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Point cloud learning is receiving increasing attention. However, most existing point cloud models lack the practical ability to deal with the unavoidable presence of unknown objects. This paper primarily discusses point cloud learning in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jie Hong , Shi Qiu , Weihao Li , Saeed Anwar , Mehrtash Harandi , Nick Barnes , Lars Petersson

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

The core of self-supervised point cloud learning lies in setting up appropriate pretext tasks, to construct a pre-training framework that enables the encoder to perceive 3D objects effectively. In this paper, we integrate two prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yun Liu , Peng Li , Xuefeng Yan , Liangliang Nan , Bing Wang , Honghua Chen , Lina Gong , Wei Zhao , Mingqiang Wei

Normal estimation on 3D point clouds is a fundamental problem in 3D vision and graphics. Current methods often show limited accuracy in predicting normals at sharp features (e.g., edges and corners) and less robustness to noise. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Weijia Wang , Xuequan Lu , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Xiao Liu , Antonio Robles-Kelly

The reconstruction of real-world surfaces is on high demand in various applications. Most existing reconstruction approaches apply 3D scanners for creating point clouds which are generally sparse and of low density. These points clouds will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rajat Sharma , Tobias Schwandt , Christian Kunert , Steffen Urban , Wolfgang Broll

Capturing real-world 3D spaces as point clouds is efficient and descriptive, but it comes with sensor errors and lacks object parametrization. These limitations render point clouds unsuitable for various real-world applications, such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Krzysztof Zieliński , Bruce Blumberg , Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard

Point clouds provide a compact and expressive representation of 3D objects, and have recently been integrated into multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing methods primarily focus on static objects, while understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xindan Zhang , Weilong Yan , Yufei Shi , Xuerui Qiu , Tao He , Ying Li , Ming Li , Hehe Fan

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate proficiency in 2D scenes, extending their perceptual intelligence to 3D point cloud understanding remains a significant challenge. Current approaches focus primarily on aligning 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Dongxu Zhang , Yiding Sun , Pengcheng Li , Yumou Liu , Hongqiang Lin , Haoran Xu , Xiaoxuan Mu , Liang Lin , Wenbiao Yan , Ning Yang , Chaowei Fang , Juanjuan Zhao , Jihua Zhu , Conghui He , Cheng Tan

The effective segmentation of 3D data is crucial for a wide range of industrial applications, especially for detecting subtle defects in the field of integrated circuits (IC). Ceramic package substrates (CPS), as an important electronic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Bingyang Guo , Qiang Zuo , Ruiyun Yu

This paper introduces the Point Cloud Network (PCN) architecture, a novel implementation of linear layers in deep learning networks, and provides empirical evidence to advocate for its preference over the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Charles Hetterich

We propose a novel online, point-based 3D reconstruction method from posed monocular RGB videos. Our model maintains a global point cloud representation of the scene, continuously updating the features and 3D locations of points as new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Chen Ziwen , Zexiang Xu , Li Fuxin

The development of 3D Vision-Language Models (VLMs), crucial for applications in robotics, autonomous driving, and augmented reality, is severely constrained by the scarcity of paired 3D-text data. Existing methods rely solely on next-token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuanhao Su , Shaofeng Zhang , Xiaosong Jia , Qi Fan

Point cloud based methods have produced promising results in areas such as 3D object detection in autonomous driving. However, most of the recent point cloud work focuses on single depth sensor data, whereas less work has been done on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Walid Bekhtaoui , Ruhan Sa , Brian Teixeira , Vivek Singh , Klaus Kirchberg , Yao-jen Chang , Ankur Kapoor

Quantum software tools for a wide variety of design tasks on and across different levels of abstraction are crucial in order to eventually realize useful quantum applications. This requires practical and relevant benchmarks for new software…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Nils Quetschlich , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

High-precision point cloud anomaly detection is the gold standard for identifying the defects of advancing machining and precision manufacturing. Despite some methodological advances in this area, the scarcity of datasets and the lack of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jiaqi Liu , Guoyang Xie , Ruitao Chen , Xinpeng Li , Jinbao Wang , Yong Liu , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng

Notwithstanding the prominent performance achieved in various applications, point cloud recognition models have often suffered from natural corruptions and adversarial perturbations. In this paper, we delve into boosting the general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Qidong Huang , Xiaoyi Dong , Dongdong Chen , Hang Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Kui Zhang , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

Deep neural networks on 3D point cloud data have been widely used in the real world, especially in safety-critical applications. However, their robustness against corruptions is less studied. In this paper, we present ModelNet40-C, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Jiachen Sun , Qingzhao Zhang , Bhavya Kailkhura , Zhiding Yu , Chaowei Xiao , Z. Morley Mao

Robust point cloud registration is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision and geometric deep learning, essential for applications such as large-scale 3D reconstruction, augmented reality, and scene understanding. However, the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Dongxu Zhang , Yingsen Wang , Yiding Sun , Haoran Xu , Peilin Fan , Jihua Zhu

Currently, great numbers of efforts have been put into improving the effectiveness of 3D model quality assessment (3DQA) methods. However, little attention has been paid to the computational costs and inference time, which is also important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zicheng Zhang , Wei Sun , Yingjie Zhou , Wei Lu , Yucheng Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Producing traversability maps and understanding the surroundings are crucial prerequisites for autonomous navigation. In this paper, we address the problem of traversability assessment using point clouds. We propose a novel pillar feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yirui Chen , Pengjin Wei , Zhenhuan Liu , Bingchao Wang , Jie Yang , Wei Liu