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Learning and selecting important points on a point cloud is crucial for point cloud understanding in various applications. Most of early methods selected the important points on 3D shapes by analyzing the intrinsic geometric properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Sanghuk Lee , Yan-Pei Cao , Yu-Shen Liu

Despite their success, modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exhibit fundamental limitations, including data inefficiency, poor out-of-distribution generalization, and vulnerability to adversarial perturbations. These shortcomings can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Brennen A. Hill , Zhang Xinyu , Timothy Putra Prasetio

Traditional 3D face models learn a latent representation of faces using linear subspaces from limited scans of a single database. The main roadblock of building a large-scale face model from diverse 3D databases lies in the lack of dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Feng Liu , Luan Tran , Xiaoming Liu

We present NPNet, a fully non-parametric approach for 3D point-cloud classification and part segmentation. NPNet contains no learned weights; instead, it builds point features using deterministic operators such as farthest point sampling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mohammad Saeid , Amir Salarpour , Pedram MohajerAnsari , Mert D. Pesé

We introduce a method for learning to generate the surface of 3D shapes. Our approach represents a 3D shape as a collection of parametric surface elements and, in contrast to methods generating voxel grids or point clouds, naturally infers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Thibault Groueix , Matthew Fisher , Vladimir G. Kim , Bryan C. Russell , Mathieu Aubry

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 clouds are gaining prominence as a method for representing 3D shapes, but their irregular structure poses a challenge for deep learning methods. In this paper we propose CloudWalker, a novel method for learning 3D shapes using random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Adi Mesika , Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Ayellet Tal

Neural representations of 3D data have been widely adopted across various applications, particularly in recent work leveraging coordinate-based networks to model scalar or vector fields. However, these approaches face inherent challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Biao Zhang , Jing Ren , Peter Wonka

A generative model for high-fidelity point clouds is of great importance in synthesizing 3d environments for applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Despite the recent success of deep generative models for 2d images, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Cheng Wen , Baosheng Yu , Rao Fu , Dacheng Tao

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

Motivated by the intuition that one can transform two aligned point clouds to each other more easily and meaningfully than a misaligned pair, we propose CorrNet3D -- the first unsupervised and end-to-end deep learning-based framework -- to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yiming Zeng , Yue Qian , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Hui Yuan , Ying He

In engineering applications, line, circle, arc, and point are collectively referred to as primitives, and they play a crucial role in path planning, simulation analysis, and manufacturing. When designing CAD models, engineers typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Liang Wang , Xiaogang Wang

Point clouds have gained prominence across numerous applications due to their ability to accurately represent 3D objects and scenes. However, efficiently compressing unstructured, high-precision point cloud data remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hongning Ruan , Yulin Shao , Qianqian Yang , Liang Zhao , Zhaoyang Zhang , Dusit Niyato

In this work, we propose a novel method for generating 3D point clouds that leverage properties of hyper networks. Contrary to the existing methods that learn only the representation of a 3D object, our approach simultaneously finds a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Przemysław Spurek , Sebastian Winczowski , Jacek Tabor , Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Tomasz Trzciński

In this paper, we tackle the challenging problem of point cloud completion from the perspective of feature learning. Our key observation is that to recover the underlying structures as well as surface details, given partial input, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Zejia Su , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

We present a novel non-iterative learnable method for partial-to-partial 3D shape registration. The partial alignment task is extremely complex, as it jointly tries to match between points and identify which points do not appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Dvir Ginzburg , Dan Raviv

Point normal, as an intrinsic geometric property of 3D objects, not only serves conventional geometric tasks such as surface consolidation and reconstruction, but also facilitates cutting-edge learning-based techniques for shape analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Haoran Zhou , Honghua Chen , Yingkui Zhang , Mingqiang Wei , Haoran Xie , Jun Wang , Tong Lu , Jing Qin , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Point cloud filtering is a fundamental problem in geometry modeling and processing. Despite of significant advancement in recent years, the existing methods still suffer from two issues: 1) they are either designed without preserving sharp…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Dongbo Zhang , Xuequan Lu , Hong Qin , Ying He

The task of point cloud completion aims to predict the missing part for an incomplete 3D shape. A widely used strategy is to generate a complete point cloud from the incomplete one. However, the unordered nature of point clouds will degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xin Wen , Peng Xiang , Zhizhong Han , Yan-Pei Cao , Pengfei Wan , Wen Zheng , Yu-Shen Liu

Learning discriminative feature directly on point clouds is still challenging in the understanding of 3D shapes. Recent methods usually partition point clouds into local region sets, and then extract the local region features with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Fangzhou Hong , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker