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LiDPM: Rethinking Point Diffusion for Lidar Scene Completion

24 Apr 2025arXiv:2504.17791archive 2025-07-28

Tetiana Martyniuk, Gilles Puy, Alexandre Boulch, Renaud Marlet, Raoul de Charette

Training diffusion models that work directly on lidar points at the scale of outdoor scenes is challenging due to the difficulty of generating fine-grained details from white noise over a broad field of view. The latest works addressing scene completion with diffusion models tackle this problem by reformulating the original DDPM as a local diffusion process. It contrasts with the common practice of operating at the level of objects, where vanilla DDPMs are currently used. In this work, we close the gap between these two lines of work. We identify approximations in the local diffusion formulation, show that they are not required to operate at the scene level, and that a vanilla DDPM with a well-chosen starting point is enough for completion. Finally, we demonstrate that our method, LiDPM, leads to better results in scene completion on SemanticKITTI. The project page is https://astra-vision.github.io/LiDPM .

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Lidar Scene Completion

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Lidar Scene Completion SemanticKITTI LiDPM (refined) Chamfer Distance 0.377 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Lidar Scene Completion SemanticKITTI LiDPM (refined) JSD 3D 0.542 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Lidar Scene Completion SemanticKITTI LiDPM (refined) JSD BEV 0.403 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Lidar Scene Completion SemanticKITTI LiDPM (refined) Voxel IoU 0.1m 14.93 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Lidar Scene Completion SemanticKITTI LiDPM (refined) Voxel IoU 0.2m 25.76 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Lidar Scene Completion SemanticKITTI LiDPM (refined) Voxel IoU 0.5m 36.59 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Lidar Scene Completion SemanticKITTI LiDPM Chamfer Distance 0.446 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Lidar Scene Completion SemanticKITTI LiDPM JSD 3D 0.532 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Lidar Scene Completion SemanticKITTI LiDPM JSD BEV 0.440 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Lidar Scene Completion SemanticKITTI LiDPM Voxel IoU 0.1m 6.27 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Lidar Scene Completion SemanticKITTI LiDPM Voxel IoU 0.2m 19.45 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Lidar Scene Completion SemanticKITTI LiDPM Voxel IoU 0.5m 34.09 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report

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