PointNet++: Deep Hierarchical Feature Learning on Point Sets in a Metric Space
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A PointNet++ point cloud part segmentation model (hierarchical set abstraction). Trained on ShapeNetPart.
pip install torch-pointcloud
import torch
import torch_pointcloud as tp
from torch_pointcloud.utils.data import collate
model, info = tp.create_model(
"pointnet2-ssg.shapenetpart.mit-han-lab",
pretrained=True,
return_info=True,
)
model = model.eval()
# synthetic sample with the keys a dataset provides
num_points = 8192
sample = {
"pos": torch.randn(num_points, 3),
"normal": torch.randn(num_points, 3),
"category": torch.tensor(0),
}
data = info["transform"](sample)
data = collate([data])
with torch.no_grad():
logits = model(data.get("x"), data["pos"], data["batch"], data["category"])
with torch.no_grad():
features = model.forward_features(data.get("x"), data["pos"], data["batch"])
model.reset_classifier(num_classes=0)
with torch.no_grad():
features = model(data.get("x"), data["pos"], data["batch"], data["category"]) # (N, 128)
@inproceedings{qi2017pointnet2,
title = {PointNet++: Deep Hierarchical Feature Learning on Point Sets in a Metric Space},
author = {Charles R. Qi and Li Yi and Hao Su and Leonidas J. Guibas},
booktitle = {NeurIPS},
year = {2017}
}
@article{yi2016shapenetpart,
title = {A Scalable Active Framework for Region Annotation in {3D} Shape Collections},
author = {Yi, Li and Kim, Vladimir G. and Ceylan, Duygu and Shen, I-Chao and Yan, Mengyan and Su, Hao and Lu, Cewu and Huang, Qixing and Sheffer, Alla and Guibas, Leonidas},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
volume = {35},
number = {6},
year = {2016}
}
@software{dujardin2026pytorchpointcloud,
author = {Arthur Dujardin},
title = {PyTorch PointCloud},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22159632},
url = {https://github.com/arthurdjn/pytorch-pointcloud},
}