Neural-Pull: Learning Signed Distance Functions from Point Clouds by Learning to Pull Space onto Surfaces

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13495v2
• Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 17:54:34 GMT
• Title: Neural-Pull: Learning Signed Distance Functions from Point Clouds by Learning to Pull Space onto Surfaces
• Authors: Baorui Ma and Zhizhong Han and Yu-Shen Liu and Matthias Zwicker
• Abstract summary: Reconstructing continuous surfaces from 3D point clouds is a fundamental operation in 3D geometry processing. We introduce textitNeural-Pull, a new approach that is simple and leads to high quality SDFs.
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• Abstract: Reconstructing continuous surfaces from 3D point clouds is a fundamental operation in 3D geometry processing. Several recent state-of-the-art methods address this problem using neural networks to learn signed distance functions (SDFs). In this paper, we introduce \textit{Neural-Pull}, a new approach that is simple and leads to high quality SDFs. Specifically, we train a neural network to pull query 3D locations to their closest points on the surface using the predicted signed distance values and the gradient at the query locations, both of which are computed by the network itself. The pulling operation moves each query location with a stride given by the distance predicted by the network. Based on the sign of the distance, this may move the query location along or against the direction of the gradient of the SDF. This is a differentiable operation that allows us to update the signed distance value and the gradient simultaneously during training. Our outperforming results under widely used benchmarks demonstrate that we can learn SDFs more accurately and flexibly for surface reconstruction and single image reconstruction than the state-of-the-art methods.

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