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Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure for many embedded applications such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. Current Point Cloud Networks (PCNs) have proven to achieve great success in using inference to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Yiming Gao , Chao Jiang , Wesley Piard , Xiangru Chen , Bhavesh Patel , Herman Lam

We study the problem of efficient semantic segmentation of large-scale 3D point clouds. By relying on expensive sampling techniques or computationally heavy pre/post-processing steps, most existing approaches are only able to be trained and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Qingyong Hu , Bo Yang , Linhai Xie , Stefano Rosa , Yulan Guo , Zhihua Wang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

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

Deep learning-based point cloud processing plays an important role in various vision tasks, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). The submanifold sparse convolutional network (SSCN) has been widely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Zilun Wang , Wendong Mao , Peixiang Yang , Zhongfeng Wang , Jun Lin

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Radu Alexandru Rosu , Peer Schütt , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Point cloud segmentation is one of the most important tasks in computer vision with widespread scientific, industrial, and commercial applications. The research thereof has resulted in many breakthroughs in 3D object and scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Dening Lu , Jun Zhou , Kyle Yilin Gao , Dilong Li , Jing Du , Linlin Xu , Jonathan Li

We present a network architecture for processing point clouds that directly operates on a collection of points represented as a sparse set of samples in a high-dimensional lattice. Naively applying convolutions on this lattice scales…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Hang Su , Varun Jampani , Deqing Sun , Subhransu Maji , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jan Kautz

Point clouds are a very efficient way to represent volumetric data in medical imaging. First, they do not occupy resources for empty spaces and therefore can avoid trade-offs between resolution and field-of-view for voxel-based 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Mattias Paul Heinrich

The recent success of neural networks enables a better interpretation of 3D point clouds, but processing a large-scale 3D scene remains a challenging problem. Most current approaches divide a large-scale scene into small regions and combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chunghyun Park , Yoonwoo Jeong , Minsu Cho , Jaesik Park

Point clouds-based Networks have achieved great attention in 3D object classification, segmentation and indoor scene semantic parsing. In terms of face recognition, 3D face recognition method which directly consume point clouds as input is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Ziyu Zhang , Feipeng Da , Yi Yu

Along with increasingly popular virtual reality applications, the three-dimensional (3D) point cloud has become a fundamental data structure to characterize 3D objects and surroundings. To process 3D point clouds efficiently, a suitable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Songyang Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Zhi Ding

Large-scale datasets are usually required to train deep neural networks, but it increases the computational complexity hindering the practical applications. Recently, dataset distillation for images and texts has been attracting a lot of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jae-Young Yim , Dongwook Kim , Jae-Young Sim

3D perception in point clouds is transforming the perception ability of future intelligent machines. Point cloud algorithms, however, are plagued by irregular memory accesses, leading to massive inefficiencies in the memory sub-system,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yu Feng , Gunnar Hammonds , Yiming Gan , Yuhao Zhu

With the development of 3D sensing technologies, point clouds have attracted increasing attention in a variety of applications for 3D object representation, such as autonomous driving, 3D immersive tele-presence and heritage reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Junkun Qi , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

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

In the field of 3D point cloud generation, numerous 3D generative models have demonstrated the ability to generate diverse and realistic 3D shapes. However, the majority of these approaches struggle to generate controllable 3D point cloud…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhenyu Shu , Jiajun Shen , Zhongui Chen , Xiaoguang Han , Shiqing Xin

Processing large point clouds is a challenging task. Therefore, the data is often downsampled to a smaller size such that it can be stored, transmitted and processed more efficiently without incurring significant performance degradation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yang Ye , Xiulong Yang , Shihao Ji

With the help of the deep learning paradigm, many point cloud networks have been invented for visual analysis. However, there is great potential for development of these networks since the given information of point cloud data has not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

Point cloud completion aims to recover complete 3D geometry from partial observations caused by limited viewpoints and occlusions. Existing learning-based works, including 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based, point-based, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jiangyuan Liu , Yuhao Zhao , Hongxuan Ma , Zhe Liu , Jian Wang , Wei Zou

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