PointGrid: A Deep Network for 3D Shape Understanding

CVPR 2018  ·  Truc Le, Ye Duan ·

This paper presents a new deep learning architecture called PointGrid that is designed for 3D model recognition from unorganized point clouds. The new architecture embeds the input point cloud into a 3D grid by a simple, yet effective, sampling strategy and directly learns transformations and features from their raw coordinates. The proposed method is an integration of point and grid, a hybrid model, that leverages the simplicity of grid-based approaches such as VoxelNet while avoid its information loss. PointGrid learns better global information compared with PointNet and is much simpler than PointNet++, Kd-Net, Oct-Net and O-CNN, yet provides comparable recognition accuracy. With experiments on popular shape recognition benchmarks, PointGrid demonstrates competitive performance over existing deep learning methods on both classification and segmentation.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Rank Source Paper Compare
3D Point Cloud Classification ModelNet40 PointGrid Overall Accuracy 92.0 # 84
3D Part Segmentation ShapeNet-Part PointGrid Class Average IoU 82.2 # 28
Instance Average IoU 86.4 # 22

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