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Point Cloud Pre-training
15 papers with code · 0 benchmarks · 0 datasets archive 2025-07-28
Point cloud data represents 3D shapes as a set of discrete points in 3D space. This kind of data is primarily sourced from 3D scanners, LiDAR systems, and other similar technologies. Point cloud processing has a wide range of applications, such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, and augmented/virtual reality.
Pre-training on point cloud data is similar in spirit to pre-training on images or text. By pre-training a model on a large, diverse dataset, it learns essential features of the data type, which can then be fine-tuned on a smaller, task-specific dataset. This two-step process (pre-training and fine-tuning) often results in better performance, especially when the task-specific dataset is limited in size.
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28 May 2022 3 repositories listedBy fine-tuning on downstream tasks, Point-M2AE achieves 86.
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21 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 4 samples · 1 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)To this end, we select a suite of diverse datasets and tasks to measure the effect of unsupervised pre-training on a large source set of 3D scenes.
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8 Jul 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 6 of 8 samples · 2 unverifiedTo answer this question, we first empirically validate that integrating MAE-based point cloud pre-training with the standard contrastive learning paradigm, even with meticulous design, can lead to a decrease in…
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12 Oct 2023 1 repository listedIn this paper, we introduce a novel universal 3D pre-training framework designed to facilitate the acquisition of efficient 3D representation, thereby establishing a pathway to 3D foundational models.
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8 Jun 2023 1 repository listedIn our work, we present Point-LGMask, a novel method to embed both local and global contexts with multi-ratio masking, which is quite effective for self-supervised feature learning of point clouds but is unfortunately…
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1 Jun 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 4 of 9 samples · 5 unverifiedIt is a long-term vision for Autonomous Driving (AD) community that the perception models can learn from a large-scale point cloud dataset, to obtain unified representations that can achieve promising results on…
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15 May 2023 1 repository listedThis paper tries to address a fundamental question in point cloud self-supervised learning: what is a good signal we should leverage to learn features from point clouds without annotations?
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PointClustering: Unsupervised Point Cloud Pre-Training Using Transformation Invariance in Clustering1 Jan 2023 1 repository listedFeature invariance under different data transformations, i.
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12 Dec 2022 1 repository listedBased on the property of outdoor point clouds in autonomous driving scenarios, i.
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27 Jul 2022 1 repository listedMasked language modeling (MLM) has become one of the most successful self-supervised pre-training task.
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26 Jul 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 2 samples · 1 unverifiedExisting approaches for unsupervised point cloud pre-training are constrained to either scene-level or point/voxel-level instance discrimination.
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3 Apr 2022 1 repository listedWe propose to use the dynamically updated momentum encoder as the tokenizer, which is updated and outputs the dynamic supervision signal along with the training process.
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1 Jan 2022 1 repository listedMoreover, the PC-FractalDB pre-trained model is especially effective in training with limited data.
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1 Sep 2021 1 repository listedAlbeit simple, the pre-trained encoder can capture the key points of an unseen point cloud and surpasses the encoder trained from scratch on downstream tasks.
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2 Oct 2020 1 repository listedWe find that even when we construct a single pre-training dataset (from ModelNet40), this pre-training method improves accuracy across different datasets and encoders, on a wide range of downstream tasks.
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