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The quality of point clouds is often limited by noise introduced during their capture process. Consequently, a fundamental 3D vision task is the removal of noise, known as point cloud filtering or denoising. State-of-the-art learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Xuequan Lu , Zhiwen Shao , Gang Li , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Ying He

Robust point cloud registration is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision and geometric deep learning, essential for applications such as large-scale 3D reconstruction, augmented reality, and scene understanding. However, the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Dongxu Zhang , Yingsen Wang , Yiding Sun , Haoran Xu , Peilin Fan , Jihua Zhu

Unsupervised disentangled representation learning is a long-standing problem in computer vision. This work proposes a novel framework for performing image clustering from deep embeddings by combining instance-level contrastive learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ramakrishnan Sundareswaran , Jansel Herrera-Gerena , John Just , Ali Jannesari

Detecting critical transitions in complex, noisy time-series data is a fundamental challenge across science and engineering. Such transitions may be anticipated by the emergence of a low-dimensional order parameter, whose signature is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wenqi Fang , Ye Li

In this paper, we propose a simple and general framework for self-supervised point cloud representation learning. Human beings understand the 3D world by extracting two levels of information and establishing the relationship between them.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Kexue Fu , Peng Gao , Renrui Zhang , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao , Manning Wang

How to extract significant point cloud features and estimate the pose between them remains a challenging question, due to the inherent lack of structure and ambiguous order permutation of point clouds. Despite significant improvements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zhu Xu , Zhengyao Bai , Huijie Liu , Qianjie Lu , Shenglan Fan

Point cloud normal estimation is a fundamental task in 3D geometry processing. While recent learning-based methods achieve notable advancements in normal prediction, they often overlook the critical aspect of equivariance. This results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hanxiao Wang , Mingyang Zhao , Weize Quan , Zhen Chen , Dong-ming Yan , Peter Wonka

In this paper, we propose PCPNet, a deep-learning based approach for estimating local 3D shape properties in point clouds. In contrast to the majority of prior techniques that concentrate on global or mid-level attributes, e.g., for shape…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Paul Guerrero , Yanir Kleiman , Maks Ovsjanikov , Niloy J. Mitra

Point cloud data plays an essential role in robotics and self-driving applications. Yet, annotating point cloud data is time-consuming and nontrivial while they enable learning discriminative 3D representations that empower downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Srikanth Malla , Yi-Ting Chen

The application of deep learning to 3D point clouds is challenging due to its lack of order. Inspired by the point embeddings of PointNet and the edge embeddings of DGCNNs, we propose three improvements to the task of point cloud analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Suresh Manandhar

Recently Transformer-based models have advanced point cloud understanding by leveraging self-attention mechanisms, however, these methods often overlook latent information in less prominent regions, leading to increased sensitivity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Yi Wang , Jiaze Wang , Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Donghao Zhou , Guangyong Chen , Anfeng Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng

3D surface reconstruction from point clouds is a key step in areas such as content creation, archaeology, digital cultural heritage, and engineering. Current approaches either try to optimize a non-data-driven surface representation to fit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Philipp Erler , Lizeth Fuentes , Pedro Hermosilla , Paul Guerrero , Renato Pajarola , Michael Wimmer

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

This paper proposes an adaptive margin contrastive learning method for 3D semantic segmentation on point clouds. Most existing methods use equally penalized objectives, which ignore the per-point ambiguities and less discriminated features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Yang Chen , Yueqi Duan , Haowen Sun , Jiwen Lu , Yap-Peng Tan

This paper presents an effective few-shot point cloud semantic segmentation approach for real-world applications. Existing few-shot segmentation methods on point cloud heavily rely on the fully-supervised pretrain with large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Jiahui Wang , Haiyue Zhu , Haoren Guo , Abdullah Al Mamun , Cheng Xiang , Tong Heng Lee

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Xin Cao , Xinxin Han , Yifan Wang , Mengna Yang , Kang Li

3D building models with facade details are playing an important role in many applications now. Classifying point clouds at facade-level is key to create such digital replicas of the real world. However, few studies have focused on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Yue Tan , Olaf Wysocki , Ludwig Hoegner , Uwe Stilla

Semantic parsing of large-scale 3D point clouds is an important research topic in computer vision and remote sensing fields. Most existing approaches utilize hand-crafted features for each modality independently and combine them in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Fangyu Liu , Shuaipeng Li , Liqiang Zhang , Chenghu Zhou , Rongtian Ye , Yuebin Wang , Jiwen Lu

Cloud-edge collaboration enhances machine perception by combining the strengths of edge and cloud computing. Edge devices capture raw data (e.g., 3D point clouds) and extract salient features, which are sent to the cloud for deeper analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Chongzhen Tian , Hui Yuan , Pan Zhao , Chang Sun , Raouf Hamzaoui , Sam Kwong

Despite recent success of self-supervised based contrastive learning model for 3D point clouds representation, the adversarial robustness of such pre-trained models raised concerns. Adversarial contrastive learning (ACL) is considered an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Junxuan Huang , Yatong An , Lu cheng , Bai Chen , Junsong Yuan , Chunming Qiao