Deep learning-based 3D local feature descriptor from Mercator projections

摘要

Point clouds provide rich geometric information about a shape and a deep neural network can be used to learn effective and robust features. In this paper, we propose a novel local feature descriptor, which employs a Siamese network to directly learn robust features from the point clouds. We use a data representation based on the Mercator projection, then we use a Siamese network to map this projection into a 32-dimensional local descriptor. To validate the proposed method, we have compared it with seven state-of-the-art descriptor methods. Experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method compared to existing methods in terms of descriptiveness and robustness against noise and varying mesh resolutions. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.