Title
RePCD-Net: Feature-Aware Recurrent Point Cloud Denoising Network
Abstract
The captured 3D point clouds by depth cameras and 3D scanners are often corrupted by noise, so point cloud denoising is typically required for downstream applications. We observe that: (i) the scale of the local neighborhood has a significant effect on the denoising performance against different noise levels, point intensities, as well as various kinds of local details; (ii) non-iteratively evolving a noisy input to its noise-free version is non-trivial; (iii) both traditional geometric methods and learning-based methods often lose geometric features with denoising iterations, and (iv) most objects can be regarded as piece-wise smooth surfaces with a small number of features. Motivated by these observations, we propose a novel and task-specific point cloud denoising network, named RePCD-Net, which consists of four key modules: (i) a recurrent network architecture to effectively remove noise; (ii) an RNN-based multi-scale feature aggregation module to extract adaptive features in different denoising stage; (iii) a recurrent propagation layer to enhance the geometric feature perception across stages; and (iv) a feature-aware CD loss to regularize the predictions towards multi-scale geometric details. Extensive qualitative and quantitative evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our method over state-of-the-arts, in terms of noise removal and feature preservation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s11263-021-01564-7
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Point cloud, 3D deep learning, RNN, Multi-scale feature learning, Geometric feature preservation
Journal
130
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0920-5691
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Honghua Chen162.76
Zeyong Wei200.68
Xianzhi Li300.34
Yabin Xu401.69
Mingqiang Wei512522.66
Jun Wang601.01