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Learning Modified Indicator Functions for Surface Reconstruction

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022-02-22 v2 Graphics

Abstract

Surface reconstruction is a fundamental problem in 3D graphics. In this paper, we propose a learning-based approach for implicit surface reconstruction from raw point clouds without normals. Our method is inspired by Gauss Lemma in potential energy theory, which gives an explicit integral formula for the indicator functions. We design a novel deep neural network to perform surface integral and learn the modified indicator functions from un-oriented and noisy point clouds. We concatenate features with different scales for accurate point-wise contributions to the integral. Moreover, we propose a novel Surface Element Feature Extractor to learn local shape properties. Experiments show that our method generates smooth surfaces with high normal consistency from point clouds with different noise scales and achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction performance compared with current data-driven and non-data-driven approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2111.09526,
  title  = {Learning Modified Indicator Functions for Surface Reconstruction},
  author = {Dong Xiao and Siyou Lin and Zuoqiang Shi and Bin Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09526},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted by Computers & Graphics from SMI 2021