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Global registration of point clouds aims to find an optimal alignment of a sequence of 2D or 3D point sets. In this paper, we present a novel method that takes advantage of current deep learning techniques for unsupervised learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Lingjing Wang , Yi Shi , Xiang Li , Yi Fang

Annotating large-scale point clouds is highly time-consuming and often infeasible for many complex real-world tasks. Point cloud pre-training has therefore become a promising strategy for learning discriminative representations without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guofeng Mei , Xiaoshui Huang , Juan Liu , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu

While massively scaling both data and models have become central in NLP and 2D vision, their benefits for 3D point cloud understanding remain limited. We study the initial step of scaling 3D point cloud understanding under a realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xuweiyi Chen , Wentao Zhou , Aruni RoyChowdhury , Zezhou Cheng

Change detection from traditional \added{2D} optical images has limited capability to model the changes in the height or shape of objects. Change detection using 3D point cloud \added{from photogrammetry or LiDAR surveying} can fill this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Iris de Gélis , Sudipan Saha , Muhammad Shahzad , Thomas Corpetti , Sébastien Lefèvre , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a prominent research direction in point cloud processing. While existing models predominantly concentrate on reconstruction tasks at higher encoder layers, they often neglect the effective utilization…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xin Cao , Haoyu Wang , Yuzhu Mao , Xinda Liu , Linzhi Su , Kang Li

The task of point cloud upsampling aims to acquire dense and uniform point sets from sparse and irregular point sets. Although significant progress has been made with deep learning models, state-of-the-art methods require ground-truth dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xinhai Liu , Xinchen Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Learning and analyzing 3D point clouds with deep networks is challenging due to the sparseness and irregularity of the data. In this paper, we present a data-driven point cloud upsampling technique. The key idea is to learn multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Lequan Yu , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Point clouds upsampling is a challenging issue to generate dense and uniform point clouds from the given sparse input. Most existing methods either take the end-to-end supervised learning based manner, where large amounts of pairs of sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Wenbo Zhao , Xianming Liu , Zhiwei Zhong , Junjun Jiang , Wei Gao , Ge Li , Xiangyang Ji

Robust point cloud registration is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision and geometric deep learning, essential for applications such as large-scale 3D reconstruction, augmented reality, and scene understanding. However, the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Dongxu Zhang , Yingsen Wang , Yiding Sun , Haoran Xu , Peilin Fan , Jihua Zhu

Self-supervised learning on point clouds has gained a lot of attention recently, since it addresses the label-efficiency and domain-gap problems on point cloud tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised framework to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Meng-Shiun Tsai , Pei-Ze Chiang , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu

Learning to generate 3D point clouds without 3D supervision is an important but challenging problem. Current solutions leverage various differentiable renderers to project the generated 3D point clouds onto a 2D image plane, and train deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Chen Chao , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

3D perception in LiDAR point clouds is crucial for a self-driving vehicle to properly act in 3D environment. However, manually labeling point clouds is hard and costly. There has been a growing interest in self-supervised pre-training of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Mu Cai , Chenxu Luo , Yong Jae Lee , Xiaodong Yang

Object classification using LiDAR 3D point cloud data is critical for modern applications such as autonomous driving. However, labeling point cloud data is labor-intensive as it requires human annotators to visualize and inspect the 3D data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Wang , Reza Arablouei , Jiajun Liu , Paulo Borges , Greg Bishop-Hurley , Nicholas Heaney

Semi-supervised learning (SSL), thanks to the significant reduction of data annotation costs, has been an active research topic for large-scale 3D scene understanding. However, the existing SSL-based methods suffer from severe training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mengtian Li , Shaohui Lin , Zihan Wang , Yunhang Shen , Baochang Zhang , Lizhuang Ma

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 recent years, point cloud analysis methods based on the Transformer architecture have made significant progress, particularly in the context of multimedia applications such as 3D modeling, virtual reality, and autonomous systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Qiang Zheng , Chao Zhang , Jian Sun

Although unsupervised feature learning has demonstrated its advantages to reducing the workload of data labeling and network design in many fields, existing unsupervised 3D learning methods still cannot offer a generic network for various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Peng-Shuai Wang , Yu-Qi Yang , Qian-Fang Zou , Zhirong Wu , Yang Liu , Xin Tong

Recently, the advancement of 3D point clouds in deep learning has attracted intensive research in different application domains such as computer vision and robotic tasks. However, creating feature representation of robust, discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Xu Wang , Yi Jin , Yigang Cen , Tao Wang , Yidong Li

This paper introduces a novel approach named CrossVideo, which aims to enhance self-supervised cross-modal contrastive learning in the field of point cloud video understanding. Traditional supervised learning methods encounter limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yunze Liu , Changxi Chen , Zifan Wang , Li Yi

Data augmentation is an effective regularization strategy for mitigating overfitting in deep neural networks, and it plays a crucial role in 3D vision tasks, where the point cloud data is relatively limited. While mixing-based augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yi Wang , Jiaze Wang , Jinpeng Li , Zixu Zhao , Guangyong Chen , Anfeng Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng