arXiv (Cornell University)
Robust Point Cloud Processing through Positional Embedding
September 2023 • Jianqiao Zheng, Xue-Qian Li, Sameera Ramasinghe, Simon Lucey
End-to-end trained per-point embeddings are an essential ingredient of any state-of-the-art 3D point cloud processing such as detection or alignment. Methods like PointNet, or the more recent point cloud transformer -- and its variants -- all employ learned per-point embeddings. Despite impressive performance, such approaches are sensitive to out-of-distribution (OOD) noise and outliers. In this paper, we explore the role of an analytical per-point embedding based on the criterion of bandwidth. The concept of band…