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3D ShapeNets: A Deep Representation for Volumetric Shapes

Mar 2019

tl;dr: A convolutional deep belief network (CDBN) is trained to perform recognition and retrieval of 3D voxel grid. It can also hallucinate the missing parts of depth maps.

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The paper builds upon deep belief network popular at that time and uses a new way to train 3D network. It also achieves several other tasks, such as 2.5D joint classification and completion, and next best-view prediction. However it is surpassed by many other methods later such as MVCNN and the famed PointNet.

This paper is from CVPR 2015, only 4 years old as of the time of writing but I am already having difficulty going through this paper as smoothly as other more recent papers, due to the archaic terminology and method.

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