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We introduce an unsupervised multi-task model to jointly learn point and shape features on point clouds. We define three unsupervised tasks including clustering, reconstruction, and self-supervised classification to train a multi-scale…

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Non-destructive 3D imaging of large multi-particulate samples is essential for quantifying particle-level properties, such as size, shape, and spatial distribution, across applications in mining, materials science, and geology. However,…

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Plants are fundamentally important to life. Key research areas in plant science include plant species identification, weed classification using hyper spectral images, monitoring plant health and tracing leaf growth, and the semantic…

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We study the problem of unsupervised 3D semantic segmentation on raw point clouds without needing human labels in training. Existing methods usually formulate this problem into learning per-point local features followed by a simple grouping…

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The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) based tools for 3D phenotyping, especially for maize, has been limited due to the lack of large and diverse 3D datasets. 2D image datasets fail to capture essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Elvis Kimara , Mozhgan Hadadi , Jackson Godbersen , Aditya Balu , Talukder Jubery , Yawei Li , Adarsh Krishnamurthy , Patrick S. Schnable , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

We study the problem of 3D semantic segmentation from raw point clouds. Unlike existing methods which primarily rely on a large amount of human annotations for training neural networks, we propose the first purely unsupervised method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zihui Zhang , Bo Yang , Bing Wang , Bo Li

We propose a novel approach for automatic extraction (instance segmentation) of fibers from low resolution 3D X-ray computed tomography scans of short glass fiber reinforced polymers. We have designed a 3D instance segmentation architecture…

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3D point cloud segmentation is an important function that helps robots understand the layout of their surrounding environment and perform tasks such as grasping objects, avoiding obstacles, and finding landmarks. Current segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jingdao Chen , Zsolt Kira , Yong K. Cho

Laser-scanned point clouds of forests make it possible to extract valuable information for forest management. To consider single trees, a forest point cloud needs to be segmented into individual tree point clouds. Existing segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jonathan Henrich , Jan van Delden , Dominik Seidel , Thomas Kneib , Alexander Ecker

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…

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The lack of fine-grained 3D shape segmentation data is the main obstacle to developing learning-based 3D segmentation techniques. We propose an effective semi-supervised method for learning 3D segmentations from a few labeled 3D shapes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Chun-Yu Sun , Yu-Qi Yang , Hao-Xiang Guo , Peng-Shuai Wang , Xin Tong , Yang Liu , Heung-Yeung Shum

Point cloud classification is a popular task in 3D vision. However, previous works, usually assume that point clouds at test time are obtained with the same procedure or sensor as those at training time. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA)…

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Quantifying organism-level phenotypes, such as growth dynamics and biomass accumulation, is fundamental to understanding agronomic traits and optimizing crop production. However, quality growing data of plants at scale is difficult to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-10 Adam J Riesselman , Evan M Cofer , Therese LaRue , Wim Meeussen

Two of the main challenges for cropland classification by satellite time-series images are insufficient ground-truth data and inaccessibility of high-quality hyperspectral images for under-developed areas. Unlabeled medium-resolution…

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Objectives. Sustainable management of plant diseases is an open challenge which has relevant economic and environmental impact. Optimal strategies rely on human expertise for field scouting under favourable conditions to assess the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Alessandro Benfenati , Paola Causin , Roberto Oberti , Giovanni Stefanello

Weed scouting is an important part of modern integrated weed management but can be time consuming and sparse when performed manually. Automated weed scouting and weed destruction has typically been performed using classification systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-28 David Hall , Feras Dayoub , Jason Kulk , Chris McCool

3D segmentation is a core problem in computer vision and, similarly to many other dense prediction tasks, it requires large amounts of annotated data for adequate training. However, densely labeling 3D point clouds to employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Ozan Unal , Christos Sakaridis , Luc Van Gool

Accurate reconstruction of leaf surfaces from 3D point cloud is essential for agricultural applications such as phenotyping. However, real-world plant data (i.e., irregular 3D point cloud) are often complex to reconstruct plant parts…

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Instance segmentation of point clouds is a crucial task in 3D field with numerous applications that involve localizing and segmenting objects in a scene. However, achieving satisfactory results requires a large number of manual annotations,…

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