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To alleviate the cost of collecting and annotating large-scale point cloud datasets, we propose an unsupervised learning approach to learn features from unlabeled point cloud "3D object" dataset by using part contrasting and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ling Zhang , Zhigang Zhu

This paper focuses on the recently popular task of point cloud completion guided by multimodal information. Although existing methods have achieved excellent performance by fusing auxiliary images, there are still some deficiencies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Wei Song , Jun Zhou , Mingjie Wang , Hongchen Tan , Nannan Li , Xiuping Liu

3D point-cloud-based perception is a challenging but crucial computer vision task. A point-cloud consists of a sparse, unstructured, and unordered set of points. To understand a point-cloud, previous point-based methods, such as PointNet++,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Chenfeng Xu , Bohan Zhai , Bichen Wu , Tian Li , Wei Zhan , Peter Vajda , Kurt Keutzer , Masayoshi Tomizuka

We develop an effective point cloud rendering pipeline for novel view synthesis, which enables high fidelity local detail reconstruction, real-time rendering and user-friendly editing. In the heart of our pipeline is an adaptive frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yi Zhang , Xiaoyang Huang , Bingbing Ni , Teng Li , Wenjun Zhang

Estimating the normal of a point requires constructing a local patch to provide center-surrounding context, but determining the appropriate neighborhood size is difficult when dealing with different data or geometries. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Kanle Shi , Yue Gao , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Recently normalizing flows (NFs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on modeling 3D point clouds while allowing sampling with arbitrary resolution at inference time. However, these flow-based models still require long training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Janis Postels , Mengya Liu , Riccardo Spezialetti , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

We present a novel lightweight convolutional neural network for point cloud analysis. In contrast to many current CNNs which increase receptive field by downsampling point cloud, our method directly operates on the entire point sets without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Xu Wang , Yuyan Li , Ye Duan

Object reconstruction from 3D point clouds has been a long-standing research problem in computer vision and computer graphics, and achieved impressive progress. However, reconstruction from time-varying point clouds (a.k.a. 4D point clouds)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Tuan-Anh Vu , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Quang-Hieu Pham , Sai-Kit Yeung

Learning and selecting important points on a point cloud is crucial for point cloud understanding in various applications. Most of early methods selected the important points on 3D shapes by analyzing the intrinsic geometric properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Sanghuk Lee , Yan-Pei Cao , Yu-Shen Liu

Existing fully-supervised point cloud segmentation methods suffer in the dynamic testing environment with emerging new classes. Few-shot point cloud segmentation algorithms address this problem by learning to adapt to new classes at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yating Xu , Conghui Hu , Na Zhao , Gim Hee Lee

In point cloud analysis tasks, the existing local feature aggregation descriptors (LFAD) are unable to fully utilize information in the neighborhood of central points. Previous methods rely solely on Euclidean distance to constrain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Haotian Hu , Fanyi Wang , Jingwen Su , Hongtao Zhou , Yaonong Wang , Laifeng Hu , Yanhao Zhang , Zhiwang Zhang

Self-supervised learning has not been fully explored for point cloud analysis. Current frameworks are mainly based on point cloud reconstruction. Given only 3D coordinates, such approaches tend to learn local geometric structures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Mingye Xu , Yali Wang , Zhipeng Zhou , Hongbin Xu , Yu Qiao

In recent years, point cloud analysis methods based on the Transformer architecture have made significant progress, particularly in the context of multimedia applications such as 3D modeling, virtual reality, and autonomous systems.…

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

Inspired by recent improvements in point cloud processing for autonomous navigation, we focus on using hierarchical graph neural networks for processing and feature learning over large-scale outdoor LiDAR point clouds. We observe that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Arulmolivarman Thieshanthan , Amashi Niwarthana , Pamuditha Somarathne , Tharindu Wickremasinghe , Ranga Rodrigo

We present a novel differential matching algorithm for 3D point cloud registration. Instead of only optimizing the feature extractor for a matching algorithm, we propose a learning-based matching module optimized to the jointly-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rintaro Yanagi , Atsushi Hashimoto , Shusaku Sone , Naoya Chiba , Jiaxin Ma , Yoshitaka Ushiku

Recent years have witnessed the success of the deep learning-based technique in research of no-reference point cloud quality assessment (NR-PCQA). For a more accurate quality prediction, many previous studies have attempted to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yujie Zhang , Qi Yang , Ziyu Shan , Yiling Xu

Fine-grained geometry, captured by aggregation of point features in local regions, is crucial for object recognition and scene understanding in point clouds. Nevertheless, existing preeminent point cloud backbones usually incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jie Wang , Jianan Li , Lihe Ding , Ying Wang , Tingfa Xu

Deep learning is increasingly being used to perform machine vision tasks such as classification, object detection, and segmentation on 3D point cloud data. However, deep learning inference is computationally expensive. The limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Mateen Ulhaq , Ivan V. Bajić

Due to the sparsity and irregularity of the point cloud data, methods that directly consume points have become popular. Among all point-based models, graph convolutional networks (GCN) lead to notable performance by fully preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Qiangeng Xu , Xudong Sun , Cho-Ying Wu , Panqu Wang , Ulrich Neumann

Owing to the development of research on local aggregation operators, dramatic breakthrough has been made in point cloud analysis models. However, existing local aggregation operators in the current literature fail to attach decent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Haotian Hu , Fanyi Wang , Huixiao Le