Deep learning within the context of point clouds has gained much research interest in recent years mostly due to the promising results that have been achieved on a number of challenging benchmarks, such as 3D shape recognition and scene semantic segmentation. In many realistic settings however, snapshots of the environ…
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PointTriNet generates 3D triangulations from point clouds efficiently and scalably.
problem Generating a triangulation among a set of points in 3D space.
method Iteratively applies a classification network and a proposal network over nearby points and triangles, using a novel triangle-relative input encoding.
result Generates robust and scalable triangulations for 3D learning pipelines.
Modeling 3D continua with singular points using Yin sets.
problem Treat singular points as central subjects in 3D continuum topology.
method Model 3D continua as Yin sets, regular open semianalytic sets with bounded boundary.
result Characterize local and global topology of Yin sets.
Proposes QMC-based QSW for 3D SW distance.
problem Intractable SW distance in 3D.
method Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) for QSW approximations.
result QMC-based QSW improves SW estimation.
DALES offers a large annotated aerial LiDAR dataset for 3D deep learning.
problem Lack of large-scale annotated aerial LiDAR datasets for deep learning.
method Collection and annotation of over half a billion hand-labeled points from an ALS scanner.
result DALES is the most extensive publicly available ALS data set with improved resolution and coverage.
3D object classification and segmentation using deep neural networks has been extremely successful. As the problem of identifying 3D objects has many safety-critical applications, the neural networks have to be robust against adversarial changes to the input data set. There is a growing body of research on generating h…
LION generates high-quality 3D shapes using hierarchical latent diffusion models.
problem Creating high-quality 3D shapes for digital artists.
method Hierarchical Latent Point Diffusion Model (LION) with a global shape latent and point-structured latent space.
result LION achieves state-of-the-art generation performance on ShapeNet benchmarks.
3D RadViz improves 3D data visualization of multidimensional datasets.
problem Tackles the challenge of visualizing multidimensional datasets in 3D.
method Develops RadViz3D, a 3D radial visualization tool with uniform anchor points.
result Improves the display of multidimensional datasets, especially for uncorrelated variables.
The investigation of 3D euclidean symmetry sets (SS) and medial axis is an important area, due in particular to their various important applications. The pre-symmetry set of a surface M in 3-space (resp. smooth closed curve in 2D) is the set of pairs of points which contribute to the symmetry set, that is, the closure …
Deep 3D models are vulnerable to isometry transformations under adversarial attacks.
problem Vulnerability of deep 3D models to isometry transformations under adversarial attacks.
method Developed a black-box attack with success rate over 95% and a novel white-box attack framework.
result Deep 3D models are extremely vulnerable to isometry transformations under adversarial attacks.
Graph convolutional neural networks (Graph-CNNs) extend traditional CNNs to handle data that is supported on a graph. Major challenges when working with data on graphs are that the support set (the vertices of the graph) do not typically have a natural ordering, and in general, the topology of the graph is not regular …
The importance of training robust neural network grows as 3D data is increasingly utilized in deep learning for vision tasks in robotics, drone control, and autonomous driving. One commonly used 3D data type is 3D point clouds, which describe shape information. We examine the problem of creating robust models from the …
Deep generative architectures provide a way to model not only images but also complex, 3-dimensional objects, such as point clouds. In this work, we present a novel method to obtain meaningful representations of 3D shapes that can be used for challenging tasks including 3D points generation, reconstruction, compression…
Structure from Motion: Theoretical Foundations of a Novel Approach Using Custom Built Invariantscs.CV
We rephrase the problem of 3D reconstruction from images in terms of intersections of projections of orbits of custom built Lie groups actions. We then use an algorithmic method based on moving frames "a la Fels-Olver" to obtain a fundamental set of invariants of these groups actions. The invariants are used to define …
Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Neural Networks for Point Cloud Segmentation in Factory Planningcs.CV
Bayesian neural networks improve uncertainty estimation in 3D point cloud segmentation for factory planning.
problem Improving uncertainty estimation in 3D point cloud segmentation for factory planning.
method Proposed fully Bayesian and approximate Bayesian neural networks for point cloud segmentation.
result Superior model performance and improved segmentation results with uncertainty incorporation.
