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arxiv: 2303.10971 · v2 · submitted 2023-03-20 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.CG

Self-Supervised Learning for Multimodal Non-Rigid 3D Shape Matching

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keywords self-supervised learning3D shape matchingfunctional mapscontrastive lossmultimodalnon-rigid registrationpoint cloudsmeshes
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The pith

Self-supervised learning matches non-rigid 3D shapes across meshes and point clouds by pairing functional map regularisation with contrastive coupling.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes a self-supervised strategy for non-rigid 3D shape matching that works with surface meshes, complete point clouds, and partial point clouds. It combines regularisation drawn from functional maps on meshes with a contrastive loss that directly links mesh and point cloud representations during training. No labeled correspondences are required. A sympathetic reader would care because raw sensor data arrives as point clouds while meshes supply useful topology, so a method that bridges both without manual labels could improve matching quality on real-world scans and enable reuse across datasets.

Core claim

By introducing a self-supervised multimodal learning strategy that combines mesh-based functional map regularisation with a contrastive loss that couples mesh and point cloud data, the approach obtains intramodal correspondences for triangle meshes, complete point clouds, and partially observed point clouds, as well as correspondences across these data modalities, achieving state-of-the-art results on several challenging benchmark datasets even in comparison to recent supervised methods and reaching previously unseen cross-dataset generalisation ability.

What carries the argument

mesh-based functional map regularisation combined with a contrastive loss that couples mesh and point cloud data

If this is right

  • The method produces intramodal correspondences for triangle meshes, complete point clouds, and partial point clouds.
  • It also produces correspondences across mesh and point cloud modalities.
  • Performance reaches state-of-the-art levels on multiple benchmarks, including against supervised competitors.
  • Cross-dataset generalisation reaches levels not previously observed with comparable methods.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Raw point-cloud scans from sensors could be matched at mesh-level quality without first converting them to curated meshes.
  • The same coupling idea could be tested on additional modalities such as depth images or volumetric data.
  • If the contrastive term proves robust, the framework might reduce reliance on synthetic labeled datasets for training shape matchers.

Load-bearing premise

That combining mesh-based functional map regularisation with a contrastive loss coupling mesh and point cloud data will produce effective correspondences in a fully self-supervised manner without labeled data.

What would settle it

A set of standard benchmarks where the method's correspondence accuracy falls below recent supervised approaches or where cross-dataset generalisation fails to exceed prior self-supervised or supervised baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2303.10971 by Dongliang Cao, Florian Bernard.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Left: Our method obtains accurate correspondences for triangle meshes, point clouds and even partially observed point clouds. Right: Proportion of correct keypoints (PCK) curves and mean geodesic errors (scores in the legend) on the SHREC’19 dataset [34] for meshes (solid lines) and point clouds (dashed lines). Existing point cloud matching methods (DPC [26], green line), or mesh-based methods applied to p… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Method overview. During training a Siamese feature extraction network with shared weights Θ learns to extract mesh features Fx, Fy for input meshes X , Y, as well as point cloud features Fˆx, Fˆy for corresponding point clouds Xˆ, Yˆ. The mesh features Fx, Fy are then used to compute bidirectional functional maps Cxy, Cyx using the parameter-free FM solver (red). In contrast, the features from point clouds… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative results of different methods applied to point clouds from the SHREC’19 dataset. Errors are indicated by red arrows. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative results of our method on the SHREC’19 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative results of different methods applied to point clouds from the HOLES subset. Errors are indicated by red arrows. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative results of our method on the SURREAL-PV [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: We obtain reliable correspondences for the matching of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative results on FAUST dataset with different ini [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: An example shape pair and the corresponding quali [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Mean geodesic errors for point cloud matching in dif [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: A qualitative result from real-scanned raw point clouds [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Qualitative results on SHREC’19 dataset of our method [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Qualitative results on FAUST dataset of our method [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Qualitative partial view matching results on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_17.png] view at source ↗
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The matching of 3D shapes has been extensively studied for shapes represented as surface meshes, as well as for shapes represented as point clouds. While point clouds are a common representation of raw real-world 3D data (e.g. from laser scanners), meshes encode rich and expressive topological information, but their creation typically requires some form of (often manual) curation. In turn, methods that purely rely on point clouds are unable to meet the matching quality of mesh-based methods that utilise the additional topological structure. In this work we close this gap by introducing a self-supervised multimodal learning strategy that combines mesh-based functional map regularisation with a contrastive loss that couples mesh and point cloud data. Our shape matching approach allows to obtain intramodal correspondences for triangle meshes, complete point clouds, and partially observed point clouds, as well as correspondences across these data modalities. We demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art results on several challenging benchmark datasets even in comparison to recent supervised methods, and that our method reaches previously unseen cross-dataset generalisation ability.

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Summary. The manuscript introduces a self-supervised multimodal strategy for non-rigid 3D shape matching. It combines mesh-based functional map regularisation with a contrastive loss that couples mesh and point cloud data to obtain correspondences for triangle meshes, complete and partial point clouds, and across modalities. The authors claim state-of-the-art performance on challenging benchmarks, surpassing recent supervised methods, and unprecedented cross-dataset generalisation.

Significance. If the experimental claims hold, the work would be significant for bridging the quality gap between topology-rich mesh matching and raw point-cloud data from sensors via fully self-supervised training. The reported cross-dataset generalisation would be a notable advance over typical supervised approaches that often overfit to specific datasets.

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We thank the referee for their summary of our manuscript and for noting the potential significance of a self-supervised multimodal approach that bridges mesh-based and point-cloud matching while achieving strong cross-dataset generalization. No specific major comments were provided in the report, so we have no point-by-point responses to offer. The uncertainty in the recommendation appears to stem from the need to verify experimental claims, which we stand behind based on the full paper.

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