NoiseTrans: Point Cloud Denoising with Transformers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11812v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:01:23 GMT
• Title: NoiseTrans: Point Cloud Denoising with Transformers
• Authors: Guangzhe Hou, Guihe Qin, Minghui Sun, Yanhua Liang, Jie Yan, Zhonghan Zhang
• Abstract summary: We design a novel model, NoiseTrans, which uses transformer encoder architecture for point cloud denoising. We obtain structural similarity of point-based point clouds with the assistance of the transformer's core self-attention mechanism. Experiments show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art methods in various datasets and noise environments.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Point clouds obtained from capture devices or 3D reconstruction techniques are often noisy and interfere with downstream tasks. The paper aims to recover the underlying surface of noisy point clouds. We design a novel model, NoiseTrans, which uses transformer encoder architecture for point cloud denoising. Specifically, we obtain structural similarity of point-based point clouds with the assistance of the transformer's core self-attention mechanism. By expressing the noisy point cloud as a set of unordered vectors, we convert point clouds into point embeddings and employ Transformer to generate clean point clouds. To make the Transformer preserve details when sensing the point cloud, we design the Local Point Attention to prevent the point cloud from being over-smooth. In addition, we also propose sparse encoding, which enables the Transformer to better perceive the structural relationships of the point cloud and improve the denoising performance. Experiments show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art methods in various datasets and noise environments.

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