GeoSeqNet: A Geometry-Aware Sequential Network for Robust 3D Point Cloud Analysis
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: 3D point cloud understanding plays a vital role in remote sensing, robotic perception and intelligent scene analysis. However, real-world point cloud data are often affected by sensing noise, incomplete geometry, occlusion, and irregular sampling, posing significant challenges to reliable geometric representation learning and long-range contextual modeling. Existing methods typically rely on fixed neighborhood aggregation or computationally expensive global interaction mechanisms, leaving considerable room for improvement in terms of robustness and efficiency under complex sensing conditions. To address these challenges, we propose GeoSeqNet, a geometry-aware contextual learning framework for robust 3D point cloud analysis. Specifically, an Enhanced Local Operator (ELO) is introduced to strengthen local geometric representation, while a Geometric Encoding Module (GEM) is employed to preserve spatial geometric information during long-range feature interactions. In addition, an Adaptive Gate Fusion (AGF) module is designed to effectively integrate Gate-Scaled LSTM and GRU branches, enabling efficient long-range contextual modeling. By jointly exploiting local geometric cues and long-range contextual information, GeoSeqNet achieves robust feature learning with low computational overhead. Extensive experiments on ModelNet40, ScanObjectNN, and ShapeNetPart demonstrate the effectiveness of GeoSeqNet. The proposed method achieves competitive performance while maintaining a favorable efficiency-accuracy trade-off and exhibits strong robustness in complex real-world scenarios. These results indicate that GeoSeqNet provides an effective and reliable solution for point cloud understanding in challenging sensing environments.
Source: Sensors
DOI: 10.3390/s26144511
Language: English
Subfield: Computational Mechanics
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,137
Award: G7894162965
OpenAlex ID: W7169070685