Title
Fpconv: Learning Local Flattening For Point Convolution
Abstract
We introduce FPConv, a novel surface-style convolution operator designed for 3D point cloud analysis. Unlike previous methods, FPConv doesn't require transforming to intermediate representation like 3D grid or graph and directly works on surface geometry of point cloud. To be more specific, for each point, FPConv performs a local flattening by automatically learning a weight map to softly project surrounding points onto a 2D grid. Regular 2D convolution can thus be applied for efficient feature learning. FPConv can be easily integrated into various network architectures for tasks like 3D object classification and 3D scene segmentation, and achieve comparable performance with existing volumetric-type convolutions. More importantly, our experiments also show that FPConv can be a complementary of volumetric convolutions and jointly training them can further boost overall performance into state-of-the-art results. Code is available at https://github.com/1yqun/FPConv
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00435
2020 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR)
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1063-6919
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
26
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lin Yiqun130.38
Yan Zizheng230.38
Haibin Huang317212.21
Dong Du4142.55
Ligang Liu51960108.77
Shuguang Cui652154.46
Xiaoguang Han722029.01