将拓扑结构融入点云深度学习,提升模型对形状细节的识别能力。
A Persistent Homology Design Space for 3D Point Cloud Deep Learning
- 提出统一框架,系统化地将持久同调嵌入点云学习流程
- 在ModelNet40和ShapeNetPart上实现精度与抗噪性双重提升
- 适合关注几何结构建模与鲁棒性优化的研究者
持久同调(PH)通过捕捉跨尺度的连通分量、环和空洞,提供稳定且多尺度的内在形状描述,生成互补于纯几何表示的不变量。尽管理论优势明显且应用日益广泛,其在点云深度学习中的集成仍多为零散尝试且架构地位边缘。本文提出3D点云持久同调学习(3DPHDL)的统一设计空间,形式化复杂构造、滤波策略、持久表示、神经主干与预测任务间的交互关系。超越经典的图计算与向量化流程,识别出六个可注入拓扑结构的机制:采样重构、邻域图设计、优化动态、自监督、输出校准及内部正则化。通过在ModelNet40分类与ShapeNetPart分割任务上的控制实验,系统性地将代表性骨干网络(PointNet、DGCNN、Point Transformer)与持久图、图像、景观结合,分析其对准确率、噪声与采样变化鲁棒性、计算可扩展性的影响。结果表明,在拓扑敏感判别与部件一致性上均有持续提升,同时揭示表达能力与组合复杂度之间的权衡。本工作将持久同调从辅助特征转变为学习流程中的结构性归纳偏置,为3D点云学习中引入拓扑推理提供系统方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Persistent Homology (PH) offers stable, multi-scale descriptors of intrinsic shape structure by capturing connected components, loops, and voids that persist across scales, providing invariants that complement purely geometric representations of 3D data. Yet, despite strong theoretical guarantees and increasing empirical adoption, its integration into deep learning for point clouds remains largely ad hoc and architecturally peripheral. In this work, we introduce a unified design space for Persistent-Homology driven learning in 3D point clouds (3DPHDL), formalizing the interplay between complex construction, filtration strategy, persistence representation, neural backbone, and prediction task. Beyond the canonical pipeline of diagram computation and vectorization, we identify six principled injection points through which topology can act as a structural inductive bias reshaping sampling, neighborhood graphs, optimization dynamics, self-supervision, output calibration, and even internal network regularization. We instantiate this framework through a controlled empirical study on ModelNet40 classification and ShapeNetPart segmentation, systematically augmenting representative backbones (PointNet, DGCNN, and Point Transformer) with persistence diagrams, images, and landscapes, and analyzing their impact on accuracy, robustness to noise and sampling variation, and computational scalability. Our results demonstrate consistent improvements in topology-sensitive discrimination and part consistency, while revealing meaningful trade-offs between representational expressiveness and combinatorial complexity. By viewing persistent homology not merely as an auxiliary feature but as a structured component within the learning pipeline, this work provides a systematic framework for incorporating topological reasoning into 3D point cloud learning.
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