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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

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

Point cloud semantic segmentation from projected views, such as range-view (RV) and bird's-eye-view (BEV), has been intensively investigated. Different views capture different information of point clouds and thus are complementary to each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Haibo Qiu , Baosheng Yu , Dacheng Tao

In this case study, we present a data-efficient point cloud segmentation pipeline and training framework for robust segmentation of unimproved roads and seven other classes. Our method employs a two-stage training framework: first, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Andrew Yarovoi , Christopher R. Valenta

Point cloud completion is a vital task focused on reconstructing complete point clouds and addressing the incompleteness caused by occlusion and limited sensor resolution. Traditional methods relying on fixed local region partitioning, such…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhenyu Shu , Jian Yao , Shiqing Xin

The trend of employing training-free methods for point cloud recognition is becoming increasingly popular due to its significant reduction in computational resources and time costs. However, existing approaches are limited as they typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yan Chen , Di Huang , Zhichao Liao , Xi Cheng , Xinghui Li , Long Zeng

Semantic segmentation of aerial point cloud data can be utilised to differentiate which points belong to classes such as ground, buildings, or vegetation. Point clouds generated from aerial sensors mounted to drones or planes can utilise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Matthew Howe , Boris Repasky , Timothy Payne

Exploiting fine-grained semantic features on point cloud is still challenging due to its irregular and sparse structure in a non-Euclidean space. Among existing studies, PointNet provides an efficient and promising approach to learn shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Point cloud shape completion is a challenging problem in 3D vision and robotics. Existing learning-based frameworks leverage encoder-decoder architectures to recover the complete shape from a highly encoded global feature vector. Though the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Wenxiao Zhang , Qingan Yan , Chunxia Xiao

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

Pre-training a model and then fine-tuning it on downstream tasks has demonstrated significant success in the 2D image and NLP domains. However, due to the unordered and non-uniform density characteristics of point clouds, it is non-trivial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xiao Zheng , Xiaoshui Huang , Guofeng Mei , Yuenan Hou , Zhaoyang Lyu , Bo Dai , Wanli Ouyang , Yongshun Gong

Fully exploring correlation among points in point clouds is essential for their feature modeling. This paper presents a novel end-to-end graph model, named Point2Node, to represent a given point cloud. Point2Node can dynamically explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Wenkai Han , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang , Xin Li , Qing Li

In the domain of point cloud analysis, despite the significant capabilities of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in managing complex 3D datasets, existing approaches encounter challenges like high computational costs and scalability issues with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Qiang Zheng , Yafei Qi , Chen Wang , Chao Zhang , Jian Sun

In recent years, the challenge of 3D shape analysis within point cloud data has gathered significant attention in computer vision. Addressing the complexities of effective 3D information representation and meaningful feature extraction for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Md Meraz , Md Afzal Ansari , Mohammed Javed , Pavan Chakraborty

Point cloud processing is a challenging task due to its sparsity and irregularity. Prior works introduce delicate designs on either local feature aggregator or global geometric architecture, but few combine both advantages. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Renrui Zhang , Ziyao Zeng , Ziyu Guo , Xinben Gao , Kexue Fu , Jianbo Shi

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

In this paper, we propose one novel model for point cloud semantic segmentation, which exploits both the local and global structures within the point cloud based on the contextual point representations. Specifically, we enrich each point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Xu Wang , Jingming He , Lin Ma

Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) have become one of the fundamental architectural component in point cloud analysis due to its effective feature learning mechanism. However, when processing complex geometric structures in point clouds, MLPs'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yan Shi , Qingdong He , Yijun Liu , Xiaoyu Liu , Jingyong Su

Discrete point cloud objects lack sufficient shape descriptors of 3D geometries. In this paper, we present a novel method for aggregating hypothetical curves in point clouds. Sequences of connected points (curves) are initially grouped by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Tiange Xiang , Chaoyi Zhang , Yang Song , Jianhui Yu , Weidong Cai

Understanding the implication of point cloud is still challenging to achieve the goal of classification or segmentation due to the irregular and sparse structure of point cloud. As we have known, PointNet architecture as a ground-breaking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Xi-An Li , Lei Zhang , Li-Yan Wang , Jian Lu