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The shift from Convolutional Neural Networks to Transformers has reshaped computer vision, yet these two architectural families are typically viewed as fundamentally distinct. We argue that convolution and self-attention, despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mingi Kang , Jeová Farias Sales Rocha Neto

We present a novel lightweight convolutional neural network for point cloud analysis. In contrast to many current CNNs which increase receptive field by downsampling point cloud, our method directly operates on the entire point sets without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Xu Wang , Yuyan Li , Ye Duan

Deep learning on point clouds has made a lot of progress recently. Many point cloud dedicated deep learning frameworks, such as PointNet and PointNet++, have shown advantages in accuracy and speed comparing to those using traditional 3D…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Guanghua Pan , Jun Wang , Rendong Ying , Peilin Liu

In point cloud generation and completion, previous methods for transforming latent features to point clouds are generally based on fully connected layers (FC-based) or folding operations (Folding-based). However, point clouds generated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Kaiyi Zhang , Ximing Yang , Yuan Wu , Cheng Jin

Vision transformers have gained popularity recently, leading to the development of new vision backbones with improved features and consistent performance gains. However, these advancements are not solely attributable to novel feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Xiaowei Hu , Min Shi , Weiyun Wang , Sitong Wu , Linjie Xing , Wenhai Wang , Xizhou Zhu , Lewei Lu , Jie Zhou , Xiaogang Wang , Yu Qiao , Jifeng Dai

Point Transformers are near state-of-the-art models for classification, segmentation, and detection tasks on Point Cloud data. They utilize a self attention based mechanism to model large range spatial dependencies between multiple point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Kartik Gupta , Rahul Vippala , Sahima Srivastava

Point cloud segmentation, which helps us understand the environment of specific structures and objects, can be performed in class-specific and class-agnostic ways. We propose a novel region-based transformer model called Region-Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Dipesh Gyawali , Jian Zhang , BB Karki

Transformers exhibit great advantages in handling computer vision tasks. They model image classification tasks by utilizing a multi-head attention mechanism to process a series of patches consisting of split images. However, for complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Witold Pedrycz , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

Transformers have shown superior performance on various computer vision tasks with their capabilities to capture long-range dependencies. Despite the success, it is challenging to directly apply Transformers on point clouds due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jinyoung Park , Sanghyeok Lee , Sihyeon Kim , Yunyang Xiong , Hyunwoo J. Kim

This paper proposes a novel point-cloud-based place recognition system that adopts a deep learning approach for feature extraction. By using a convolutional neural network pre-trained on color images to extract features from a range image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Ting Sun , Ming Liu , Haoyang Ye , Dit-Yan Yeung

Transformer-based models have significantly advanced natural language processing and computer vision in recent years. However, due to the irregular and disordered structure of point cloud data, transformer-based models for 3D deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Xincheng Yang , Mingze Jin , Weiji He , Qian Chen

Point clouds are an increasingly relevant data type but they are often corrupted by noise. We propose a deep neural network based on graph-convolutional layers that can elegantly deal with the permutation-invariance problem encountered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Francesca Pistilli , Giulia Fracastoro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Convolutional layers are a major driving force behind the successes of deep learning. Pointwise convolution (PWC) is a 1x1 convolutional filter that is primarily used for parameter reduction. However, the PWC ignores the spatial information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Pratik Mazumder , Pravendra Singh , Vinay Namboodiri

Remarkable advancements have been made recently in point cloud analysis through the exploration of transformer architecture, but it remains challenging to effectively learn local and global structures within point clouds. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Haibo Qiu , Baosheng Yu , Dacheng Tao

Aiming at the problems that the convolutional neural networks neglect to capture the inherent attributes of natural images and extract features only in a single scale in the field of image super-resolution reconstruction, a network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Jiawen Lyn , Sen Yan

Point clouds are a basic data type that is increasingly of interest as 3D content becomes more ubiquitous. Applications using point clouds include virtual, augmented, and mixed reality and autonomous driving. We propose a more efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Ryan Killea , Yun Li , Saeed Bastani , Paul McLachlan

Transformers have been seldom employed in point cloud roof plane instance segmentation, which is the focus of this study, and existing superpoint Transformers suffer from limited performance due to the use of low-quality superpoints. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Cheng Zeng , Xiatian Qi , Chi Chen , Kai Sun , Wangle Zhang , Yuxuan Liu , Yan Meng , Bisheng Yang

3D object recognition has attracted wide research attention in the field of multimedia and computer vision. With the recent proliferation of deep learning, various deep models with different representations have achieved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Haoxuan You , Yifan Feng , Rongrong Ji , Yue Gao

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

Exploiting convolutional neural networks for point cloud processing is quite challenging, due to the inherent irregular distribution and discrete shape representation of point clouds. To address these problems, many handcrafted convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Xing Nie , Yongcheng Liu , Shaohong Chen , Jianlong Chang , Chunlei Huo , Gaofeng Meng , Qi Tian , Weiming Hu , Chunhong Pan