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Weakly-Supervised End-to-End CAD Retrieval to Scan Objects

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022-03-25 v1

Abstract

CAD model retrieval to real-world scene observations has shown strong promise as a basis for 3D perception of objects and a clean, lightweight mesh-based scene representation; however, current approaches to retrieve CAD models to a query scan rely on expensive manual annotations of 1:1 associations of CAD-scan objects, which typically contain strong lower-level geometric differences. We thus propose a new weakly-supervised approach to retrieve semantically and structurally similar CAD models to a query 3D scanned scene without requiring any CAD-scan associations, and only object detection information as oriented bounding boxes. Our approach leverages a fully-differentiable top-kk retrieval layer, enabling end-to-end training guided by geometric and perceptual similarity of the top retrieved CAD models to the scan queries. We demonstrate that our weakly-supervised approach can outperform fully-supervised retrieval methods on challenging real-world ScanNet scans, and maintain robustness for unseen class categories, achieving significantly improved performance over fully-supervised state of the art in zero-shot CAD retrieval.

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@article{arxiv.2203.12873,
  title  = {Weakly-Supervised End-to-End CAD Retrieval to Scan Objects},
  author = {Tim Beyer and Angela Dai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.12873},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accompanying video at https://youtu.be/3bCUMxpscdQ

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