Learning Representations and Generative Models for 3D Point Clouds
Three-dimensional geometric data offer an excellent domain for studying representation learning and generative modeling. In this paper, we look at geometric data represented as point clouds. We introduce a deep autoencoder (AE) network with excellent reconstruction quality and generalization ability. The learned representations outperform the state of the art in 3D recognition tasks and enable basic shape editing applications via simple algebraic manipulations, such as semantic part editing, shape analogies and shape interpolation. We also perform a thorough study of different generative models including GANs operating on the raw point clouds, significantly improved GANs trained in the fixed latent space our AEs and, Gaussian mixture models (GMM). Interestingly, GMMs trained in the latent space of our AEs produce samples of the best fidelity and diversity. To perform our quantitative evaluation of generative models, we propose simple measures of fidelity and diversity based on optimally matching between sets point clouds.
 3D data processing is very important topic nowadays, since it has a lot of applications: robotics, AR/VR, etc. Current approaches to 2D image processing based on Deep Neural Networks provide very accurate results and a wide variety of different architectures for image modelling, generation, classification, retrieval. The lack of DL architectures for 3D data is due to complexity of representation of 3D data, especially when using 3D point clouds. Considered paper is one of the first approaches to learn GAN-type generative models. Using PointNet architecture and latent-space GAN, the authors obtained rather accurate generative model. The paper is well written, results of experiments are convincing, the authors provided the code on the github, realizing their architectures. Thus I think that the paper should be published.
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Learning Representations and Generative Models for 3D Point Clouds
Three-dimensional geometric data offer an excellent domain for studying representation learning and generative modeling. In this paper, we look at geometric data represented as point clouds. We introduce a deep autoencoder (AE) network with excellent reconstruction quality and generalization ability. The learned representations outperform the state of the art in 3D recognition tasks and enable basic shape editing applications via simple algebraic manipulations, such as semantic part editing, shape analogies and shape interpolation. We also perform a thorough study of different generative models including GANs operating on the raw point clouds, significantly improved GANs trained in the fixed latent space our AEs and, Gaussian mixture models (GMM). Interestingly, GMMs trained in the latent space of our AEs produce samples of the best fidelity and diversity. To perform our quantitative evaluation of generative models, we propose simple measures of fidelity and diversity based on optimally matching between sets point clouds.
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 3D data processing is very important topic nowadays, since it has a lot of applications: robotics, AR/VR, etc. Current approaches to 2D image processing based on Deep Neural Networks provide very accurate results and a wide variety of different architectures for image modelling, generation, classification, retrieval. The lack of DL architectures for 3D data is due to complexity of representation of 3D data, especially when using 3D point clouds. Considered paper is one of the first approaches to learn GAN-type generative models. Using PointNet architecture and latent-space GAN, the authors obtained rather accurate generative model. The paper is well written, results of experiments are convincing, the authors provided the code on the github, realizing their architectures. Thus I think that the paper should be published.
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 3D data processing is very important topic nowadays, since it has a lot of applications: robotics, AR/VR, etc. Current approaches to 2D image processing based on Deep Neural Networks provide very accurate results and a wide variety of different architectures for image modelling, generation, classification, retrieval. The lack of DL architectures for 3D data is due to complexity of representation of 3D data, especially when using 3D point clouds. Considered paper is one of the first approaches to learn GAN-type generative models. Using PointNet architecture and latent-space GAN, the authors obtained rather accurate generative model. The paper is well written, results of experiments are convincing, the authors provided the code on the github, realizing their architectures. Thus I think that the paper should be published.