: Examples of correspondence on the FAUST humans dataset obtained by the proposed ACNN method. Shown is the texture transferred from the leftmost reference shape to different subjects in different poses by means of our correspondence. The correspondence is nearly perfect (only very few minor artifacts are noticeable). See text for details. Establishing correspondence between shapes is a fundamental problem in geometry processing, arising in a wide variety of applications. The problem is especially difficult in the setting of non-isometric deformations, as well as in the presence of topological noise and missing parts, mainly due to the limited capability to model such deformations axiomatically. Several recent works showed that invariance to complex shape transformations can be learned from examples. In this paper, we introduce an intrinsic convolutional neural network architecture based on anisotropic diffusion kernels, which we term Anisotropic Convolutional Neural Network (ACNN). In our construction, we generalize convolutions to non-Euclidean domains by constructing a set of oriented anisotropic diffusion kernels, creating in this way a local intrinsic polar representation of the data ('patch'), which is then correlated with a filter. Several cascades of such filters, linear, and non-linear operators are stacked to form a deep neural network whose parameters are learned by minimizing a task-specific cost. We use ACNNs to effectively learn intrinsic dense correspondences between deformable shapes in very challenging settings, achieving state-of-the-art results on some of the most difficult recent correspondence benchmarks.
Boscaini et al. REF design an anisotropic convolutional neural network to learn correspondences across shapes.
Learning shape correspondence with anisotropic convolutional neural networks
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