AOMC: An Adaptive Point Cloud Clustering Approach for Feature Extraction

Abstract

Point cloud local feature extraction places an important part of point cloud deep learning neural networks. Accurate extraction of point cloud features is still a challenge for deep learning networks. Oversampling and feature loss of point cloud model are important problems in the accuracy of image point cloud deep learning network. In this paper, we propose an adaptive clustering method for point cloud feature extraction—adaptive optimal means clustering (AOMC)—and apply it to point cloud deep learning network tasks. This method solves the problem of determining the number of clustering centers in the process of point cloud feature extraction so that the feature points contain the whole point cloud model and avoid the problem of losing detail features. Specifically, according to the loss characteristics of point cloud clustering, AOMC selects a different number of clustering centers for various models. Moreover, in light of the density distribution of the point cloud, the radius of the clustering subset is determined. This method effectively improves the accuracy of the point cloud deep learning network on object classification and parts segmentation. Our method reaches demand on Modelnet10 and shapenetcore_partanno_segmentation_benchmark datasets. In terms of deep learning network optimization, it has good performance. Additionally, our method has high accuracy and low algorithm complexity.