Statistical Edge Detection And UDF Learning For Shape Representation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03381v1
• Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 11:40:57 GMT
• Title: Statistical Edge Detection And UDF Learning For Shape Representation
• Authors: Virgile Foy, Fabrice Gamboa, Reda Chhaibi,
• Abstract summary: We propose a method for learning UDFs that improves the fidelity of the obtained Neural UDF to the original 3D surface. We show that sampling more training points around surface edges allows better local accuracy of the trained Neural UDF. Our method is shown to detect surface edges more accurately than a commonly used local geometric descriptor.
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• Abstract: In the field of computer vision, the numerical encoding of 3D surfaces is crucial. It is classical to represent surfaces with their Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) or Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs). For tasks like representation learning, surface classification, or surface reconstruction, this function can be learned by a neural network, called Neural Distance Function. This network, and in particular its weights, may serve as a parametric and implicit representation for the surface. The network must represent the surface as accurately as possible. In this paper, we propose a method for learning UDFs that improves the fidelity of the obtained Neural UDF to the original 3D surface. The key idea of our method is to concentrate the learning effort of the Neural UDF on surface edges. More precisely, we show that sampling more training points around surface edges allows better local accuracy of the trained Neural UDF, and thus improves the global expressiveness of the Neural UDF in terms of Hausdorff distance. To detect surface edges, we propose a new statistical method based on the calculation of a $p$-value at each point on the surface. Our method is shown to detect surface edges more accurately than a commonly used local geometric descriptor.

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