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Semantic scene understanding from point clouds is particularly challenging as the points reflect only a sparse set of the underlying 3D geometry. Previous works often convert point cloud into regular grids (e.g. voxels or bird-eye view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yinyu Nie , Ji Hou , Xiaoguang Han , Matthias Nießner

In this paper, we propose PCPNet, a deep-learning based approach for estimating local 3D shape properties in point clouds. In contrast to the majority of prior techniques that concentrate on global or mid-level attributes, e.g., for shape…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Paul Guerrero , Yanir Kleiman , Maks Ovsjanikov , Niloy J. Mitra

The analyses relying on 3D point clouds are an utterly complex task, often involving million of points, but also requiring computationally efficient algorithms because of many real-time applications; e.g. autonomous vehicle. However, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Perceiving the environment via cameras is crucial for Reinforcement Learning (RL) in robotics. While images are a convenient form of representation, they often complicate extracting important geometric details, especially with varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Balázs Gyenes , Nikolai Franke , Philipp Becker , Gerhard Neumann

Point cloud analysis without pose priors is very challenging in real applications, as the orientations of point clouds are often unknown. In this paper, we propose a brand new point-set learning framework PRIN, namely, Point-wise Rotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yang You , Yujing Lou , Ruoxi Shi , Qi Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Lizhuang Ma , Weiming Wang , Cewu Lu

Point cloud analysis is an area of increasing interest due to the development of 3D sensors that are able to rapidly measure the depth of scenes accurately. Unfortunately, applying deep learning techniques to perform point cloud analysis is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Junming Zhang , Ming-Yuan Yu , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Three-dimensional object recognition has recently achieved great progress thanks to the development of effective point cloud-based learning frameworks, such as PointNet and its extensions. However, existing methods rely heavily on fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Weikai Chen , Xiaoguang Han , Guanbin Li , Chao Chen , Jun Xing , Yajie Zhao , Hao Li

Three dimensional (3D) object recognition is becoming a key desired capability for many computer vision systems such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and surveillance drones to operate more effectively in unstructured environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Chenxi Xiao , Juan Wachs

Point clouds can be regarded as discrete samples of smooth manifolds and are typically analyzed via the eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. This paper extends manifold spectral analysis to the fractional domain, enabling…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Jiamian Li , Bing-Zhao Li

Current methodologies in point cloud analysis predominantly explore 3D geometries, often achieved through the introduction of intricate learnable geometric extractors in the encoder or by deepening networks with repeated blocks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Lipeng Gu , Xuefeng Yan , Liangliang Nan , Dingkun Zhu , Honghua Chen , Weiming Wang , Mingqiang Wei

Point cloud representation has gained traction due to its efficient memory usage and simplicity in acquisition, manipulation, and storage. However, as point cloud sizes increase, effective down-sampling becomes essential to address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Shubham Bhardwaj , Ashwin Vinod , Soumojit Bhattacharya , Aryan Koganti , Aditya Sai Ellendula , Balakrishna Reddy

The performance of 3D object detection models over point clouds highly depends on their capability of modeling local geometric patterns. Conventional point-based models exploit local patterns through a symmetric function (e.g. max pooling)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Jianan Li , Jiashi Feng

Existing convolutional learning methods for 3D point cloud data are divided into two paradigms: point-based methods that preserve geometric precision but often face performance challenges, and voxel-based methods that achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Lihan Li , Haofeng Zhong , Rui Bu , Mingchao Sun , Wenzheng Chen , Baoquan Chen , Yangyan Li

In this paper, we present Position-to-Structure Attention Transformers (PS-Former), a Transformer-based algorithm for 3D point cloud recognition. PS-Former deals with the challenge in 3D point cloud representation where points are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Zheng Ding , James Hou , Zhuowen Tu

Point clouds have become increasingly vital across various applications thanks to their ability to realistically depict 3D objects and scenes. Nevertheless, effectively compressing unstructured, high-precision point cloud data remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hongning Ruan , Yulin Shao , Qianqian Yang , Liang Zhao , Dusit Niyato

Point cloud analysis has evolved with diverse network architectures, while existing works predominantly focus on introducing novel structural designs. However, conventional point-based architectures - processing raw points through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shangzhuo Xie , Qianqian Yang

3D point clouds deep learning is a promising field of research that allows a neural network to learn features of point clouds directly, making it a robust tool for solving 3D scene understanding tasks. While recent works show that point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Zhiyuan Zhang , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

Analyzing the geometric and semantic properties of 3D point clouds through the deep networks is still challenging due to the irregularity and sparsity of samplings of their geometric structures. This paper presents a new method to define…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Artem Komarichev , Zichun Zhong , Jing Hua

Reconstructing geometric shapes from point clouds is a common task that is often accomplished by experts manually modeling geometries in CAD-capable software. State-of-the-art workflows based on fully automatic geometry extraction are…

3D anomaly detection (AD) is a crucial task in computer vision, aiming to identify anomalous points or regions from point cloud data. However, existing methods may encounter challenges when handling point clouds with changes in orientation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hanzhe Liang , Jie Zhou , Can Gao , Bingyang Guo , Jinbao Wang , Linlin Shen