Null-Space Diffusion Sampling for Zero-Shot Point Cloud Completion

Null-Space Diffusion Sampling for Zero-Shot Point Cloud Completion

Xinhua Cheng, Nan Zhang, Jiwen Yu, Yinhuai Wang, Ge Li, Jian Zhang

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 618-626. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/69

Point cloud completion aims at estimating the complete data of objects from degraded observations. Despite existing completion methods achieving impressive performances, they rely heavily on degraded-complete data pairs for supervision. In this work, we propose a novel framework named Null-Space Diffusion Sampling (NSDS) to solve the point cloud completion task in a zero-shot manner. By leveraging a pre-trained point cloud diffusion model as the off-the-shelf generator, our sampling approach can generate desired completion outputs with the guidance of the observed degraded data without any extra training. Furthermore, we propose a tolerant loop mechanism to improve the quality of completion results for hard cases. Experimental results demonstrate our zero-shot framework achieves superior completion performance than unsupervised methods and comparable performance to supervised methods in various degraded situations.
Keywords:
Computer Vision: CV: 3D computer vision