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We tackle the problem of object-centric learning on point clouds, which is crucial for high-level relational reasoning and scalable machine intelligence. In particular, we introduce a framework, SPAIR3D, to factorize a 3D point cloud into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tianyu Wang , Miaomiao Liu , Kee Siong Ng

Point clouds have become an increasingly important representation for 3D medical imaging, offering a compact, surface-preserving alternative to traditional voxel or mesh-based approaches. Recent advances in deep learning have enabled rapid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Tongxu Zhang , Zhiming Liang , Bei Wang

In this work, we propose a novel framework shape back-projection for computationally efficient point cloud processing in a probabilistic manner. The primary component of the technique is shape histogram and a back-projection procedure. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ashish Kumar , L. Behera

Point cloud completion has become increasingly popular among generation tasks of 3D point clouds, as it is a challenging yet indispensable problem to recover the complete shape of a 3D object from its partial observation. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Haoran Zhou , Yun Cao , Wenqing Chu , Junwei Zhu , Tong Lu , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang

LiDAR-based 3D sensors provide point clouds, a canonical 3D representation used in various scene understanding tasks. Modern LiDARs face key challenges in several real-world scenarios, such as long-distance or low-albedo objects, producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Bhavya Goyal , Felipe Gutierrez-Barragan , Wei Lin , Andreas Velten , Yin Li , Mohit Gupta

Semantic understanding of 3D point clouds is important for various robotics applications. Given that point-wise semantic annotation is expensive, in this paper, we address the challenge of learning models with extremely sparse labels. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Liyi Luo , Beiwen Tian , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou

3D point clouds directly collected from objects through sensors are often incomplete due to self-occlusion. Conventional methods for completing these partial point clouds rely on manually organized training sets and are usually limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Tianxin Huang , Zhiwen Yan , Yuyang Zhao , Gim Hee Lee

Shape completion networks have been used recently in real-world robotic experiments to complete the missing/hidden information in environments where objects are only observed in one or few instances where self-occlusions are bound to occur.…

3D point cloud generation by the deep neural network from a single image has been attracting more and more researchers' attention. However, recently-proposed methods require the objects be captured with relatively clean backgrounds, fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Yan Xia , Yang Zhang , Dingfu Zhou , Xinyu Huang , Cheng Wang , Ruigang Yang

Generating a 3D point cloud from a single 2D image is of great importance for 3D scene understanding applications. To reconstruct the whole 3D shape of the object shown in the image, the existing deep learning based approaches use either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yao Wei , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

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

Point cloud learning has lately attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications in many areas, such as computer vision, autonomous driving, and robotics. As a dominating technique in AI, deep learning has been successfully used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Yulan Guo , Hanyun Wang , Qingyong Hu , Hao Liu , Li Liu , Mohammed Bennamoun

We revisit Semantic Scene Completion (SSC), a useful task to predict the semantic and occupancy representation of 3D scenes, in this paper. A number of methods for this task are always based on voxelized scene representations for keeping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Xiaokang Chen , Jiaxiang Tang , Jingbo Wang , Gang Zeng

In this paper, we present an InSphereNet method for the problem of 3D object classification. Unlike previous methods that use points, voxels, or multi-view images as inputs of deep neural network (DNN), the proposed method constructs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Hui Cao , Haikuan Du , Siyu Zhang , Shen Cai

Unsupervised representation learning techniques, such as learning word embeddings, have had a significant impact on the field of natural language processing. Similar representation learning techniques have not yet become commonplace in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Joël Bachmann , Kenneth Blomqvist , Julian Förster , Roland Siegwart

LiDAR point clouds can effectively depict the motion and posture of objects in three-dimensional space. Many studies accomplish the 3D object detection by voxelizing point clouds. However, in autonomous driving scenarios, the sparsity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yongxin Shao , Aihong Tan , Binrui Wang , Tianhong Yan , Zhetao Sun , Yiyang Zhang , Jiaxin Liu

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

We introduce a novel framework for Continual Learning in 3D object classification. Our approach, CL3D, is based on the selection of prototypes from each class using spectral clustering. For non-Euclidean data such as point clouds, spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Hossein Resani , Behrooz Nasihatkon , Mohammadreza Alimoradi Jazi

We introduce PointGauss, a novel point cloud-guided framework for real-time multi-object segmentation in Gaussian Splatting representations. Unlike existing methods that suffer from prolonged initialization and limited multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Wentao Sun , Hanqing Xu , Quanyun Wu , Dedong Zhang , Yiping Chen , Lingfei Ma , John S. Zelek , Jonathan Li

Point cloud completion aims to infer a complete shape from its partial observation. Many approaches utilize a pure encoderdecoder paradigm in which complete shape can be directly predicted by shape priors learned from partial scans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Zizhao Wu , Jian Shi , Xuan Deng , Cheng Zhang , Genfu Yang , Ming Zeng , Yunhai Wang