Deep learning for 3D point cloud processing - from approaches, tasks to its implications on urban and environmental applications

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12452v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:03:39 GMT
• Title: Deep learning for 3D point cloud processing - from approaches, tasks to its implications on urban and environmental applications
• Authors: Zhenxin Zhang, Zhihua Xu, Yuwei Cao, Ningli Xu, Shuye Wang, Shen'ao Cui, Zhen Li, Rongjun Qin,
• Abstract summary: We provide a meta review on deep learning approaches and datasets that cover a selection of critical tasks of point cloud processing.<n>By reviewing a broad range of urban and environmental applications these tasks can support, we identify gaps to be closed as these methods transformed into applications.
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• Abstract: Point cloud processing as a fundamental task in the field of geomatics and computer vision, has been supporting tasks and applications at different scales from air to ground, including mapping, environmental monitoring, urban/tree structure modeling, automated driving, robotics, disaster responses etc. Due to the rapid development of deep learning, point cloud processing algorithms have nowadays been almost explicitly dominated by learning-based approaches, most of which are yet transitioned into real-world practices. Existing surveys primarily focus on the ever-updating network architecture to accommodate unordered point clouds, largely ignoring their practical values in typical point cloud processing applications, in which extra-large volume of data, diverse scene contents, varying point density, data modality need to be considered. In this paper, we provide a meta review on deep learning approaches and datasets that cover a selection of critical tasks of point cloud processing in use such as scene completion, registration, semantic segmentation, and modeling. By reviewing a broad range of urban and environmental applications these tasks can support, we identify gaps to be closed as these methods transformed into applications and draw concluding remarks in both the algorithmic and practical aspects of the surveyed methods.

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