arXiv:2609.07975cs.LGmath.DG2026-09

用热场方法直接从点云提取多尺度几何特征,无需复杂构造。

Heat Field Signatures: From Point Clouds to Smooth Geometry

论文配图:Heat Field Signatures: From Point Clouds to Smooth Geometry
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 基于点间距离构建平滑热场,直接计算几何签名。
  • 在蛋白质折叠分类中比最强深度基线提升24个百分点。
  • 旋转不变且适用于点云模型的轻量级特征通道。

将多尺度几何分析直接应用于不规则点云仍具挑战:局部维度、各向异性、密度变化和几何过渡等量通常需通过显式邻域、流形或图结构估计,或由神经网络从坐标推断。本文提出热场签名(HFS),将点云升维为一系列平滑的全局热场,实现离散采样到几何分析的直接接口。从该热场中,HFS可基于成对距离直接计算闭式全局与局部签名,捕捉热集中、内在维度、各向异性和尺度过渡。进一步提出热维数谱(HDS),作为多尺度几何组成的紧凑摘要。HFS可作为闭式描述符、轻量学习表示或神经点云模型的几何特征通道。在涵盖亚细胞、神经元、树木和蛋白质数据的合成与真实世界基准上,HFS显著优于强基线,同时大幅降低端到端开销。在SCOP蛋白质折叠分类任务中,仅使用坐标即比最强深度基线提升近24个百分点,且独立的HFS表示天然具备旋转不变性。更广泛而言,HFS将经典热场转化为现代点云学习中实用的多尺度几何分析接口。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Bringing multiscale geometric analysis directly to irregular point clouds remains difficult: quantities such as local dimension, anisotropy, density variation, and geometric transitions are typically estimated through explicit neighborhood, manifold, or graph constructions, or left for neural networks to infer from coordinates. We introduce Heat Field Signatures (HFS), which lift a point cloud to a multiscale family of smooth ambient heat fields, providing a direct interface from discrete samples to geometric analysis. From this field, HFS computes closed-form global and local signatures directly from pairwise distances, capturing heat concentration, intrinsic dimension, anisotropy, and scale transitions. We further introduce the Heat Dimension Spectrum (HDS), a compact summary of multiscale geometric composition. HFS can be used as a closed-form descriptor, a lightweight learned representation, or a geometric feature channel for neural point-cloud models. Across synthetic and real-world benchmarks spanning subcellular, neuronal, tree, and protein data, HFS outperforms strong point-cloud and multiparameter-persistence baselines while substantially reducing end-to-end cost. On SCOP protein-fold classification, HFS improves over the strongest deep baseline by nearly $24$ percentage points using coordinates alone, while standalone HFS representations are exactly rotation-invariant by construction. More broadly, HFS turns a classical heat field into a practical interface for multiscale geometric analysis in modern point-cloud learning.

点云分析热场几何特征旋转不变

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