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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Germain Bregeon , Marius Preda , Radu Ispas , Titus Zaharia

The task of point cloud completion aims to predict the missing part for an incomplete 3D shape. A widely used strategy is to generate a complete point cloud from the incomplete one. However, the unordered nature of point clouds will degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xin Wen , Peng Xiang , Zhizhong Han , Yan-Pei Cao , Pengfei Wan , Wen Zheng , Yu-Shen Liu

3D point cloud completion is very challenging because it heavily relies on the accurate understanding of the complex 3D shapes (e.g., high-curvature, concave/convex, and hollowed-out 3D shapes) and the unknown & diverse patterns of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Qing Guo , Zhijie Wang , Felix Juefei-Xu , Di Lin , Lei Ma , Wei Feng , Yang Liu

Conventional methods of 3D object generative modeling learn volumetric predictions using deep networks with 3D convolutional operations, which are direct analogies to classical 2D ones. However, these methods are computationally wasteful in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Chen-Hsuan Lin , Chen Kong , Simon Lucey

Medicinal chemists often optimize drugs considering their 3D structures and designing structurally distinct molecules that retain key features, such as shapes, pharmacophores, or chemical properties. Previous deep learning approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Zitao Chen , Yinjun Jia , Zitong Tian , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

A symmetry on rigid motion is one of the salient factors in efficient learning of 3D point cloud problems. Group convolution has been a representative method to extract equivariant features, but its realizations have struggled to retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jaein Kim , Hee Bin Yoo , Dong-Sig Han , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Unsupervised representation learning techniques, such as learning word embeddings, have had a significant impact on the field of natural language processing. Similar representation learning techniques have not yet become commonplace in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Joël Bachmann , Kenneth Blomqvist , Julian Förster , Roland Siegwart

In this paper we delve into the properties of transformers, attained through self-supervision, in the point cloud domain. Specifically, we evaluate the effectiveness of Masked Autoencoding as a pretraining scheme, and explore Momentum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ioannis Romanelis , Vlassis Fotis , Konstantinos Moustakas , Adrian Munteanu

Engineering simulations for analysis of structural and fluid systems require information of contacts between various 3-D surfaces of the geometry to accurately model the physics between them. In machine learning applications, 3-D surfaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Rishikesh Ranade , Jay Pathak

Point clouds, as a primary representation of 3D data, can be categorized into scene domain point clouds and object domain point clouds. Point cloud self-supervised learning (SSL) has become a mainstream paradigm for learning 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yaohua Zha , Tao Dai , Hang Guo , Yanzi Wang , Bin Chen , Ke Chen , Shu-Tao Xia

We describe a simple pre-training approach for point clouds. It works in three steps: 1. Mask all points occluded in a camera view; 2. Learn an encoder-decoder model to reconstruct the occluded points; 3. Use the encoder weights as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Hanchen Wang , Qi Liu , Xiangyu Yue , Joan Lasenby , Matthew J. Kusner

Clouds play a key role in Earth's radiation balance with complex effects that introduce large uncertainties into climate models. Real-time 3D cloud data is essential for improving climate predictions. This study leverages geostationary…

Graph neural networks that model 3D data, such as point clouds or atoms, are typically desired to be $SO(3)$ equivariant, i.e., equivariant to 3D rotations. Unfortunately equivariant convolutions, which are a fundamental operation for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Saro Passaro , C. Lawrence Zitnick

Shape-Text matching is an important task of high-level shape understanding. Current methods mainly represent a 3D shape as multiple 2D rendered views, which obviously can not be understood well due to the structural ambiguity caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Chuan Tang , Xi Yang , Bojian Wu , Zhizhong Han , Yi Chang

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental task in robotics and computer vision. Recently, many learning-based point cloud registration methods based on correspondences have emerged. However, these methods heavily rely on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lifa Zhu , Dongrui Liu , Changwei Lin , Rui Yan , Francisco Gómez-Fernández , Ninghua Yang , Ziyong Feng

We introduce ProM3E, a probabilistic masked multimodal embedding model for any-to-any generation of multimodal representations for ecology. ProM3E is based on masked modality reconstruction in the embedding space, learning to infer missing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Srikumar Sastry , Subash Khanal , Aayush Dhakal , Jiayu Lin , Dan Cher , Phoenix Jarosz , Nathan Jacobs

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated remarkable success in 3D point cloud analysis, particularly through masked autoencoders (MAEs). However, existing MAE-based methods lack rotation invariance, leading to significant performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xuanhua Yin , Dingxin Zhang , Jianhui Yu , Weidong Cai

Point clouds obtained from 3D scans are typically sparse, irregular, and noisy, and required to be consolidated. In this paper, we present the first deep learning based edge-aware technique to facilitate the consolidation of point clouds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Lequan Yu , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Recently, various convolutions based on continuous or discrete kernels for point cloud processing have been widely studied, and achieve impressive performance in many applications, such as shape classification, scene segmentation and so on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Dengsheng Chen , Haowen Deng , Jun Li , Duo Li , Yao Duan , Kai Xu

Autoencoders are unsupervised deep learning models used for learning representations. In literature, autoencoders have shown to perform well on a variety of tasks spread across multiple domains, thereby establishing widespread…

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