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To solve this problem, this paper proposes a new point cloud learning network, denoted as Dynamic neighborhood Network (DNet), to dynamically select the neighborhood and learn the features of each point. The proposed DNet has a multi-head structure which has two important modules: the Feature Enhancement Layer (FELayer) and the masking mechanism. The FELayer enhances the manifold features of the point cloud, while the masking mechanism is used to remove the neighborhood points with low contribution. The DNet can learn the manifold features and spatial geometric features of point cloud, and obtain the relationship between each point and its effective neighborhood points through the masking mechanism, so that the dynamic neighborhood features of each point can be obtained. Experimental results on three public datasets demonstrate that compared with the state-of-the-art learning networks, the proposed DNet shows better superiority and competitiveness in point cloud processing task.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21072327","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,26]],"date-time":"2021-03-26T13:17:53Z","timestamp":1616764673000},"page":"2327","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["DNet: Dynamic Neighborhood Feature Learning in Point Cloud"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Fujing","family":"Tian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}]},{"given":"Zhidi","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}]},{"given":"Gangyi","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Tsai, C., Lai, Y., Sun, Y., Chung, Y., and Perng, J. 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