Research

My research focuses on multimodal unsupervised representation learning, 3D computer vision, and natural language processing. I develop methods for learning rich representations from unlabeled data across different modalities (point clouds, images, text).

Research Areas

  • 3D Point Cloud Understanding: Self-supervised and semi-supervised learning for 3D point clouds; adapting large vision-language models to 3D modalities.
  • Multi-modal Learning: Contrastive learning across point cloud, image, and text representations; feed-forward 3D scene reconstruction.
  • Autonomous Driving Perception: Semantic segmentation of fish-eye camera images; semi-supervised approaches for real-world deployment.

Selected Publications

Paper Venue Links
Point Cloud as a Foreign Language for Multi-modal Large Language Model
Sneha Paul, Zachary Patterson & Nizar Bouguila
[CVPR 2026]
An Adapter-free Fine-tuning Approach for Tuning 3D Foundation Models
Sneha Paul, Zachary Patterson & Nizar Bouguila
[ICPRAI 2026]
Improving 3D Semi-supervised Learning by Effectively Utilizing All Unlabelled Data
Sneha Paul, Zachary Patterson & Nizar Bouguila
[ECCV 2024] Paper
FishSegSSL: A Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation Framework for Fish-eye Images
Sneha Paul, Zachary Patterson & Nizar Bouguila
[Journal of Imaging 2024] Paper
Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation on Vehicle-mounted Fish-eye Camera Images
Sneha Paul, Zachary Patterson & Nizar Bouguila
[TRB 2024] Best Paper Award
Semantic Segmentation Using Transfer Learning on Fisheye Images
Sneha Paul, Zachary Patterson & Nizar Bouguila
[ICMLA 2023] Paper
CrossMoCo: Multi-modal Momentum Contrastive Learning for Point Cloud
Sneha Paul, Zachary Patterson & Nizar Bouguila
[CRV 2023] Paper
A Multi-layer Perceptron-based Two-stream Fusion Model for 3D Point Cloud Classification
Sneha Paul, Zachary Patterson & Nizar Bouguila
[The Visual Computer 2023] Paper
Improved Training for 3D Point Cloud Classification
Sneha Paul, Zachary Patterson & Nizar Bouguila
[S+SSPR 2022] Paper

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