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Score-Based Point Cloud Denoising

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Luo, Shitong, Hu, Wei·2021·2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

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Point clouds acquired from scanning devices are often perturbed by noise, which affects downstream tasks such as surface reconstruction and analysis. The distribution of a noisy point cloud can be viewed as the distribution of a set of noise-free samples p(x) convolved with some noise model n, leading to (p * n)(x) whose mode is the underlying clean surface. To denoise a noisy point cloud, we propose to increase the log-likelihood of each point from p * n via gradient ascent—iteratively updating each point’s position. Since p * n is unknown at test-time, and we only need the score (i.e., the gradient of the log-probability function) to perform gradient ascent, we propose a neural network architecture to estimate the score of p * n given only noisy point clouds as input. We derive objective functions for training the network and develop a denoising algorithm leveraging on the estimated scores. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods under a variety of noise models, and shows the potential to be applied in other tasks such as point cloud upsampling.

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Authors
Luo, S., & Hu, W.
Affiliations
Peking University (CN)
Venue
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2021-10
Pages
4563-4572
OpenAlex
W3183474792
Cited by
209
References
45
Citations by year
2026: 33 · 2025: 61 · 2024: 51 · 2023: 47 · 2022: 17
FWCI
21.14
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image and Signal Denoising Methods
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design › Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
Keywords
point cloud denoising, score-based generative models, score estimation, gradient ascent, noise models, log-likelihood, point cloud upsampling, surface reconstruction

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