Feature preserving 3D mesh denoising with a Dense Local Graph Neural Network

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are ideally suited for mesh denoising. However, existing solutions such as those based on graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are built for a fixed graph thus making them not naturally generalizable to unseen meshes. Furthermore, their graph Laplacian based global node embedding algorithms can cause excessive smoothing while achieving feature preserving mesh denoising requires a GNN to possess local processing capability. This paper presents a mesh denoising method via a new Dense lOcal Graph neural NETwork (DOGNET). DOGNET implements a local node embedding algorithm that generates node embeddings through aggregating information from a node’s connected local neighbours which automatically make DOGNET inductive as well as effective for feature preserving mesh denoising. We present extensive experimental results to demonstrate quantitatively and qualitatively that DOGNET is superior to SOTA meshing denoising techniques.