Summary of Synbench: a Synthetic Benchmark For Non-rigid 3d Point Cloud Registration, by Sara Monji-azad et al.
SynBench: A Synthetic Benchmark for Non-rigid 3D Point Cloud Registration
by Sara Monji-Azad, Marvin Kinz, Claudia Scherl, David Männle, Jürgen Hesser, Nikolas Löw
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Graphics (cs.GR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed paper introduces SynBench, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating non-rigid point cloud registration methods. The dataset addresses the limitations of existing datasets by providing varying levels of deformation, noise, outliers, and incompleteness. SynBench uses SimTool to simulate soft body movement in Flex and Unreal Engine, offering ground truth corresponding points between two point sets. This allows researchers to fairly compare their non-rigid point cloud registration methods. The authors claim that SynBench is the first benchmark to provide these challenges at different difficulty levels, with both pre- and post-deformation ground truth points. The dataset is publicly available. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary SynBench is a new way to test how well computer vision algorithms can register (match) non-rigid point clouds. This means they can handle big changes in shape or movement. To make sure the results are fair, SynBench has lots of challenges like noise, outliers, and incompleteness. It’s special because it’s the first benchmark that provides all these challenges and shows what the correct matches look like before and after deformation. |
