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ConvPoint: Continuous Convolutions for Point Cloud Processing

4 Apr 2019arXiv:1904.02375archive 2025-07-28

Alexandre Boulch

Point clouds are unstructured and unordered data, as opposed to images. Thus, most machine learning approach developed for image cannot be directly transferred to point clouds. In this paper, we propose a generalization of discrete convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in order to deal with point clouds by replacing discrete kernels by continuous ones. This formulation is simple, allows arbitrary point cloud sizes and can easily be used for designing neural networks similarly to 2D CNNs. We present experimental results with various architectures, highlighting the flexibility of the proposed approach. We obtain competitive results compared to the state-of-the-art on shape classification, part segmentation and semantic segmentation for large-scale point clouds.

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3D Part Segmentation3D Semantic SegmentationGeneral ClassificationLIDAR Semantic SegmentationSegmentationSemantic Segmentation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Part Segmentation ShapeNet-Part ConvPoint Class Average IoU 83.4 #41 of 67 Archive leaderboard report
3D Part Segmentation ShapeNet-Part ConvPoint Instance Average IoU 85.8 #41 of 67 Archive leaderboard report
3D Semantic Segmentation DALES ConvPoint Model size 4.7M #6 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
3D Semantic Segmentation DALES ConvPoint Overall Accuracy 97.2 #6 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
3D Semantic Segmentation DALES ConvPoint mIoU 67.4 #6 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
LIDAR Semantic Segmentation Paris-Lille-3D ConvPoint mIOU 0.759 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
LIDAR Semantic Segmentation Paris-Lille-3D ConvPoint_Keras mIOU 0.720 #7 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation S3DIS ConvPoint Mean IoU 68.2 #30 of 54 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation S3DIS ConvPoint Number of params 4.7M #30 of 54 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation S3DIS ConvPoint Params (M) 4.1 #30 of 54 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation S3DIS ConvPoint oAcc 88.8 #30 of 54 Archive leaderboard report

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