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The spectral structure of the Laplacian-Beltrami operator (LBO) on manifolds has been widely used in many applications, include spectral clustering, dimensionality reduction, mesh smoothing, compression and editing, shape segmentation,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Zuoqiang Shi , Jian Sun

This paper investigates an open research task of reconstructing and generating 3D point clouds. Most existing works of 3D generative models directly take the Gaussian prior as input for the decoder to generate 3D point clouds, which fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Yunfan Zhang , Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Vun Chan Hua Nicholas , Zhiqi Shen , Chunyan Miao

Neural operators are neural network-based surrogate models for approximating solution operators of parametric partial differential equations, enabling efficient many-query computations in science and engineering. Many applications,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Mingyu Han , Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Yuhan Wang , Yanshu Zhang , Jiayi Zhou

Point cloud registration aims to provide estimated transformations to align point clouds, which plays a crucial role in pose estimation of various navigation systems, such as surgical guidance systems and autonomous vehicles. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Geng Li , Haozhi Cao , Mingyang Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Jianfei Yang

Point clouds-based Networks have achieved great attention in 3D object classification, segmentation and indoor scene semantic parsing. In terms of face recognition, 3D face recognition method which directly consume point clouds as input is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Ziyu Zhang , Feipeng Da , Yi Yu

An effective 3D descriptor should be invariant to different geometric transformations, such as scale and rotation, robust to occlusions and clutter, and capable of generalising to different application domains. We present a simple yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Fabio Poiesi , Davide Boscaini

Many interesting problems in machine learning are being revisited with new deep learning tools. For graph-based semisupervised learning, a recent important development is graph convolutional networks (GCNs), which nicely integrate local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Qimai Li , Zhichao Han , Xiao-Ming Wu

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have been widely used in graph learning. It has been observed that the smoothness functional on graphs can be defined in terms of the graph Laplacian. This fact points out in the direction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Asif Salim , Sumitra S

This paper studies the relationship between a graph neural network (GNN) and a manifold neural network (MNN) when the graph is constructed from a set of points sampled from the manifold, thus encoding geometric information. We consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Zhiyang Wang , Luana Ruiz , Alejandro Ribeiro

Point cloud stands as the most widely adopted format for representing 3D shapes and scenes due to its simplicity and geometric fidelity. However, its inherent unordered and irregular nature, exacerbated by sensor noise and occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhas Kamal , Hiranya Garbha Kumar , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

In this paper, we introduce a physics and geometry informed neural operator network with application to the forward simulation of acoustic scattering. The development of geometry informed deep learning models capable of learning a solution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Siddharth Nair , Timothy F. Walsh , Greg Pickrell , Fabio Semperlotti

Neural operations that rely on neighborhood information are much more expensive when deployed on point clouds than on grid data due to the irregular distances between points in a point cloud. In a grid, on the other hand, we can compute the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Putri A. van der Linden , David W. Romero , Erik J. Bekkers

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…

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We propose integrating optimal transport (OT) into operator learning for partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex geometries. Classical geometric learning methods typically represent domains as meshes, graphs, or point clouds. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xinyi Li , Zongyi Li , Nikola Kovachki , Anima Anandkumar

Scene flow is the three-dimensional (3D) motion field of a scene. It provides information about the spatial arrangement and rate of change of objects in dynamic environments. Current learning-based approaches seek to estimate the scene flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jhony Kaesemodel Pontes , James Hays , Simon Lucey

Graph neural network (GNN) is achieving remarkable performances in a variety of application domains. However, GNN is vulnerable to noise and adversarial attacks in input data. Making GNN robust against noises and adversarial attacks is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Bharat Runwal , Vivek , Sandeep Kumar

In manifold learning, algorithms based on graph Laplacians constructed from data have received considerable attention both in practical applications and theoretical analysis. In particular, the convergence of graph Laplacians obtained from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-05-23 Xueyuan Zhou , Mikhail Belkin

The processing, storage and transmission of large-scale point clouds is an ongoing challenge in the computer vision community which hinders progress in the application of 3D models to real-world settings, such as autonomous driving, virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Stuti Pathak , Thomas M. McDonald , Seppe Sels , Rudi Penne

We introduce a novel technique for neural point cloud consolidation which learns from only the input point cloud. Unlike other point upsampling methods which analyze shapes via local patches, in this work, we learn from global subsets. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Gal Metzer , Rana Hanocka , Raja Giryes , Daniel Cohen-Or

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the subject of intense focus by the machine learning community for problems involving relational reasoning. GNNs can be broadly divided into spatial and spectral approaches. Spatial approaches use a form of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-05 Kimberly Stachenfeld , Jonathan Godwin , Peter Battaglia