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Recently, leveraging pre-training techniques to enhance point cloud models has become a prominent research topic. However, existing approaches typically require full fine-tuning of pre-trained models to achieve satisfactory performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dingkang Liang , Tianrui Feng , Xin Zhou , Yumeng Zhang , Zhikang Zou , Xiang Bai

3D Point cloud is becoming a critical data representation in many real-world applications like autonomous driving, robotics, and medical imaging. Although the success of deep learning further accelerates the adoption of 3D point clouds in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jiachen Sun , Weili Nie , Zhiding Yu , Z. Morley Mao , Chaowei Xiao

Single-image point cloud reconstruction must infer complete 3D geometry, including occluded parts, from a single RGB image. While diffusion-based reconstructors achieve high accuracy, they typically require many denoising iterations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yuta Baba , Keiji Yanai

Notwithstanding the prominent performance achieved in various applications, point cloud recognition models have often suffered from natural corruptions and adversarial perturbations. In this paper, we delve into boosting the general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Qidong Huang , Xiaoyi Dong , Dongdong Chen , Hang Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Kui Zhang , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

Point cloud is point sets defined in 3D metric space. Point cloud has become one of the most significant data format for 3D representation. Its gaining increased popularity as a result of increased availability of acquisition devices, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Saifullahi Aminu Bello , Shangshu Yu , Cheng Wang

Semantic scene understanding from point clouds is particularly challenging as the points reflect only a sparse set of the underlying 3D geometry. Previous works often convert point cloud into regular grids (e.g. voxels or bird-eye view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yinyu Nie , Ji Hou , Xiaoguang Han , Matthias Nießner

Point cloud obtained from 3D scanning is often sparse, noisy, and irregular. To cope with these issues, recent studies have been separately conducted to densify, denoise, and complete inaccurate point cloud. In this paper, we advocate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jaesung Choe , Byeongin Joung , Francois Rameau , Jaesik Park , In So Kweon

We develop a novel learning scheme named Self-Prediction for 3D instance and semantic segmentation of point clouds. Distinct from most existing methods that focus on designing convolutional operators, our method designs a new learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Jinxian Liu , Minghui Yu , Bingbing Ni , Ye Chen

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

Deep neural networks have established themselves as the state-of-the-art methodology in almost all computer vision tasks to date. But their application to processing data lying on non-Euclidean domains is still a very active area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Suresh Manandhar

3D surface reconstruction from point clouds is a key step in areas such as content creation, archaeology, digital cultural heritage, and engineering. Current approaches either try to optimize a non-data-driven surface representation to fit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Philipp Erler , Lizeth Fuentes , Pedro Hermosilla , Paul Guerrero , Renato Pajarola , Michael Wimmer

Unlike images which are represented in regular dense grids, 3D point clouds are irregular and unordered, hence applying convolution on them can be difficult. In this paper, we extend the dynamic filter to a new convolution operation, named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Wenxuan Wu , Zhongang Qi , Li Fuxin

This paper tries to address a fundamental question in point cloud self-supervised learning: what is a good signal we should leverage to learn features from point clouds without annotations? To answer that, we introduce a point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xiaoyu Tian , Haoxi Ran , Yue Wang , Hang Zhao

Downsampling and feature extraction are essential procedures for 3D point cloud understanding. Existing methods are limited by the inconsistent point densities of different parts in the point cloud. In this work, we analyze the limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Qi Wang , Sheng Shi , Jiahui Li , Wuming Jiang , Xiangde Zhang

Diffusion models are a powerful framework for tackling ill-posed problems, with recent advancements extending their use to point cloud upsampling. Despite their potential, existing diffusion models struggle with inefficiencies as they map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Lei Li

Compared to 2D data, the scale of point cloud data in different domains available for training, is quite limited. Researchers have been trying to combine these data of different domains for masked autoencoder (MAE) pre-training to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Ziqi Gao , Qiufu Li , Linlin Shen

Masked autoencoding and generative pretraining have achieved remarkable success in computer vision and natural language processing, and more recently, they have been extended to the point cloud domain. Nevertheless, existing point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Zhe Li , Xiying Wang , Jinglin Zhao , Zheng Wang , Debin Liu , Laurence T. Yang

In view of the difficulty in reconstructing object details in point cloud completion, we propose a shape prior learning method for object completion. The shape priors include geometric information in both complete and the partial point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Xiaogang Wang , Marcelo H Ang , Gim Hee Lee

Recently, there have been some attempts of Transformer in 3D point cloud classification. In order to reduce computations, most existing methods focus on local spatial attention, but ignore their content and fail to establish relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yahui Liu , Bin Tian , Yisheng Lv , Lingxi Li , Feiyue Wang

It is an important task to reconstruct surfaces from 3D point clouds. Current methods are able to reconstruct surfaces by learning Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) from single point clouds without ground truth signed distances or point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Baorui Ma , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han