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Laser scanners can easily acquire the geometric data of physical environments in the form of point clouds. Industrial 3D reconstruction processes generally recognize objects from point clouds, which should inc...
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The success of deep learning technology depends on the availability of adequate amounts of data for training deep neural networks. Many repositories of general two- (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) data are ava...