This repository contains the source codes for the paper Dense 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Using a Deep Pyramid Network.
Accepted at Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2019)
If you find this work useful in your research, please consider citing:
@inproceedings{mandikal2019densepcr,
author = {Mandikal, Priyanka and Babu, R Venkatesh},
booktitle = {Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision ({WACV})},
title = {Dense 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Using a Deep Pyramid Network},
year = {2019}
}
We propose a scalable and light-weight architecture for predicting high-resolution 3D point clouds from single-view images. Existing point-cloud based reconstruction approaches directly predict the entire point cloud in a single stage. Although this technique can handle low resolution point clouds, it is not a viable solution for generating dense, high-resolution outputs. In this work, we introduce DensePCR, a deep pyramidal network for point cloud reconstruction that hierarchically predicts point clouds of increasing resolution. Towards this end, we propose an architecture that first predicts a low-resolution point cloud, and then hierarchically increases the resolution by aggregating local and global point features to condition them on a coordinate grid. This technique generates high-resolution outputs of improved quality in comparison to single stage reconstruction networks, while also providing a light-weight and scalable architecture.
Below are a few sample reconstructions from our trained model. The predictions are dense outputs containing 16,384 points.
