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3D point cloud semantic and instance segmentation is crucial and fundamental for 3D scene understanding. Due to the complex structure, point sets are distributed off balance and diversely, which appears as both category imbalance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Tong He , Dong Gong , Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen

We present a convolutional network that is equivariant to rigid body motions. The model uses scalar-, vector-, and tensor fields over 3D Euclidean space to represent data, and equivariant convolutions to map between such representations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Maurice Weiler , Mario Geiger , Max Welling , Wouter Boomsma , Taco Cohen

Partial point cloud registration is essential for autonomous perception and 3D scene understanding, yet it remains challenging owing to structural ambiguity, partial visibility, and noise. We address these issues by proposing Confidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yongqiang Wang , Weigang Li , Wenping Liu , Zhe Xu , Zhiqiang Tian

Learning generative models of 3D point clouds is one of the fundamental problems in 3D generative learning. One of the key properties of point clouds is their permutation invariance, i.e., changing the order of points in a point cloud does…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Ka-Hei Hui , Chao Liu , Xiaohui Zeng , Chi-Wing Fu , Arash Vahdat

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

Predicting the binding sites of target proteins plays a fundamental role in drug discovery. Most existing deep-learning methods consider a protein as a 3D image by spatially clustering its atoms into voxels and then feed the voxelized…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-24 Yang Zhang , Zhewei Wei , Ye Yuan , Chongxuan Li , Wenbing Huang

3D Euclidean symmetry equivariant neural networks have demonstrated notable success in modeling complex physical systems. We introduce a framework for relaxed $E(3)$ graph equivariant neural networks that can learn and represent symmetry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Elyssa Hofgard , Rui Wang , Robin Walters , Tess Smidt

As the basic task of point cloud analysis, classification is fundamental but always challenging. To address some unsolved problems of existing methods, we propose a network that captures geometric features of point clouds for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

This paper introduces a new model to learn graph neural networks equivariant to rotations, translations, reflections and permutations called E(n)-Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (EGNNs). In contrast with existing methods, our work does…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Victor Garcia Satorras , Emiel Hoogeboom , Max Welling

We tackle the problem of object-centric learning on point clouds, which is crucial for high-level relational reasoning and scalable machine intelligence. In particular, we introduce a framework, SPAIR3D, to factorize a 3D point cloud into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tianyu Wang , Miaomiao Liu , Kee Siong Ng

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

Point cloud registration aligns multiple unposed point clouds into a common reference frame and is a core step for 3D reconstruction and robot localization without initial guess. In this work, we cast registration as conditional generation:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Pan , Tao Sun , Liyuan Zhu , Lucas Nunes , Iro Armeni , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics, involving the alignment of 3D point sets captured from varying viewpoints using depth sensors such as LiDAR or structured light. In modern robotic systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ashutosh Singandhupe , Sanket Lokhande , Hung Manh La

Unsupervised non-rigid point cloud shape correspondence underpins a multitude of 3D vision tasks, yet itself is non-trivial given the exponential complexity stemming from inter-point degree-of-freedom, i.e., pose transformations. Based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ling Wang , Runfa Chen , Yikai Wang , Fuchun Sun , Xinzhou Wang , Sun Kai , Guangyuan Fu , Jianwei Zhang , Wenbing Huang

Recently 3D point cloud learning has been a hot topic in computer vision and autonomous driving. Due to the fact that it is difficult to manually annotate a qualitative large-scale 3D point cloud dataset, unsupervised domain adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Qing Li , Xiaojiang Peng , Chuan Yan , Pan Gao , Qi Hao

Learning representations through deep generative modeling is a powerful approach for dynamical modeling to discover the most simplified and compressed underlying description of the data, to then use it for other tasks such as prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Bahar Azari , Deniz Erdoğmuş

Due to the difficulty in generating the effective descriptors which are robust to occlusion and viewpoint changes, place recognition for 3D point cloud remains an open issue. Unlike most of the existing methods that focus on extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Xin Kong , Xuemeng Yang , Guangyao Zhai , Xiangrui Zhao , Xianfang Zeng , Mengmeng Wang , Yong Liu , Wanlong Li , Feng Wen

Point cloud based retrieval for place recognition is still a challenging problem due to drastic appearance and illumination changes of scenes in changing environments. Existing deep learning based global descriptors for the retrieval task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Le Hui , Mingmei Cheng , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

Point cloud is a principal data structure adopted for 3D geometric information encoding. Unlike other conventional visual data, such as images and videos, these irregular points describe the complex shape features of 3D objects, which makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Chaoyi Zhang , Yang Song , Lina Yao , Weidong Cai

In this paper, we propose PASS3D to achieve point-wise semantic segmentation for 3D point cloud. Our framework combines the efficiency of traditional geometric methods with robustness of deep learning methods, consisting of two stages: At…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Xin Kong , Guangyao Zhai , Baoquan Zhong , Yong Liu