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Conv-MPN: Convolutional Message Passing Neural Network for Structured Outdoor Architecture Reconstruction

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-06-08 v4

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel message passing neural (MPN) architecture Conv-MPN, which reconstructs an outdoor building as a planar graph from a single RGB image. Conv-MPN is specifically designed for cases where nodes of a graph have explicit spatial embedding. In our problem, nodes correspond to building edges in an image. Conv-MPN is different from MPN in that 1) the feature associated with a node is represented as a feature volume instead of a 1D vector; and 2) convolutions encode messages instead of fully connected layers. Conv-MPN learns to select a true subset of nodes (i.e., building edges) to reconstruct a building planar graph. Our qualitative and quantitative evaluations over 2,000 buildings show that Conv-MPN makes significant improvements over the existing fully neural solutions. We believe that the paper has a potential to open a new line of graph neural network research for structured geometry reconstruction.

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@article{arxiv.1912.01756,
  title  = {Conv-MPN: Convolutional Message Passing Neural Network for Structured Outdoor Architecture Reconstruction},
  author = {Fuyang Zhang and Nelson Nauata and Yasutaka Furukawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.01756},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Accepted by CVPR2020

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