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We propose a deep autoencoder with graph topology inference and filtering to achieve compact representations of unorganized 3D point clouds in an unsupervised manner. Many previous works discretize 3D points to voxels and then use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Siheng Chen , Chaojing Duan , Yaoqing Yang , Duanshun Li , Chen Feng , Dong Tian

Point cloud analysis is the cornerstone of many downstream tasks, among which aggregating local structures is the basis for understanding point cloud data. While numerous works aggregate neighbor using three-dimensional relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jiaqi Shi , Jin Xiao , Xiaoguang Hu , Boyang Song , Hao Jiang , Tianyou Chen , Baochang Zhang

Accurate 3D geometry acquisition is essential for a wide range of applications, such as computer graphics, autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. However, raw point clouds acquired in real-world environments are often…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jinxi Wang , Ben Fei , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Zheng Liu , Ying He , Xuequan Lu

We consider the problem of learning a graph from a finite set of noisy graph signal observations, the goal of which is to find a smooth representation of the graph signal. Such a problem is motivated by the desire to infer relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Xiaolu Wang , Yuen-Man Pun , Anthony Man-Cho So

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

Graph clustering aims to partition nodes into distinct clusters based on their similarity, thereby revealing relationships among nodes. Nevertheless, most existing methods do not fully utilize these edge weights. Leveraging edge weights in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Haobing Liu , Yinuo Zhang , Tingting Wang , Ruobing Jiang , Yanwei Yu

Recovering point clouds involves the sequential process of sampling and restoration, yet existing methods struggle to effectively leverage both topological and geometric attributes. To address this, we propose an end-to-end architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaiyue Zhou , Zelong Tan , Hongxiao Wang , Ya-Li Li , Shengjin Wang

Low dimensional primitive feature extraction from LiDAR point clouds (such as planes) forms the basis of majority of LiDAR data processing tasks. A major challenge in LiDAR data analysis arises from the irregular nature of LiDAR data that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Arpan Kusari , Wenbo Sun

Brain surface analysis is essential to neuroscience, however, the complex geometry of the brain cortex hinders computational methods for this task. The difficulty arises from a discrepancy between 3D imaging data, which is represented in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Karthik Gopinath , Christian Desrosiers , Herve Lombaert

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics. There has been extensive research in this area, but existing methods meet great challenges in situations with a large proportion of outliers and time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Kexue Fu , Shaolei Liu , Xiaoyuan Luo , Manning Wang

3D Point clouds are a rich source of information that enjoy growing popularity in the vision community. However, due to the sparsity of their representation, learning models based on large point clouds is still a challenge. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Mahdi Saleh , Shervin Dehghani , Benjamin Busam , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Various methods to deal with graph data have been proposed in recent years. However, most of these methods focus on graph feature aggregation rather than graph pooling. Besides, the existing top-k selection graph pooling methods have a few…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Liang Zhang , Xudong Wang , Hongsheng Li , Guangming Zhu , Peiyi Shen , Ping Li , Xiaoyuan Lu , Syed Afaq Ali Shah , Mohammed Bennamoun

Pothole detection is crucial for road safety and maintenance, traditionally relying on 2D image segmentation. However, existing 3D Semantic Pothole Segmentation research often overlooks point cloud sparsity, leading to suboptimal local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-01 Sahil Nawale , Dhruv Khut , Daksh Dave , Gauransh Sawhney , Pushkar Aggrawal , Kailas Devadakar

Despite Graph neural networks' significant performance gain over many classic techniques in various graph-related downstream tasks, their successes are restricted in shallow models due to over-smoothness and the difficulties of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jin Li , Qirong Zhang , Shuling Xu , Xinlong Chen , Longkun Guo , Yang-Geng Fu

Learning and analyzing 3D point clouds with deep networks is challenging due to the sparseness and irregularity of the data. In this paper, we present a data-driven point cloud upsampling technique. The key idea is to learn multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Lequan Yu , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Acquired 3D point cloud data, whether from active sensors directly or from stereo-matching algorithms indirectly, typically contain non-negligible noise. To address the point cloud denoising problem, we propose a fast graph-based local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-01 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic , Cheng Yang

The growing success of graph signal processing (GSP) approaches relies heavily on prior identification of a graph over which network data admit certain regularity. However, adaptation to increasingly dynamic environments as well as demands…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Seyed Saman Saboksayr , Gonzalo Mateos , Mujdat Cetin

In the field of autonomous driving, a variety of sensor data types exist, each representing different modalities of the same scene. Therefore, it is feasible to utilize data from other sensors to facilitate image compression. However, few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yiheng Jiang , Haotian Zhang , Li Li , Dong Liu , Zhu Li

Zero-shot 3D point cloud understanding can be achieved via 2D Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Existing strategies directly map Vision-Language Models from 2D pixels of rendered or captured views to 3D points, overlooking the inherent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Guofeng Mei , Luigi Riz , Yiming Wang , Fabio Poiesi

Exploiting internal spatial geometric constraints of sparse LiDARs is beneficial to depth completion, however, has been not explored well. This paper proposes an efficient method to learn geometry-aware embedding, which encodes the local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Hongyu Yang , Yi Zhang