Exploiting Topological Prior for Boosting Point Cloud Generation
Baiyuan Chen
This paper presents an innovative enhancement to the Sphere as Prior
Generative Adversarial Network (SP-GAN) model, a state-of-the-art GAN designed
for point cloud generation. A novel method is introduced for point cloud
generation that elevates the structural integrity and overall quality of the
generated point clouds by incorporating topological priors into the training
process of the generator. Specifically, this work utilizes the K-means
algorithm to segment a point cloud from the repository into clusters and
extract centroids, which are then used as priors in the generation process of
the SP-GAN. Furthermore, the discriminator component of the SP-GAN utilizes the
identical point cloud that contributed the centroids, ensuring a coherent and
consistent learning environment. This strategic use of centroids as intuitive
guides not only boosts the efficiency of global feature learning but also
substantially improves the structural coherence and fidelity of the generated
point clouds. By applying the K-means algorithm to generate centroids as the
prior, the work intuitively and experimentally demonstrates that such a prior
enhances the quality of generated point clouds.