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There is a growing need for reliable and efficient objective quality evaluation methods to address this challenge. In this context, this paper introduces a novel methodology to assess the quality of 3D point clouds using a deep learning-based no-reference (NR) method. First, it extracts geometric and perceptual attributes from distorted point clouds and represent them as a set of 1D vectors. Then, transfer learning is applied to obtain high-level features using a 1D convolutional neural network (1D CNN) adapted from 2D CNN models through weight conversion from ImageNet. Finally, quality scores are predicted through regression utilizing fully connected layers. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is evaluated across diverse datasets, including the Colored Point Cloud Quality Assessment Database (SJTU_PCQA), the Waterloo Point Cloud Assessment Database (WPC), and the Colored Point Cloud Quality Assessment Database featured at ICIP2020. 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