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We present a new self-supervised paradigm on point cloud sequence understanding. Inspired by the discriminative and generative self-supervised methods, we design two tasks, namely point cloud sequence based Contrastive Prediction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xiaoxiao Sheng , Zhiqiang Shen , Gang Xiao

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have shown great potentials in self-supervised pre-training for language and 2D image transformers. However, it still remains an open question on how to exploit masked autoencoding for learning 3D representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Rongyao Fang , Bin Zhao , Dong Wang , Yu Qiao , Hongsheng Li , Peng Gao

Recently, the community has made tremendous progress in developing effective methods for point cloud video understanding that learn from massive amounts of labeled data. However, annotating point cloud videos is usually notoriously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhiqiang Shen , Xiaoxiao Sheng , Hehe Fan , Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Qiong Liu , Hao Wen , Xi Zhou

Self-supervised learning can extract representations of good quality from solely unlabeled data, which is appealing for point cloud videos due to their high labelling cost. In this paper, we propose a contrastive mask prediction (PointCMP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zhiqiang Shen , Xiaoxiao Sheng , Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Qiong Liu , Xi Zhou

This paper presents SurfelSoup, an end-to-end learned surface-based framework for point cloud geometry compression, with surface-structured primitives for representation. It proposes a probabilistic surface representation, pSurfel, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Tingyu Fan , Ran Gong , Yueyu Hu , Yao Wang

We present SeRP, a framework for Self-Supervised Learning of 3D point clouds. SeRP consists of encoder-decoder architecture that takes perturbed or corrupted point clouds as inputs and aims to reconstruct the original point cloud without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Siddhant Garg , Mudit Chaudhary

The manual annotation for large-scale point clouds costs a lot of time and is usually unavailable in harsh real-world scenarios. Inspired by the great success of the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm in both vision and language tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Chao Sun , Zhedong Zheng , Xiaohan Wang , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang

The increased availability of massive point clouds coupled with their utility in a wide variety of applications such as robotics, shape synthesis, and self-driving cars has attracted increased attention from both industry and academia.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Charu Sharma , Manohar Kaul

In this work, we propose to learn local descriptors for point clouds in a self-supervised manner. In each iteration of the training, the input of the network is merely one unlabeled point cloud. On top of our previous work, that directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yijun Yuan , Jiawei Hou , Andreas Nüchter , Sören Schwertfeger

This study explores the application of self-supervised learning (SSL) to the task of motion forecasting, an area that has not yet been extensively investigated despite the widespread success of SSL in computer vision and natural language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jie Cheng , Xiaodong Mei , Ming Liu

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a prominent research direction in point cloud processing. While existing models predominantly concentrate on reconstruction tasks at higher encoder layers, they often neglect the effective utilization…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xin Cao , Haoyu Wang , Yuzhu Mao , Xinda Liu , Linzhi Su , Kang Li

Point cloud data has been extensively studied due to its compact form and flexibility in representing complex 3D structures. The ability of point cloud data to accurately capture and represent intricate 3D geometry makes it an ideal choice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ben Fei , Weidong Yang , Liwen Liu , Tianyue Luo , Rui Zhang , Yixuan Li , Ying He

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently been widely applied to 3D point cloud understanding, with masked autoencoding as the predominant pre-training paradigm. However, the challenge of learning dense and informative semantic features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Bin Ren , Xiaoshui Huang , Mengyuan Liu , Hong Liu , Fabio Poiesi , Nicu Sebe , Guofeng Mei

We propose a novel normal estimation method called HSurf-Net, which can accurately predict normals from point clouds with noise and density variations. Previous methods focus on learning point weights to fit neighborhoods into a geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Qing Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Jin-San Cheng , Cheng Wang , Yi Fang , Zhizhong Han

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is vital for 3D computer vision. State-of-the-art methods leverage large datasets to first learn local context priors that are represented as neural network-based signed distance functions (SDFs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker , Zhizhong Han

Masked point modeling has become a promising scheme of self-supervised pre-training for point clouds. Existing methods reconstruct either the original points or related features as the objective of pre-training. However, considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Qibo Qiu , Honghui Yang , Wenxiao Wang , Shun Zhang , Haiming Gao , Haochao Ying , Wei Hua , Xiaofei He

We present Point-BERT, a new paradigm for learning Transformers to generalize the concept of BERT to 3D point cloud. Inspired by BERT, we devise a Masked Point Modeling (MPM) task to pre-train point cloud Transformers. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xumin Yu , Lulu Tang , Yongming Rao , Tiejun Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

In this paper, we propose a point cloud classification method based on graph neural network and manifold learning. Different from the conventional point cloud analysis methods, this paper uses manifold learning algorithms to embed point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Dinghao Yang , Wei Gao

We are interested in reconstructing the mesh representation of object surfaces from point clouds. Surface reconstruction is a prerequisite for downstream applications such as rendering, collision avoidance for planning, animation, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Minghua Liu , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Hao Su

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated remarkable success in 3D point cloud analysis, particularly through masked autoencoders (MAEs). However, existing MAE-based methods lack rotation invariance, leading to significant performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xuanhua Yin , Dingxin Zhang , Jianhui Yu , Weidong Cai