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ModelNet-O: A Large-Scale Synthetic Dataset for Occlusion-Aware Point Cloud Classification

16 Jan 2024arXiv:2401.08210archive 2025-07-28

Zhongbin Fang, Xia Li, Xiangtai Li, Shen Zhao, Mengyuan Liu

Recently, 3D point cloud classification has made significant progress with the help of many datasets. However, these datasets do not reflect the incomplete nature of real-world point clouds caused by occlusion, which limits the practical application of current methods. To bridge this gap, we propose ModelNet-O, a large-scale synthetic dataset of 123,041 samples that emulate real-world point clouds with self-occlusion caused by scanning from monocular cameras. ModelNet-O is 10 times larger than existing datasets and offers more challenging cases to evaluate the robustness of existing methods. Our observation on ModelNet-O reveals that well-designed sparse structures can preserve structural information of point clouds under occlusion, motivating us to propose a robust point cloud processing method that leverages a critical point sampling (CPS) strategy in a multi-level manner. We term our method PointMLS. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that our PointMLS achieves state-of-the-art results on ModelNet-O and competitive results on regular datasets, and it is robust and effective. More experiments also demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of PointMLS.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Point Cloud Classification ModelNet40 PointMLS Overall Accuracy 94.0 #32 of 111 Archive leaderboard report
3D Point Cloud Classification ScanObjectNN PointMLS Overall Accuracy 86.6 #48 of 77 Archive leaderboard report

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