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In this paper we delve into the properties of transformers, attained through self-supervision, in the point cloud domain. Specifically, we evaluate the effectiveness of Masked Autoencoding as a pretraining scheme, and explore Momentum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ioannis Romanelis , Vlassis Fotis , Konstantinos Moustakas , Adrian Munteanu

Point clouds obtained from 3D sensors are usually sparse. Existing methods mainly focus on upsampling sparse point clouds in a supervised manner by using dense ground truth point clouds. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Yifan Zhao , Le Hui , Jin Xie

This paper presents SO-Net, a permutation invariant architecture for deep learning with orderless point clouds. The SO-Net models the spatial distribution of point cloud by building a Self-Organizing Map (SOM). Based on the SOM, SO-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jiaxin Li , Ben M. Chen , Gim Hee Lee

Learning neural implicit fields of 3D shapes is a rapidly emerging field that enables shape representation at arbitrary resolutions. Due to the flexibility, neural implicit fields have succeeded in many research areas, including shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yifei Shi , Boyan Wan , Xin Xu , Kai Xu

Category-agnostic pose estimation (CAPE) aims to localize keypoints on query images from arbitrary categories, using only a few annotated support examples for guidance. Recent approaches either treat keypoints as isolated entities or rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jiyong Rao , Yu Wang , Shengjie Zhao

Existing deep learning algorithms for point cloud analysis mainly concern discovering semantic patterns from global configuration of local geometries in a supervised learning manner. However, very few explore geometric properties revealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Lulu Tang , Ke Chen , Chaozheng Wu , Yu Hong , Kui Jia , Zhixin Yang

The acquisition of inductive bias through point-level contrastive learning holds paramount significance in point cloud pre-training. However, the square growth in computational requirements with the scale of the point cloud poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Zhiyi Pan , Guoqing Liu , Wei Gao , Thomas H. Li

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental task in robotics and computer vision. Recently, many learning-based point cloud registration methods based on correspondences have emerged. However, these methods heavily rely on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lifa Zhu , Dongrui Liu , Changwei Lin , Rui Yan , Francisco Gómez-Fernández , Ninghua Yang , Ziyong Feng

Masked point modeling methods have recently achieved great success in self-supervised learning for point cloud data. However, these methods are sensitive to rotations and often exhibit sharp performance drops when encountering rotational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kunming Su , Qiuxia Wu , Panpan Cai , Xiaogang Zhu , Xuequan Lu , Zhiyong Wang , Kun Hu

Learning discriminative feature directly on point clouds is still challenging in the understanding of 3D shapes. Recent methods usually partition point clouds into local region sets, and then extract the local region features with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Fangzhou Hong , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Although convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable success in analyzing 2D images/videos, it is still non-trivial to apply the well-developed 2D techniques in regular domains to the irregular 3D point cloud data. To bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yue Qian , Juyong Zhang , Ying He

We propose a novel scene flow method that captures 3D motions from point clouds without relying on ground-truth scene flow annotations. Due to the irregularity and sparsity of point clouds, it is expensive and time-consuming to acquire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Bing Li , Cheng Zheng , Guohao Li , Bernard Ghanem

In recent years, zero-shot learning has attracted the focus of many researchers, due to its flexibility and generality. Many approaches have been proposed to achieve the zero-shot classification of the point clouds for 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Jiayi Han , Zidi Cao , Weibo Zheng , Xiangguo Zhou , Xiangjian He , Yuanfang Zhang , Daisen Wei

Exploiting convolutional neural networks for point cloud processing is quite challenging, due to the inherent irregular distribution and discrete shape representation of point clouds. To address these problems, many handcrafted convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Xing Nie , Yongcheng Liu , Shaohong Chen , Jianlong Chang , Chunlei Huo , Gaofeng Meng , Qi Tian , Weiming Hu , Chunhong Pan

We present a new point-based approach for modeling the appearance of real scenes. The approach uses a raw point cloud as the geometric representation of a scene, and augments each point with a learnable neural descriptor that encodes local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kara-Ali Aliev , Artem Sevastopolsky , Maria Kolos , Dmitry Ulyanov , Victor Lempitsky

Object point cloud classification has drawn great research attention since the release of benchmarking datasets, such as the ModelNet and the ShapeNet. These benchmarks assume point clouds covering complete surfaces of object instances, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Zelin Xu , Ke Chen , Kangjun Liu , Changxing Ding , Yaowei Wang , Kui Jia

Mechanical metamaterials enable precise control over structural properties, but their design method remains challenging due to their complex structure. Although additive manufacturing has expanded geometric freedom, navigating this vast and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-18 Kijung Kim , Seungwook Hong , Wonjun Jung , Wooseok Kim , Namjung Kim , Howon Lee

Advances in self-supervised learning are essential for enhancing feature extraction and understanding in point cloud processing. This paper introduces PMT-MAE (Point MLP-Transformer Masked Autoencoder), a novel self-supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Qiang Zheng , Chao Zhang , Jian Sun

Semantic understanding of 3D point clouds is important for various robotics applications. Given that point-wise semantic annotation is expensive, in this paper, we address the challenge of learning models with extremely sparse labels. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Liyi Luo , Beiwen Tian , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou

We explore a new idea for learning based shape reconstruction from a point cloud, based on the recently popularized implicit neural shape representations. We cast the problem as a few-shot learning of implicit neural signed distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Amine Ouasfi , Adnane Boukhayma