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In this case study, we present a data-efficient point cloud segmentation pipeline and training framework for robust segmentation of unimproved roads and seven other classes. Our method employs a two-stage training framework: first, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Andrew Yarovoi , Christopher R. Valenta

Segmentation from point cloud data is essential in many applications such as remote sensing, mobile robots, or autonomous cars. However, the point clouds captured by the 3D range sensor are commonly sparse and unstructured, challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yu Cao , Yancheng Wang , Yifei Xue , Huiqing Zhang , Yizhen Lao

In recent years, research on few-shot learning (FSL) has been fast-growing in the 2D image domain due to the less requirement for labeled training data and greater generalization for novel classes. However, its application in 3D point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Chuangguan Ye , Hongyuan Zhu , Bo Zhang , Tao Chen

We present an efficient and scalable algorithm for segmenting 3D RGBD point clouds by combining depth, color, and temporal information using a multistage, hierarchical graph-based approach. Our algorithm processes a moving window over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Steven Hickson , Stan Birchfield , Irfan Essa , Henrik Christensen

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data is essential for enhanced high-level perception in autonomous platforms. Furthermore, given the increasing deployment of LiDAR sensors onboard of cars and drones, a special emphasis is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Yara Ali Alnaggar , Mohamed Afifi , Karim Amer , Mohamed Elhelw

Implicit neural networks have emerged as a crucial technology in 3D surface reconstruction. To reconstruct continuous surfaces from discrete point clouds, encoding the input points into regular grid features (plane or volume) has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Shengtao Li , Ge Gao , Yudong Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Ming Gu

Recently, deep neural networks have made remarkable achievements in 3D point cloud classification. However, existing classification methods are mainly implemented on idealized point clouds and suffer heavy degradation of per-formance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Guoquan Xu , Hezhi Cao , Yifan Zhang , Jianwei Wan , Ke Xu , Yanxin Ma

Hypergraph spectral analysis has emerged as an effective tool processing complex data structures in data analysis. The surface of a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud and the multilateral relationship among their points can be naturally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Songyang Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Zhi Ding

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have shown powerful ability in fitting the shape geometry. However, inferring continuous signed distance fields from discrete unoriented point clouds still remains a challenge. The neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Shengtao Li , Ge Gao , Yudong Liu , Ming Gu , Yu-Shen Liu

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

This work presents FG-Net, a general deep learning framework for large-scale point clouds understanding without voxelizations, which achieves accurate and real-time performance with a single NVIDIA GTX 1080 GPU. First, a novel noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Kangcheng Liu , Zhi Gao , Feng Lin , Ben M. Chen

Point Cloud Registration (PCR) is a fundamental and significant issue in photogrammetry and remote sensing, aiming to seek the optimal rigid transformation between sets of points. Achieving efficient and precise PCR poses a considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Rongling Zhang , Li Yan , Pengcheng Wei , Hong Xie , Pinzhuo Wang , Binbing Wang

Current Graph Neural Networks (GNN) architectures generally rely on two important components: node features embedding through message passing, and aggregation with a specialized form of pooling. The structural (or topological) information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Cédric Vincent-Cuaz , Rémi Flamary , Marco Corneli , Titouan Vayer , Nicolas Courty

The classification of airborne laser scanning (ALS) point clouds is a critical task of remote sensing and photogrammetry fields. Although recent deep learning-based methods have achieved satisfactory performance, they have ignored the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Yongqiang Mao , Kaiqiang Chen , Wenhui Diao , Xian Sun , Xiaonan Lu , Kun Fu , Martin Weinmann

Efficient processing and feature extraction of largescale point clouds are important in related computer vision and cyber-physical systems. This work investigates point cloud resampling based on hypergraph signal processing (HGSP) to better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Qinwen Deng , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

3D point clouds are discrete samples of continuous surfaces which can be used for various applications. However, the lack of true connectivity information, i.e., edge information, makes point cloud recognition challenging. Recent edge-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Haoyi Xiu , Xin Liu , Weimin Wang , Kyoung-Sook Kim , Takayuki Shinohara , Qiong Chang , Masashi Matsuoka

Efficient transmission of 3D point cloud data is critical for advanced perception in centralized and decentralized multi-agent robotic systems, especially nowadays with the growing reliance on edge and cloud-based processing. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

In recent years, parametric representations of point clouds have been widely applied in tasks such as memory-efficient mapping and multi-robot collaboration. Highly adaptive models, like spline surfaces or quadrics, are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yuan Gao , Wei Dong

We study multi-sensor fusion for 3D semantic segmentation that is important to scene understanding for many applications, such as autonomous driving and robotics. Existing fusion-based methods, however, may not achieve promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Mingkui Tan , Zhuangwei Zhuang , Sitao Chen , Rong Li , Kui Jia , Qicheng Wang , Yuanqing Li

Efficient and real time segmentation of color images has a variety of importance in many fields of computer vision such as image compression, medical imaging, mapping and autonomous navigation. Being one of the most computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Roopal Nahar , Akanksha Baranwal , K. Madhava Krishna