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3D anomaly detection in point-cloud data is critical for industrial quality control, aiming to identify structural defects with high reliability. However, current memory bank-based methods often suffer from inconsistent feature…

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Global localization in 3D point clouds is a challenging problem of estimating the pose of vehicles without any prior knowledge. In this paper, a solution to this problem is presented by achieving place recognition and metric pose estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Huan Yin , Li Tang , Xiaqing Ding , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

High-resolution 3D point clouds are highly effective for detecting subtle structural anomalies in industrial inspection. However, their dense and irregular nature imposes significant challenges, including high computational cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zi Wang , Katsuya Hotta , Koichiro Kamide , Yawen Zou , Chao Zhang , Jun Yu

3D reconstruction from images is a core problem in computer vision. With recent advances in deep learning, it has become possible to recover plausible 3D shapes even from single RGB images for the first time. However, obtaining detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Tao Hu , Geng Lin , Zhizhong Han , Matthias Zwicker

Low-overlap point cloud registration (PCR) remains a significant challenge in 3D vision. Traditional evaluation metrics, such as Maximum Inlier Count, become ineffective under extremely low inlier ratios. In this paper, we revisit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yaojie Zhang , Tianlun Huang , Weijun Wang , Wei Feng

The success of deep learning methods led to significant breakthroughs in 3-D point cloud processing tasks with applications in remote sensing. Existing methods utilize convolutions that have some limitations, as they assume a uniform input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Dimple A Shajahan , Mukund Varma T , Ramanathan Muthuganapathy

The vulnerability of 3D point cloud analysis to unpredictable rotations poses an open yet challenging problem: orientation-aware 3D domain generalization. Cross-domain robustness and adaptability of 3D representations are crucial but not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Bangzhen Liu , Chenxi Zheng , Xuemiao Xu , Cheng Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Shengfeng He

3D point cloud semantic and instance segmentation is crucial and fundamental for 3D scene understanding. Due to the complex structure, point sets are distributed off balance and diversely, which appears as both category imbalance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Tong He , Dong Gong , Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen

Deep point cloud registration methods face challenges to partial overlaps and rely on labeled data. To address these issues, we propose UDPReg, an unsupervised deep probabilistic registration framework for point clouds with partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Guofeng Mei , Hao Tang , Xiaoshui Huang , Weijie Wang , Juan Liu , Jian Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Qiang Wu

Probabilistic methods for point set registration have demonstrated competitive results in recent years. These techniques estimate a probability distribution model of the point clouds. While such a representation has shown promise, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Felix Järemo Lawin , Martin Danelljan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Per-Erik Forssén , Michael Felsberg

Point clouds are a fundamental 3D representation in computer vision, enabling a wide range of perception tasks. However, real-world point clouds often suffer from degradations such as incompleteness, noise, outliers, and irregular density,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Haoqing Wu , Alexa Nawotki , Jochen Garcke

A successful point cloud registration often lies on robust establishment of sparse matches through discriminative 3D local features. Despite the fast evolution of learning-based 3D feature descriptors, little attention has been drawn to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Xuyang Bai , Zixin Luo , Lei Zhou , Hongbo Fu , Long Quan , Chiew-Lan Tai

Although convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable success in analyzing 2D images/videos, it is still non-trivial to apply the well-developed 2D techniques in regular domains to the irregular 3D point cloud data. To bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yue Qian , Juyong Zhang , Ying He

Recent studies on visual reinforcement learning (visual RL) have explored the use of 3D visual representations. However, none of these work has systematically compared the efficacy of 3D representations with 2D representations across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zhan Ling , Yunchao Yao , Xuanlin Li , Hao Su

Feature descriptors of point clouds are used in several applications, such as registration and part segmentation of 3D point clouds. Learning discriminative representations of local geometric features is unquestionably the most important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Seunghwan Jung , Yeong-Gil Shin , Minyoung Chung

In this paper, by modeling the point cloud registration task as a Markov decision process, we propose an end-to-end deep model embedded with the cross-entropy method (CEM) for unsupervised 3D registration. Our model consists of a sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Haobo Jiang , Yaqi Shen , Jin Xie , Jun Li , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Accurate registration of 2D imagery with point clouds is a key technology for image-LiDAR point cloud fusion, camera to laser scanner calibration and camera localization. Despite continuous improvements, automatic registration of 2D and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Huai Yu , Weikun Zhen , Wen Yang , Sebastian Scherer

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

Recently, many deep neural networks were designed to process 3D point clouds, but a common drawback is that rotation invariance is not ensured, leading to poor generalization to arbitrary orientations. In this paper, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Xianzhi Li , Ruihui Li , Guangyong Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Graph representation learning is a fast-growing field where one of the main objectives is to generate meaningful representations of graphs in lower-dimensional spaces. The learned embeddings have been successfully applied to perform various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Md. Khaledur Rahman , Ariful Azad