Weighted Voxel: a novel voxel representation for 3D reconstruction Haozhe Xie, Hongxun Yao, Xiaoshuai Sun, Shangchen Zhou, Xiaojun Tong
Abstract 3D reconstruction has been attracting increasing attention in the past few years. With the surge of deep neural networks, the performance of 3D reconstruction has been improved significantly. However, the voxel reconstructed by extant approaches usually contains lots of noise and leads to heavy computation. In this paper, we define a new voxel representation, named Weighted Voxel. It provides more abundant information, facilitating the subsequent learning and generalization steps. Unlike regular voxel which consists of zero-one, the proposed Weighted Voxel makes full use of the structure information of voxels. Experimental results demonstrate that Weighted Voxel not only performs better in reconstruction but also takes less time in training.