Title
Modeling Local Geometric Structure Of 3d Point Clouds Using Geo-Cnn
Abstract
Recent advances in deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have motivated researchers to adapt CNNs to directly model points in 3D point clouds. Modeling local structure has been proven to be important for the success of convolutional architectures, and researchers exploited the modeling of local point sets in the feature extraction hierarchy. However, limited attention has been paid to explicitly model the geometric structure amongst points in a local region. To address this problem, we propose Geo-CNN, which applies a generic convolution-like operation dubbed as GeoConv to each point and its local neighborhood. Local geometric relationships among points are captured when extracting edge features between the center and its neighboring points. We first decompose the edge feature extraction process onto three orthogonal bases, and then aggregate the extracted features based on the angles between the edge vector and the bases. This encourages the network to preserve the geometric structure in Euclidean space throughout the feature extraction hierarchy. GeoConv is a generic and efficient operation that can be easily integrated into 3D point cloud analysis pipelines for multiple applications. We evaluate Geo-CNN on ModelNet40 and KITTI and achieve state-of-the-art performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/CVPR.2019.00109
2019 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR 2019)
Field
DocType
Volume
Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Local structure,Euclidean space,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Point cloud,Hierarchy
Journal
abs/1811.07782
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1063-6919
7
0.41
References 
Authors
22
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shiyi Lan171.42
Ruichi Yu2173.61
Gang Yu338219.85
Larry S. Davis4142012690.83