Point Cloud Completion Network Applied to Vehicle Data

With the development of autonomous driving, augmented reality, and other fields, it is becoming increasingly important for machines to more accurately and comprehensively perceive their surrounding environment. LiDAR is one of the most important tools used by machines to obtain information about the surrounding environment. However, because of occlusion, the point cloud data obtained by LiDAR are not the complete shape of the object, and completing the incomplete point cloud shape is of great significance for further data analysis, such as classification and segmentation. In this study, we examined the completion of a 3D point cloud and improved upon the FoldingNet auto-encoder. Specifically, we used the encoder–decoder architecture to design our point cloud completion network. The encoder part uses the transformer module to enhance point cloud feature extraction, and the decoder part changes the 2D lattice used by the A network into a 3D lattice so that the network can better fit the shape of the 3D point cloud. We conducted experiments on point cloud datasets sampled from the ShapeNet car-category CAD models to verify the effectiveness of the various improvements made to the network.