Point Cloud Synthesis Using Inner Product Transforms

Bastian Rieck (AIDOS Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland) · Ernst Röell (Technische Universität München)
complex modelsdeep learning modelsefficient encodingexpressivity propertiesgenerationgeometrical-topological characteristicsinference timesinner productsinterpolationmachine learning modelsnovel methodpoint cloud representationpoint cloud synthesisprovable propertiesquality metricsreconstruction

Point cloud synthesis, i.e. the generation of novel point clouds from an input distribution, remains a challenging task, for which numerous complex machine learning models have been devised. We develop a novel method that encodes geometrical-topological characteristics of point clouds using inner products, leading to a highly-efficient point cloud representation with provable expressivity properties. Integrated into deep learning models, our encoding exhibits high quality in typical tasks like reconstruction, generation, and interpolation, with inference times orders of magnitude faster than existing methods.