A Unified Deep Metric Representation for Mesh Saliency Detection and Non-rigid Shape Matching

Hu, Shanfeng, Shum, Hubert, Aslam, Nauman, Li, Frederick and Liang, Xiaohui (2020) A Unified Deep Metric Representation for Mesh Saliency Detection and Non-rigid Shape Matching. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 22 (9). pp. 2278-2292. ISSN 1520-9210

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/tmm.2019.2952983

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a deep metric for unifying the representation of mesh saliency detection and non-rigid shape matching. While saliency detection and shape matching are two closely related and fundamental tasks in shape analysis, previous methods approach them separately and independently, failing to exploit their mutually beneficial underlying relationship. In view of the existing gap between saliency and matching, we propose to solve them together using a unified metric representation of surface meshes. We show that saliency and matching can be rigorously derived from our representation as the principal eigenvector and the smoothed Laplacian eigenvectors respectively. Learning the representation jointly allows matching to improve the deformation-invariance of saliency while allowing saliency to improve the feature localization of matching. To parameterize the representation from a mesh, we also propose a deep recurrent neural network (RNN) for effectively integrating multi-scale shape features and a soft-thresholding operator for adaptively enhancing the sparsity of saliency. Results show that by jointly learning from a pair of saliency and matching datasets, matching improves the accuracy of detected salient regions on meshes, which is especially obvious for small-scale saliency datasets, such as those having one to two meshes. At the same time, saliency improves the accuracy of shape matchings among meshes with reduced matching errors on surfaces.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: mesh saliency, non-rigid shape matching, metric learning, deep learning , recurrent neural network
Subjects: G400 Computer Science
G500 Information Systems
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 04 Nov 2019 16:47
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2021 12:36
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41355

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