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Point cloud stands as the most widely adopted format for representing 3D shapes and scenes due to its simplicity and geometric fidelity. However, its inherent unordered and irregular nature, exacerbated by sensor noise and occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhas Kamal , Hiranya Garbha Kumar , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

In order to retain more feature information of local areas on a point cloud, local grouping and subsampling are the necessary data structuring steps in most hierarchical deep learning models. Due to the disorder nature of the points in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Luyang Li , Ligang He , Jinjin Gao , Xie Han

Deep learning is increasingly being used to perform machine vision tasks such as classification, object detection, and segmentation on 3D point cloud data. However, deep learning inference is computationally expensive. The limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Mateen Ulhaq , Ivan V. Bajić

We propose an effective unsupervised 3D point cloud novelty detection approach, leveraging a general point cloud feature extractor and a one-class classifier. The general feature extractor consists of a graph-based autoencoder and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shizuka Akahori , Satoshi Iizuka , Ken Mawatari , Kazuhiro Fukui

Extracting robust and general 3D local features is key to downstream tasks such as point cloud registration and reconstruction. Existing learning-based local descriptors are either sensitive to rotation transformations, or rely on classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Sheng Ao , Qingyong Hu , Bo Yang , Andrew Markham , Yulan Guo

Understanding dynamic 3D environment is crucial for robotic agents and many other applications. We propose a novel neural network architecture called $MeteorNet$ for learning representations for dynamic 3D point cloud sequences. Different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Xingyu Liu , Mengyuan Yan , Jeannette Bohg

Representation learning from 3D point clouds is challenging due to their inherent nature of permutation invariance and irregular distribution in space. Existing deep learning methods follow a hierarchical feature extraction paradigm in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Rahul Chakwate , Arulkumar Subramaniam , Anurag Mittal

Common deep learning models for 3D environment perception often use pillarization/voxelization methods to convert point cloud data into pillars/voxels and then process it with a 2D/3D convolutional neural network (CNN). The pioneer work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Chuanyu Luo , Nuo Cheng , Sikun Ma , Jun Xiang , Xiaohan Li , Shengguang Lei , Pu Li

Point cloud classification plays an important role in a wide range of airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) applications, such as topographic mapping, forest monitoring, power line detection, and road detection. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Congcong Wen , Lina Yang , Ling Peng , Xiang Li , Tianhe Chi

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

Semantic segmentation of point clouds, aiming to assign each point a semantic category, is critical to 3D scene understanding.Despite of significant advances in recent years, most of existing methods still suffer from either the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Chen Chen , Yisen Wang , Honghua Chen , Xuefeng Yan , Dayong Ren , Yanwen Guo , Haoran Xie , Fu Lee Wang , Mingqiang Wei

There is a growing number of tasks that work directly on point clouds. As the size of the point cloud grows, so do the computational demands of these tasks. A possible solution is to sample the point cloud first. Classic sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Itai Lang , Asaf Manor , Shai Avidan

With the rapid advances of autonomous driving, it becomes critical to equip its sensing system with more holistic 3D perception. However, existing works focus on parsing either the objects (e.g. cars and pedestrians) or scenes (e.g. trees…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Fangzhou Hong , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Hongsheng Li , Ziwei Liu

Point cloud segmentation and classification are some of the primary tasks in 3D computer vision with applications ranging from augmented reality to robotics. However, processing point clouds using deep learning-based algorithms is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Aadesh Desai , Saagar Parikh , Seema Kumari , Shanmuganathan Raman

Environmental perception systems are crucial for high-precision mapping and autonomous navigation, with LiDAR serving as a core sensor providing accurate 3D point cloud data. Efficiently processing unstructured point clouds while extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chuang Chen , Yi Lin , Bo Wang , Jing Hu , Xi Wu , Wenyi Ge

Geometrical structures and the internal local region relationship, such as symmetry, regular array, junction, etc., are essential for understanding a 3D shape. This paper proposes a point cloud feature extraction network named PointSCNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Xingye Chen , Yiqi Wu , Wenjie Xu , Jin Li , Huaiyi Dong , Yilin Chen

Exploiting fine-grained semantic features on point cloud is still challenging due to its irregular and sparse structure in a non-Euclidean space. Among existing studies, PointNet provides an efficient and promising approach to learn shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

The paper presents a learning-based method for computing a discriminative 3D point cloud descriptor for place recognition purposes. Existing methods, such as PointNetVLAD, are based on unordered point cloud representation. They use PointNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Jacek Komorowski

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

Classification and segmentation of 3D point clouds are important tasks in computer vision. Because of the irregular nature of point clouds, most of the existing methods convert point clouds into regular 3D voxel grids before they are used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Wei Zeng , Theo Gevers