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Point clouds can be regarded as discrete samples of smooth manifolds and are typically analyzed via the eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. This paper extends manifold spectral analysis to the fractional domain, enabling…
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…
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…
We present PPFNet - Point Pair Feature NETwork for deeply learning a globally informed 3D local feature descriptor to find correspondences in unorganized point clouds. PPFNet learns local descriptors on pure geometry and is highly aware of…
We propose an intra frame predictive strategy for compression of 3D point cloud attributes. Our approach is integrated with the region adaptive graph Fourier transform (RAGFT), a multi-resolution transform formed by a composition of…
Point cloud compression has garnered significant interest in computer vision. However, existing algorithms primarily cater to human vision, while most point cloud data is utilized for machine vision tasks. To address this, we propose a…
Three-dimensional object recognition has recently achieved great progress thanks to the development of effective point cloud-based learning frameworks, such as PointNet and its extensions. However, existing methods rely heavily on fully…
As 3D scanning devices and depth sensors advance, dynamic point clouds have attracted increasing attention as a format for 3D objects in motion, with applications in various fields such as immersive telepresence, navigation for autonomous…
Given encoded 3D point cloud geometry available at the decoder, we study the problem of lossy attribute compression in a multi-resolution B-spline projection framework. A target continuous 3D attribute function is first projected onto a…
Point clouds are the native output of many real-world 3D sensors. To borrow the success of 2D convolutional network architectures, a majority of popular 3D perception models voxelize the points, which can result in a loss of local geometric…
Since the data volume of LiDAR point clouds is very huge, efficient compression is necessary to reduce their storage and transmission costs. However, existing learning-based compression methods do not exploit the inherent angular resolution…
Due to the diverse sparsity, high dimensionality, and large temporal variation of dynamic point clouds, it remains a challenge to design an efficient point cloud compression method. We propose to code the geometry of a given point cloud by…
Compressing a set of unordered points is far more challenging than compressing images/videos of regular sample grids, because of the difficulties in characterizing neighboring relations in an irregular layout of points. Many researchers…
The universality of the point cloud format enables many 3D applications, making the compression of point clouds a critical phase in practice. Sampled as discrete 3D points, a point cloud approximates 2D surface(s) embedded in 3D with a…
Recent advances in pretraining 3D point cloud encoders (e.g., Point-BERT, Point-MAE) have produced powerful models, whose abilities are typically evaluated on geometric or semantic tasks. At the same time, topological descriptors have been…
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) significantly reduces computational and memory costs by updating only a small subset of the model's parameters, enabling faster adaptation to new tasks with minimal loss in performance. Previous…
Implicit Neural Representations (INRs), also known as neural fields, have emerged as a powerful paradigm in deep learning, parameterizing continuous spatial fields using coordinate-based neural networks. In this paper, we propose…
Efficient point cloud compression is fundamental to enable the deployment of virtual and mixed reality applications, since the number of points to code can range in the order of millions. In this paper, we present a novel data-driven…
In recent years, we have witnessed the presence of point cloud data in many aspects of our life, from immersive media, autonomous driving to healthcare, although at the cost of a tremendous amount of data. In this paper, we present an…
Large-scale 3D point clouds (LS3DPC) obtained by LiDAR scanners require huge storage space and transmission bandwidth due to a large amount of data. The existing methods of LS3DPC compression separately perform rule-based point sampling and…