Title
PointProNets: Consolidation of Point Clouds with Convolutional Neural Networks.
Abstract
With the widespread use of 3D acquisition devices, there is an increasing need of consolidating captured noisy and sparse point cloud data for accurate representation of the underlying structures. There are numerous algorithms that rely on a variety of assumptions such as local smoothness to tackle this ill-posed problem. However, such priors lead to loss of important features and geometric detail. Instead, we propose a novel data-driven approach for point cloud consolidation via a convolutional neural network based technique. Our method takes a sparse and noisy point cloud as input, and produces a dense point cloud accurately representing the underlying surface by resolving ambiguities in geometry. The resulting point set can then be used to reconstruct accurate manifold surfaces and estimate surface properties. To achieve this, we propose a generative neural network architecture that can input and output point clouds, unlocking a powerful set of tools from the deep learning literature. We use this architecture to apply convolutional neural networks to local patches of geometry for high quality and efficient point cloud consolidation. This results in significantly more accurate surfaces, as we illustrate with a diversity of examples and comparisons to the state-of-the-art.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1111/cgf.13344
COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM
Field
DocType
Volume
Computing Methodologies,Computer science,Convolutional neural network,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence,Point cloud,Consolidation (soil)
Journal
37.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2.0
0167-7055
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
26
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Riccardo Roveri1201.73
A. C. Öztireli218312.94
Ioana Pandele3100.52
Markus H. Gross410154549.95