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This paper proposes an innovative approach to Hierarchical Edge Aware 3D Point Cloud Learning (HEA-Net) that seeks to address the challenges of noise in point cloud data, and improve object recognition and segmentation by focusing on edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Lei Li

Accurate classification of objects in 3D point clouds is a significant problem in several applications, such as autonomous navigation and augmented/virtual reality scenarios, which has become a research hot spot. In this paper, we presented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Ramin Mousa , Mitra Khezli , Mohamadreza Azadi , Vahid Nikoofard , Saba Hesaraki

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

The development of practical applications, such as autonomous driving and robotics, has brought increasing attention to 3D point cloud understanding. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success on image-based tasks, there are many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Haoming Lu , Humphrey Shi

In this paper, we propose a point cloud classification method based on graph neural network and manifold learning. Different from the conventional point cloud analysis methods, this paper uses manifold learning algorithms to embed point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Dinghao Yang , Wei Gao

Reliable quantification of uncertainty in Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) point clouds is essential for ensuring the accuracy and credibility of downstream applications such as 3D mapping, modeling, and change analysis. Traditional backward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ziyang Xu , Olaf Wysocki , Christoph Holst

How do computers and intelligent agents view the world around them? Feature extraction and representation constitutes one the basic building blocks towards answering this question. Traditionally, this has been done with carefully engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jaime Spencer , Richard Bowden , Simon Hadfield

In recent years, point cloud representation has become one of the research hotspots in the field of computer vision, and has been widely used in many fields, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality, robotics, etc. Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Huang Zhang , Changshuo Wang , Shengwei Tian , Baoli Lu , Liping Zhang , Xin Ning , Xiao Bai

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved 3D semantic segmentation, but most models focus on indoor or terrestrial datasets. Their behavior under real aerial acquisition conditions remains insufficiently explored, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Alex Salvatierra , José Antonio Sanz , Christian Gutiérrez , Mikel Galar

Semantic parsing of large-scale 3D point clouds is an important research topic in computer vision and remote sensing fields. Most existing approaches utilize hand-crafted features for each modality independently and combine them in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Fangyu Liu , Shuaipeng Li , Liqiang Zhang , Chenghu Zhou , Rongtian Ye , Yuebin Wang , Jiwen Lu

Point cloud semantic segmentation has attracted attentions due to its robustness to light condition. This makes it an ideal semantic solution for autonomous driving. However, considering the large computation burden and bandwidth demanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Lin Bai , Yiming Zhao , Xinming Huang

Trees inside cities are important for the urban microclimate, contributing positively to the physical and mental health of the urban dwellers. Despite their importance, often only limited information about city trees is available. Therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Hui Zhang , Ankit Kariryaa , Venkanna Babu Guthula , Christian Igel , Stefan Oehmcke

Recent advances in point cloud perception have demonstrated remarkable progress in scene understanding through vision-language alignment leveraging large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods may still encounter challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhenhua Ning , Zhuotao Tian , Shaoshuai Shi , Guangming Lu , Daojing He , Wenjie Pei , Li Jiang

Ridge-valley features are important elements of point clouds, as they contain rich surface information. To recognize these features from point clouds, this paper introduces an extreme point distance (EPD) criterion with scale independence.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Jianhui Nie , Zhaochen Zhang , Ye Liu , Hao Gao , Feng Xu , WenKai Shi

To train a well performing neural network for semantic segmentation, it is crucial to have a large dataset with available ground truth for the network to generalize on unseen data. In this paper we present novel point cloud augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Frederik Hasecke , Martin Alsfasser , Anton Kummert

Semantic segmentation of large-scale outdoor point clouds is essential for urban scene understanding in various applications, especially autonomous driving and urban high-definition (HD) mapping. With rapid developments of mobile laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Weikai Tan , Nannan Qin , Lingfei Ma , Ying Li , Jing Du , Guorong Cai , Ke Yang , Jonathan Li

This study investigates the classification of aerial images depicting transmission towers, forests, farmland, and mountains. To complete the classification job, features are extracted from input photos using a Convolutional Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Mustafa Majeed Abd Zaid , Ahmed Abed Mohammed , Putra Sumari

The ability to recognize the position and order of the floor-level lines that divide adjacent building floors can benefit many applications, for example, urban augmented reality (AR). This work tackles the problem of locating floor-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Mengyang Wu , Wei Zeng , Chi-Wing Fu

Recent works on 3D semantic segmentation propose to exploit the synergy between images and point clouds by processing each modality with a dedicated network and projecting learned 2D features onto 3D points. Merging large-scale point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Damien Robert , Bruno Vallet , Loic Landrieu

Good quality reconstruction and comprehension of a scene rely on 3D estimation methods. The 3D information was usually obtained from images by stereo-photogrammetry, but deep learning has recently provided us with excellent results for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Rémy Leroy , Pauline Trouvé-Peloux , Frédéric Champagnat , Bertrand Le Saux , Marcela Carvalho