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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

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

We present Point-BERT, a new paradigm for learning Transformers to generalize the concept of BERT to 3D point cloud. Inspired by BERT, we devise a Masked Point Modeling (MPM) task to pre-train point cloud Transformers. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xumin Yu , Lulu Tang , Yongming Rao , Tiejun Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

The common occurrence of occlusion-induced incompleteness in point clouds has made point cloud completion (PCC) a highly-concerned task in the field of geometric processing. Existing PCC methods typically produce complete point clouds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Jisheng Chu , Wenrui Li , Xingtao Wang , Kanglin Ning , Yidan Lu , Xiaopeng Fan

We propose an effective unsupervised 3D point cloud novelty detection approach, leveraging a general point cloud feature extractor and a one-class classifier. The general feature extractor consists of a graph-based autoencoder and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shizuka Akahori , Satoshi Iizuka , Ken Mawatari , Kazuhiro Fukui

Unsupervised feature learning for point clouds has been vital for large-scale point cloud understanding. Recent deep learning based methods depend on learning global geometry from self-reconstruction. However, these methods are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Zhizhong Han , Xiyang Wang , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

3D point cloud segmentation remains challenging for structureless and textureless regions. We present a new unified point-based framework for 3D point cloud segmentation that effectively optimizes pixel-level features, geometrical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hung-Yueh Chiang , Yen-Liang Lin , Yueh-Cheng Liu , Winston H. Hsu

Point clouds have been recognized as a crucial data structure for 3D content and are essential in a number of applications such as virtual and mixed reality, autonomous driving, cultural heritage, etc. In this paper, we propose a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Maurice Quach , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux

We present the first geometric deep learning framework based on point cloud representation for 3D four-chamber cardiac reconstruction from cine MRI data. This work addresses a long-standing limitation in conventional cine MRI, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhengda Ma , Abhirup Banerjee

Efficient point cloud compression is fundamental to enable the deployment of virtual and mixed reality applications, since the number of points to code can range in the order of millions. In this paper, we present a novel data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Maurice Quach , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux

Recently, there have been some attempts of Transformer in 3D point cloud classification. In order to reduce computations, most existing methods focus on local spatial attention, but ignore their content and fail to establish relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yahui Liu , Bin Tian , Yisheng Lv , Lingxi Li , Feiyue Wang

Transformer with its underlying attention mechanism and the ability to capture long-range dependencies makes it become a natural choice for unordered point cloud data. However, separated local regions from the general sampling architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhuoxu Huang , Zhiyou Zhao , Banghuai Li , Jungong Han

Most real-world 3D measurements from depth sensors are incomplete, and to address this issue the point cloud completion task aims to predict the complete shapes of objects from partial observations. Previous works often adapt an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Junming Zhang , Haomeng Zhang , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

In point cloud analysis, point-based methods have rapidly developed in recent years. These methods have recently focused on concise MLP structures, such as PointNeXt, which have demonstrated competitiveness with Convolutional and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Xin Deng , WenYu Zhang , Qing Ding , XinMing Zhang

Point clouds arising from structured data, mainly as a result of CT scans, provides special properties on the distribution of points and the distances between those. Yet often, the amount of data provided can not compare to unstructured…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Franziska Lippoldt , Hartmut Schwandt

Estimating the complete 3D point cloud from an incomplete one is a key problem in many vision and robotics applications. Mainstream methods (e.g., PCN and TopNet) use Multi-layer Perceptrons (MLPs) to directly process point clouds, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Haozhe Xie , Hongxun Yao , Shangchen Zhou , Jiageng Mao , Shengping Zhang , Wenxiu Sun

The success of deep learning methods led to significant breakthroughs in 3-D point cloud processing tasks with applications in remote sensing. Existing methods utilize convolutions that have some limitations, as they assume a uniform input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Dimple A Shajahan , Mukund Varma T , Ramanathan Muthuganapathy

As 3D point clouds become a cornerstone of modern technology, the need for sophisticated generative models and reliable evaluation metrics has grown exponentially. In this work, we first expose that some commonly used metrics for evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Matteo Bastico , David Ryckelynck , Laurent Corté , Yannick Tillier , Etienne Decencière

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

Estimating the 6D object pose is an essential task in many applications. Due to the lack of depth information, existing RGB-based methods are sensitive to occlusion and illumination changes. How to extract and utilize the geometry features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Xiao Lin , Deming Wang , Guangliang Zhou , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen