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Cloud-edge collaboration enhances machine perception by combining the strengths of edge and cloud computing. Edge devices capture raw data (e.g., 3D point clouds) and extract salient features, which are sent to the cloud for deeper analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Chongzhen Tian , Hui Yuan , Pan Zhao , Chang Sun , Raouf Hamzaoui , Sam Kwong

Modern neural architectures for 3D point cloud processing contain both convolutional layers and attention blocks, but the best way to assemble them remains unclear. We analyse the role of different computational blocks in 3D point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuanwen Yue , Damien Robert , Jianyuan Wang , Sunghwan Hong , Jan Dirk Wegner , Christian Rupprecht , Konrad Schindler

Masked autoencoding and generative pretraining have achieved remarkable success in computer vision and natural language processing, and more recently, they have been extended to the point cloud domain. Nevertheless, existing point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Zhe Li , Xiying Wang , Jinglin Zhao , Zheng Wang , Debin Liu , Laurence T. Yang

With recent advancements in deep learning methods, automatically learning deep features from the original data is becoming an effective and widespread approach. However, the hand-crafted expert knowledge-based features are still insightful.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Guanjie Huang , Fenglong Ma

3D point cloud segmentation has a wide range of applications in areas such as autonomous driving, augmented reality, virtual reality and digital twins. The point cloud data collected in real scenes often contain small objects and categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chade Li , Pengju Zhang , Jiaming Zhang , Yihong Wu

Efficient analysis of point clouds holds paramount significance in real-world 3D applications. Currently, prevailing point-based models adhere to the PointNet++ methodology, which involves embedding and abstracting point features within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jianan Li , Jie Wang , Tingfa Xu

Recently, a growing number of work design unsupervised paradigms for point cloud processing to alleviate the limitation of expensive manual annotation and poor transferability of supervised methods. Among them, CrossPoint follows the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hongyu Sun , Yongcai Wang , Xudong Cai , Xuewei Bai , Deying Li

3D object detection is an essential vision technique for various robotic systems, such as augmented reality and domestic robots. Transformers as versatile network architectures have recently seen great success in 3D point cloud object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Manli Shu , Le Xue , Ning Yu , Roberto Martín-Martín , Caiming Xiong , Tom Goldstein , Juan Carlos Niebles , Ran Xu

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

In this paper, we propose Attention Based Decomposition Network (ABD-Net), for point cloud decomposition into basic geometric shapes namely, plane, sphere, cone and cylinder. We show improved performance of 3D object classification using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Siddharth Katageri , Shashidhar V Kudari , Akshaykumar Gunari , Ramesh Ashok Tabib , Uma Mudenagudi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have performed extremely well on data represented by regularly arranged grids such as images. However, directly leveraging the classic convolution kernels or parameter sharing mechanisms on sparse 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Mingtao Feng , Liang Zhang , Xuefei Lin , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Ajmal Mian

In this paper, we propose an adaptive margin contrastive learning method for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation, namely AMContrast3D. Most existing methods use equally penalized objectives, which ignore per-point ambiguities and less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Yang Chen , Yueqi Duan , Runzhong Zhang , Yap-Peng Tan

Three-dimensional point cloud anomaly detection that aims to detect anomaly data points from a training set serves as the foundation for a variety of applications, including industrial inspection and autonomous driving. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Baozhu Zhao , Qiwei Xiong , Xiaohan Zhang , Jingfeng Guo , Qi Liu , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu

The 3D point cloud (3DPC) has significantly evolved and benefited from the advance of deep learning (DL). However, the latter faces various issues, including the lack of data or annotated data, the existence of a significant gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shahab Saquib Sohail , Yassine Himeur , Hamza Kheddar , Abbes Amira , Fodil Fadli , Shadi Atalla , Abigail Copiaco , Wathiq Mansoor

Point clouds are a basic data type that is increasingly of interest as 3D content becomes more ubiquitous. Applications using point clouds include virtual, augmented, and mixed reality and autonomous driving. We propose a more efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Ryan Killea , Yun Li , Saeed Bastani , Paul McLachlan

Pre-training has become a standard paradigm in many computer vision tasks. However, most of the methods are generally designed on the RGB image domain. Due to the discrepancy between the two-dimensional image plane and the three-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Zhenyu Li , Zehui Chen , Ang Li , Liangji Fang , Qinhong Jiang , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Bolei Zhou , Hang Zhao

Point cloud is a crucial representation of 3D contents, which has been widely used in many areas such as virtual reality, mixed reality, autonomous driving, etc. With the boost of the number of points in the data, how to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Kang You , Pan Gao , Qing Li

Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning has proven effective in deriving high-quality representations from unlabeled data. However, a major challenge that hinders both unimodal and multimodal contrastive learning is feature suppression, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jihai Zhang , Xiang Lan , Xiaoye Qu , Yu Cheng , Mengling Feng , Bryan Hooi

Point cloud learning is receiving increasing attention. However, most existing point cloud models lack the practical ability to deal with the unavoidable presence of unknown objects. This paper primarily discusses point cloud learning in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jie Hong , Shi Qiu , Weihao Li , Saeed Anwar , Mehrtash Harandi , Nick Barnes , Lars Petersson

Despite the remarkable success of deep learning, an optimal convolution operation on point clouds remains elusive owing to their irregular data structure. Existing methods mainly focus on designing an effective continuous kernel function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sungmin Woo , Dogyoon Lee , Sangwon Hwang , Woojin Kim , Sangyoun Lee