Title
Unsupervised Learning of 3-D Local Features From Raw Voxels Based on a Novel Permutation Voxelization Strategy.
Abstract
Effective 3-D local features are significant elements for 3-D shape analysis. Existing hand-crafted 3-D local descriptors are effective but usually involve intensive human intervention and prior knowledge, which burdens the subsequent processing procedures. An alternative resorts to the unsupervised learning of features from raw 3-D representations via popular deep learning models. However, this alternative suffers from several significant unresolved issues, such as irregular vertex topology, arbitrary mesh resolution, orientation ambiguity on the 3-D surface, and rigid and slightly nonrigid transformation invariance. To tackle these issues, we propose an unsupervised 3-D local feature learning framework based on a novel permutation voxelization strategy to learn high-level and hierarchical 3-D local features from raw 3-D voxels. Specifically, the proposed strategy first applies a novel voxelization which discretizes each 3-D local region with irregular vertex topology and arbitrary mesh resolution into regular voxels, and then, a novel permutation is applied to permute the voxels to simultaneously eliminate the effect of rotation transformation and orientation ambiguity on the surface. Based on the proposed strategy, the permuted voxels can fully encode the geometry and structure of each local region in regular, sparse, and binary vectors. These voxel vectors are highly suitable for the learning of hierarchical common surface patterns by stacked sparse autoencoder with hierarchical abstraction and sparse constraint. Experiments are conducted on three aspects for evaluating the learned local features: 1) global shape retrieval; 2) partial shape retrieval; and 3) shape correspondence. The experimental results show that the learned local features outperform the other state-of-the-art 3-D shape descriptors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TCYB.2017.2778764
IEEE transactions on cybernetics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Shape,Machine learning,Solid modeling,Feature extraction,Geometry,Topology,Visualization
Voxel,Autoencoder,Pattern recognition,Permutation,Feature extraction,Unsupervised learning,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Mathematics,Machine learning,Feature learning,Shape analysis (digital geometry)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
49
2
2168-2275
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.47
36
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Han Zhizhong119818.28
Zhenbao Liu236424.08
Junwei Han33501194.57
Chi-Man Vong455741.41
Shuhui Bu537521.34
C. L. Philip Chen64022244.76