Summary of Pointcg: Self-supervised Point Cloud Learning Via Joint Completion and Generation, by Yun Liu et al.
PointCG: Self-supervised Point Cloud Learning via Joint Completion and Generation
by Yun Liu, Peng Li, Xuefeng Yan, Liangliang Nan, Bing Wang, Honghua Chen, Lina Gong, Wei Zhao, Mingqiang Wei
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Nov 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 The paper proposes a self-supervised point cloud learning framework that integrates two pretext tasks: masked point modeling (MPM) and 3D-to-2D generation. The goal is to enable an encoder to effectively perceive 3D objects by leveraging spatial awareness and precise supervision from these tasks. The proposed framework, PointCG, consists of a Hidden Point Completion (HPC) module and an Arbitrary-view Image Generation (AIG) module. The HPC module captures visible points, extracts representations with an encoder, and completes the entire shape with a decoder, while AIG generates rendered images based on the visible points’ representations. The paper demonstrates the superiority of PointCG over baselines in various downstream tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about creating a new way to learn from point cloud data without needing labeled examples. It uses two special tricks: one that hides some of the points and another that turns 3D shapes into 2D images. This helps the computer learn to understand 3D objects better by giving it more information to work with. The new method is tested on several tasks and performs well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Decoder » Encoder » Image generation » Self supervised
