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Masked auto-encoding is a popular and effective self-supervised learning approach to point cloud learning. However, most of the existing methods reconstruct only the masked points and overlook the local geometry information, which is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yabin Zhang , Jiehong Lin , Chenhang He , Yongwei Chen , Kui Jia , Lei Zhang

The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm was recently proposed as a local learning method to address the limitations of backpropagation (BP), offering biological plausibility along with memory-efficient and highly parallelized computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Yujie Wu , Siyuan Xu , Jibin Wu , Lei Deng , Mingkun Xu , Qinghao Wen , Guoqi Li

A classification technique incorporating a novel feature derivation method is proposed for predicting failure of a system or device with multivariate time series sensor data. We treat the multivariate time series sensor data as images for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Lanfa Frank Wang , Danjue Li

This paper proposes a new method to infer keypoints from arbitrary object categories in practical scenarios where point cloud data (PCD) are noisy, down-sampled and arbitrarily rotated. Our proposed model adheres to the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Mohammad Zohaib , Alessio Del Bue

Single-frame Infrared Small Target Detection (ISTD) aims to localize weak targets under heavy background clutter, yet dense pixel-wise annotations are expensive. Point supervision with online label evolution reduces annotation cost;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuanhang Yao , Ping Qian , Zhu Liu , Long Ma , Weimin Wang

Recent advances in computer graphics and computer vision have found successful application of deep neural network models for 3D shapes based on signed distance functions (SDFs) that are useful for shape representation, retrieval, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Oladapo Afolabi , Allen Y. Yang , S. Shankar Sastry

Recently, learning multi-view neural surface reconstruction with the supervision of point clouds or depth maps has been a promising way. However, due to the underutilization of prior information, current methods still struggle with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Chen Zhang , Wanjuan Su , Qingshan Xu , Wenbing Tao

Neural Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) excel at reconstructing watertight manifolds but fail on thin structures and open boundaries due to strict inside--outside constraints. Conversely, Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) accommodate general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiayi Kong , Xuhui Chen , Chen Zong , Fei Hou , Junhui Hou , Wenping Wang , Ying He

Point cloud surface reconstruction has improved in accuracy with advances in deep learning, enabling applications such as infrastructure inspection. Recent approaches that reconstruct from small local regions rather than entire point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Eito Ogawa , Taiga Hayami , Hiroshi Watanabe

Recent work has made significant progress on using implicit functions, as a continuous representation for 3D rigid object shape reconstruction. However, much less effort has been devoted to modeling general articulated objects. Compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Jiteng Mu , Weichao Qiu , Adam Kortylewski , Alan Yuille , Nuno Vasconcelos , Xiaolong Wang

Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Judith Treffler , Vladimír Kubelka , Henrik Andreasson , Martin Magnusson

Scene Completion is the task of completing missing geometry from a partial scan of a scene. Most previous methods compute an implicit representation from range data using a Truncated Signed Distance Function (T-SDF) computed on a 3D grid as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jean Pierre Richa , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette , Nicolas Dalmasso

Processing point clouds using deep neural networks is still a challenging task. Most existing models focus on object detection and registration with deep neural networks using point clouds. In this paper, we propose a deep model that learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Farzan Erlik Nowruzi , Dhanvin Kolhatkar , Prince Kapoor , Robert Laganiere

Neural implicit representation is a promising approach for reconstructing surfaces from point clouds. Existing methods combine various regularization terms, such as the Eikonal and Laplacian energy terms, to enforce the learned neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Zixiong Wang , Yunxiao Zhang , Rui Xu , Fan Zhang , Pengshuai Wang , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Wenping Wang , Changhe Tu

Keypoint annotation in point clouds is an important task for 3D reconstruction, object tracking and alignment, in particular in deformable or moving scenes. In the context of agriculture robotics, it is a critical task for livestock…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Raphael Falque , Teresa Vidal-Calleja , Alen Alempijevic

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

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a crucial task in the fields of computer vision and computer graphics. SDF-based methods excel at reconstructing smooth meshes with minimal error and artefacts but struggle with representing open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Hui Tian , Kai Xu

Neural implicit shape representations are an emerging paradigm that offers many potential benefits over conventional discrete representations, including memory efficiency at a high spatial resolution. Generalizing across shapes with such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Vincent Sitzmann , Eric R. Chan , Richard Tucker , Noah Snavely , Gordon Wetzstein

The ability to process environment maps across multiple sessions is critical for robots operating over extended periods of time. Specifically, it is desirable for autonomous agents to detect changes amongst maps of different sessions so as…

This paper proposes a two-view deterministic geometric model fitting method, termed Superpixel-based Deterministic Fitting (SDF), for multiple-structure data. SDF starts from superpixel segmentation, which effectively captures prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Guobao Xiao , Hanzi Wang , Yan Yan , David Suter