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Self-supervised learning improves few-shot classification and segmentation on point clouds.
Algorithm classifies point clouds using deep set linearized optimal transport.
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…
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…
Mapper-GIN simplifies 3D point cloud classification with lightweight structure.
New methods implement manifold scattering transform for high-dimensional point cloud data.
This paper introduces a new Urban Point Cloud Dataset for Automatic Segmentation and Classification acquired by Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS). We describe how the dataset is obtained from acquisition to post-processing and labeling. This dataset can be used to learn classification algorithm, however, given that a great a…
Extracts geometric information from point-clouds for multiclass classification.
Three dimensional (3D) object recognition is becoming a key desired capability for many computer vision systems such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and surveillance drones to operate more effectively in unstructured environments. These real-time systems require effective classification methods that are robust t…
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 …
pyLOT library simplifies machine learning on 3D point clouds via linearized optimal transport.
DDEQs extend DEQs to discrete measure inputs using Wasserstein gradient flows.
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…
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 …
Framework for efficient defect classification and inspection.
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…
In multimodal traffic monitoring, we gather traffic statistics for distinct transportation modes, such as pedestrians, cars and bicycles, in order to analyze and improve people's daily mobility in terms of safety and convenience. On account of its robustness to bad light and adverse weather conditions, and inherent spe…
A method for fast estimation of Wasserstein distances using sliced Wasserstein distances.
A new model classifies surface anomalies in 3D point cloud data.
Efficient point cloud compression is fundamental to enable the deployment of virtual and mixed reality applications, since the number of points to code can range in the order of millions. In this paper, we present a novel data-driven geometry compression method for static point clouds based on learned convolutional tra…
LOT framework embeds high-dimensional cell data into interpretable Euclidean space.
EBPs model exchangeable data with flexible distributions.
LEAK learns from mistakes to improve point cloud segmentation.
New method upsamples sparse, non-uniform point clouds more accurately.
A novel method compares 3D point clouds using information geometry.
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…
Develops a method for conformal parameterization of point clouds without fixed boundaries.
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…
Estimating boundaries from point clouds with improved accuracy and rigorous error estimates.
Point cloud is the most fundamental representation of 3D geometric objects. Analyzing and processing point cloud surfaces is important in computer graphics and computer vision. However, most of the existing algorithms for surface analysis require connectivity information. Therefore, it is desirable to develop a mesh st…
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…
The paper transforms a convex hull into a concave surface around a point cloud.
In the following article we discuss Delaunay triangulations for a point cloud on an embedded surface in . We give sufficient conditions on the point cloud to show that the diagonal switch algorithm finds an embedded Delaunay triangulation.
Method computes harmonic and conformal maps from point clouds.
Improved 3D LiDAR data classification using product coefficients.
Estimator calculates surface curvature from point cloud samples.
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…
New method improves Gaussian process regression on complex, sparse point clouds.
Improved road segmentation on low-res LIDAR data for autonomous vehicles.
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…
SCENE-Net improves 3D point cloud segmentation with low resource usage and transparency.
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…
Paper reduces false positives in lung nodule detection using deep learning on point clouds.
A registration-free framework monitors shape and color in 4D point clouds.
Novel neural network layer improves long-range interactions in point clouds.
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…
Paper improves deep point cloud compression techniques.
This paper introduces CloudLSTM, a new branch of recurrent neural models tailored to forecasting over data streams generated by geospatial point-cloud sources. We design a Dynamic Point-cloud Convolution (DConv) operator as the core component of CloudLSTMs, which performs convolution directly over point-clouds and extr…