Existing networks directly learn feature representations on 3D point clouds for shape analysis. We argue that 3D point clouds are highly redundant and hold irregular (permutation-invariant) structure, which makes it difficult to achieve inter-class discrimination efficiently. In this paper, we propose a two-faceted sol…
Graph Neural Networks improve 3D object detection in LiDAR point clouds.
problem Challenges in processing LiDAR data due to its 3D geometry and massive volume.
method Proposes a Graph Neural Network (GNN) based framework for 3D object detection.
result GNNs successfully identify objects in 3D LiDAR point clouds.
When classifying point clouds, a large amount of time is devoted to the process of engineering a reliable set of features which are then passed to a classifier of choice. Generally, such features - usually derived from the 3D-covariance matrix - are computed using the surrounding neighborhood of points. While these fea…
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of 3D medical imaging techniques with the development of 3D sensors and technology. Due to the presence of noise in image acquisition, registration researchers focused on an alternative way to represent medical images. An alternative way to analyze medical imaging is by underst…
Genus 2 Cantor setsmath.GT
First constructed genus 2 Cantor set in 3D space.
problem Constructing a geometrically self-similar Cantor set of genus 2.
method Geometrically self-similar construction in .
result First uniformly quasiregular mapping with a genus 2 Cantor set Julia set.
Advanced 3D metrology technologies such as Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and laser 3D scanners have facilitated the collection of massive point cloud data, beneficial for process monitoring, control and optimization. However, due to their high dimensionality and structure complexity, modeling and analysis of point…
Improved 3D LiDAR data classification using product coefficients.
problem Enhancing accuracy in 3D LiDAR data classification.
method Introducing product coefficients derived from measure theory as additional features in the classification process, alongside PCA.
result Significant improvement in classification accuracy with product coefficients.
This paper proposes a set of rules to revise various neural networks for 3D point cloud processing to rotation-equivariant quaternion neural networks (REQNNs). We find that when a neural network uses quaternion features under certain conditions, the network feature naturally has the rotation-equivariance property. Rota…
3D filament plots visualize curves in datasets, avoiding visual clutter.
problem Visualizing high-dimensional data relationships in scatterplots of points.
method Construct 3D filament plots using linear isometries and Frenet-Serret systems.
result 3D filament plots preserve Euclidean distances and avoid visual clutter.
We present a 3D capsule module for processing point clouds that is equivariant to 3D rotations and translations, as well as invariant to permutations of the input points. The operator receives a sparse set of local reference frames, computed from an input point cloud and establishes end-to-end transformation equivarian…
Bayesian segmentation and uncertainty estimation improve 3D model accuracy for factory planning.
problem Generating accurate 3D models from outdated and incomplete 2D data.
method Bayesian neural network for point cloud segmentation and entropy-based uncertainty estimation.
result Bayesian segmentation network significantly improves model accuracy and object identification.
SCENE-Net improves 3D point cloud segmentation with low resource usage and transparency.
problem Lack of resources and transparency in 3D semantic segmentation models.
method SCENE-Net uses signature shapes identified via GENEOs to achieve semantic segmentation with minimal resources.
result SCENE-Net achieves comparable IoU to state-of-the-art methods with less data and computational resources.
Deep Learning on Point Clouds for False Positive Reduction at Nodule Detection in Chest CT Scanseess.IV
Paper reduces false positives in lung nodule detection using deep learning on point clouds.
problem Reduces false positives in lung nodule detection.
method Uses deep learning models for point clouds to transform 3D CT scan data.
result Achieved 85.98 FROC compared to 77.26 FROC for baseline models.
SE(3)-Transformers maintain equivariance for 3D data under rotations and translations.
problem Ensuring stable and predictable performance in 3D data under transformations.
method Introducing a self-attention module that is equivariant under continuous 3D roto-translations.
result The SE(3)-Transformer outperforms non-equivariant and non-attention models on real-world datasets.
Smooth 3D flows from non-smooth starting points.
problem Creating smooth Ricci flows from non-smooth initial conditions.
method Generalized singular Ricci flow applied to 3D complete manifolds.
result Existence of smooth Ricci flows starting from non-smooth initial conditions.
Mapper-GIN: Lightweight Structural Graph Abstraction for Corrupted 3D Point Cloud Classificationcs.CV
Mapper-GIN simplifies 3D point cloud classification with lightweight structure.
problem Robust 3D point cloud classification under corruption.
method Mapper algorithm for structural decomposition, GIN for graph classification.
result Mapper-GIN achieves competitive accuracy with minimal parameters.
Proposes a robust 3D classification method for sparse point clouds.
problem Invariance to rotation, positional shift, scaling, and robustness to point sparsity in point cloud classification.
method Introduces a graph-based feature learning approach with an end-to-end neural network.
result Significantly improves 3D object classification and retrieval tasks with sparse point clouds.
A novel method compares 3D point clouds using information geometry.
problem Comparing 3D point clouds in machine learning applications.
method Interprets point clouds as probability density functions on a statistical manifold, using GMM and Modified Symmetric KL divergence.
result Demonstrates effectiveness through various case studies.
Study on 3D surfaces and tangles formed by Poncelet triangles.
problem Geometric and topological properties of 3D surfaces and tangles.
method Exploration of Poncelet triangles and associated points.
result Properties of 3D surfaces and tangles formed by Poncelet triangles.
Deep learning has proven to yield fast and accurate predictions of quantum-chemical properties to accelerate the discovery of novel molecules and materials. As an exhaustive exploration of the vast chemical space is still infeasible, we require generative models that guide our search towards systems with desired proper…
Investigates the vertex curve of smooth surfaces in 3D space, connecting geometry and image analysis.
problem Understanding the geometry of smooth surfaces in 3D space.
method Analyzes the vertex curve, related to differential geometry and symmetry sets of isophote curves.
result Establishes connections between the vertex curve and other geometric curves like parabolic and flecnodal curves.
Training 3D object detectors for autonomous driving has been limited to small datasets due to the effort required to generate annotations. Reducing both task complexity and the amount of task switching done by annotators is key to reducing the effort and time required to generate 3D bounding box annotations. This paper…
Regularizes 3D inverse scattering with tangent-point energy for better solutions.
problem Ill-conditioned inverse obstacle scattering problems in 3D.
method Tikhonov regularization using tangent-point energy to penalize surface roughness and ensure well-posedness.
result Regularized solutions converge to true solution as noise level decreases.
We describe a family of 3d topological B-models whose target spaces are Hilbert schemes of points in . The interfaces separating theories with different numbers of points correspond to braid strands. The Hilbert space of the picture of a closed braid is the HOMFLY-PT homology of the corresponding link.
Autonomous driving requires 3D perception of vehicles and other objects in the in environment. Much of the current methods support 2D vehicle detection. This paper proposes a flexible pipeline to adopt any 2D detection network and fuse it with a 3D point cloud to generate 3D information with minimum changes of the 2D d…
Recent years have witnessed the emergence and increasing popularity of 3D medical imaging techniques with the development of 3D sensors and technology. However, achieving geometric invariance in the processing of 3D medical images is computationally expensive but nonetheless essential due to the presence of possible er…
Paper improves deep point cloud compression techniques.
problem Efficiently compressing 3D point cloud data for various applications.
method Integrates scale hyperprior model, deeper transforms, focal loss, and optimal thresholding.
result Achieves significant BD-PSNR gains over existing methods.
New method uses scalar-based models to approximate spherical tensors efficiently.
problem Efficiently approximating spherical tensors with equivariant functions.
method Expressing equivariant functions as the product of a scalar function and a small tensor basis.
result Approximations are fast, simple to implement, and accurate in practical settings.
The reconstruction of an object's shape or surface from a set of 3D points plays an important role in medical image analysis, e.g. in anatomy reconstruction from tomographic measurements or in the process of aligning intra-operative navigation and preoperative planning data. In such scenarios, one usually has to deal w…
BPI models 2D patterns on multiple planes and 3D scene from a single image.
problem Understanding and editing images with multiple 2D planes and 3D scene from a single image.
method Box Program Induction (BPI) with neural networks and search-based algorithm.
result Holistic, structured scene representation enables 3D-aware image editing.
Study Blaschke's asymptotic lines on surfaces in 3D space.
problem Characterize Blaschke's asymptotic lines on surfaces in 3D.
method Analyze binary differential equations near cusp and umbilic points.
result Describe Blaschke's asymptotic lines near Euclidean parabolic set.
This note generalizes the visual angle to convex sets in 3D space.
problem Analyzing geometric properties of convex sets in 3D space.
method Generalizing the visual angle to convex sets in Euclidean space and expressing geometric quantities in terms of integrals of functions related to the solid angle.
result Invariant quantities of the original convex set can be expressed by integrals of functions related to the solid angle.
The article explains Rao distances and conformal mappings for 3D objects.
problem Calculating distances and preserving angles in 3D objects.
method Proposed constructions of distances and angle-preserving mappings.
result Application to virtual tourism and line integrals in complex planes.