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Voxel-Based 3D Shape Segmentation Using Deep Volumetric Convolutional Neural Networks

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3D shape segmentation serves as the base of semantic shape analysis and becomes a hot research topic in recent years. Many segmentation methods are devised by feeding surface based geometric descriptors into a deep neural network. Most of the existing approaches assume that the surface variation information is rich enough to characterize a 3D shape, and thus perform all the constituent steps on the triangle mesh representation. However, triangle based learning networks suffer from how to define the convolutional operator, unlike the trivial situation of regular pixels or voxels. Observing that the volumetric representation is the dual of the surface representation, we design a volumetric encoder-decoder architecture, named V-SegNet, which works by lifting surface based geometric features to the enclosed voxels and then training a deep volumetric network. In the inference stage, we build the voxelization of a given 3D object, then predict the label for each voxel lying in the interior of the given shape, and finally generate the labeling information for each triangle face. The experimental results show that V-SegNet, working in a surface-volume-surface fashion, further improves the segmentation performance.

Y. Liu and W. Long—Contribute equally to this work.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61872321, 62172356, 61972350), Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LY22F020026), and Ningbo Major Special Projects of the “Science and Technology Innovation 2025” (2020Z005, 2020Z007, 2021Z012).

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Liu, Y., Long, W., Shu, Z., Yi, S., Xin, S. (2022). Voxel-Based 3D Shape Segmentation Using Deep Volumetric Convolutional Neural Networks. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., et al. Advances in Computer Graphics. CGI 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13443. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23473-6_38

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