Point2Quad: Generating Quad Meshes from Point Clouds via Face Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19545v1
• Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:48:17 GMT
• Title: Point2Quad: Generating Quad Meshes from Point Clouds via Face Prediction
• Abstract summary: We present Point2Quad, the first learning-based method for quad-only mesh generation from point clouds.<n>The key idea is learning to identify quad mesh with fused pointwise and facewise features.<n>Experiments on both clear and noise data demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of Point2Quad.
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• Abstract: Quad meshes are essential in geometric modeling and computational mechanics. Although learning-based methods for triangle mesh demonstrate considerable advancements, quad mesh generation remains less explored due to the challenge of ensuring coplanarity, convexity, and quad-only meshes. In this paper, we present Point2Quad, the first learning-based method for quad-only mesh generation from point clouds. The key idea is learning to identify quad mesh with fused pointwise and facewise features. Specifically, Point2Quad begins with a k-NN-based candidate generation considering the coplanarity and squareness. Then, two encoders are followed to extract geometric and topological features that address the challenge of quad-related constraints, especially by combining in-depth quadrilaterals-specific characteristics. Subsequently, the extracted features are fused to train the classifier with a designed compound loss. The final results are derived after the refinement by a quad-specific post-processing. Extensive experiments on both clear and noise data demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of Point2Quad, compared to baseline methods under comprehensive metrics.

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