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This work introduces E3x, a software package for building neural networks that are equivariant with respect to the Euclidean group $\mathrm{E}(3)$, consisting of translations, rotations, and reflections of three-dimensional space. Compared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Oliver T. Unke , Hartmut Maennel

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

Rotation equivariance has recently become a strongly desired property in the 3D deep learning community. Yet most existing methods focus on equivariance regarding a global input rotation while ignoring the fact that rotation symmetry has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hong-Xing Yu , Jiajun Wu , Li Yi

Objects in aerial images have greater variations in scale and orientation than in typical images, so detection is more difficult. Convolutional neural networks use a variety of frequency- and orientation-specific kernels to identify objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Guo-Ye Yang , Xiang-Li Li , Ralph R. Martin , Shi-Min Hu

In this paper, we develop SE3Set, an SE(3) equivariant hypergraph neural network architecture tailored for advanced molecular representation learning. Hypergraphs are not merely an extension of traditional graphs; they are pivotal for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hongfei Wu , Lijun Wu , Guoqing Liu , Zhirong Liu , Bin Shao , Zun Wang

We demonstrate an object tracking method for 3D images with fixed computational cost and state-of-the-art performance. Previous methods predicted transformation parameters from convolutional layers. We instead propose an architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Daniel Moyer , Esra Abaci Turk , P Ellen Grant , William M. Wells , Polina Golland

Thanks to the application of deep learning technology in point cloud processing of the remote sensing field, point cloud segmentation has become a research hotspot in recent years, which can be applied to real-world 3D, smart cities, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yong-Qiang Mao , Hanbo Bi , Xuexue Li , Kaiqiang Chen , Zhirui Wang , Xian Sun , Kun Fu

Learning 3D point sets with rotational invariance is an important and challenging problem in machine learning. Through rotational invariant architectures, 3D point cloud neural networks are relieved from requiring a canonical global pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Hedi Zisling , Andrei Sharf

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are extremely efficient, since they exploit the inherent translation-invariance of natural images. However, translation is just one of a myriad of useful spatial transformations. Can the same efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi

Image convolutions have been a cornerstone of a great number of deep learning advances in computer vision. The research community is yet to settle on an equivalent operator for sparse, unstructured continuous data like point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Dominic Jack , Frederic Maire , Simon Denman , Anders Eriksson

Analyzing scalar and vector fields on the sphere, such as temperature or wind speed and direction on Earth, is a difficult task. Models should respect both the rotational symmetries of the sphere and the inherent symmetries of the vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Francesco Ballerin , Nello Blaser , Erlend Grong

We present a novel attention-based mechanism to learn enhanced point features for point cloud processing tasks, e.g., classification and segmentation. Unlike prior works, which were trained to optimize the weights of a pre-selected set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Liqiang Lin , Pengdi Huang , Chi-Wing Fu , Kai Xu , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

Spherical convolutional networks have been introduced recently as tools to learn powerful feature representations of 3D shapes. Spherical CNNs are equivariant to 3D rotations making them ideally suited to applications where 3D data may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Carlos Esteves , Avneesh Sud , Zhengyi Luo , Kostas Daniilidis , Ameesh Makadia

Given a pair of point clouds, the goal of assembly is to recover a rigid transformation that aligns one point cloud to the other. This task is challenging because the point clouds may be non-overlapped, and they may have arbitrary initial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Ziming Wang , Rebecka Jörnsten

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

The success of deep learning methods led to significant breakthroughs in 3-D point cloud processing tasks with applications in remote sensing. Existing methods utilize convolutions that have some limitations, as they assume a uniform input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Dimple A Shajahan , Mukund Varma T , Ramanathan Muthuganapathy

Semantic segmentation of raw 3D point clouds is an essential component in 3D scene analysis, but it poses several challenges, primarily due to the non-Euclidean nature of 3D point clouds. Although, several deep learning based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Saqib Ali Khan , Yilei Shi , Muhammad Shahzad , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Scene flow estimation is the task to predict the point-wise or pixel-wise 3D displacement vector between two consecutive frames of point clouds or images, which has important application in fields such as service robots and autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Guangming Wang , Yunzhe Hu , Xinrui Wu , Hesheng Wang

This paper introduces a robust unsupervised SE(3) point cloud registration method that operates without requiring point correspondences. The method frames point clouds as functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ray Zhang , Zheming Zhou , Min Sun , Omid Ghasemalizadeh , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Ryan Eustice , Maani Ghaffari , Arnie Sen

This paper presents a novel framework combining group equivariant convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) with equivariant-aware structured pruning to produce compact, transformation-invariant models for resource-constrained environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mohammed Alnemari