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PU-Dense: Sparse Tensor-Based Point Cloud Geometry Upsampling

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Anique Akhtar *
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朱理 (Li, Zhu)
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Geert Van der Auwera
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李莉 (Li Li)
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Jianle Chen
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2022.3180904delete
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Due to the increased popularity of augmented and virtual reality experiences, the interest in capturing high-resolution real-world point clouds has never been higher. Loss of details and irregularities in point cloud geometry can occur during the capturing, processing, and compression pipeline. It is essential to address these challenges by being able to upsample a low Level-of-Detail (LoD) point cloud into a high LoD point cloud. Current upsampling methods suffer from several weaknesses in handling point cloud upsampling, especially in dense real-world photo-realistic point clouds. In this paper, we present a novel geometry upsampling technique, PU-Dense, which can process a diverse set of point clouds including synthetic mesh-based point clouds, real-world high-resolution point clouds, real-world indoor LiDAR scanned objects, as well as outdoor dynamically acquired LiDAR-based point clouds. PU-Dense employs a 3D multiscale architecture using sparse convolutional networks that hierarchically reconstruct an upsampled point cloud geometry via progressive rescaling and multiscale feature extraction. The framework employs a UNet type architecture that downscales the point cloud to a bottleneck and then upscales it to a higher level-of-detail (LoD) point cloud. PU-Dense introduces a novel Feature Extraction Unit that incorporates multiscale spatial learning by employing filters at multiple sampling rates and receptive fields. The architecture is memory efficient and is driven by a binary voxel occupancy classification loss that allows it to process high-resolution dense point clouds with millions of points during inference time. Qualitative and quantitative experimental results show that our method significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches by a large margin while having much lower inference time complexity. We further test our dataset on high-resolution photo-realistic datasets. In addition, our method can handle noisy data well. We further show that our approach is memory efficient compared to the state-of-the-art methods.
Keywords:
Point cloud compression
Three-dimensional displays
Laser radar
Geometry
Feature extraction
Sensors
Deep learning
Point cloud
upsampling

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IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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chinese academy of sciences
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University of Missouri System
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