Title
Primal-Dual Mesh Convolutional Neural Networks
Abstract
Recent works in geometric deep learning have introduced neural networks that allow performing inference tasks on three-dimensional geometric data by defining convolution, and sometimes pooling, operations on triangle meshes. These methods, however, either consider the input mesh as a graph, and do not exploit specific geometric properties of meshes for feature aggregation and downsampling, or are specialized for meshes, but rely on a rigid definition of convolution that does not properly capture the local topology of the mesh. We propose a method that combines the advantages of both types of approaches, while addressing their limitations: we extend a primal-dual framework drawn from the graph-neural-network literature to triangle meshes, and define convolutions on two types of graphs constructed from an input mesh. Our method takes features for both edges and faces of a 3D mesh as input and dynamically aggregates them using an attention mechanism. At the same time, we introduce a pooling operation with a precise geometric interpretation, that allows handling variations in the mesh connectivity by clustering mesh faces in a task-driven fashion. We provide theoretical insights of our approach using tools from the mesh-simplification literature. In addition, we validate experimentally our method in the tasks of shape classification and shape segmentation, where we obtain comparable or superior performance to the state of the art.
Year
Venue
DocType
2020
NIPS 2020
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
33
34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020)
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesco Milano100.34
Antonio Loquercio2585.43
Antoni Rosinol300.68
Davide Scaramuzza42704154.51
Luca Carlone564842.93