DiGS - Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage | Talking Papers Podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage to chat about OUR paper "DiGS: Divergence guided shape implicit neural representation for unoriented point clouds”, published in CVPR 2022.
In this paper, we took on the task of surface reconstruction using a novel divergence-guided approach. Unlike previous methods, we do not use normal vectors for supervision. To compensate for that, we add a divergence minimization loss as a regularize to get a coarse shape and then anneal it as training progresses to get finer detail. Additionally, we propose two new geometric initialization for SIREN-based networks that enable learning shape spaces.

PAPER TITLE
"DiGS: Divergence guided shape implicit neural representation for unoriented point clouds"

AUTHORS
Yizhak Ben-Shabat, Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage, Stephen Gould

ABSTRACT
Shape implicit neural representations (INR) have recently shown to be effective in shape analysis and reconstruction tasks. Existing INRs require point coordinates to learn the implicit level sets of the shape. When a normal vector is available for each point, a higher fidelity representation can be learned, however normal vectors are often not provided as raw data. Furthermore, the method's initialization has been shown to play a crucial role for surface reconstruction. In this paper, we propose a divergence guided shape representation learning approach that does not require normal vectors as input. We show that incorporating a soft constraint on the divergence of the distance function favours smooth solutions that reliably orients gradients to match the unknown normal at each point, in some cases even better than approaches that use ground truth normal vectors directly. Additionally, we introduce a novel geometric initialization method for sinusoidal INRs that further improves convergence to the desired solution. We evaluate the effectiveness of our approach on the task of surface reconstruction and shape space learning and show SOTA performance compared to other unoriented methods.

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Recorded on April 1st 2022.

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