TY - GEN
T1 - Revisiting Point Cloud Shape Classification with a Simple and Effective Baseline
AU - Goyal, Ankit
AU - Law, Hei
AU - Liu, Bowei
AU - Newell, Alejandro
AU - Deng, Jia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2021 by the author(s)
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Processing point cloud data is an important component of many real-world systems. As such, a wide variety of point-based approaches have been proposed, reporting steady benchmark improvements over time. We study the key ingredients of this progress and uncover two critical results. First, we find that auxiliary factors like different evaluation schemes, data augmentation strategies, and loss functions, which are independent of the model architecture, make a large difference in performance. The differences are large enough that they obscure the effect of architecture. When these factors are controlled for, PointNet++, a relatively older network, performs competitively with recent methods. Second, a very simple projection-based method, which we refer to as SimpleView, performs surprisingly well. It achieves on par or better results than sophisticated state-of-the-art methods on ModelNet40 while being half the size of PointNet++. It also outperforms state-of-the-art methods on ScanObjectNN, a real-world point cloud benchmark, and demonstrates better cross-dataset generalization. Code is available at https://github.com/princeton-vl/SimpleView.
AB - Processing point cloud data is an important component of many real-world systems. As such, a wide variety of point-based approaches have been proposed, reporting steady benchmark improvements over time. We study the key ingredients of this progress and uncover two critical results. First, we find that auxiliary factors like different evaluation schemes, data augmentation strategies, and loss functions, which are independent of the model architecture, make a large difference in performance. The differences are large enough that they obscure the effect of architecture. When these factors are controlled for, PointNet++, a relatively older network, performs competitively with recent methods. Second, a very simple projection-based method, which we refer to as SimpleView, performs surprisingly well. It achieves on par or better results than sophisticated state-of-the-art methods on ModelNet40 while being half the size of PointNet++. It also outperforms state-of-the-art methods on ScanObjectNN, a real-world point cloud benchmark, and demonstrates better cross-dataset generalization. Code is available at https://github.com/princeton-vl/SimpleView.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
SP - 3809
EP - 3820
BT - Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2021
PB - ML Research Press
T2 - 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2021
Y2 - 18 July 2021 through 24 July 2021
ER -