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Deep learning within the context of point clouds has gained much research interest in recent years mostly due to the promising results that have been achieved on a number of challenging benchmarks, such as 3D shape recognition and scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Ye Zhu , Sven Ewan Shepstone , Pablo Martínez-Nuevo , Miklas Strøm Kristoffersen , Fabien Moutarde , Zhuang Fu

LiDAR-generated point clouds are crucial for perceiving outdoor environments. The segmentation of point clouds is also essential for many applications. Previous research has focused on using self-attention and convolution (local attention)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Abhishek Kuriyal , Vaibhav Kumar , Bharat Lohani

LiDAR scanning for surveying applications acquire measurements over wide areas and long distances, which produces large-scale 3D point clouds with significant local density variations. While existing 3D semantic segmentation models conduct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ryan Faulkner , Luke Haub , Simon Ratcliffe , Ian Reid , Tat-Jun Chin

The paper presents a simple and effective learning-based method for computing a discriminative 3D point cloud descriptor for place recognition purposes. Recent state-of-the-art methods have relatively complex architectures such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Jacek Komorowski

Point clouds analysis has grasped researchers' eyes in recent years, while 3D semantic segmentation remains a problem. Most deep point clouds models directly conduct learning on 3D point clouds, which will suffer from the severe sparsity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Zhenhong Zou , Yizhe Li

In this work, we propose a novel neural network focusing on semantic labeling of ALS point clouds, which investigates the importance of long-range spatial and channel-wise relations and is termed as global relation-aware attentional network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Rong Huang , Yusheng Xu , Uwe Stilla

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) allows us to extract powerful topological and higher-order information on the global shape of a data set or point cloud. Tools like Persistent Homology or the Euler Transform give a single complex description…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

Measuring and alleviating the discrepancies between the synthetic (source) and real scene (target) data is the core issue for domain adaptive semantic segmentation. Though recent works have introduced depth information in the source domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yinghong Liao , Wending Zhou , Xu Yan , Shuguang Cui , Yizhou Yu , Zhen Li

This paper proposes a novel point-cloud-based place recognition system that adopts a deep learning approach for feature extraction. By using a convolutional neural network pre-trained on color images to extract features from a range image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Ting Sun , Ming Liu , Haoyang Ye , Dit-Yan Yeung

Efficiently implementing remote sensing image classification with high spatial resolution imagery can provide a significant value in Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) classification. The new advances in remote sensing and deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Raoof Naushad , Tarunpreet Kaur , Ebrahim Ghaderpour

Humans use UAVs to monitor changes in forest environments since they are lightweight and provide a large variety of surveillance data. However, their information does not present enough details for understanding the scene which is needed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bianca-Cerasela-Zelia Blaga , Sergiu Nedevschi

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

Point cloud few-shot semantic segmentation (PC-FSS) aims to segment targets of novel categories in a given query point cloud with only a few annotated support samples. The current top-performing prototypical learning methods employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhaoyang Li , Yuan Wang , Wangkai Li , Rui Sun , Tianzhu Zhang

Recent advancements in machine learning, particularly through deep learning architectures like PointNet, have transformed the processing of three-dimensional (3D) point clouds, significantly improving 3D object classification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sanaz Mahmoodi Takaghaj

For autonomous driving, radar sensors provide superior reliability regardless of weather conditions as well as a significantly high detection range. State-of-the-art algorithms for environment perception based on radar scans build up on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Marco Braun , Alessandro Cennamo , Markus Schoeler , Kevin Kollek , Anton Kummert

In recent years, with the development of computing resources and LiDAR, point cloud semantic segmentation has attracted many researchers. For the sparsity of point clouds, although there is already a way to deal with sparse convolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yunzheng Su , Lei Jiang , Jie Cao

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a relatively new field that is gaining rapid adoption due to its robustness and ability to effectively describe complex datasets by quantifying geometric information. In imaging contexts, TDA typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Aaryam Sharma

The precise point cloud ground segmentation is a crucial prerequisite of virtually all perception tasks for LiDAR sensors in autonomous vehicles. Especially the clustering and extraction of objects from a point cloud usually relies on an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Nicolai Steinke , Daniel Göhring , Raùl Rojas

In 3D point cloud understanding, the core challenge lies in accurately capturing discriminative features within complex neighborhoods, which directly affects the execution precision of downstream tasks such as embodied AI and autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiaqi Shi , Jin Xiao , Xiaoguang Hu , Wenxuan Ji , Zichong Jia , Zifan Long , Tianyou Chen , Baochang Zhang

Research in point cloud analysis with deep neural networks has made rapid progress in recent years. The pioneering work PointNet offered a direct analysis of point clouds. However, due to its architecture PointNet is not able to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Qendrim Bytyqi , Nicola Wolpert , Elmar Schömer