Diffusion Bridges for 3D Point Cloud Denoising

Mathias Vogel Hüni, Keisuke Tateno, Marc Pollefeys, Federico Tombari, Marie-Julie Rakotosaona, Francis Engelmann* ;

"In this work, we address the task of point cloud denoising using a novel framework adapting Diffusion Schrödinger bridges to unstructured data like point sets. Unlike previous works that predict point-wise displacements from point features or learned noise distributions, our method learns an optimal transport plan between paired point clouds. In experiments on object datasets such as the PU-Net dataset and real-world datasets like ScanNet++ and ARKitScenes, improves by a notable margin over existing methods. Although our method demonstrates promising results utilizing solely point coordinates, we demonstrate that incorporating additional features like RGB information and point-wise DINOV2 features further improves the results.Code and pretrained networks are available at https://github.com/matvogel/P2P-Bridge."