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Self-supervised methods have been proven effective for learning deep representations of 3D point cloud data. Although recent methods in this domain often rely on random masking of inputs, the results of this approach can be improved. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Michał Szachniewicz , Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba

3D point clouds deep learning is a promising field of research that allows a neural network to learn features of point clouds directly, making it a robust tool for solving 3D scene understanding tasks. While recent works show that point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Zhiyuan Zhang , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

Reducing the quantity of annotations required for supervised training is vital when labels are scarce and costly. This reduction is especially important for semantic segmentation tasks involving 3D datasets that are often significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Andrej Janda , Brandon Wagstaff , Edwin G. Ng , Jonathan Kelly

Reinforcement Learning (RL) from raw visual input has achieved impressive successes in recent years, yet it remains fragile to out-of-distribution variations such as changes in lighting, color, and viewpoint. Point Cloud Reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Michael Bezick , Vittorio Giammarino , Ahmed H. Qureshi

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach for acquiring transferable 3D representations from unlabeled 3D point clouds. Unlike 2D images, which are widely accessible, acquiring 3D assets requires specialized expertise or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xuweiyi Chen , Zezhou Cheng

Transformers have been seldom employed in point cloud roof plane instance segmentation, which is the focus of this study, and existing superpoint Transformers suffer from limited performance due to the use of low-quality superpoints. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Cheng Zeng , Xiatian Qi , Chi Chen , Kai Sun , Wangle Zhang , Yuxuan Liu , Yan Meng , Bisheng Yang

Point clouds obtained from 3D sensors are usually sparse. Existing methods mainly focus on upsampling sparse point clouds in a supervised manner by using dense ground truth point clouds. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Yifan Zhao , Le Hui , Jin Xie

Aligning partial views of a scene into a single whole is essential to understanding one's environment and is a key component of numerous robotics tasks such as SLAM and SfM. Recent approaches have proposed end-to-end systems that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Mohamed El Banani , Luya Gao , Justin Johnson

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D annotations, making labeled samples difficult to obtain. Beyond annotation scarcity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thenukan Pathmanathan , Kanchan Keisham , Thangarajah Akilan

Pre-training has become a standard paradigm in many computer vision tasks. However, most of the methods are generally designed on the RGB image domain. Due to the discrepancy between the two-dimensional image plane and the three-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Zhenyu Li , Zehui Chen , Ang Li , Liangji Fang , Qinhong Jiang , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Bolei Zhou , Hang Zhao

In the realm of point cloud scene understanding, particularly in indoor scenes, objects are arranged following human habits, resulting in objects of certain semantics being closely positioned and displaying notable inter-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yanhao Wu , Tong Zhang , Wei Ke , Congpei Qiu , Sabine Susstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

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

Recently, zero-shot and few-shot learning via Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training (CLIP) have shown inspirational performance on 2D visual recognition, which learns to match images with their corresponding texts in open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Wei Zhang , Kunchang Li , Xupeng Miao , Bin Cui , Yu Qiao , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li

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

Deep learning with 3D data has progressed significantly since the introduction of convolutional neural networks that can handle point order ambiguity in point cloud data. While being able to achieve good accuracies in various scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zhiyuan Zhang , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

We present a new point-based approach for modeling the appearance of real scenes. The approach uses a raw point cloud as the geometric representation of a scene, and augments each point with a learnable neural descriptor that encodes local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kara-Ali Aliev , Artem Sevastopolsky , Maria Kolos , Dmitry Ulyanov , Victor Lempitsky

We propose a novel end-to-end deep scene flow model, called PointPWC-Net, on 3D point clouds in a coarse-to-fine fashion. Flow computed at the coarse level is upsampled and warped to a finer level, enabling the algorithm to accommodate for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Wenxuan Wu , Zhiyuan Wang , Zhuwen Li , Wei Liu , Li Fuxin

Large-scale datasets are usually required to train deep neural networks, but it increases the computational complexity hindering the practical applications. Recently, dataset distillation for images and texts has been attracting a lot of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jae-Young Yim , Dongwook Kim , Jae-Young Sim

Following the advent of immersive technologies and the increasing interest in representing interactive geometrical format, 3D Point Clouds (PC) have emerged as a promising solution and effective means to display 3D visual information. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Marouane Tliba , Aladine Chetouani , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux

Transformers have shown superior performance on various computer vision tasks with their capabilities to capture long-range dependencies. Despite the success, it is challenging to directly apply Transformers on point clouds due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jinyoung Park , Sanghyeok Lee , Sihyeon Kim , Yunyang Xiong , Hyunwoo J. Kim