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<p class="h2 font-weight-normal">PointFlow: 3D Point Cloud Generation with Continuous Normalizing Flows</p>
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<a class="col-md-3 col-xs-6" href="http://www.guandaoyang.com"><span>Guandao Yang*</span></a>
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<a class="col-md-3 col-xs-6" href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~xhuang/"><span>Xun Huang*</span></a>
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<a class="col-md-3 col-xs-6" href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~zekun/"><span>Zekun Hao</span></a>
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<a class="col-md-3 col-xs-6" href="http://mingyuliu.net/"><span>Ming-Yu Liu</span></a>
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<a class="col-md-6 col-xs-6" href="http://blogs.cornell.edu/techfaculty/serge-belongie/"><span>Serge Belongie</span></a>
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<a class="col-md-6 col-xs-6" href="http://home.bharathh.info/"><span>Bharath Hariharan</span></a>
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<span>[Arxiv]</span>
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<p class='h4 font-weight-bold '>Abstract</p>
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As 3D point clouds become the representation of choice
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for multiple vision and graphics applications, the ability to
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synthesize or reconstruct high-resolution, high-fidelity point
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clouds becomes crucial. Despite the recent success of deep
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learning models in discriminative tasks of point clouds,
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generating point clouds remains challenging. This paper
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proposes a principled probabilistic framework to generate
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3D point clouds by modeling them as a distribution of
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distributions. Specifically, we learn a two-level hierarchy
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of distributions where the first level is the distribution of
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shapes and the second level is the distribution of points
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given a shape. This formulation allows us to both sample
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shapes and sample an arbitrary number of points from
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a shape. Our generative model, named PointFlow, learns
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each level of the distribution with a continuous normalizing
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flow. The invertibility of normalizing flows enables
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computation of the likelihood during training and allows us
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to train our model in the variational inference framework.
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Empirically, we demonstrate that PointFlow achieves stateof-
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the-art performance in point cloud generation. We additionally
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show that our model can faithfully reconstruct
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point clouds and learn useful representations in an unsupervised
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manner.
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Each shape can be viewed as a distribution of 3D points.
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In such distribution, points on the shape have higher probability and are more likely to be sampled.
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A point cloud can be viewed as a set of points sampled from such distribution.
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We use two continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) to model the distribution of shapes, while each shape is a distribution of 3D points.
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The latent CNF transforms a vector sampled from the shape prior to a latent shape vector.
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The point CNF transforms 3D points sampled from the point prior to a point cloud conditioned on a shape vector.
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<p class='h2'>Acknowledgements</p>
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<p>This work was supported in part by a research gift from Magic Leap. Xun Huang was supported by NVIDIA fellowship.</p>
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