English
Related papers

Related papers: RMS: Redundancy-Minimizing Point Cloud Sampling fo…

200 papers

Point clouds collected by real-world sensors are always unaligned and sparse, which makes it hard to reconstruct the complete shape of object from a single frame of data. In this work, we manage to provide complete point clouds from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jieqi Shi , Lingyun Xu , Peiliang Li , Xiaozhi Chen , Shaojie Shen

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

3D single object tracking is a key issue for autonomous following robot, where the robot should robustly track and accurately localize the target for efficient following. In this paper, we propose a 3D tracking method called 3D-SiamRPN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zheng Fang , Sifan Zhou , Yubo Cui , Sebastian Scherer

We propose and study a method called FLOT that estimates scene flow on point clouds. We start the design of FLOT by noticing that scene flow estimation on point clouds reduces to estimating a permutation matrix in a perfect world. Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Gilles Puy , Alexandre Boulch , Renaud Marlet

Ground segmentation is an important preprocessing task for autonomous vehicles (AVs) with 3D LiDARs. To solve the problem of existing ground segmentation methods being very difficult to balance accuracy and computational complexity, a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Weixin Huang , Huawei Liang , Linglong Lin , Zhiling Wang , Shaobo Wang , Biao Yu , Runxin Niu

Landslide monitoring is essential for understanding geohazards and mitigating associated risks. Existing point cloud-based methods, however, typically rely on either geometric or radiometric information and often yield sparse or non-3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhaoyi Wang , Jemil Avers Butt , Shengyu Huang , Tomislav Medic , Andreas Wieser

Point cloud analysis is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision. Most previous works have conducted experiments on synthetic datasets with well-aligned data; while real-world point clouds are often not pre-aligned. How to achieve rotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Chen Zhao , Jiaqi Yang , Xin Xiong , Angfan Zhu , Zhiguo Cao , Xin Li

Repeated Sampling (RS) is a simple inference-time algorithm that has been shown to improve model performance on complex tasks. Although it is an effective way of scaling inference time, it often struggles to generate diverse solution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Divij Handa , Mihir Parmar , Aswin RRV , Md Nayem Uddin , Hamid Palangi , Chitta Baral

Legged locomotion in constrained spaces (called crawl spaces) is challenging. In crawl spaces, current proprioceptive locomotion learning methods are difficult to achieve traverse because only ground features are inferred. In this study, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Bida Ma , Nuo Xu , Chenkun Qi , Xin Liu , Yule Mo , Jinkai Wang , Chunpeng Lu

We introduce Rectified Point Flow, a unified parameterization that formulates pairwise point cloud registration and multi-part shape assembly as a single conditional generative problem. Given unposed point clouds, our method learns a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Tao Sun , Liyuan Zhu , Shengyu Huang , Shuran Song , Iro Armeni

Multi-robot visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system is normally consisted of multiple mobile robots equipped with camera and/or other visual sensors. The networked robots work independently or cooperatively in an unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Biwei Li , Zhenqiang Mi , Yu Guo , Yang Yang , Mohammad S. Obaidat

Unsupervised point cloud segmentation is critical for embodied artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, as it mitigates the prohibitive cost of dense point-level annotations required by fully supervised methods. While integrating 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yixiao Song , Qingyong Li , Wen Wang , Zhicheng Yan

The global demand for medicinal plants, such as Damask roses, has surged with population growth, yet labor-intensive harvesting remains a bottleneck for scalability. To address this, we propose a novel 3D perception pipeline tailored for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Taha Samavati , Mohsen Soryani , Sina Mansouri

Recent advances in deep learning have improved 3D point cloud registration but increased graphics processing unit (GPU) memory usage, often requiring preliminary sampling that reduces accuracy. We propose an overlapping region sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Tomoyasu Shimada , Kazuhiko Murasaki , Shogo Sato , Toshihiko Nishimura , Taiga Yoshida , Ryuichi Tanida

Panoptic segmentation is a key enabler for robotic perception, as it unifies semantic understanding with object-level reasoning. However, the increasing complexity of state-of-the-art models makes them unsuitable for deployment on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Calvin Galagain , Martyna Poreba , François Goulette , Cyrill Stachniss

Predicting how the world can evolve in the future is crucial for motion planning in autonomous systems. Classical methods are limited because they rely on costly human annotations in the form of semantic class labels, bounding boxes, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Tarasha Khurana , Peiyun Hu , David Held , Deva Ramanan

Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) for point clouds have substantially improved 3D scene understanding without human annotations. Existing approaches emphasize semantic awareness by enforcing feature consistency across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Bin Yang , Mohamed Abdelsamad , Miao Zhang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

3D point clouds play a pivotal role in outdoor scene perception, especially in the context of autonomous driving. Recent advancements in 3D LiDAR segmentation often focus intensely on the spatial positioning and distribution of points for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Li Li , Hubert P. H. Shum , Toby P. Breckon

In this study, we propose a novel parallel processing method for point cloud ground segmentation, aimed at the technology evolution from mechanical to solid-state Lidar (SSL). We first benchmark point-based, grid-based, and range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Xiao Zhang , Zhanhong Huang , Garcia Gonzalez Antony , Xinming Huang

Point clouds are vital in computer vision tasks such as 3D reconstruction, autonomous driving, and robotics. However, TLS-acquired point clouds often contain virtual points from reflective surfaces, causing disruptions. This study presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Li Fang , Tianyu Li , Yanghong Lin , Shudong Zhou , Wei Yao