Learning Fine-to-Coarse Cuboid Shape Abstraction
Journal:
arXiv
Published Date:
Feb 3, 2025
Abstract
The abstraction of 3D objects with simple geometric primitives like cuboids
allows to infer structural information from complex geometry. It is important
for 3D shape understanding, structural analysis and geometric modeling. We
introduce a novel fine-to-coarse unsupervised learning approach to abstract
collections of 3D shapes. Our architectural design allows us to reduce the
number of primitives from hundreds (fine reconstruction) to only a few (coarse
abstraction) during training. This allows our network to optimize the
reconstruction error and adhere to a user-specified number of primitives per
shape while simultaneously learning a consistent structure across the whole
collection of data. We achieve this through our abstraction loss formulation
which increasingly penalizes redundant primitives. Furthermore, we introduce a
reconstruction loss formulation to account not only for surface approximation
but also volume preservation. Combining both contributions allows us to
represent 3D shapes more precisely with fewer cuboid primitives than previous
work. We evaluate our method on collections of man-made and humanoid shapes
comparing with previous state-of-the-art learning methods on commonly used
benchmarks. Our results confirm an improvement over previous cuboid-based shape
abstraction techniques. Furthermore, we demonstrate our cuboid abstraction in
downstream tasks like clustering, retrieval, and partial symmetry detection.
