BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Tokyo X-LIC-LOCATION:Asia/Tokyo BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0900 TZOFFSETTO:+0900 TZNAME:JST DTSTART:18871231T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250110T023312Z LOCATION:Hall B5 (1)\, B Block\, Level 5 DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20241205T134600 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20241205T135800 UID:siggraphasia_SIGGRAPH Asia 2024_sess130_papers_292@linklings.com SUMMARY:Neural Laplacian Operator for 3D Point Clouds DESCRIPTION:Technical Papers\n\nBo Pang, Zhongtian Zheng, Yilong Li, Guopi ng Wang, and Peng-Shuai Wang (Peking University)\n\nThe Laplacian operator holds a crucial role in 3D geometry processing, yet it is still challengi ng to define it on point clouds.\nPrevious works mainly focused on constru cting a local triangulation around each point to approximate the underlyin g manifold for defining the Laplacian operator, which may not be very robu st or accurate.\nIn contrast, we simply use the $K$-nearest neighbors (KNN ) graph constructed from the input point cloud and learn the Laplacian ope rator on the KNN graph with graph neural networks (GNNs).\nHowever, the gr ound-truth Laplacian operator is defined on a manifold mesh with a differe nt connectivity from the KNN graph and thus cannot be directly used for tr aining.\nTo train the GNN, we propose a novel training scheme by imitating the behavior of the ground-truth Laplacian operator on a set of probe fun ctions so that the learned Laplacian operator behaves similarly to the gro und-truth Laplacian operator.\nWe train our network on a subset of ShapeNe t and evaluate it across a variety of point clouds.\nCompared with previou s methods, our method reduces the error by \emph{an order of magnitude} an d excels in handling sparse point clouds with thin structures or sharp fea tures.\nOur method also demonstrates a strong generalization ability to un seen shapes.\nWith our learned Laplacian operator, we further apply a seri es of Laplacian-based geometry processing algorithms directly to point clo uds and achieve accurate results, enabling many exciting possibilities for geometry processing on point clouds.\n\emph{We will release our code and trained models to ensure reproducibility.}\n\nRegistration Category: Full Access, Full Access Supporter\n\nLanguage Format: English Language\n\nSess ion Chair: Noam Aigerman (University of Montreal) URL:https://asia.siggraph.org/2024/program/?id=papers_292&sess=sess130 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR