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Robust imitation learning for robot manipulation requires comprehensive 3D perception, yet many existing methods struggle in cluttered environments. Fixed camera view approaches are vulnerable to perspective changes, and 3D point cloud…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Daqi Huang , Zhehao Cai , Yuzhi Hao , Zechen Li , Chee-Meng Chew

We propose a fast and accurate surface reconstruction algorithm for unorganized point clouds using an implicit representation. Recent learning methods are either single-object representations with small neural models that allow for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Siddhant Ranade , Gonçalo Dias Pais , Ross Tyler Whitaker , Jacinto C. Nascimento , Pedro Miraldo , Srikumar Ramalingam

Visual imitation learning with 3D point clouds has advanced robotic manipulation by providing geometry-aware, appearance-invariant observations. However, point cloud-based policies remain highly sensitive to sensor noise, pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhiyuan Zhang , Yu She

Robotic manipulation systems benefit from complementary sensing modalities, where each provides unique environmental information. Point clouds capture detailed geometric structure, while RGB images provide rich semantic context. Current…

Cross-modal data registration has long been a critical task in computer vision, with extensive applications in autonomous driving and robotics. Accurate and robust registration methods are essential for aligning data from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yuanchao Yue , Hui Yuan , Qinglong Miao , Xiaolong Mao , Raouf Hamzaoui , Peter Eisert

Transformer-based models have significantly advanced natural language processing and computer vision in recent years. However, due to the irregular and disordered structure of point cloud data, transformer-based models for 3D deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Xincheng Yang , Mingze Jin , Weiji He , Qian Chen

Test-Time Training (TTT) has emerged as a promising solution to address distribution shifts in 3D point cloud classification. However, existing methods often rely on computationally expensive backpropagation during adaptation, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ali Bahri , Moslem Yazdanpanah , Sahar Dastani , Mehrdad Noori , Gustavo Adolfo Vargas Hakim , David Osowiechi , Farzad Beizaee , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christian Desrosiers

Cross-source point cloud registration, which aims to align point cloud data from different sensors, is a fundamental task in 3D vision. However, compared to the same-source point cloud registration, cross-source registration faces two core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zongyi Xu , Zhongpeng Lang , Yilong Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Xiaoshui Huang , Yifan Zuo , Yan Zhang , Qianni Zhang , Xinbo Gao

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

Manual annotation of large-scale point cloud dataset for varying tasks such as 3D object classification, segmentation and detection is often laborious owing to the irregular structure of point clouds. Self-supervised learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mohamed Afham , Isuru Dissanayake , Dinithi Dissanayake , Amaya Dharmasiri , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Ranga Rodrigo

Self-supervised learning is attracting wide attention in point cloud processing. However, it is still not well-solved to gain discriminative and transferable features of point clouds for efficient training on downstream tasks, due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xin Li , Mingqiang Wei , Songcan Chen

Point clouds obtained from capture devices or 3D reconstruction techniques are often noisy and interfere with downstream tasks. The paper aims to recover the underlying surface of noisy point clouds. We design a novel model, NoiseTrans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Guangzhe Hou , Guihe Qin , Minghui Sun , Yanhua Liang , Jie Yan , Zhonghan Zhang

Pre-training a model and then fine-tuning it on downstream tasks has demonstrated significant success in the 2D image and NLP domains. However, due to the unordered and non-uniform density characteristics of point clouds, it is non-trivial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xiao Zheng , Xiaoshui Huang , Guofeng Mei , Yuenan Hou , Zhaoyang Lyu , Bo Dai , Wanli Ouyang , Yongshun Gong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide an energy-efficient way to extract 3D spatio-temporal features. Point clouds are sparse 3D spatial data, which suggests that SNNs should be well-suited for processing them. However, when applying SNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xuerui Qiu , Man Yao , Jieyuan Zhang , Yuhong Chou , Ning Qiao , Shibo Zhou , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Point clouds, a prominent method of 3D representation, are extensively utilized across industries such as autonomous driving, surveying, electricity, architecture, and gaming, and have been rigorously investigated for their accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Jingyuan Tang , Yuhuan Zhao , Songlin Sun , Yangang Cai

As three-dimensional acquisition technologies like LiDAR cameras advance, the need for efficient transmission of 3D point clouds is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, we present a novel semantic communication (SemCom) approach…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Shangzhuo Xie , Qianqian Yang , Yuyi Sun , Tianxiao Han , Zhaohui Yang , Zhiguo Shi

Point clouds are a fundamental representation for robotic perception tasks such as localization, mapping, and object pose estimation. However, LiDAR-acquired point clouds are inherently sparse and non-uniform, providing incomplete…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jinwoo Lee , Jiwoo Kim , Woojae Shin , Giseop Kim , Hyondong Oh

Collaborative perception allows agents to enhance their perceptual capabilities by exchanging intermediate features. Existing methods typically organize these intermediate features as 2D bird's-eye-view (BEV) representations, which discard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yang Li , Quan Yuan , Guiyang Luo , Xiaoyuan Fu , Rui Pan , Yujia Yang , Congzhang Shao , Yuewen Liu , Jinglin Li

The goal of open-vocabulary detection is to identify novel objects based on arbitrary textual descriptions. In this paper, we address open-vocabulary 3D point-cloud detection by a dividing-and-conquering strategy, which involves: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yuheng Lu , Chenfeng Xu , Xiaobao Wei , Xiaodong Xie , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

This work addresses the problem of point cloud registration using deep neural networks. We propose an approach to predict the alignment between two point clouds with overlapping data content, but displaced origins. Such point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Markus Horn , Nico Engel , Vasileios Belagiannis , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer