Summary of Memory-scalable and Simplified Functional Map Learning, by Robin Magnet et al.
Memory-Scalable and Simplified Functional Map Learning
by Robin Magnet, Maks Ovsjanikov
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 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 paper proposes a novel memory-scalable and efficient functional map learning pipeline for non-rigid shape matching problems. By promoting consistency between functional and pointwise maps, the authors demonstrate significant improvements in accuracy over early methods. The approach leverages the specific structure of functional maps to avoid storing large dense matrices, making it more efficient and scalable. Additionally, a differentiable map refinement layer is introduced, which can be used at train time to enforce consistency between refined and initial versions of the map. This results in a simpler, more efficient, and numerically stable approach that achieves close to state-of-the-art results in challenging scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us match shapes better! It creates a new way to learn about shapes that is faster and uses less memory. Before, people used big matrices to do this, but now we can do it without those matrices. This makes it more efficient and allows us to work with bigger problems. The authors also make an improvement to the refining process so that it’s easier to use. This new way works well and is close to the best results we’ve seen. |
