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    • 3D Data Processing
    • Machine Learning

    Background:

    • Standard Chamfer Distance (CD) in point cloud completion suffers from symmetric weighting, leading to structural defects like point aggregation.
    • This limitation hinders the generation of high-quality, structurally sound point clouds.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce Flexible-weighted Chamfer Distance (FCD) as an improved objective function for point cloud completion.
    • To decouple CD into local precision and global completeness, prioritizing global structural integrity.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed FCD with an asymmetric weighting strategy to address CD's limitations.
    • Integrated FCD as a plug-and-play module into state-of-the-art networks.
    • Conducted extensive experiments on diverse datasets including ShapeNet55, PCN, KITTI, ABC, and PU-GAN.

    Main Results:

    • FCD significantly enhances global distribution metrics while preserving local precision.
    • Reduced Density-aware Chamfer Distance (DCD) by 12.4% on ShapeNet55 and Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) on the PCN dataset.
    • Demonstrated superior global uniformity and structural completeness compared to standard CD.

    Conclusions:

    • FCD effectively mitigates point clustering and improves spatial structure in point cloud generation.
    • The proposed method shows excellent generalization across various tasks and datasets.
    • FCD offers a versatile and effective objective function for advancing point cloud generation.