Part-Aware Point Cloud Completion through Multi-Modal Part Segmentation

Abstract

Point cloud completion aims to generate high-resolution point clouds using incomplete point clouds as input and is the foundational task for many 3D visual applications. However, most existing methods suffer from issues related to rough localized structures. In this paper, we attribute these problems to the lack of attention to local details in the global optimization methods used for the task. Thus, we propose a new model, called PA-NET, to guide the network to pay more attention to local structures. Specifically, we first use textual embedding to assist in training a robust point assignment network, enabling the transformation of global optimization into the co-optimization of local and global aspects. Then, we design a novel plug-in module using the assignment network and introduce a new loss function to guide the network’s attention towards local structures. Numerous experiments were conducted, and the quantitative results demonstrate that our method achieves novel performance on different datasets. Additionally, the visualization results show that our method efficiently resolves the issue of poor local structures in the generated point cloud.