Summary of Posdiffnet: Positional Neural Diffusion For Point Cloud Registration in a Large Field Of View with Perturbations, by Rui She et al.
PosDiffNet: Positional Neural Diffusion for Point Cloud Registration in a Large Field of View with Perturbations
by Rui She, Sijie Wang, Qiyu Kang, Kai Zhao, Yang Song, Wee Peng Tay, Tianyu Geng, Xingchao Jian
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In the field of 3D computer vision, point cloud registration is a crucial technique with various applications. However, this task can be challenging due to large fields of view, dynamic objects, environmental noise, or perturbations. To address this challenge, we propose PosDiffNet, a hierarchical registration model based on window-level, patch-level, and point-level correspondence. We leverage graph neural partial differential equations (PDE) and position embeddings for high-dimensional features and point cloud representation. A Transformer module based on neural ordinary differential equations (ODE) efficiently represents patches within points. Multi-level correspondence derived from high feature similarity scores facilitates alignment between point clouds. Registration methods like SVD-based algorithms predict transformations using corresponding point pairs. We evaluate PosDiffNet on 3D point cloud datasets, achieving state-of-the-art performance for registration in large fields of view with perturbations. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine trying to match up a bunch of dots from different places and times. This is called point cloud registration, and it’s super important for things like self-driving cars and 3D movies. But sometimes this task can be really hard because there are lots of distractions or movements involved. To solve this problem, we created a new model called PosDiffNet. It works by looking at small groups of dots (called windows) and then matching up the bigger groups (called patches). We also use special math tools to help us understand how the dots are moving. This helps us figure out how all the dots should be matched up. We tested our model on some big datasets, and it did really well! |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Transformer
