CDPNet: Cross-Modal Dual Phases Network for Point Cloud Completion

Point cloud completion aims at completing shapes from their partial. Most existing methods utilized shape’s priors information for point cloud completion, such as inputting the partial and getting the complete one through an encoder-decoder deep learning structure. However, it is very often to easily cause the loss of information in the generation process because of the invisibility of missing areas. Unlike most existing methods directly inferring the missing points using shape priors, we address it as a cross-modality task. We propose a new Cross-modal Dual Phases Network (CDPNet) for shape completion. Our key idea is that the global information of the shape is obtained from the extra single-view image, and the partial point clouds provide the geometric information. After that, the multi-modal features jointly guide the specific structural information. To learn the geometric details of the shape, we chose to use patches to preserve the local geometric feature. In this way, we can generate shapes with enough geometric details. Experimental results show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on point cloud completion.