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The irregular domain and lack of ordering make it challenging to design deep neural networks for point cloud processing. This paper presents a novel framework named Point Cloud Transformer(PCT) for point cloud learning. PCT is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Meng-Hao Guo , Jun-Xiong Cai , Zheng-Ning Liu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Ralph R. Martin , Shi-Min Hu

Real-world robotic grasping can be done robustly if a complete 3D Point Cloud Data (PCD) of an object is available. However, in practice, PCDs are often incomplete when objects are viewed from few and sparse viewpoints before the grasping…

Point cloud completion aims to reconstruct complete shapes from partial observations. Although current methods have achieved remarkable performance, they still have some limitations: Supervised methods heavily rely on ground truth, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jingjing Lu , Huilong Pi , Yunchuan Qin , Zhuo Tang , Ruihui Li

Exploring contextual information in the local region is important for shape understanding and analysis. Existing studies often employ hand-crafted or explicit ways to encode contextual information of local regions. However, it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Inferring missing regions from severely occluded point clouds is highly challenging. Especially for 3D shapes with rich geometry and structure details, inherent ambiguities of the unknown parts are existing. Existing approaches either learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Linlian Jiang , Pan Chen , Ye Wang , Tieru Wu , Rui Ma

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense and uniformly distributed point sets from sparse point clouds. Existing point cloud upsampling methods typically approach the task as an interpolation problem. They achieve upsampling by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Ziming Nie , Qiao Wu , Chenlei Lv , Siwen Quan , Zhaoshuai Qi , Muze Wang , Jiaqi Yang

With the development of 3D sensing technologies, point clouds have attracted increasing attention in a variety of applications for 3D object representation, such as autonomous driving, 3D immersive tele-presence and heritage reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Junkun Qi , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

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

Recent advancements in Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models have significantly improved 3D point cloud generation. However, existing methods primarily focus on local feature extraction while overlooking global topological information, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zechao Guan , Feng Yan , Shuai Du , Lin Ma , Qingshan Liu

3D point cloud-based place recognition is highly demanded by autonomous driving in GPS-challenged environments and serves as an essential component (i.e. loop-closure detection) in lidar-based SLAM systems. This paper proposes a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Zhicheng Zhou , Cheng Zhao , Daniel Adolfsson , Songzhi Su , Yang Gao , Tom Duckett , Li Sun

The development of 2D foundation models for image segmentation has been significantly advanced by the Segment Anything Model (SAM). However, achieving similar success in 3D models remains a challenge due to issues such as non-unified data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yuchen Zhou , Jiayuan Gu , Tung Yen Chiang , Fanbo Xiang , Hao Su

3D world models (i.e., learning-based 3D dynamics models) offer a promising approach to generalizable robotic manipulation by capturing the underlying physics of environment evolution conditioned on robot actions. However, existing 3D world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Suning Huang , Qianzhong Chen , Xiaohan Zhang , Jiankai Sun , Mac Schwager

Existing networks directly learn feature representations on 3D point clouds for shape analysis. We argue that 3D point clouds are highly redundant and hold irregular (permutation-invariant) structure, which makes it difficult to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sameera Ramasinghe , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes , Stephen Gould

Representing 3D shape in deep learning frameworks in an accurate, efficient and compact manner still remains an open challenge. Most existing work addresses this issue by employing voxel-based representations. While these approaches benefit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Dominic Jack , Jhony K. Pontes , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes , Sareh Shirazi , Frederic Maire , Anders Eriksson

In this paper, we propose a new method for mapping a 3D point cloud to the latent space of a 3D generative adversarial network. Our generative model for 3D point clouds is based on SP-GAN, a state-of-the-art sphere-guided 3D point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Jaeyeon Kim , Binh-Son Hua , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Sai-Kit Yeung

Point clouds arising from structured data, mainly as a result of CT scans, provides special properties on the distribution of points and the distances between those. Yet often, the amount of data provided can not compare to unstructured…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Franziska Lippoldt , Hartmut Schwandt

Depth completion aims to predict dense depth maps with sparse depth measurements from a depth sensor. Currently, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based models are the most popular methods applied to depth completion tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Jian Qian , Miao Sun , Ashley Lee , Jie Li , Shenglong Zhuo , Patrick Yin Chiang

Most real-world 3D measurements from depth sensors are incomplete, and to address this issue the point cloud completion task aims to predict the complete shapes of objects from partial observations. Previous works often adapt an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Junming Zhang , Haomeng Zhang , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Most existing methods realize 3D instance segmentation by extending those models used for 3D object detection or 3D semantic segmentation. However, these non-straightforward methods suffer from two drawbacks: 1) Imprecise bounding boxes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Jiahao Sun , Chunmei Qing , Junpeng Tan , Xiangmin Xu

Although point cloud registration has achieved remarkable advances in object-level and indoor scenes, large-scale registration methods are rarely explored. Challenges mainly arise from the huge point number, complex distribution, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiuming Liu , Guangming Wang , Zhe Liu , Chaokang Jiang , Marc Pollefeys , Hesheng Wang