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In this paper, we propose local feature extraction network (LFE-Net) which focus on extracting local feature for point clouds analysis. Such geometric features learning from a relation of local points can be used in a variety of shape analysis problems such as classification, part segmentation, and point matching. LFE-Net consists of local geometric relation (LGR) module which aims to learn a high-dimensional local feature to express the relation between points and their neighbors. Benefiting from the additional singular values of local points and hierarchical neural networks, the learned local features are robust to permutation and rigid transformation so that they can be transformed into 3D descriptors. Moreover, we embed prior spatial information of the local points into the sub-features for combining features from multiple levels. 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