A Single Stage and Single View 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Network Based on DetNet

It is a challenging problem to infer objects with reasonable shapes and appearance from a single picture. Existing research often pays more attention to the structure of the point cloud generation network, while ignoring the feature extraction of 2D images and reducing the loss in the process of feature propagation in the network. In this paper, a single-stage and single-view 3D point cloud reconstruction network, 3D-SSRecNet, is proposed. The proposed 3D-SSRecNet is a simple single-stage network composed of a 2D image feature extraction network and a point cloud prediction network. The single-stage network structure can reduce the loss of the extracted 2D image features. The 2D image feature extraction network takes DetNet as the backbone. DetNet can extract more details from 2D images. In order to generate point clouds with better shape and appearance, in the point cloud prediction network, the exponential linear unit (ELU) is used as the activation function, and the joint function of chamfer distance (CD) and Earth mover’s distance (EMD) is used as the loss function of 3DSSRecNet. In order to verify the effectiveness of 3D-SSRecNet, we conducted a series of experiments on ShapeNet and Pix3D datasets. The experimental results measured by CD and EMD have shown that 3D-SSRecNet outperforms the state-of-the-art reconstruction methods.