Title
Mesh Denoising With Facet Graph Convolutions
Abstract
We examine the problem of mesh denoising, which consists of removing noise from corrupted 3D meshes while preserving existing geometric features. Most mesh denoising methods require a lot of mesh-specific parameter fine-tuning, to account for specific features and noise types. In recent years, data-driven methods have demonstrated their robustness and effectiveness with respect to noise and feature properties on a wide variety of geometry and image problems. Most existing mesh denoising methods still use hand-crafted features, and locally denoise facets rather than examine the mesh globally. In this work, we propose the use of a fully end-to-end learning strategy based on graph convolutions, where meaningful features are learned directly by our network. It operates on a graph of facets, directly on the existing topology of the mesh, without resampling, and follows a multi-scale design to extract geometric features at different resolution levels. Similar to most recent pipelines, given a noisy mesh, we first denoise face normals with our novel approach, then update vertex positions accordingly. Our method performs significantly better than the current state-of-the-art learning-based methods. Additionally, we show that it can be trained on noisy data, without explicit correspondence between noisy and ground-truth facets. We also propose a multi-scale denoising strategy, better suited to correct noise with a low spatial frequency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TVCG.2020.3045490
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Mesh denoising,normal filtering,graph convolution,feature preserving,geometric deep learning
Journal
28
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
1077-2626
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
25
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthieu Armando110.36
Jean-Sebastien Franco234218.05
Edmond Boyer32758130.84