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Adversarial attacks hamper the decision-making ability of neural networks by perturbing the input signal. The addition of calculated small distortion to images, for instance, can deceive a well-trained image classification network. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tooba Imtiaz , Morgan Kohler , Jared Miller , Zifeng Wang , Masih Eskandar , Mario Sznaier , Octavia Camps , Jennifer Dy

We study the unique, less-well understood problem of generating sparse adversarial samples simply by observing the score-based replies to model queries. Sparse attacks aim to discover a minimum number-the l0 bounded-perturbations to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Viet Quoc Vo , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damith C. Ranasinghe

This paper revisits few-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation (FS-PCS), with a focus on two significant issues in the state-of-the-art: foreground leakage and sparse point distribution. The former arises from non-uniform point sampling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Zhaochong An , Guolei Sun , Yun Liu , Fayao Liu , Zongwei Wu , Dan Wang , Luc Van Gool , Serge Belongie

Sparse coding (SC) is attracting more and more attention due to its comprehensive theoretical studies and its excellent performance in many signal processing applications. However, most existing sparse coding algorithms are nonconvex and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Xiaodong Feng , Zhiwei Tang , Sen Wu

Deep neural networks are found to be prone to adversarial examples which could deliberately fool the model to make mistakes. Recently, a few of works expand this task from 2D image to 3D point cloud by using global point cloud optimization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yiming Sun , Feng Chen , Zhiyu Chen , Mingjie Wang

Notwithstanding the prominent performance achieved in various applications, point cloud recognition models have often suffered from natural corruptions and adversarial perturbations. In this paper, we delve into boosting the general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Qidong Huang , Xiaoyi Dong , Dongdong Chen , Hang Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Kui Zhang , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

Spectral Clustering (SC) is one of the most widely used methods for data clustering. It first finds a low-dimensonal embedding $U$ of data by computing the eigenvectors of the normalized Laplacian matrix, and then performs k-means on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Canyi Lu , Shuicheng Yan , Zhouchen Lin

In recent years, zero-shot learning has attracted the focus of many researchers, due to its flexibility and generality. Many approaches have been proposed to achieve the zero-shot classification of the point clouds for 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Jiayi Han , Zidi Cao , Weibo Zheng , Xiangguo Zhou , Xiangjian He , Yuanfang Zhang , Daisen Wei

Moving object segmentation is a crucial task for safe and reliable autonomous mobile systems like self-driving cars, improving the reliability and robustness of subsequent tasks like SLAM or path planning. While the segmentation of camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Leon Schwarzer , Matthias Zeller , Daniel Casado Herraez , Simon Dierl , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

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

Applications of machine learning (ML) models and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been rapidly increased. Although state-of-the-art CNNs provide high accuracy in many applications, recent investigations show that such networks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hadi Zanddizari , Behnam Zeinali , J. Morris Chang

We introduce a method for learning adversarial perturbations targeted to individual images or videos. The learned perturbations are found to be sparse while at the same time containing a high level of feature detail. Thus, the extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Roberto Rey-de-Castro , Herschel Rabitz

In recent years new application areas have emerged in which one aims to capture the geometry of objects by means of three-dimensional point clouds. Often the obtained data consist of a dense sampling of the object's surface, containing many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Daniel Tenbrinck , Fjedor Gaede , Martin Burger

LiDAR-produced point clouds are the major source for most state-of-the-art 3D object detectors. Yet, small, distant, and incomplete objects with sparse or few points are often hard to detect. We present Sparse2Dense, a new framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Tianyu Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Zhengzhe Liu , Chi-Wing Fu

We study large-scale spatial systems that contain exogenous variables, e.g. environmental factors that are significant predictors in spatial processes. Building predictive models for such processes is challenging because the large numbers…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-20 Babak Farmanesh , Arash Pourhabib

Subspace clustering refers to the problem of segmenting data drawn from a union of subspaces. State-of-the-art approaches for solving this problem follow a two-stage approach. In the first step, an affinity matrix is learned from the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Chun-Guang Li , Chong You , René Vidal

The task of point cloud upsampling aims to acquire dense and uniform point sets from sparse and irregular point sets. Although significant progress has been made with deep learning models, state-of-the-art methods require ground-truth dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xinhai Liu , Xinchen Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Spectral-based subspace clustering methods have proved successful in many challenging applications such as gene sequencing, image recognition, and motion segmentation. In this work, we first propose a novel spectral-based subspace…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-09 Hankui Peng , Nicos G. Pavlidis

This paper aims at developing a clustering approach with spectral images directly from CASSI compressive measurements. The proposed clustering method first assumes that compressed measurements lie in the union of multiple low-dimensional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Jianchen Zhu , Tong Zhang , Shengjie Zhao , Carlos Hinojosa , Zengli Liu , Gonzalo R. Arce

Cloud-edge collaboration enhances machine perception by combining the strengths of edge and cloud computing. Edge devices capture raw data (e.g., 3D point clouds) and extract salient features, which are sent to the cloud for deeper analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Chongzhen Tian , Hui Yuan , Pan Zhao , Chang Sun , Raouf Hamzaoui , Sam Kwong