Abstract: Representing valuable semantics in irregular 3-D point clouds with spatial-variant relationships is challenging. Current shared/weighted point convolution methods have limited efficiency and ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. There’s no wrong way to eat dim sum. But the right way involves a group, and ordering as much as possible.

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