Point cloud generation and representation is important in industry areas. Generating and editing high quality 3D shapes is challenging work in deep learning. Inspired by StyleGAN, a style based generative adversarial networks is proposed to generate high quality 3D point cloud. An improved non-linear mapping network learn distribution of points and is used to generate well distributed point cloud point cloud. We also provide a coarse to fine representation for point cloud. According to the experimental results on the ShapeNet Part data set(including aircraft, chair single category and overall 16 categories), our method can generate more uniform point cloud than other GAN methods with less training epoches. The latent code for point cloud has better linear separation,and is more easy to edit.
14 March 2012 in Science China Information Sciences
Graph Pooling technology plays an important role in graph node classification tasks. Sorting pooling technologies maintain large-value units for pooling graphs of varying sizes. However, by analyzing the statistical characteristic of activated units after pooling, we found that a large number of units dropped by sorting pooling are negative-value units that contain representative information and can contribute considerably to the final decision. To maintain more representative information, we proposed a novel pooling technology, called Geometric Pooling (GP), containing the unique node features with negative values by measuring the similarity of all node features. We reveal the effectiveness of GP from the entropy reduction view. The experiments were conducted on TUdatasets to show the effectiveness of GP. The results showed that the proposed GP outperforms the SOTA graph pooling technologies by $1\%~\sim ~5\%$ with fewer parameters.
Attention is an important field to explore the importance of each convolutional kernel channel/weight. The existing attention methods mostly use the Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) technology to extract the global nonlinear feature vectors as the weights of corresponding feature maps. However, the pooling operators and fully-connected layers used in SE technology extract global features at the cost of much valuable information loss and the parameter amount increase. Actually, the feature map containing full information is a ready-made and better attention for other feature maps in the same layer. Simultaneously the products of feature maps will bring powerful non-linearity. Seeing this, Kernel Product (KP) technology is proposed to simply get useful nonlinear attention. To verify the effectiveness of KP, the proposed KP module is employed on Selective Kernel Networks (SKNets) to take the place of the original SE technology. The variety of SKNets is called Kernel Product Networks (KPNets) in this paper. In addition, identity mapping is used to solve the non-convergence problem in very deep neural networks. The KPNets are evaluated on ImageNet-1k, CIFAR-10, and CIFAR-100. The experiment results show that KPNets outperform many state-of-the-art methods and get a similar but more efficient performance than its SKNets with counterpart.
Optic disc and cup segmentation plays a crucial role in automating the screening and diagnosis of optic glaucoma. While data-driven convolutional neural networks (CNNs) show promise in this area, the inherent ambiguity of segmenting objects and background boundaries in the task of optic disc and cup segmentation leads to noisy annotations that impact model performance. To address this, we propose an innovative label-denoising method of Multiple Pseudo-labels Noise-aware Network (MPNN) for accurate optic disc and cup segmentation. Specifically, the Multiple Pseudo-labels Generation and Guided Denoising (MPGGD) module generates pseudo-labels by multiple different initialization networks trained on true labels, and the pixel-level consensus information extracted from these pseudo-labels guides to differentiate clean pixels from noisy pixels. The training framework of the MPNN is constructed by a teacher-student architecture to learn segmentation from clean pixels and noisy pixels. Particularly, such a framework adeptly leverages (i) reliable and fundamental insight from clean pixels and (ii) the supplementary knowledge within noisy pixels via multiple perturbation-based unsupervised consistency. Compared to other label-denoising methods, comprehensive experimental results on the RIGA dataset demonstrate our method's excellent performance. The code is available at https://github.com/wwwtttjjj/MPNN