Spectral Informed Mamba for Robust Point Cloud Processing
This addresses robust 3D point cloud analysis for computer vision applications, representing a novel method for a known bottleneck.
The paper tackled robust point cloud processing by introducing a spectral-informed Mamba approach that leverages graph Laplacian spectrum for isometry-invariant traversal and segmentation, achieving improvements in classification, segmentation, and few-shot tasks over state-of-the-art baselines.
State space models have shown significant promise in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and, more recently, computer vision. This paper introduces a new methodology leveraging Mamba and Masked Autoencoder networks for point cloud data in both supervised and self-supervised learning. We propose three key contributions to enhance Mamba's capability in processing complex point cloud structures. First, we exploit the spectrum of a graph Laplacian to capture patch connectivity, defining an isometry-invariant traversal order that is robust to viewpoints and better captures shape manifolds than traditional 3D grid-based traversals. Second, we adapt segmentation via a recursive patch partitioning strategy informed by Laplacian spectral components, allowing finer integration and segment analysis. Third, we address token placement in Masked Autoencoder for Mamba by restoring tokens to their original positions, which preserves essential order and improves learning. Extensive experiments demonstrate the improvements of our approach in classification, segmentation, and few-shot tasks over state-of-the-art baselines.