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Understanding spatial dynamics and semantics in point cloud is fundamental for comprehensive 3D comprehension. While reinforcement learning algorithms such as Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) have recently achieved remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yankai Wang , Yiding Sun , Qirui Wang , Pengbo Li , Chaoyi Lu , Dongxu Zhang

We present a new versatile building block for deep point cloud processing architectures that is equally suited for diverse tasks. This building block combines the ideas of spatial transformers and multi-view convolutional networks with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Kirill Mazur , Victor Lempitsky

Point Transformers are near state-of-the-art models for classification, segmentation, and detection tasks on Point Cloud data. They utilize a self attention based mechanism to model large range spatial dependencies between multiple point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Kartik Gupta , Rahul Vippala , Sahima Srivastava

Methods for processing point cloud information have seen a great success in collider physics applications. One recent breakthrough in machine learning is the usage of Transformer networks to learn semantic relationships between sequences in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-07-19 Vinicius Mikuni , Florencia Canelli

Point cloud stands as the most widely adopted format for representing 3D shapes and scenes due to its simplicity and geometric fidelity. However, its inherent unordered and irregular nature, exacerbated by sensor noise and occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhas Kamal , Hiranya Garbha Kumar , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

Point cloud is point sets defined in 3D metric space. Point cloud has become one of the most significant data format for 3D representation. Its gaining increased popularity as a result of increased availability of acquisition devices, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Saifullahi Aminu Bello , Shangshu Yu , Cheng Wang

We present a simple and general framework for feature learning from point clouds. The key to the success of CNNs is the convolution operator that is capable of leveraging spatially-local correlation in data represented densely in grids…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yangyan Li , Rui Bu , Mingchao Sun , Wei Wu , Xinhan Di , Baoquan Chen

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision. In this paper, we cast point cloud registration into a planning problem in reinforcement learning, which can seek the transformation between the source and target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Haobo Jiang , Jin Xie , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Point clouds are a fundamental 3D representation in computer vision, enabling a wide range of perception tasks. However, real-world point clouds often suffer from degradations such as incompleteness, noise, outliers, and irregular density,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Haoqing Wu , Alexa Nawotki , Jochen Garcke

Point clouds captured in real-world applications are often incomplete due to the limited sensor resolution, single viewpoint, and occlusion. Therefore, recovering the complete point clouds from partial ones becomes an indispensable task in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Xumin Yu , Yongming Rao , Ziyi Wang , Zuyan Liu , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Deep classifiers tend to associate a few discriminative input variables with their objective function, which in turn, may hurt their generalization capabilities. To address this, one can design systematic experiments and/or inspect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Kaveh Hassani , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Amir Hosein Khasahmadi , Tonya Custis

Three dimensional (3D) object recognition is becoming a key desired capability for many computer vision systems such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and surveillance drones to operate more effectively in unstructured environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Chenxi Xiao , Juan Wachs

General point clouds have been increasingly investigated for different tasks, and recently Transformer-based networks are proposed for point cloud analysis. However, there are barely related works for medical point clouds, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-20 Jianhui Yu , Chaoyi Zhang , Heng Wang , Dingxin Zhang , Yang Song , Tiange Xiang , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai

Point cloud models with neural network architectures have achieved great success and have been widely used in safety-critical applications, such as Lidar-based recognition systems in autonomous vehicles. However, such models are shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Wenda Chu , Linyi Li , Bo Li

Masked language modeling (MLM) has become one of the most successful self-supervised pre-training task. Inspired by its success, Point-BERT, as a pioneer work in point cloud, proposed masked point modeling (MPM) to pre-train point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Kexue Fu , Mingzhi Yuan , Manning Wang

Point cloud registration involves aligning one point cloud with another or with a three-dimensional (3D) model, enabling the integration of multimodal data into a unified representation. This is essential in applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mehdi Maboudi , Said Harb , Jackson Ferrao , Kourosh Khoshelham , Yelda Turkan , Karam Mawas

Point cloud analysis has evolved with diverse network architectures, while existing works predominantly focus on introducing novel structural designs. However, conventional point-based architectures - processing raw points through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shangzhuo Xie , Qianqian Yang

Diffusion-based models, widely used in text-to-image generation, have proven effective in 2D representation learning. Recently, this framework has been extended to 3D self-supervised learning by constructing a conditional point generator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yiyang Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Lunhao Duan , Changxing Ding , Dacheng Tao

Computer vision provides automated, non-invasive, and scalable tools for monitoring dairy cattle, thereby supporting management, health assessment, and phenotypic data collection. Although transfer learning is commonly used for predicting…

Understanding dynamic 4D environments-3D space evolving over time-is critical for robotic and interactive systems. These applications demand systems that can process streaming point cloud video in real-time, often under resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yunze Liu , Zifan Wang , Peiran Wu , Jiayang Ao