convolution,…

In this paper, we propose PASS3D to achieve point-wise semantic segmentation for 3D point cloud. Our framework combines the efficiency of traditional geometric methods with robustness of deep learning methods, consisting of two stages: At…

Recently, deep neural networks have made remarkable achievements in 3D point cloud classification. However, existing classification methods are mainly implemented on idealized point clouds and suffer heavy degradation of per-formance on…

It is counter-intuitive that multi-modality methods based on point cloud and images perform only marginally better or sometimes worse than approaches that solely use point cloud. This paper investigates the reason behind this phenomenon.…

Feature fusion, the combination of features from different layers or branches, is an omnipresent part of modern network architectures. It is often implemented via simple operations, such as summation or concatenation, but this might not be…