CAPNet: Continuous Approximation Projection for 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Using 2D Supervision

Authors

  • K. L. Navaneet Indian Institute of Science
  • Priyanka Mandikal Indian Institute of Science
  • Mayank Agarwal Birla Institute of Technology and Science
  • R. Venkatesh Babu Indian Institute of Science

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33018819

Abstract

Knowledge of 3D properties of objects is a necessity in order to build effective computer vision systems. However, lack of large scale 3D datasets can be a major constraint for datadriven approaches in learning such properties. We consider the task of single image 3D point cloud reconstruction, and aim to utilize multiple foreground masks as our supervisory data to alleviate the need for large scale 3D datasets. A novel differentiable projection module, called ‘CAPNet’, is introduced to obtain such 2D masks from a predicted 3D point cloud. The key idea is to model the projections as a continuous approximation of the points in the point cloud. To overcome the challenges of sparse projection maps, we propose a loss formulation termed ‘affinity loss’ to generate outlierfree reconstructions. We significantly outperform the existing projection based approaches on a large-scale synthetic dataset. We show the utility and generalizability of such a 2D supervised approach through experiments on a real-world dataset, where lack of 3D data can be a serious concern. To further enhance the reconstructions, we also propose a test stage optimization procedure to obtain reconstructions that display high correspondence with the observed input image.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Navaneet, K. L., Mandikal, P., Agarwal, M., & Babu, R. V. (2019). CAPNet: Continuous Approximation Projection for 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Using 2D Supervision. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 8819-8826. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33018819

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AAAI Technical Track: Vision