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Object detection and tracking are vital and fundamental tasks for autonomous driving, aiming at identifying and locating objects from those predefined categories in a scene. 3D point cloud learning has been attracting more and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Yang Peng

LiDAR's dense, sharp point cloud (PC) representations of the surrounding environment enable accurate perception and significantly improve road safety by offering greater scene awareness and understanding. However, LiDAR's high cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 William Muckelroy , Mohammed Alsakabi , John Dolan , Ozan Tonguz

Recent advances in computer vision and deep learning have shown promising performance in estimating rigid/similarity transformation between unregistered point clouds of complex objects and scenes. However, their performances are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ningli Xu , Rongjun Qin , Shuang Song

Deep learning with 3D data such as reconstructed point clouds and CAD models has received great research interests recently. However, the capability of using point clouds with convolutional neural network has been so far not fully explored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Binh-Son Hua , Minh-Khoi Tran , Sai-Kit Yeung

As the development of 3D sensors, registration of 3D data (e.g. point cloud) coming from different kind of sensor is dispensable and shows great demanding. However, point cloud registration between different sensors is challenging because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Xiaoshui Huang

Large-scale 3D point clouds (LS3DPC) obtained by LiDAR scanners require huge storage space and transmission bandwidth due to a large amount of data. The existing methods of LS3DPC compression separately perform rule-based point sampling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jae-Young Yim , Jae-Young Sim

As two fundamental representation modalities of 3D objects, 3D point clouds and multi-view 2D images record shape information from different domains of geometric structures and visual appearances. In the current deep learning era,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yue Qian

We propose a new supervized learning framework for oversegmenting 3D point clouds into superpoints. We cast this problem as learning deep embeddings of the local geometry and radiometry of 3D points, such that the border of objects presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Loic Landrieu , Mohamed Boussaha

The matching of 3D shapes has been extensively studied for shapes represented as surface meshes, as well as for shapes represented as point clouds. While point clouds are a common representation of raw real-world 3D data (e.g. from laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dongliang Cao , Florian Bernard

Unsupervised contrastive learning for indoor-scene point clouds has achieved great successes. However, unsupervised learning point clouds in outdoor scenes remains challenging because previous methods need to reconstruct the whole scene and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Runjian Chen , Yao Mu , Runsen Xu , Wenqi Shao , Chenhan Jiang , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , Ping Luo

The significance of informative and robust point representations has been widely acknowledged for 3D scene understanding. Despite existing self-supervised pre-training counterparts demonstrating promising performance, the model collapse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Lei Yao , Yi Wang , Yi Zhang , Moyun Liu , Lap-Pui Chau

Good quality reconstruction and comprehension of a scene rely on 3D estimation methods. The 3D information was usually obtained from images by stereo-photogrammetry, but deep learning has recently provided us with excellent results for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Rémy Leroy , Pauline Trouvé-Peloux , Frédéric Champagnat , Bertrand Le Saux , Marcela Carvalho

Masked autoencoding has achieved great success for self-supervised learning in the image and language domains. However, mask based pretraining has yet to show benefits for point cloud understanding, likely due to standard backbones like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Haotian Liu , Mu Cai , Yong Jae Lee

We present an approach to learning features that represent the local geometry around a point in an unstructured point cloud. Such features play a central role in geometric registration, which supports diverse applications in robotics and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Marc Khoury , Qian-Yi Zhou , Vladlen Koltun

3D point cloud semantic segmentation aims to group all points into different semantic categories, which benefits important applications such as point cloud scene reconstruction and understanding. Existing supervised point cloud semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Canyu Zhang , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Ziyu Zhao , Song Wang

3D instance segmentation aims to predict a set of object instances in a scene, representing them as binary foreground masks with corresponding semantic labels. Currently, transformer-based methods are gaining increasing attention due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jiahao Lu , Jiacheng Deng

The point cloud is gaining prominence as a method for representing 3D shapes, but its irregular format poses a challenge for deep learning methods. The common solution of transforming the data into a 3D voxel grid introduces its own…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Michael Lindenbaum , Anath Fischer

In the field of large-scale SLAM for autonomous driving and mobile robotics, 3D point cloud based place recognition has aroused significant research interest due to its robustness to changing environments with drastic daytime and weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Zhijian Qiao , Hanjiang Hu , Weiang Shi , Siyuan Chen , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

As the basic task of point cloud analysis, classification is fundamental but always challenging. To address some unsolved problems of existing methods, we propose a network that captures geometric features of point clouds for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation (PCSS) is attracting increasing interest, due to its applicability in remote sensing, computer vision and robotics, and due to the new possibilities offered by deep learning techniques. In order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Yuxing Xie , Jiaojiao Tian , Xiao Xiang Zhu