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Main Authors: Edirimuni, Dasith de Silva, Lu, Xuequan, Li, Gang, Wei, Lei, Robles-Kelly, Antonio, Li, Hongdong
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08322
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author Edirimuni, Dasith de Silva
Lu, Xuequan
Li, Gang
Wei, Lei
Robles-Kelly, Antonio
Li, Hongdong
author_facet Edirimuni, Dasith de Silva
Lu, Xuequan
Li, Gang
Wei, Lei
Robles-Kelly, Antonio
Li, Hongdong
contents Point cloud filtering is a fundamental 3D vision task, which aims to remove noise while recovering the underlying clean surfaces. State-of-the-art methods remove noise by moving noisy points along stochastic trajectories to the clean surfaces. These methods often require regularization within the training objective and/or during post-processing, to ensure fidelity. In this paper, we introduce StraightPCF, a new deep learning based method for point cloud filtering. It works by moving noisy points along straight paths, thus reducing discretization errors while ensuring faster convergence to the clean surfaces. We model noisy patches as intermediate states between high noise patch variants and their clean counterparts, and design the VelocityModule to infer a constant flow velocity from the former to the latter. This constant flow leads to straight filtering trajectories. In addition, we introduce a DistanceModule that scales the straight trajectory using an estimated distance scalar to attain convergence near the clean surface. Our network is lightweight and only has $\sim530K$ parameters, being 17% of IterativePFN (a most recent point cloud filtering network). Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world data show our method achieves state-of-the-art results. Our method also demonstrates nice distributions of filtered points without the need for regularization. The implementation code can be found at: https://github.com/ddsediri/StraightPCF.
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spellingShingle StraightPCF: Straight Point Cloud Filtering
Edirimuni, Dasith de Silva
Lu, Xuequan
Li, Gang
Wei, Lei
Robles-Kelly, Antonio
Li, Hongdong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Point cloud filtering is a fundamental 3D vision task, which aims to remove noise while recovering the underlying clean surfaces. State-of-the-art methods remove noise by moving noisy points along stochastic trajectories to the clean surfaces. These methods often require regularization within the training objective and/or during post-processing, to ensure fidelity. In this paper, we introduce StraightPCF, a new deep learning based method for point cloud filtering. It works by moving noisy points along straight paths, thus reducing discretization errors while ensuring faster convergence to the clean surfaces. We model noisy patches as intermediate states between high noise patch variants and their clean counterparts, and design the VelocityModule to infer a constant flow velocity from the former to the latter. This constant flow leads to straight filtering trajectories. In addition, we introduce a DistanceModule that scales the straight trajectory using an estimated distance scalar to attain convergence near the clean surface. Our network is lightweight and only has $\sim530K$ parameters, being 17% of IterativePFN (a most recent point cloud filtering network). Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world data show our method achieves state-of-the-art results. Our method also demonstrates nice distributions of filtered points without the need for regularization. The implementation code can be found at: https://github.com/ddsediri/StraightPCF.
title StraightPCF: Straight Point Cloud Filtering
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08322