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In this case study, we present a data-efficient point cloud segmentation pipeline and training framework for robust segmentation of unimproved roads and seven other classes. Our method employs a two-stage training framework: first, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Andrew Yarovoi , Christopher R. Valenta

Deep clustering, which learns representation and semantic clustering without labels information, poses a great challenge for deep learning-based approaches. Despite significant progress in recent years, most existing methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Chuyu Zhang , Hui Ren , Xuming He

Inferring missing regions from severely occluded point clouds is highly challenging. Especially for 3D shapes with rich geometry and structure details, inherent ambiguities of the unknown parts are existing. Existing approaches either learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Linlian Jiang , Pan Chen , Ye Wang , Tieru Wu , Rui Ma

We propose a novel approach based on optimal transport (OT) for tackling the problem of highly mixed data in blind hyperspectral unmixing. Our method constrains the distribution of the estimated abundance matrix to resemble a targeted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 D. Doutsas , B. Figliuzzi

Semantic shape completion is a challenging problem in 3D computer vision where the task is to generate a complete 3D shape using a partial 3D shape as input. We propose a learning-based approach to complete incomplete 3D shapes through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Swaminathan Gurumurthy , Shubham Agrawal

Object placement is a fundamental task for robots, yet it remains challenging for partially observed objects. Existing methods for object placement have limitations, such as the requirement for a complete 3D model of the object or the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Sangjun Noh , Raeyoung Kang , Taewon Kim , Seunghyeok Back , Seongho Bak , Kyoobin Lee

Point cloud completion, which aims at recovering original shape information from partial point clouds, has attracted attention on 3D vision community. Existing methods usually succeed in completion for standard shape, while failing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Junshu Tang , Jiachen Xu , Jingyu Gong , Haichuan Song , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

In this paper we address the task of finding representative subsets of points in a 3D point cloud by means of a point-wise ordering. Only a few works have tried to address this challenging vision problem, all with the help of hard to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Pengwan Yang , Cees G. M. Snoek , Yuki M. Asano

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in many domains. Practically, the overlap between point clouds to be registered may be relatively small. Most unsupervised methods lack effective initial evaluation of overlap, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Pengcheng Shi , Jie Zhang , Haozhe Cheng , Junyang Wang , Yiyang Zhou , Chenlin Zhao , Jihua Zhu

Entropy regularized optimal transport and its multi-marginal generalization have attracted increasing attention in various applications, in particular due to efficient Sinkhorn-like algorithms for computing optimal transport plans. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Florian Beier , Johannes von Lindheim , Sebastian Neumayer , Gabriele Steidl

3D point cloud completion, the task of inferring the complete geometric shape from a partial point cloud, has been attracting attention in the community. For acquiring high-fidelity dense point clouds and avoiding uneven distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Minghua Liu , Lu Sheng , Sheng Yang , Jing Shao , Shi-Min Hu

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used technique for distribution alignment, with applications throughout the machine learning, graphics, and vision communities. Without any additional structural assumptions on trans-port, however, OT can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Chi-Heng Lin , Mehdi Azabou , Eva L. Dyer

We present an iterative overlap estimation technique to augment existing point cloud registration algorithms that can achieve high performance in difficult real-world situations where large pose displacement and non-overlapping geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Ben Eckart , Kihwan Kim , Jan Kautz

With the mass deployment of computing-intensive applications and delay-sensitive applications on end devices, only adequate computing resources can meet differentiated services' delay requirements. By offloading tasks to cloud servers or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Zhuo Li , Xu Zhou , Taixin Li , Yang Liu

All-in-one image restoration has emerged as a practical and promising low-level vision task for real-world applications. In this context, the key issue lies in how to deal with different types of degraded images simultaneously. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiaole Tang , Xiang Gu , Xiaoyi He , Xin Hu , Jian Sun

In computer-aided design (CAD) community, the point cloud data is pervasively applied in reverse engineering, where the point cloud analysis plays an important role. While a large number of supervised learning methods have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cheng Zhang , Jian Shi , Xuan Deng , Zizhao Wu

In this article, we study unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) and establish a control-theoretic dynamical extension, which we call the unbalanced density control (UDC), for a class of Gaussian reference measures. In the static setting, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Haruto Nakashima , Siddhartha Ganguly , Kenji Kashima

This paper studies the Partial Optimal Transport (POT) problem between two unbalanced measures with at most $n$ supports and its applications in various AI tasks such as color transfer or domain adaptation. There is hence the need for fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Anh Duc Nguyen , Tuan Dung Nguyen , Quang Minh Nguyen , Hoang H. Nguyen , Lam M. Nguyen , Kim-Chuan Toh

This article proposes a novel unsupervised learning framework for detecting the number of tunnel junctions in subterranean environments based on acquired 2D point clouds. The implementation of the framework provides valuable information for…

We introduce a framework for analyzing topological tipping in time-evolutionary point clouds by extending the recently proposed Topological Optimal Transport (TpOT) distance. While TpOT unifies geometric, homological, and higher-order…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-18 Yixin Wang , Ting Gao , Jinqiao Duan