Lgcpnet : Local-Global Combined Point-Based Network For Shape Segmentation

Segmenting 3D shapes represented by meshes remains a challenging problem, due to the irregularity and complexity of meshes. Point cloud, on the other hand, can be considered as the simplest no-frills approximation for meshes. Therefore, in this paper, we regard the shape segmentation problem as a point labeling task: Given a shape, we first transform it into points encoding barycenters and normal vectors of faces. Then we construct a Barycentric Dual Graph (BDG) on the transformed points, and pro -pose a Barycentric Dual Graph Edge Convolution (BDGEC) to extract features from the graph. Based on the BDGEC, we further propose a novel point-based deep neural network (DNN) named local-global com-bined point-based network (LGCPNet). Our LGCPNet consists of three modules, of which the Local Module and Global Module capture local and global features respectively, while the Fusion Module uses a gate mechanism to aggregate local features and global features, and obtain the point labeling result. Com-prehensive experimental results on various datasets demonstrate that the proposed network inherits the merits of point-based DNNs and achieves the state-of-the-art performance.(c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.