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PointNet has recently emerged as a popular representation for unstructured point cloud data, allowing application of deep learning to tasks such as object detection, segmentation and shape completion. However, recent works in literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Vinit Sarode , Xueqian Li , Hunter Goforth , Yasuhiro Aoki , Animesh Dhagat , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Simon Lucey , Howie Choset

Retargeting motion between characters with different skeleton structures is a fundamental challenge in computer animation. When source and target characters have vastly different bone arrangements, maintaining the original motion's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Siqi Liu , Maoyu Wang , Bo Dai , Cewu Lu

Three-dimensional (3D) object recognition is crucial for intelligent autonomous agents such as autonomous vehicles and robots alike to operate effectively in unstructured environments. Most state-of-art approaches rely on relatively dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Prajval Kumar Murali , Cong Wang , Ravinder Dahiya , Mohsen Kaboli

We introduce Coverage Axis++, a novel and efficient approach to 3D shape skeletonization. The current state-of-the-art approaches for this task often rely on the watertightness of the input or suffer from substantial computational costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Zimeng Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Rui Xu , Cheng Lin , Yuan Liu , Xiaoxiao Long , Shiqing Xin , Taku Komura , Xiaoming Yuan , Wenping Wang

As 3D scanning devices and depth sensors mature, point clouds have attracted increasing attention as a format for 3D object representation, with applications in various fields such as tele-presence, navigation and heritage reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Zeqing Fu , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

This paper reports on a novel nonparametric rigid point cloud registration framework that jointly integrates geometric and semantic measurements such as color or semantic labels into the alignment process and does not require explicit data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ray Zhang , Tzu-Yuan Lin , Chien Erh Lin , Steven A. Parkison , William Clark , Jessy W. Grizzle , Ryan M. Eustice , Maani Ghaffari

Reconstructing an interactive human avatar and the background from a monocular video of a dynamic human scene is highly challenging. In this work we adopt a strategy of point cloud decoupling and joint optimization to achieve the decoupled…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Da Li , Donggang Jia , Markus Hadwiger , Ivan Viola

Human pose estimation focuses on predicting body keypoints to analyze human motion. Currently, most pose estimation tasks rely on conventional RGB cameras. In contrast, event cameras provide high temporal resolution and low latency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haoxian Zhou , Chuanzhi Xu , Langyi Chen , Pengfei Ye , Haodong Chen , Yuk Ying Chung , Qiang Qu

Spatiotemporal human representation based on 3D visual perception data is a rapidly growing research area. Based on the information sources, these representations can be broadly categorized into two groups based on RGB-D information or 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Fei Han , Brian Reily , William Hoff , Hao Zhang

Learning robust feature matching between the template and search area is crucial for 3D Siamese tracking. The core of Siamese feature matching is how to assign high feature similarity on the corresponding points between the template and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Haobo Jiang , Kaihao Lan , Le Hui , Guangyu Li , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

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

Generating an interpretable and compact representation of 3D shapes from point clouds is an important and challenging problem. This paper presents CSG-Stump Net, an unsupervised end-to-end network for learning shapes from point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Daxuan Ren , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Jiatong Li , Haiyong Jiang , Zhongang Cai , Junzhe Zhang , Liang Pan , Mingyuan Zhang , Haiyu Zhao , Shuai Yi

Articulated objects are commonly found in daily life. It is essential that robots can exhibit robust perception and manipulation skills for articulated objects in real-world robotic applications. However, existing methods for articulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Junbo Wang , Wenhai Liu , Qiaojun Yu , Yang You , Liu Liu , Weiming Wang , Cewu Lu

In this paper, we present a robust spherical harmonics approach for the classification of point cloud-based objects. Spherical harmonics have been used for classification over the years, with several frameworks existing in the literature.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Ayman Mukhaimar , Ruwan Tennakoon , Chow Yin Lai , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar

This paper focuses on the challenging task of learning 3D object surface reconstructions from single RGB images. Existing methods achieve varying degrees of success by using different geometric representations. However, they all have their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jiapeng Tang , Xiaoguang Han , Junyi Pan , Kui Jia , Xin Tong

The task of 3D single object tracking (SOT) with LiDAR point clouds is crucial for various applications, such as autonomous driving and robotics. However, existing approaches have primarily relied on appearance matching or motion modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zhipeng Luo , Gongjie Zhang , Changqing Zhou , Zhonghua Wu , Qingyi Tao , Lewei Lu , Shijian Lu

Point clouds have gained prominence across numerous applications due to their ability to accurately represent 3D objects and scenes. However, efficiently compressing unstructured, high-precision point cloud data remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hongning Ruan , Yulin Shao , Qianqian Yang , Liang Zhao , Zhaoyang Zhang , Dusit Niyato

LiDAR-based human motion capture has garnered significant interest in recent years for its practicability in large-scale and unconstrained environments. However, most methods rely on cleanly segmented human point clouds as input, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yiming Ren , Xiao Han , Yichen Yao , Xiaoxiao Long , Yujing Sun , Yuexin Ma

This paper tries to address a fundamental question in point cloud self-supervised learning: what is a good signal we should leverage to learn features from point clouds without annotations? To answer that, we introduce a point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xiaoyu Tian , Haoxi Ran , Yue Wang , Hang Zhao

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental task in robotics and computer vision. Recently, many learning-based point cloud registration methods based on correspondences have emerged. However, these methods heavily rely on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lifa Zhu , Dongrui Liu , Changwei Lin , Rui Yan , Francisco Gómez-Fernández , Ninghua Yang , Ziyong Feng