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A promising direction for pre-training 3D point clouds is to leverage the massive amount of data in 2D, whereas the domain gap between 2D and 3D creates a fundamental challenge. This paper proposes a novel approach to point-cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Siming Yan , Chen Song , Youkang Kong , Qixing Huang

Existing approaches for unsupervised point cloud pre-training are constrained to either scene-level or point/voxel-level instance discrimination. Scene-level methods tend to lose local details that are crucial for recognizing the road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Junbo Yin , Dingfu Zhou , Liangjun Zhang , Jin Fang , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Jianbing Shen , Wenguan Wang

We present a new approach to instill 4D dynamic object priors into learned 3D representations by unsupervised pre-training. We observe that dynamic movement of an object through an environment provides important cues about its objectness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yujin Chen , Matthias Nießner , Angela Dai

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently been widely applied to 3D point cloud understanding, with masked autoencoding as the predominant pre-training paradigm. However, the challenge of learning dense and informative semantic features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Bin Ren , Xiaoshui Huang , Mengyuan Liu , Hong Liu , Fabio Poiesi , Nicu Sebe , Guofeng Mei

Recently, a noticeable trend has emerged in developing pre-trained foundation models in the domains of CV and NLP. However, for molecular pre-training, there lacks a universal model capable of effectively applying to various categories of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-21 Shikun Feng , Yuyan Ni , Minghao Li , Yanwen Huang , Zhi-Ming Ma , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

We propose a unified point cloud video self-supervised learning framework for object-centric and scene-centric data. Previous methods commonly conduct representation learning at the clip or frame level and cannot well capture fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Xiaoxiao Sheng , Zhiqiang Shen , Gang Xiao , Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Hehe Fan

3D Shape represented as point cloud has achieve advancements in multimodal pre-training to align image and language descriptions, which is curial to object identification, classification, and retrieval. However, the discrete representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Haoyuan Li , Yanpeng Zhou , Yihan Zeng , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Recent research has demonstrated that Large Language Models (LLMs) are not limited to text-only tasks but can also function as multimodal models across various modalities, including audio, images, and videos. In particular, research on 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Keonwoo Kim , Yeongjae Cho , Taebaek Hwang , Minsoo Jo , Sangdo Han

We introduce OpenShape, a method for learning multi-modal joint representations of text, image, and point clouds. We adopt the commonly used multi-modal contrastive learning framework for representation alignment, but with a specific focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Minghua Liu , Ruoxi Shi , Kaiming Kuang , Yinhao Zhu , Xuanlin Li , Shizhong Han , Hong Cai , Fatih Porikli , Hao Su

Arguably one of the top success stories of deep learning is transfer learning. The finding that pre-training a network on a rich source set (eg., ImageNet) can help boost performance once fine-tuned on a usually much smaller target set, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Saining Xie , Jiatao Gu , Demi Guo , Charles R. Qi , Leonidas J. Guibas , Or Litany

Unsupervised 3D representation learning reduces the burden of labeling multimodal 3D data for fusion perception tasks. Among different pre-training paradigms, differentiable-rendering-based methods have shown most promise. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Runjian Chen , Hang Zhang , Avinash Ravichandran , Hyoungseob Park , Wenqi Shao , Alex Wong , Ping Luo

Most existing self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches for 3D point clouds are dominated by generative methods based on Masked Autoencoders (MAE). However, these generative methods have been proven to struggle to capture high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Shaofeng Zhang , Xuanqi Chen , Xiangdong Zhang , Sitong Wu , Junchi Yan

The scale diversity of point cloud data presents significant challenges in developing unified representation learning techniques for 3D vision. Currently, there are few unified 3D models, and no existing pre-training method is equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ziyi Wang , Yanran Zhang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

3D contrastive representation learning has exhibited remarkable efficacy across various downstream tasks. However, existing contrastive learning paradigms based on cosine similarity fail to deeply explore the potential intra-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Naiwen Hu , Haozhe Cheng , Yifan Xie , Pengcheng Shi , Jihua Zhu

The manual annotation for large-scale point clouds costs a lot of time and is usually unavailable in harsh real-world scenarios. Inspired by the great success of the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm in both vision and language tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Chao Sun , Zhedong Zheng , Xiaohan Wang , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang

Molecular property prediction, crucial for early drug candidate screening and optimization, has seen advancements with deep learning-based methods. While deep learning-based methods have advanced considerably, they often fall short in fully…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-01 Taojie Kuang , Yiming Ren , Zhixiang Ren

3D captioning, which aims to describe the content of 3D scenes in natural language, remains highly challenging due to the inherent sparsity of point clouds and weak cross-modal alignment in existing methods. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ting Huang , Zeyu Zhang , Yemin Wang , Hao Tang

An effective framework for learning 3D representations for perception tasks is distilling rich self-supervised image features via contrastive learning. However, image-to point representation learning for autonomous driving datasets faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Anas Mahmoud , Jordan S. K. Hu , Tianshu Kuai , Ali Harakeh , Liam Paull , Steven L. Waslander

We develop an approach to learning visual representations that embraces multimodal data, driven by a combination of intra- and inter-modal similarity preservation objectives. Unlike existing visual pre-training methods, which solve a proxy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Xin Yuan , Zhe Lin , Jason Kuen , Jianming Zhang , Yilin Wang , Michael Maire , Ajinkya Kale , Baldo Faieta

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has shown impressive performance in aligning visual and textual representations. Recent studies have extended this paradigm to 3D vision to improve scene understanding for autonomous driving. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ximeng Tao , Dimitar Filev , Gaurav Pandey