PCLC-Net: Point Cloud Completion in Arbitrary Poses using Learnable Canonical Space
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2024
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Recovering the complete structure from partial point clouds in arbitrary poses is challenging. Recently, many efforts have been made to address this problem by developing SO(3)-equivariant completion networks or aligning the partial point clouds with a predefined canonical space before completion. However, these approaches are limited to random rotations only or demand costly pose annotation for model training. In this paper, we present a novel Network for Point cloud Completion with Learnable Canonical space (PCLC-Net) to reduce the need for pose annotations and extract SE(3)-invariant geometry features to improve the completion quality in arbitrary poses. Without pose annotations, our PCLC-Net utilizes self-supervised pose estimation to align the input partial point clouds to a canonical space that is learnable for an object category and subsequently performs shape completion in the learned canonical space. Our PCLC-Net can complete partial point clouds with arbitrary SE(3) poses without requiring pose annotations for supervision. Our PCLC-Net achieves state-of-the-art results on shape completion with arbitrary SE(3) poses on both synthetic and real scanned data. To the best of our knowledge, our method is the first to achieve shape completion in arbitrary poses without pose annotations during network training.
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CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies → Point-based models
@article{10.1111:cgf.15217,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{PCLC-Net: Point Cloud Completion in Arbitrary Poses using Learnable Canonical Space}},
author = {Xu, Hanmo and Shuai, Qingyao and Chen, Xuejin},
year = {2024},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.15217}
}