Summary of Integrating Efficient Optimal Transport and Functional Maps For Unsupervised Shape Correspondence Learning, by Tung Le et al.
Integrating Efficient Optimal Transport and Functional Maps For Unsupervised Shape Correspondence Learning
by Tung Le, Khai Nguyen, Shanlin Sun, Nhat Ho, Xiaohui Xie
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Mar 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 This research paper proposes a novel approach to establishing correspondences between geometric 3D shapes for applications such as object tracking, registration, texture transfer, and statistical shape analysis. The authors incorporate spectral methods with deep learning, focusing on functional maps (FMs) and optimal transport (OT). They employ the sliced Wasserstein distance (SWD) for OT, which is a fast and efficient metric for unsupervised shape matching. The framework integrates FM regularizers with an OT-based loss derived from SWD, enhancing feature alignment between shapes treated as discrete probability measures. An adaptive refinement process utilizing entropy regularized OT further refines feature alignments for accurate point-to-point correspondences. The method demonstrates superior performance in non-rigid shape matching and excels in downstream tasks like segmentation transfer. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding ways to match shapes of 3D objects together, which is important for things like tracking moving objects or transferring textures from one object to another. Instead of using traditional methods that can be slow or require a lot of data, the authors combine ideas from computer vision and machine learning to create a new way of matching shapes. They use something called optimal transport, which helps them find the best match between two shapes by looking at how similar they are in certain ways. The authors also add some extra steps to make sure the matches are accurate and reliable. This new method works well for matching shapes that aren’t exactly alike, and it can even transfer textures from one object to another. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Deep learning » Machine learning » Object tracking » Probability » Tracking » Unsupervised
