arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 19

BRICE: Brain-inspired Recurrent Illusory Contour Encoder for Point Cloud Completion

The paper introduces BRICE, a Brain-inspired Recurrent Illusory Contour Encoder designed to improve point cloud completion. It leverages a recurrent neural architecture based on Predictive Coding to generate illusory contours, mimicking how the brain completes visual information. BRICE can be integrated into existing completion models and demonstrates performance gains on datasets such as MVP2K, PCN, and PlantPCom.

By Yunlei Wang, Dawei Li, Xue-song Tang
arXiv Computer Vision
6d ago

LitePT: Lighter Yet Stronger Point Transformer

LitePT introduces a lighter yet stronger 3D point cloud backbone that strategically uses convolutional layers in early, high‑resolution stages and switches to attention in deeper, low‑resolution layers. By adding a novel, parameter‑free 3D positional encoding called PointROPE, LitePT preserves spatial layout while reducing redundancy. The resulting model has 3.6× fewer parameters, runs twice as fast, and uses half the memory of the state‑of‑the‑art Point Transformer V3, yet matches or surpasses its performance across multiple tasks and datasets.

By Yuanwen Yue, Damien Robert, Jianyuan Wang, Sunghwan Hong, Jan Dirk Wegner, Christian Rupprecht, Konrad Schindler
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Vision Hopfield Memory Networks

arXiv:2603. 25157v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent vision and multimodal foundation backbones, such as Transformer families and state-space models like Mamba, have achieved remarkable progress, enabling unified modeling across images, text, and beyond.

By Jianfeng Wang, Amine M'Charrak, Luk Koska, Xiangtao Wang, Daniel Petriceanu, Ruizhi Wang, Michael Bumbar, Luca Pinchetti, Thomas Lukasiewicz
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 9

Point-Focused Attention Meets Context-Scan State Space: Robust Biological Visual Perception for Point Cloud Representation

PointLearner is a point cloud representation learning network inspired by biological vision. It uses a point-focused attention mechanism that mimics foveal vision by competitively weighting local neighbors against spatially downsampled features extracted via learnable inducing points. Additionally, a context-scan state space emulates eye saccades, inferring global scene structure through a Hilbert‑curve guided scan path, enabling robust performance on various point cloud tasks.

By Kanglin Qu, Pan Gao, Qun Dai, Yuanhao Sun