TY - JOUR
T1 - FGCNet
T2 - Face Geometry-Constrained Network for Face Point Cloud Completion
AU - Lei, Mingyang
AU - Song, Hong
AU - Fu, Tianyu
AU - Xiao, Deqiang
AU - Fan, Jingfan
AU - Ai, Danni
AU - Gu, Ying
AU - Yang, Jian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Raw face point clouds obtained from scanning are often incomplete, resulting in a loss of structural details and posing challenges for many tasks, such as facial surgery navigation, face recognition, and face correspondence. Existing point clouds completion methods generally learn a deterministic partial-to-complete mapping, but they overlook the structure prior information in objects to be completed. To address this limitation, we propose a Face Geometry-Constrained Network (FGCNet) to predict complete face point clouds with structure prior. For fully leveraging the similarity of face structures, we first use the complete point clouds to learn a face structure prior, which embeds sets of reference structures in a low-dimensional latent space. Then, to improve the quality of the structure prior, we incorporate diffusion models with this prior to predict coarse reasonable face structure. In addition, we design a feature attention encoder to enhance feature discriminability and an integrating-splitting decoder to combine information from different features. Experiments on two public datasets (Bosphorus and FRGC V2) demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods with an average completion error of 0.0015.
AB - Raw face point clouds obtained from scanning are often incomplete, resulting in a loss of structural details and posing challenges for many tasks, such as facial surgery navigation, face recognition, and face correspondence. Existing point clouds completion methods generally learn a deterministic partial-to-complete mapping, but they overlook the structure prior information in objects to be completed. To address this limitation, we propose a Face Geometry-Constrained Network (FGCNet) to predict complete face point clouds with structure prior. For fully leveraging the similarity of face structures, we first use the complete point clouds to learn a face structure prior, which embeds sets of reference structures in a low-dimensional latent space. Then, to improve the quality of the structure prior, we incorporate diffusion models with this prior to predict coarse reasonable face structure. In addition, we design a feature attention encoder to enhance feature discriminability and an integrating-splitting decoder to combine information from different features. Experiments on two public datasets (Bosphorus and FRGC V2) demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods with an average completion error of 0.0015.
KW - computer vision
KW - deep learning
KW - diffusion models
KW - Face point cloud completion
KW - variational auto-encoder
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105007917493&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TETCI.2025.3575396
DO - 10.1109/TETCI.2025.3575396
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105007917493
SN - 2471-285X
JO - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
JF - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
ER -