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Learning sensorimotor control policies from high-dimensional images crucially relies on the quality of the underlying visual representations. Prior works show that structured latent space such as visual keypoints often outperforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Boyuan Chen , Pieter Abbeel , Deepak Pathak

This paper presents a novel 3D semantic segmentation method for large-scale point cloud data that does not require annotated 3D training data or paired RGB images. The proposed approach projects 3D point clouds onto 2D images using virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Toshihiko Nishimura , Hirofumi Abe , Kazuhiko Murasaki , Taiga Yoshida , Ryuichi Tanida

3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving and robotic perception, yet its reliance on large-scale manually annotated data limits scalability and adaptability. To reduce annotation dependency, unsupervised and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yushen He , Lei Zhao , Weidong Chen

Video annotation is expensive and time consuming. Consequently, datasets for multi-person pose estimation and tracking are less diverse and have more sparse annotations compared to large scale image datasets for human pose estimation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Umer Rafi , Andreas Doering , Bastian Leibe , Juergen Gall

Monocular 3D human pose estimation remains a challenging and ill-posed problem, particularly in real-time settings and unconstrained environments. While direct imageto-3D approaches require large annotated datasets and heavy models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Mohamed Adjel

Detailed structural and species information on individual tree level is increasingly important to support precision forestry, biodiversity conservation, and provide reference data for biomass and carbon mapping. Point clouds from airborne…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Aldino Rizaldy , Fabian Ewald Fassnacht , Ahmed Jamal Afifi , Hua Jiang , Richard Gloaguen , Pedram Ghamisi

Human pose estimation (HPE) usually requires large-scale training data to reach high performance. However, it is rather time-consuming to collect high-quality and fine-grained annotations for human body. To alleviate this issue, we revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Xixia Xu , Yingguo Gao , Ke Yan , Xue Lin , Qi Zou

Human Pose Estimation (HPE) involves detecting and localizing keypoints on the human body from visual data. In 3D HPE, occlusions, where parts of the body are not visible in the image, pose a significant challenge for accurate pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Filipa Lino , Carlos Santiago , Manuel Marques

Estimating the head pose of a person is a crucial problem that has a large amount of applications such as aiding in gaze estimation, modeling attention, fitting 3D models to video and performing face alignment. Traditionally head pose is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Nataniel Ruiz , Eunji Chong , James M. Rehg

Local and global patterns of an object are closely related. Although each part of an object is incomplete, the underlying attributes about the object are shared among all parts, which makes reasoning the whole object from a single part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Yongming Rao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Contemporary deep neural networks offer state-of-the-art results when applied to visual reasoning, e.g., in the context of 3D point cloud data. Point clouds are important datatype for precise modeling of three-dimensional environments, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Maciej Zamorski , Michał Stypułkowski , Konrad Karanowski , Tomasz Trzciński , Maciej Zięba

While massively scaling both data and models have become central in NLP and 2D vision, their benefits for 3D point cloud understanding remain limited. We study the initial step of scaling 3D point cloud understanding under a realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xuweiyi Chen , Wentao Zhou , Aruni RoyChowdhury , Zezhou Cheng

We propose a novel generative approach for 3D human pose estimation. 3D human pose estimation poses several key challenges due to the complex geometry of the human body, self-occluding joints, and the requirement for large-scale real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hyunsoo Lee , Daeum Jeon , Hyeokjae Oh

Point clouds provide intrinsic geometric information and surface context for scene understanding. Existing methods for point cloud segmentation require a large amount of fully labeled data. Using advanced depth sensors, collection of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jiacheng Wei , Guosheng Lin , Kim-Hui Yap , Tzu-Yi Hung , Lihua Xie

In this paper, we propose the 3DFeat-Net which learns both 3D feature detector and descriptor for point cloud matching using weak supervision. Unlike many existing works, we do not require manual annotation of matching point clusters.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Zi Jian Yew , Gim Hee Lee

We present an unsupervised learning approach to recover 3D human pose from 2D skeletal joints extracted from a single image. Our method does not require any multi-view image data, 3D skeletons, correspondences between 2D-3D points, or use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Ching-Hang Chen , Ambrish Tyagi , Amit Agrawal , Dylan Drover , Rohith MV , Stefan Stojanov , James M. Rehg

Understanding and representing the structure of 3D objects in an unsupervised manner remains a core challenge in computer vision and graphics. Most existing unsupervised keypoint methods are not designed for unconditional generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Rhys Newbury , Juyan Zhang , Tin Tran , Hanna Kurniawati , Dana Kulić

We propose a novel scene flow method that captures 3D motions from point clouds without relying on ground-truth scene flow annotations. Due to the irregularity and sparsity of point clouds, it is expensive and time-consuming to acquire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Bing Li , Cheng Zheng , Guohao Li , Bernard Ghanem

Addressing the annotation challenge in 3D Point Cloud segmentation has inspired research into weakly supervised learning. Existing approaches mainly focus on exploiting manifold and pseudo-labeling to make use of large unlabeled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Yongyi Su , Xun Xu , Kui Jia

This paper presents a novel self-supervised approach to reconstruct human shape and pose from noisy point cloud data. Relying on large amount of dataset with ground-truth annotations, recent learning-based approaches predict correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Qiang Sun , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng