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We present a novel and flexible architecture for point cloud segmentation with dual-representation iterative learning. In point cloud processing, different representations have their own pros and cons. Thus, finding suitable ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Maosheng Ye , Shuangjie Xu , Tongyi Cao , Qifeng Chen

Soft-tissue surgeries, such as tumor resections, are complicated by tissue deformations that can obscure the accurate location and shape of tissues. By representing tissue surfaces as point clouds and applying non-rigid point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sara Monji-Azad , Marvin Kinz , Siddharth Kothari , Robin Khanna , Amrei Carla Mihan , David Maennel , Claudia Scherl , Juergen Hesser

This paper presents a NeRF-based framework for point cloud (PCD) reconstruction, specifically designed for indoor high-throughput plant phenotyping facilities. Traditional NeRF-based reconstruction methods require cameras to move around…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Kibon Ku , Talukder Z Jubery , Elijah Rodriguez , Aditya Balu , Soumik Sarkar , Adarsh Krishnamurthy , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Predicting the future can significantly improve the safety of intelligent vehicles, which is a key component in autonomous driving. 3D point clouds accurately model 3D information of surrounding environment and are crucial for intelligent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Fan Lu , Guang Chen , Yinlong Liu , Zhijun Li , Sanqing Qu , Tianpei Zou

Point cloud registration is a classical topic in the field of 3D Vision and Computer Graphics. Generally, the implementation of registration is typically sensitive to similarity transformations (translation, scaling, and rotation), noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Chenlei Lv , Hui Huang

We present a novel, data driven approach for solving the problem of registration of two point cloud scans. Our approach is direct in the sense that a single pair of corresponding local patches already provides the necessary transformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Haowen Deng , Tolga Birdal , Slobodan Ilic

Efficiently identifying accurate correspondences between point clouds is crucial for both rigid and non-rigid point cloud registration. Existing methods usually rely on geometric or semantic feature embeddings to establish correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Haihua Shi , Qianliang Wu

Point Cloud Registration (PCR) is a critical and challenging task in computer vision. One of the primary difficulties in PCR is identifying salient and meaningful points that exhibit consistent semantic and geometric properties across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Qianliang Wu , Yaqing Ding , Lei Luo , Haobo Jiang , Shuo Gu , Chuanwei Zhou , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

An effective 3D descriptor should be invariant to different geometric transformations, such as scale and rotation, robust to occlusions and clutter, and capable of generalising to different application domains. We present a simple yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Fabio Poiesi , Davide Boscaini

This paper addresses the task of estimating the 6 degrees of freedom pose of a known 3D object from depth information represented by a point cloud. Deep features learned by convolutional neural networks from color information have been the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Ge Gao , Mikko Lauri , Yulong Wang , Xiaolin Hu , Jianwei Zhang , Simone Frintrop

Point cloud registration is a task to estimate the rigid transformation between two unaligned scans, which plays an important role in many computer vision applications. Previous learning-based works commonly focus on supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Mingzhi Yuan , Kexue Fu , Zhihao Li , Yucong Meng , Manning Wang

Point clouds are widely used representations of 3D data, but determining the visibility of points from a given viewpoint remains a challenging problem due to their sparse nature and lack of explicit connectivity. Traditional methods, such…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jun-Hao Wang , Yi-Yang Tian , Baoquan Chen , Peng-Shuai Wang

Point cloud based place recognition is still an open issue due to the difficulty in extracting local features from the raw 3D point cloud and generating the global descriptor, and it's even harder in the large-scale dynamic environments. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zhe Liu , Shunbo Zhou , Chuanzhe Suo , Yingtian Liu , Peng Yin , Hesheng Wang , Yun-Hui Liu

Point-based representations have consistently played a vital role in geometric data structures. Most point cloud learning and processing methods typically leverage the unordered and unconstrained nature to represent the underlying geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jionghao Wang , Cheng Lin , Yuan Liu , Rui Xu , Zhiyang Dou , Xiao-Xiao Long , Hao-Xiang Guo , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang , Xin Li

3D point cloud is an efficient and flexible representation of 3D structures. Recently, neural networks operating on point clouds have shown superior performance on 3D understanding tasks such as shape classification and part segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Wentao Yuan , David Held , Christoph Mertz , Martial Hebert

The application of deep learning to 3D point clouds is challenging due to its lack of order. Inspired by the point embeddings of PointNet and the edge embeddings of DGCNNs, we propose three improvements to the task of point cloud analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Suresh Manandhar

Point cloud registration methods can effectively handle large-scale, partially overlapping point cloud pairs. Despite its practicality, matching the unbalanced pairs in terms of spatial extent and density has been overlooked and rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Kanghee Lee , Junha Lee , Jaesik Park

Recent Transformer-based methods have achieved advanced performance in point cloud registration by utilizing advantages of the Transformer in order-invariance and modeling dependency to aggregate information. However, they still suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Guangyan Chen , Meiling Wang , Yufeng Yue , Qingxiang Zhang , Li Yuan

Point clouds are extensively employed in a variety of real-world applications such as robotics, autonomous driving and augmented reality. Despite the recent success of point cloud neural networks, especially for safety-critical tasks, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Mert Gulsen , Batuhan Cengiz , Yusuf H. Sahin , Gozde Unal

In the realm of point cloud registration, the most prevalent pose evaluation approaches are statistics-based, identifying the optimal transformation by maximizing the number of consistent correspondences. However, registration recall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Junjie Gao , Chongjian Wang , Zhongjun Ding , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang