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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance in the task of semantically segmenting images. Applying the same methods on 3D data still poses challenges due to the heavy memory requirements and the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Radu Alexandru Rosu , Peer Schütt , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

This report presents our method which wins the nuScenes3D Detection Challenge [17] held in Workshop on Autonomous Driving(WAD, CVPR 2019). Generally, we utilize sparse 3D convolution to extract rich semantic features, which are then fed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Benjin Zhu , Zhengkai Jiang , Xiangxin Zhou , Zeming Li , Gang Yu

Coarse-to-fine 3D instance segmentation methods show weak performances compared to recent Grouping-based, Kernel-based and Transformer-based methods. We argue that this is due to two limitations: 1) Instance size overestimation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Sangyun Shin , Kaichen Zhou , Madhu Vankadari , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Retrieval in 3D point clouds is a challenging task that consists in retrieving the most similar point clouds to a given query within a reference of 3D points. Current methods focus on comparing descriptors of point clouds in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Chahine-Nicolas Zede , Laurent Carrafa , Valérie Gouet-Brunet

Point cloud is point sets defined in 3D metric space. Point cloud has become one of the most significant data format for 3D representation. Its gaining increased popularity as a result of increased availability of acquisition devices, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Saifullahi Aminu Bello , Shangshu Yu , Cheng Wang

Plane detection in 3D point clouds is a crucial pre-processing step for applications such as point cloud segmentation, semantic mapping and SLAM. In contrast to many recent plane detection methods that are only applicable on organized point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Bo Sun , Philippos Mordohai

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

Current methodologies in point cloud analysis predominantly explore 3D geometries, often achieved through the introduction of intricate learnable geometric extractors in the encoder or by deepening networks with repeated blocks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Lipeng Gu , Xuefeng Yan , Liangliang Nan , Dingkun Zhu , Honghua Chen , Weiming Wang , Mingqiang Wei

In recent years 3D object detection from LiDAR point clouds has made great progress thanks to the development of deep learning technologies. Although voxel or point based methods are popular in 3D object detection, they usually involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Jiaqi Gu , Zhiyu Xiang , Pan Zhao , Tingming Bai , Lingxuan Wang , Xijun Zhao , Zhiyuan Zhang

We propose an approach to instance segmentation from 3D point clouds based on dynamic convolution. This enables it to adapt, at inference, to varying feature and object scales. Doing so avoids some pitfalls of bottom up approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Tong He , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Point clouds have become increasingly vital across various applications thanks to their ability to realistically depict 3D objects and scenes. Nevertheless, effectively compressing unstructured, high-precision point cloud data remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hongning Ruan , Yulin Shao , Qianqian Yang , Liang Zhao , Dusit Niyato

As 3D point cloud analysis has received increasing attention, the insufficient scale of point cloud datasets and the weak generalization ability of networks become prominent. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jinlai Zhang , Lyujie Chen , Bo Ouyang , Binbin Liu , Jihong Zhu , Yujing Chen , Yanmei Meng , Danfeng Wu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently unlocked real-time, high-fidelity novel view synthesis by representing scenes using explicit 3D primitives. However, traditional methods often require millions of Gaussians to capture complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anh Thuan Tran , Jana Kosecka

Unsupervised point cloud segmentation is critical for embodied artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, as it mitigates the prohibitive cost of dense point-level annotations required by fully supervised methods. While integrating 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yixiao Song , Qingyong Li , Wen Wang , Zhicheng Yan

Exploring contextual information in the local region is important for shape understanding and analysis. Existing studies often employ hand-crafted or explicit ways to encode contextual information of local regions. However, it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Point cloud semantic segmentation plays an essential role in autonomous driving, providing vital information about drivable surfaces and nearby objects that can aid higher level tasks such as path planning and collision avoidance. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ozan Unal , Luc Van Gool , Dengxin Dai

Robust imitation learning for robot manipulation requires comprehensive 3D perception, yet many existing methods struggle in cluttered environments. Fixed camera view approaches are vulnerable to perspective changes, and 3D point cloud…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Daqi Huang , Zhehao Cai , Yuzhi Hao , Zechen Li , Chee-Meng Chew

Point cloud segmentation and classification are some of the primary tasks in 3D computer vision with applications ranging from augmented reality to robotics. However, processing point clouds using deep learning-based algorithms is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Aadesh Desai , Saagar Parikh , Seema Kumari , Shanmuganathan Raman

Point cloud is a collection of 3D coordinates that are discrete geometric samples of an object's 2D surfaces. Using a low-cost 3D scanner to acquire data means that point clouds are often in lower resolution than desired for rendering on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic

Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure. Due to its irregular format, most researchers transform such data to regular 3D voxel grids or collections of images. This, however, renders data unnecessarily voluminous and…

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