Point Geometrical Coulomb Force: An explicit and robust embedding for point cloud analysis

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Haojun Xu, Ling Hu, Qinsong Li, Shengjun Liu, Dong-Ming Yan, Xinru Liu

Published: 2026, Last Modified: 05 Nov 2025Pattern Recognit. 2026EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•This paper is firstly to apply electrostatic fields to point cloud analysis tasks.•This paper is firstly to apply Coulomb forces to point cloud analysis tasks.•We have demonstrated that the PGCF is a set of efficient and robust geometric embeddings.•The PGCF can significantly enhance the performance of existing point cloud networks.•The PGCF does not incur any additional parameter or computational overhead.