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Classifying whole images is a classic problem in machine learning, and graph neural networks are a powerful methodology to learn highly irregular geometries. It is often the case that certain parts of a point cloud are more important than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Lindsey Gray , Thomas Klijnsma , Shamik Ghosh

Three-dimensional geometric data offer an excellent domain for studying representation learning and generative modeling. In this paper, we look at geometric data represented as point clouds. We introduce a deep AutoEncoder (AE) network with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Panos Achlioptas , Olga Diamanti , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Leonidas Guibas

LiDAR-based place recognition serves as a crucial enabler for long-term autonomy in robotics and autonomous driving systems. Yet, prevailing methodologies relying on handcrafted feature extraction face dual challenges: (1) Inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiaohui Jiang , Haijiang Zhu , Chade Li , Fulin Tang , Ning An

3D scene flow characterizes how the points at the current time flow to the next time in the 3D Euclidean space, which possesses the capacity to infer autonomously the non-rigid motion of all objects in the scene. The previous methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Chaokang Jiang , Guangming Wang , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng Wang

LiDAR sensors provide rich 3D information about their surrounding{s} and are becoming increasingly important for autonomous vehicles tasks such as {localization}, semantic segmentation, object detection, and tracking. {Simulation}…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Jean Pierre Richa , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette , Nicolas Dalmasso

Point clouds are essential for storage and transmission of 3D content. As they can entail significant volumes of data, point cloud compression is crucial for practical usage. Recently, point cloud geometry compression approaches based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Maurice Quach , Aladine Chetouani , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux

Currently it requires an artist to create 3D human avatars with realistic clothing that can move naturally. Despite progress on 3D scanning and modeling of human bodies, there is still no technology that can easily turn a static scan into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Qianli Ma , Jinlong Yang , Siyu Tang , Michael J. Black

We present a local-to-global and measure-theoretical approach to understanding datasets. The core idea is to formulate a logifold structure and to interpret network models with restricted domains as local charts of datasets. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Inkee Jung , Siu-Cheong Lau

Simulating realistic sensors is a challenging part in data generation for autonomous systems, often involving carefully handcrafted sensor design, scene properties, and physics modeling. To alleviate this, we introduce a pipeline for…

Reconstruction of geometry based on different input modes, such as images or point clouds, has been instrumental in the development of computer aided design and computer graphics. Optimal implementations of these applications have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Jun Gao , Chengcheng Tang , Vignesh Ganapathi-Subramanian , Jiahui Huang , Hao Su , Leonidas J. Guibas

The sensing process of large-scale LiDAR point clouds inevitably causes large blind spots, i.e. regions not visible to the sensor. We demonstrate how these inherent sampling properties can be effectively utilized for self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Georg Krispel , David Schinagl , Christian Fruhwirth-Reisinger , Horst Possegger , Horst Bischof

Field robotics in perceptually-challenging environments require fast and accurate state estimation, but modern LiDAR sensors quickly overwhelm current odometry algorithms. To this end, this paper presents a lightweight frontend LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Kenny Chen , Brett T. Lopez , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi , Ankur Mehta

Point cloud data is ubiquitous in scientific fields. Recently, geometric deep learning (GDL) has been widely applied to solve prediction tasks with such data. However, GDL models are often complicated and hardly interpretable, which poses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Siqi Miao , Yunan Luo , Mia Liu , Pan Li

The ever-increasing 3D application makes the point cloud compression unprecedentedly important and needed. In this paper, we propose a patch-based compression process using deep learning, focusing on the lossy point cloud geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Kang You , Pan Gao

Deep neural networks have achieved significant success in 3D point cloud classification while relying on large-scale, annotated point cloud datasets, which are labor-intensive to build. Compared to capturing data with LiDAR sensors and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Huantao Ren , Minmin Yang , Senem Velipasalar

Point clouds are a set of data points in space to represent the 3D geometry of objects. A fundamental step in the processing is to identify a subset of points to represent the shape. While traditional sampling methods often ignore to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Pierre Onghena , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Beatriz Marcotegui

Extracting high-level structural information from 3D point clouds is challenging but essential for tasks like urban planning or autonomous driving requiring an advanced understanding of the scene at hand. Existing approaches are still not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Lukas Bode , Michael Weinmann , Reinhard Klein

Learning an effective representation of 3D point clouds requires a good metric to measure the discrepancy between two 3D point sets, which is non-trivial due to their irregularity. Most of the previous works resort to using the Chamfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Trung Nguyen , Quang-Hieu Pham , Tam Le , Tung Pham , Nhat Ho , Binh-Son Hua

Recovering CAD models from point clouds requires reconstructing their topology and sketch-based extrusion primitives. A dominant paradigm for representing sketches involves implicit neural representations such as Signed Distance Fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinzhu Ma , Cheng Wang , Chen Tang , Bin Wang , Shixiang Tang , Yuan Meng , Yunhong Wang , Di Huang

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) allows us to extract powerful topological and higher-order information on the global shape of a data set or point cloud. Tools like Persistent Homology or the Euler Transform give a single complex description…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub