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48 results for Euclidean point cloud

CDP reduces point cloud dimensions by preserving detour-induced local non-convexity.

problem Preserving local non-convexity in point cloud dimensionality reduction.
method CDP builds a k-NN graph, identifies admissible pairs, aggregates normalized directions, and uses top-k eigenvectors for projection.
result CDP provides verifiable guarantees on post-projection distortion and direction energy.

We consider point clouds obtained as random samples of a measure on a Euclidean domain. A graph representing the point cloud is obtained by assigning weights to edges based on the distance between the points they connect. Our goal is to develop mathematical tools needed to study the consistency, as the number of availa…

2014-03-25abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we propose an efficient method to estimate the Weingarten map for point cloud data sampled from manifold embedded in Euclidean space. A statistical model is established to analyze the asymptotic property of the estimator. In particular, we show the convergence rate as the sample size tends to infinity. W…

2019-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

LOT framework embeds high-dimensional cell data into interpretable Euclidean space.

problem Lack of interpretable methods for high-dimensional cell data.
method Adapts Linear Optimal Transport (LOT) to irregular point clouds.
result Accurate and interpretable classification and synthetic data generation.

A novel GPUM constructs Gaussian Processes for unknown manifolds with probabilistic metrics.

problem High-dimensional data on unknown manifolds with non-Euclidean geometry.
method Bayesian Gaussian Processes latent variable models (BGPLVM), Riemannian geometry, probabilistic metric tensor, Brownian Motion.
result GPUM provides more accurate predictions on unknown manifolds compared to traditional methods.

Study matches two noisy point clouds with geometric transformations and relabeling.

problem Matching two noisy point clouds with orthogonal transformations and relabeling.
method Information-theoretic results and Ping-Pong algorithm for computational alignment.
result The Ping-Pong algorithm retrieves the planted signal after one step.

Frame Averaging makes neural networks invariant or equivariant to new symmetries.

problem Designing neural networks that respect symmetries while being expressive and efficient.
method Introduces Frame Averaging (FA) as a systematic framework to adapt architectures to become invariant or equivariant to new symmetries.
result Frame Averaging guarantees exact invariance or equivariance while being simpler to compute than full group averaging.

In recent decades, the use of 3D point clouds has been widespread in computer industry. The development of techniques in analyzing point clouds is increasingly important. In particular, mapping of point clouds has been a challenging problem. In this paper, we develop a discrete analogue of the Teichmüller extremal mapp…

2015-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper focuses on a novel generative approach for 3D point clouds that makes use of invertible flow-based models. The main idea of the method is to treat a point cloud as a probability density in 3D space that is modeled using a cloud-specific neural network. To capture the similarity between point clouds we rely o…

2019-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Method locates equilibria on unknown Riemannian manifolds using iterative sampling and parallel transport.

problem Locating equilibria on unknown Riemannian manifolds defined by point-clouds.
method Iterative sampling, parallel transport, and generalized isoclines.
result Algorithm reliably locates equilibria of dynamical systems on unknown manifolds.

Develops a method for conformal parameterization of point clouds without fixed boundaries.

problem Desirable distortion in fixed-boundary parameterizations of point clouds.
method Free-boundary conformal parameterization method involving approximation of point cloud Laplacian and boundary treatment.
result High-quality point cloud meshing achieved through the proposed method.

Existing techniques to compress point cloud attributes leverage either geometric or video-based compression tools. We explore a radically different approach inspired by recent advances in point cloud representation learning. Point clouds can be interpreted as 2D manifolds in 3D space. Specifically, we fold a 2D grid on…

2020-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimating boundaries from point clouds with improved accuracy and rigorous error estimates.

problem Identifying the boundary of a domain from point cloud samples.
method Developed new estimators for normal vectors, distances, and boundary tests; provided error estimates.
result Efficient and accurate estimators for boundary properties on point clouds.

Point clouds provide a flexible and natural representation usable in countless applications such as robotics or self-driving cars. Recently, deep neural networks operating on raw point cloud data have shown promising results on supervised learning tasks such as object classification and semantic segmentation. While mas…

2019-01-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimates modes and ridges in mixed Euclidean and directional spaces.

problem Estimating local modes and density ridges in product spaces combining Euclidean and directional metrics.
method Extends mean shift algorithm to product spaces, addressing challenges in generalization.
result Established convergence of the proposed methods and demonstrated effectiveness on real-world datasets.

We proposed a novel graph convolutional neural network that could construct a coarse, sparse latent point cloud from a dense, raw point cloud. With a novel non-isotropic convolution operation defined on irregular geometries, the model then can reconstruct the original point cloud from this latent cloud with fine detail…

2019-10-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Generating point clouds, e.g., molecular structures, in arbitrary rotations, translations, and enumerations remains a challenging task. Meanwhile, neural networks utilizing symmetry invariant layers have been shown to be able to optimize their training objective in a data-efficient way. In this spirit, we present an ar…

2019-10-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Self-supervised learning improves few-shot classification and segmentation on point clouds.

problem Efficiently learn from limited labeled data in point cloud applications.
method Hierarchical cover-tree partitioning for self-supervised pre-training; restricted to support set for few-shot learning.
result Self-supervised learning significantly improves downstream classification and segmentation accuracy.

The concept of a Point Cloud has played an increasingly important role in many areas of Engineering, Science, and Mathematics. Examples are: LIDAR, 3D-Printing, Data Analysis, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Mathematical Visualization, Numerical Analysis, and Monte Carlo Methods. Entering point cloud into Google r…

2016-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

GNPs learn operators on non-Euclidean geometries using neural networks.

problem Learning operators on complex geometries like manifolds.
method Geometric Neural Operators (GNPs) that incorporate geometric properties.
result GNPs can estimate metrics, solve PDEs, and learn LB operators on manifolds.

Improved road segmentation on low-res LIDAR data for autonomous vehicles.

problem Low-resolution LIDAR data affects road segmentation accuracy in autonomous vehicles.
method Subsampled LIDAR data transformation into feature maps, use local normal vector with spherical coordinates.
result Improves road segmentation accuracy on low-resolution LIDAR data.

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.

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 …

2019-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

A registration-free framework monitors shape and color in 4D point clouds.

problem Monitoring shape and color changes in complex parts without registration.
method Laplace-Beltrami operator spectral properties for geometric and color feature capture; combined monitoring scheme for shape and color anomalies.
result Effective detection of shape deformations and color anomalies without registration or mesh reconstruction.

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…

2018-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Extracts geometric information from point-clouds for multiclass classification.

problem Multiclass Classification with labeled point-clouds.
method Stochastic partial orderings and label embedding trees.
result Computes multiscale geometries for explainable prediction and error-free labeling.

We study the space $\nua{m}{d}$ of clouds in $\bbr^d$ (ordered sets of mm points modulo the action of the group of affine isometries). We show that $\nua{m}{d}$ is a smooth space, stratified over a certain hyperplane arrangement in $\bbr^m$. We give an algorithm to list all the chambers and other strata (this is indep…

2002-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

A new associative memory uses Sinkhorn divergence for efficient pattern retrieval.

problem Efficiently retrieving patterns from large datasets of weighted point clouds.
method Derived retrieval dynamics as a SHK gradient flow, discretized for a deterministic algorithm.
result Proved basin invariance, geometric convergence, and robust recovery from perturbations.