· 2017
PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation
- 9,803citations
- 2017year
Short summary
PointNet is a novel neural network architecture designed to directly process irregular 3D point cloud data, bypassing the need for computationally expensive transformations into voxel grids or images.
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Key points
- PointNet directly processes raw 3D point clouds, avoiding data conversion to voxels or images.
- The network architecture is permutation invariant, handling the unordered nature of point sets.
- It offers a unified framework for 3D classification, part segmentation, and scene semantic parsing.
- Empirical results demonstrate performance on par with or exceeding state-of-the-art methods.
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Abstract
Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure. Due to its irregular format, most researchers transform such data to regular 3D voxel grids or collections of images. This, however, renders data unnecessarily voluminous and causes issues. In this paper, we design a novel type of neural network that directly consumes point clouds, which well respects the permutation invariance of points in the input. Our network, named PointNet, provides a unified architecture for applications ranging from object classification, part segmentation, to scene semantic parsing. Though simple, PointNet is highly efficient and effective. Empirically, it shows strong performance on par or even better than state of the art. Theoretically, we provide analysis towards understanding of what the network has learnt and why the network is robust with respect to input perturbation and corruption.
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Field: Computational Mechanics
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