Shrinking unit: a Graph Convolution-Based Unit for CNN-like 3D Point Cloud Feature Extractors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12770v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:28:31 GMT
• Title: Shrinking unit: a Graph Convolution-Based Unit for CNN-like 3D Point Cloud Feature Extractors
• Authors: Alberto Tamajo (1), Bastian Pla{\ss} (2) and Thomas Klauer (2) ( (1) Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, (2) i3mainz, Institute for Spatial Information and Surveying Technology of Mainz University of Applied Sciences )
• Abstract summary: We argue that a lack of inspiration from the image domain might be the primary cause of such a gap. We propose a graph convolution-based unit, dubbed Shrinking unit, that can be stacked vertically and horizontally for the design of CNN-like 3D point cloud feature extractors.
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• Abstract: 3D point clouds have attracted increasing attention in architecture, engineering, and construction due to their high-quality object representation and efficient acquisition methods. Consequently, many point cloud feature detection methods have been proposed in the literature to automate some workflows, such as their classification or part segmentation. Nevertheless, the performance of point cloud automated systems significantly lags behind their image counterparts. While part of this failure stems from the irregularity, unstructuredness, and disorder of point clouds, which makes the task of point cloud feature detection significantly more challenging than the image one, we argue that a lack of inspiration from the image domain might be the primary cause of such a gap. Indeed, given the overwhelming success of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in image feature detection, it seems reasonable to design their point cloud counterparts, but none of the proposed approaches closely resembles them. Specifically, even though many approaches generalise the convolution operation in point clouds, they fail to emulate the CNNs multiple-feature detection and pooling operations. For this reason, we propose a graph convolution-based unit, dubbed Shrinking unit, that can be stacked vertically and horizontally for the design of CNN-like 3D point cloud feature extractors. Given that self, local and global correlations between points in a point cloud convey crucial spatial geometric information, we also leverage them during the feature extraction process. We evaluate our proposal by designing a feature extractor model for the ModelNet-10 benchmark dataset and achieve 90.64% classification accuracy, demonstrating that our innovative idea is effective. Our code is available at github.com/albertotamajo/Shrinking-unit.

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