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Rigid point cloud registration is a fundamental problem and highly relevant in robotics and autonomous driving. Nowadays deep learning methods can be trained to match a pair of point clouds, given the transformation between them. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Christian Löwens , Thorben Funke , André Wagner , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently been widely applied to 3D point cloud understanding, with masked autoencoding as the predominant pre-training paradigm. However, the challenge of learning dense and informative semantic features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Bin Ren , Xiaoshui Huang , Mengyuan Liu , Hong Liu , Fabio Poiesi , Nicu Sebe , Guofeng Mei

In this paper, we propose a deep hierarchical attention context model for lossless attribute compression of point clouds, leveraging a multi-resolution spatial structure and residual learning. A simple and effective Level of Detail (LoD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yueru Chen , Wei Zhang , Dingquan Li , Jing Wang , Ge Li

Point cloud is point sets defined in 3D metric space. Point cloud has become one of the most significant data format for 3D representation. Its gaining increased popularity as a result of increased availability of acquisition devices, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Saifullahi Aminu Bello , Shangshu Yu , Cheng Wang

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

Self-supervised learning is attracting large attention in point cloud understanding. However, exploring discriminative and transferable features still remains challenging due to their nature of irregularity and sparsity. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yun Liu , Xuefeng Yan , Zhilei Chen , Zhiqi Li , Zeyong Wei , Mingqiang Wei

LiDAR point cloud analysis is a core task for 3D computer vision, especially for autonomous driving. However, due to the severe sparsity and noise interference in the single sweep LiDAR point cloud, the accurate semantic segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Jie Li , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , Rui Huang , Shuguang Cui

We propose a unified point cloud video self-supervised learning framework for object-centric and scene-centric data. Previous methods commonly conduct representation learning at the clip or frame level and cannot well capture fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Xiaoxiao Sheng , Zhiqiang Shen , Gang Xiao , Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Hehe Fan

We propose a novel approach to self-supervised learning of point cloud representations by differentiable neural rendering. Motivated by the fact that informative point cloud features should be able to encode rich geometry and appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Di Huang , Sida Peng , Tong He , Honghui Yang , Xiaowei Zhou , Wanli Ouyang

Point cloud registration is the process of aligning a pair of point sets via searching for a geometric transformation. Unlike classical optimization-based methods, recent learning-based methods leverage the power of deep learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Lingjing Wang , Xiang Li , Yi Fang

Unsupervised domain adaptation for LiDAR-based 3D object detection (3D UDA) based on the teacher-student architecture with pseudo labels has achieved notable improvements in recent years. Although it is quite popular to collect point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Shenao Zhao , Pengpeng Liang , Zhoufan Yang

Recently slot filling has witnessed great development thanks to deep learning and the availability of large-scale annotated data. However, it poses a critical challenge to handle a novel domain whose samples are never seen during training.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Yuanjun Shi , Linzhi Wu , Minglai Shao

The unsupervised 3D object detection is to accurately detect objects in unstructured environments with no explicit supervisory signals. This task, given sparse LiDAR point clouds, often results in compromised performance for detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Ruiyang Zhang , Hu Zhang , Hang Yu , Zhedong Zheng

In this work, we propose to learn local descriptors for point clouds in a self-supervised manner. In each iteration of the training, the input of the network is merely one unlabeled point cloud. On top of our previous work, that directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yijun Yuan , Jiawei Hou , Andreas Nüchter , Sören Schwertfeger

Point clouds offer comprehensive and precise data regarding the contour and configuration of objects. Employing such geometric and topological 3D information of objects in class incremental learning can aid endless application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Shivanand Kundargi , Tejas Anvekar , Ramesh Ashok Tabib , Uma Mudenagudi

Given the rapid development of 3D scanners, point clouds are becoming popular in AI-driven machines. However, point cloud data is inherently sparse and irregular, causing significant difficulties for machine perception. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

This article proposes a novel unsupervised learning framework for detecting the number of tunnel junctions in subterranean environments based on acquired 2D point clouds. The implementation of the framework provides valuable information for…

Point clouds are a basic data type that is increasingly of interest as 3D content becomes more ubiquitous. Applications using point clouds include virtual, augmented, and mixed reality and autonomous driving. We propose a more efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Ryan Killea , Yun Li , Saeed Bastani , Paul McLachlan

We present SeRP, a framework for Self-Supervised Learning of 3D point clouds. SeRP consists of encoder-decoder architecture that takes perturbed or corrupted point clouds as inputs and aims to reconstruct the original point cloud without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Siddhant Garg , Mudit Chaudhary

Zero-shot point cloud segmentation aims to make deep models capable of recognizing novel objects in point cloud that are unseen in the training phase. Recent trends favor the pipeline which transfers knowledge from seen classes with labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yuhang Lu , Qi Jiang , Runnan Chen , Yuenan Hou , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma