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Geometric quantum machine learning uses the symmetries inherent in data to design tailored machine learning tasks with reduced search space dimension. The field has been well-studied recently in an effort to avoid barren plateau issues…

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Features that are equivariant to a larger group of symmetries have been shown to be more discriminative and powerful in recent studies. However, higher-order equivariant features often come with an exponentially-growing computational cost.…

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We present an approach to learning features that represent the local geometry around a point in an unstructured point cloud. Such features play a central role in geometric registration, which supports diverse applications in robotics and 3D…

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Surface reconstruction from raw point clouds has been studied for decades in the computer graphics community, which is highly demanded by modeling and rendering applications nowadays. Classic solutions, such as Poisson surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Hui Tian , Zheng Qin , Renjiao Yi , Chenyang Zhu , Kai Xu

Incorporating inductive bias by embedding geometric entities (such as rays) as input has proven successful in multi-view learning. However, the methods adopting this technique typically lack equivariance, which is crucial for effective 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yinshuang Xu , Dian Chen , Katherine Liu , Sergey Zakharov , Rares Ambrus , Kostas Daniilidis , Vitor Guizilini

In image morphing, a sequence of plausible frames are synthesized and composited together to form a smooth transformation between given instances. Intermediates must remain faithful to the input, stand on their own as members of the set,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Noa Fish , Richard Zhang , Lilach Perry , Daniel Cohen-Or , Eli Shechtman , Connelly Barnes

The translation equivariance of convolutional layers enables convolutional neural networks to generalize well on image problems. While translation equivariance provides a powerful inductive bias for images, we often additionally desire…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-25 Marc Finzi , Samuel Stanton , Pavel Izmailov , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Recently, many deep neural networks were designed to process 3D point clouds, but a common drawback is that rotation invariance is not ensured, leading to poor generalization to arbitrary orientations. In this paper, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Xianzhi Li , Ruihui Li , Guangyong Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

The automated segmentation of cortical areas has been a long-standing challenge in medical image analysis. The complex geometry of the cortex is commonly represented as a polygon mesh, whose segmentation can be addressed by graph-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Dániel Unyi , Ferdinando Insalata , Petar Veličković , Bálint Gyires-Tóth

Recent advancements in deep learning methods have significantly improved the performance of 3D Human Pose Estimation (HPE). However, performance degradation caused by domain gaps between source and target domains remains a major challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Hoosang Lee , Jeha Ryu

Learning for robot navigation presents a critical and challenging task. The scarcity and costliness of real-world datasets necessitate efficient learning approaches. In this letter, we exploit Euclidean symmetry in planning for 2D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Linfeng Zhao , Hongyu Li , Taskin Padir , Huaizu Jiang , Lawson L. S. Wong

Learning and reasoning about 3D molecular structures with varying size is an emerging and important challenge in machine learning and especially in drug discovery. Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can simultaneously leverage the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Tuan Le , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert

Geometric shape classification of vector polygons remains a challenging task in spatial analysis. Previous studies have primarily focused on deep learning approaches for rasterized vector polygons, while the study of discrete polygon…

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We present a simple non-generative approach to deep representation learning that seeks equivariant deep embedding through simple objectives. In contrast to existing equivariant networks, our transformation coding approach does not constrain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Mehran Shakerinava , Arnab Kumar Mondal , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

We propose a canonical point autoencoder (CPAE) that predicts dense correspondences between 3D shapes of the same category. The autoencoder performs two key functions: (a) encoding an arbitrarily ordered point cloud to a canonical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 An-Chieh Cheng , Xueting Li , Min Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Sifei Liu

The quest for robust and generalizable machine learning models has driven recent interest in exploiting symmetries through equivariant neural networks. In the context of PDE solvers, recent works have shown that Lie point symmetries can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Zakhar Shumaylov , Peter Zaika , James Rowbottom , Ferdia Sherry , Melanie Weber , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Applications of machine learning techniques for materials modeling typically involve functions known to be equivariant or invariant to specific symmetries. While graph neural networks (GNNs) have proven successful in such tasks, they…

Statistical learning methods show great promise in providing an accurate prediction of materials and molecular properties, while minimizing the need for computationally demanding electronic structure calculations. The accuracy and…

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Wireless transmission of high-dimensional 3D point clouds (PCs) is increasingly required in industrial collaborative robotics systems. Conventional compression methods prioritize geometric fidelity, although many practical applications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Vukan Ninkovic , Tamara Sobot , Vladimir Vincan , Gorana Gojic , Dragisa Miskovic , Dejan Vukobratovic