Dense Point Cloud Completion Based on Generative Adversarial Network

Point cloud completion aims to reconstruct complete point clouds from partial point clouds, which is widely used in various fields such as autonomous driving and robotics. Most existing methods are sparse point cloud completion, where the number of point clouds after completion is relatively small and the details are insufficient. This article proposes a novel end-to-end generative adversarial network-based dense point cloud completion architecture (DPCG-Net). We design two generative adversarial network (GAN)-based modules that translate point cloud completion into mapping between global feature distributions obtained by encoding partial point clouds and ground truth, respectively. The first designed generator module proposes skip connections to fully connected layer-based network for regenerating global feature and changing the global feature distribution derived from the encoder module to approximate the ground truth global feature distribution. The second proposed discriminator module divides high-dimensional global feature vectors into several smaller batches for judgment to guarantee the similarity between the regenerated global feature and the ground truth. We perform quantitative and qualitative experiments on the ShapeNet and KITTI datasets. Experiments on ShapeNet demonstrate that our model outperforms other models in cases where the lack of a large proportion of point clouds results in a large loss of spatial structure, especially when 80% of point clouds are missing. Moreover, KITTI experiments reveal that it is also valid for realistic situations. In addition, application in classification shows that the classification accuracy of point clouds completed with DPCG-Net is as high as 86.5% under the condition of 80% missing point clouds.