Learning Local Displacements for Point Cloud Completion

The implementation of our paper accepted in CVPR 2022 (Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE)

Authors: Yida Wang, David Tan, Nassir Navab and Federico Tombari

BSD 2-Clause License Copyright (c) 2022, Yida Wang All rights reserved.

Abstrarct

Completing a car
	From the input partial scan to our object completion, we visualize the amount of detail in our reconstruction.

We propose a novel approach aimed at object and semantic scene completion from a partial scan represented as a 3D point cloud. Our architecture relies on three novel layers that are used successively within an encoder-decoder structure and specifically developed for the task at hand. The first one carries out feature extraction by matching the point features to a set of pre-trained local descriptors. Then, to avoid losing individual descriptors as part of standard operations such as max-pooling, we propose an alternative neighbor-pooling operation that relies on adopting the feature vectors with the highest activations. Finally, up-sampling in the decoder modifies our feature extraction in order to increase the output dimension. While this model is already able to achieve competitive results with the state of the art, we further propose a way to increase the versatility of our approach to process point clouds. To this aim, we introduce a second model that assembles our layers within a transformer architecture. We evaluate both architectures on object and indoor scene completion tasks, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

3D local displacement

Local displacement operator

The operation
	(a) k-nearest neighbor in reference to an anchor f; (b) displacement vectors around the anchor f + δi and the corresponding weight σi; and, (c) closest features for all i.

Architectures

The direct architectrue	The transformer architecture

Qualitatives

Object completion

Semantic scene completion

Setup

with Conda

conda create --name disp3d pytorch torchvision torchaudio cudatoolkit=10.2 -c pytorch
conda activate disp3d
pip install -r dependencies.txt
bash setup.sh

Training

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python3 train.py --batch 8 --n_regions 1 --npoints 2048 4096 --dataset shapenet --savepath exp_shapenet --methods disp3d

Training with multiple GPU could be configured using CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3 .... Optional approach should be indicated by --methods, some options are disp3d for this work, folding for FoldingNet, atlas for AtlasNet, pcn for PCN, msn for MSN, grnet for GRNet, pointr for PoinTr, snowflake for SnowflakeNet, softpool for SoftPoolNet, etc.

Validation

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python3 val.py --n_regions 1 --npoints 2048 4096 --model log/exp_shapenet/network.pth --dataset shapenet --methods disp3d

The output point cloud will be stored in ./pcds folder.

Visualization

Render points with the help of spherical structures in Mitsuba.

cd render_mitsuba/
./render.sh -f ../pcds

To get false positive points on output rendered in red like Figure. 7 in our paper (default color is presenting its categorical labels), the option with_fp in colormap function need to get set to be True in val.py.

from other_tools import colormap
pts_color = colormap.colormap(points, gt=ground_truth, gt_seg=segmentation, with_fp=False, dataset='shapenet'):

Cite

If you find this work useful in your research, please cite:

@inproceedings{wang2022displacement,
  title={Learning Local Displacements for Point Cloud Completion},
  author={Wang, Yida and Tan, David Joseph and Navab, Nassir and Tombari, Federico},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year={2022}
}