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Recent years have witnessed the surge of learned representations that directly build upon point clouds. Though becoming increasingly expressive, most existing representations still struggle to generate ordered point sets. Inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Jiaxin Wei , Lige Liu , Ran Cheng , Wenqing Jiang , Minghao Xu , Xinyu Jiang , Tao Sun , Soren Schwertfeger , Laurent Kneip

In this paper we present a scalable approach for robustly computing a 3D surface mesh from multi-scale multi-view stereo point clouds that can handle extreme jumps of point density (in our experiments three orders of magnitude). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Christian Mostegel , Rudolf Prettenthaler , Friedrich Fraundorfer , Horst Bischof

In point cloud analysis, point-based methods have rapidly developed in recent years. These methods have recently focused on concise MLP structures, such as PointNeXt, which have demonstrated competitiveness with Convolutional and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Xin Deng , WenYu Zhang , Qing Ding , XinMing Zhang

Point clouds provide a compact and efficient representation of 3D shapes. While deep neural networks have achieved impressive results on point cloud learning tasks, they require massive amounts of manually labeled data, which can be costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Han Qiao , Nayun Xu , Vladimir G. Kim

The popularisation of acquisition devices capable of capturing volumetric information such as LiDAR scans and depth cameras has lead to an increased interest in point clouds as an imaging modality. Due to the high amount of data needed for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Davi Lazzarotto , Touradj Ebrahimi

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in clinical practice due to its cost-effectiveness, mobility, and safety. However, current AI research often treats disease prediction and tissue segmentation as two separate tasks and their model requires…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Zhi Chen , Le Zhang

The growing size of point clouds enlarges consumptions of storage, transmission, and computation of 3D scenes. Raw data is redundant, noisy, and non-uniform. Therefore, simplifying point clouds for achieving compact, clean, and uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yuanqi Li , Jianwei Guo , Xinran Yang , Shun Liu , Jie Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yanwen Guo

In this work we propose to segment the prostate on a challenging dataset of trans-rectal ultrasound (TRUS) images using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and statistical shape models (SSMs). TRUS is commonly used for a number of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Golnoosh Samei , Davood Karimi , Claudia Kesch , Septimiu Salcudean

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

Learning and analyzing 3D point clouds with deep networks is challenging due to the sparseness and irregularity of the data. In this paper, we present a data-driven point cloud upsampling technique. The key idea is to learn multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Lequan Yu , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Though a number of point cloud learning methods have been proposed to handle unordered points, most of them are supervised and require labels for training. By contrast, unsupervised learning of point cloud data has received much less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Jincen Jiang , Xuequan Lu , Wanli Ouyang , Meili Wang

Existing state-of-the-art 3D point cloud understanding methods merely perform well in a fully supervised manner. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no unified framework that simultaneously solves the downstream high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Kangcheng Liu

This paper studies the problem of extracting planar regions in uneven terrains from unordered point cloud measurements. Such a problem is critical in various robotic applications such as robotic perceptive locomotion. While existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yinghan Sun , Linfang Zheng , Hua Chen , Wei Zhang

This paper studies the 3D instance segmentation problem, which has a variety of real-world applications such as robotics and augmented reality. Since the surroundings of 3D objects are of high complexity, the separating of different objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Min Zhong , Xinghao Chen , Xiaokang Chen , Gang Zeng , Yunhe Wang

We propose a novel deep learning-based framework to tackle the challenge of semantic segmentation of large-scale point clouds of millions of points. We argue that the organization of 3D point clouds can be efficiently captured by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Loic Landrieu , Martin Simonovsky

Ultrasound imaging is generally employed for real-time investigation of internal anatomy of the human body for disease identification. Delineation of the anatomical boundary of organs and pathological lesions is quite challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Sumanth Nandamuri , Debarghya China , Pabitra Mitra , Debdoot Sheet

We tackle the problem of object-centric learning on point clouds, which is crucial for high-level relational reasoning and scalable machine intelligence. In particular, we introduce a framework, SPAIR3D, to factorize a 3D point cloud into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tianyu Wang , Miaomiao Liu , Kee Siong Ng

Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure. Due to its irregular format, most researchers transform such data to regular 3D voxel grids or collections of images. This, however, renders data unnecessarily voluminous and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Charles R. Qi , Hao Su , Kaichun Mo , Leonidas J. Guibas

Point cloud analysis without pose priors is very challenging in real applications, as the orientations of point clouds are often unknown. In this paper, we propose a brand new point-set learning framework PRIN, namely, Pointwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Yang You , Yujing Lou , Qi Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Lizhuang Ma , Cewu Lu , Weiming Wang

Point clouds-based Networks have achieved great attention in 3D object classification, segmentation and indoor scene semantic parsing. In terms of face recognition, 3D face recognition method which directly consume point clouds as input is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Ziyu Zhang , Feipeng Da , Yi Yu