journal article·2025-03-10Open access

Research on Multi-Scale Point Cloud Completion Method Based on Local Neighborhood Dynamic Fusion

Yalun Liu, Jiantao Sun, Ling Zhao

Applied Sciences· Volume 15· Issue 6

Abstract

Point cloud completion reconstructs incomplete, sparse inputs into complete 3D shapes. However, in the current 3D completion task, it is difficult to effectively extract the local details of an incomplete one, resulting in poor restoration of local details and low accuracy of the completed point clouds. To address this problem, this paper proposes a multi-scale point cloud completion method based on local neighborhood dynamic fusion (LNDF: adaptive aggregation of multi-scale local features through dynamic range and weight adjustment). Firstly, the farthest point sampling (FPS) strategy is applied to the original incomplete and defective point clouds for down-sampling to obtain three types of point clouds at different scales. When extracting features from point clouds of different scales, the local neighborhood aggregation of key points is dynamically adjusted, and the Transformer architecture is integrated to further enhance the correlation of local feature extraction information. Secondly, by combining the method of generating point clouds layer by layer in a pyramid-like manner, the local details of the point clouds are gradually enriched from coarse to fine to achieve point cloud completion. Finally, when designing the decoder, inspired by the concept of generative adversarial networks (GANs), an attention discriminator designed in series with a feature extraction layer and an attention layer is added to further optimize the completion performance of the network. Experimental results show that LNDM-Net reduces the average Chamfer Distance (CD) by 5.78% on PCN and 4.54% on ShapeNet compared to SOTA. The visualization of completion results demonstrates the superior performance of our method in both point cloud completion accuracy and local detail preservation. When handling diverse samples and incomplete point clouds in real-world 3D scenarios from the KITTI dataset, the approach exhibits enhanced generalization capability and completion fidelity.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis · Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage

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Affiliations

School of Smart Manufacturing, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China

State Key Laboratory of Precision Blasting, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province

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