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We propose a new supervized learning framework for oversegmenting 3D point clouds into superpoints. We cast this problem as learning deep embeddings of the local geometry and radiometry of 3D points, such that the border of objects presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Loic Landrieu , Mohamed Boussaha

Three-dimensional geometric data offer an excellent domain for studying representation learning and generative modeling. In this paper, we look at geometric data represented as point clouds. We introduce a deep AutoEncoder (AE) network with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Panos Achlioptas , Olga Diamanti , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Leonidas Guibas

Object classification using LiDAR 3D point cloud data is critical for modern applications such as autonomous driving. However, labeling point cloud data is labor-intensive as it requires human annotators to visualize and inspect the 3D data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Wang , Reza Arablouei , Jiajun Liu , Paulo Borges , Greg Bishop-Hurley , Nicholas Heaney

Though a number of point cloud learning methods have been proposed to handle unordered points, most of them are supervised and require labels for training. By contrast, unsupervised learning of point cloud data has received much less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Jincen Jiang , Xuequan Lu , Wanli Ouyang , Meili Wang

Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) for point clouds have substantially improved 3D scene understanding without human annotations. Existing approaches emphasize semantic awareness by enforcing feature consistency across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Bin Yang , Mohamed Abdelsamad , Miao Zhang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Point cloud completion is a fundamental yet not well-solved problem in 3D vision. Current approaches often rely on 3D coordinate information and/or additional data (e.g., images and scanning viewpoints) to fill in missing parts. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhe Zhu , Honghua Chen , Xing He , Mingqiang Wei

Manual annotation of large-scale point cloud dataset for varying tasks such as 3D object classification, segmentation and detection is often laborious owing to the irregular structure of point clouds. Self-supervised learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mohamed Afham , Isuru Dissanayake , Dinithi Dissanayake , Amaya Dharmasiri , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Ranga Rodrigo

Masked autoencoding has achieved great success for self-supervised learning in the image and language domains. However, mask based pretraining has yet to show benefits for point cloud understanding, likely due to standard backbones like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Haotian Liu , Mu Cai , Yong Jae Lee

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) has achieved unprecedented success in improving the cross-domain robustness of object detection models. However, existing UDA methods largely ignore the instantaneous data distribution during model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zongxian Li , Qixiang Ye , Chong Zhang , Jingjing Liu , Shijian Lu , Yonghong Tian

Learning structures of 3D shapes is a fundamental problem in the field of computer graphics and geometry processing. We present a simple yet interpretable unsupervised method for learning a new structural representation in the form of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Nenglun Chen , Lingjie Liu , Zhiming Cui , Runnan Chen , Duygu Ceylan , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

We introduce a pioneering approach to self-supervised learning for point clouds, employing a geometrically informed mask selection strategy called GeoMask3D (GM3D) to boost the efficiency of Masked Auto Encoders (MAE). Unlike the…

With the rapid advancement of technology, 3D data acquisition and utilization have become increasingly prevalent across various fields, including computer vision, robotics, and geospatial analysis. 3D data, captured through methods such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Siming Yan

Deep perception models have to reliably cope with an open-world setting of domain shifts induced by different geographic regions, sensor properties, mounting positions, and several other reasons. Since covering all domains with annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Awet Haileslassie Gebrehiwot , David Hurych , Karel Zimmermann , Patrick Pérez , Tomáš Svoboda

Visual imitation learning with 3D point clouds has advanced robotic manipulation by providing geometry-aware, appearance-invariant observations. However, point cloud-based policies remain highly sensitive to sensor noise, pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhiyuan Zhang , Yu She

Learning semantic representations from point sets of 3D object shapes is often challenged by significant geometric variations, primarily due to differences in data acquisition methods. Typically, training data is generated using point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Longkun Zou , Kangjun Liu , Ke Chen , Kailing Guo , Kui Jia , Yaowei Wang

The past few years have witnessed the great success and prevalence of self-supervised representation learning within the language and 2D vision communities. However, such advancements have not been fully migrated to the field of 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou

As 3D scanning devices and depth sensors mature, point clouds have attracted increasing attention as a format for 3D object representation, with applications in various fields such as tele-presence, navigation and heritage reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Zeqing Fu , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

Point clouds upsampling is a challenging issue to generate dense and uniform point clouds from the given sparse input. Most existing methods either take the end-to-end supervised learning based manner, where large amounts of pairs of sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Wenbo Zhao , Xianming Liu , Zhiwei Zhong , Junjun Jiang , Wei Gao , Ge Li , Xiangyang Ji

Existing networks directly learn feature representations on 3D point clouds for shape analysis. We argue that 3D point clouds are highly redundant and hold irregular (permutation-invariant) structure, which makes it difficult to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sameera Ramasinghe , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes , Stephen Gould

Deep-learning models for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation exhibit limited generalization capabilities when trained and tested on data captured with different sensors or in varying environments due to domain shift. Domain adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Cristiano Saltori , Fabio Galasso , Giuseppe Fiameni , Nicu Sebe , Fabio Poiesi , Elisa Ricci