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We propose a novel, conceptually simple and general framework for instance segmentation on 3D point clouds. Our method, called 3D-BoNet, follows the simple design philosophy of per-point multilayer perceptrons (MLPs). The framework directly…

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Exploiting past 3D LiDAR scans to predict future point clouds is a promising method for autonomous mobile systems to realize foresighted state estimation, collision avoidance, and planning. In this paper, we address the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Benedikt Mersch , Xieyuanli Chen , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Point cloud filtering is a fundamental problem in geometry modeling and processing. Despite of significant advancement in recent years, the existing methods still suffer from two issues: 1) they are either designed without preserving sharp…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Dongbo Zhang , Xuequan Lu , Hong Qin , Ying He

Point cloud completion referring to completing 3D shapes from partial 3D point clouds is a fundamental problem for 3D point cloud analysis tasks. Benefiting from the development of deep neural networks, researches on point cloud completion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Jun Wang , Ying Cui , Dongyan Guo , Junxia Li , Qingshan Liu , Chunhua Shen

We propose a generative model of unordered point sets, such as point clouds, in the form of an energy-based model, where the energy function is parameterized by an input-permutation-invariant bottom-up neural network. The energy function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jianwen Xie , Yifei Xu , Zilong Zheng , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

3D point cloud semantic segmentation is a challenging topic in the computer vision field. Most of the existing methods in literature require a large amount of fully labeled training data, but it is extremely time-consuming to obtain these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Shuang Deng , Qiulei Dong , Bo Liu , Zhanyi Hu

Recent advances in multi-modal pre-training methods have shown promising effectiveness in learning 3D representations by aligning multi-modal features between 3D shapes and their corresponding 2D counterparts. However, existing multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Liwen Liu , Weidong Yang , Lipeng Ma , Ben Fei

We present CpT: Convolutional point Transformer - a novel deep learning architecture for dealing with the unstructured nature of 3D point cloud data. CpT is an improvement over existing attention-based Convolutions Neural Networks as well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Chaitanya Kaul , Joshua Mitton , Hang Dai , Roderick Murray-Smith

The increased availability of massive point clouds coupled with their utility in a wide variety of applications such as robotics, shape synthesis, and self-driving cars has attracted increased attention from both industry and academia.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Charu Sharma , Manohar Kaul

We present a self-supervised task on point clouds, in order to learn meaningful point-wise features that encode local structure around each point. Our self-supervised network, named MortonNet, operates directly on unstructured/unordered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Ali Thabet , Humam Alwassel , Bernard Ghanem

Autoregressive point cloud generation has long lagged behind diffusion-based approaches in quality. The performance gap stems from the fact that autoregressive models impose an artificial ordering on inherently unordered point sets, forcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ziqiao Meng , Qichao Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Zixing Song , Zhipeng Zhou , Irwin King , Peilin Zhao

Autoregressive point cloud generation has long lagged behind diffusion-based approaches in quality. The performance gap stems from the fact that autoregressive models impose an artificial ordering on inherently unordered point sets, forcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ziqiao Meng , Qichao Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Zixing Song , Zhipeng Zhou , Irwin King , Peilin Zhao

Recently, there have been some attempts of Transformer in 3D point cloud classification. In order to reduce computations, most existing methods focus on local spatial attention, but ignore their content and fail to establish relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yahui Liu , Bin Tian , Yisheng Lv , Lingxi Li , Feiyue Wang

Point cloud prediction is an important yet challenging task in the field of autonomous driving. The goal is to predict future point cloud sequences that maintain object structures while accurately representing their temporal motion. These…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Kaustab Pal , Aditya Sharma , Avinash Sharma , K. Madhava Krishna

Point clouds offer comprehensive and precise data regarding the contour and configuration of objects. Employing such geometric and topological 3D information of objects in class incremental learning can aid endless application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Shivanand Kundargi , Tejas Anvekar , Ramesh Ashok Tabib , Uma Mudenagudi

Pre-training on large-scale unlabeled datasets contribute to the model achieving powerful performance on 3D vision tasks, especially when annotations are limited. However, existing rendering-based self-supervised frameworks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Hao Liu , Minglin Chen , Yanni Ma , Haihong Xiao , Ying He

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning strategies for foundation models in 1D textual and 2D visual analysis have demonstrated remarkable efficacy. However, due to the scarcity of point cloud data, pre-training large 3D models remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mengke Li , Lihao Chen , Peng Zhang , Yiu-ming Cheung , Hui Huang

The irregular domain and lack of ordering make it challenging to design deep neural networks for point cloud processing. This paper presents a novel framework named Point Cloud Transformer(PCT) for point cloud learning. PCT is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Meng-Hao Guo , Jun-Xiong Cai , Zheng-Ning Liu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Ralph R. Martin , Shi-Min Hu

Recently, great progress has been made in 3D deep learning with the emergence of deep neural networks specifically designed for 3D point clouds. These networks are often trained from scratch or from pre-trained models learned purely from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Bach Tran , Binh-Son Hua , Anh Tuan Tran , Minh Hoai

In computer-aided design (CAD) community, the point cloud data is pervasively applied in reverse engineering, where the point cloud analysis plays an important role. While a large number of supervised learning methods have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cheng Zhang , Jian Shi , Xuan Deng , Zizhao Wu