PointStaClu: A Deep Point Cloud Clustering Method Based on Stable Cluster Discrimination

Autor: Xin Cao, Haoyu Wang, Qiuquan Zhu, Yifan Wang, Xiu Liu, Kang Li, Linzhi Su
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 16, Iss 13, p 2423 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs16132423
Popis: Potential inconsistencies between the goals of unsupervised representation learning and clustering within multi-stage deep clustering can diminish the effectiveness of these techniques. However, because the goal of unsupervised representation learning is inherently flexible and can be tailored to clustering, we introduce PointStaClu, a novel single-stage point cloud clustering method. This method employs stable cluster discrimination (StaClu) to tackle the inherent instability present in single-stage deep clustering training. It achieves this by constraining the gradient descent updates for negative instances within the cross-entropy loss function, and by updating the cluster centers using the same loss function. Furthermore, we integrate entropy constraints to regulate the distribution entropy of the dataset, thereby enhancing the cluster allocation. Our framework simplifies the process, employing a single loss function and an encoder for deep point cloud clustering. Extensive experiments on the ModelNet40 and ShapeNet dataset demonstrate that PointStaClu significantly narrows the performance gap between unsupervised point cloud clustering and supervised point cloud classification, presenting a novel approach to point cloud classification tasks.
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