Point Cloud and 3D Modeling (NPM3D)

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We created a website for Datasets and Benchmarks on 3D Point Clouds: https://npm3d.fr/


Research TOPIC NPM3D

NPM3D ("Nuage de Points et Modélisation 3D" in french) is a research topic in Centre for Robotics on 3D Point Clouds (from LiDAR and RGB-D sensors)

Main subjects of the NMP3D research topic are:

  • Terrestrial mobile LiDAR systems
  • LiDAR-only Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM)
  • 3D Perception for autonomous systems (semantic segmentation, 3D detection)
  • Deep Learning for 3D points clouds
  • Point cloud rendering

People

Permanent staff:

  • Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud: Associate Professor (Chargé de Recherche HDR), Mines Paris - PSL, jean-emmanuel.deschaud@mines-paristech.fr

External Collaborator:

  • François Goulette: Full Professor, Deputy Director U2IS, ENSTA Paris, francois.goulette@ensta-paris.fr

PhD students:

  • Samir Abou-Haidar (2022-): Deep neural networks on 3D point cloud adapted to embedded architectures. In collaboration with Cyril Joly and CEA LIAE lab (Alexandre Chariot and Mehdi Darouich)
  • Hugo Blanc (2022-): Physico-realistic differentiable rendering of point clouds for interactive visualization of real environments, and applications to cultural heritage. In collaboration with Alexis Paljic.
  • Fabio Elnecave Xavier (2022-): Odometry and 3D Reconstruction of the Close Environment of a Leg Exoskeleton. In collaboration with François Goulette and Wandercraft (Guillaume Burger and Marine Petriaux)
  • Louis Soum-Fontez (2021-): Unsupervised real-time object detection from LiDAR data. In collaboration with François Goulette.

Former PhD students:

  • Jules Sanchez (2020-2023): Domain generalization of LiDAR semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles. In collaboration with François Goulette (working now at SNCF Réseau as R&D engineer)
  • Pierre Dellenbach (2020-2023): Exploring LiDAR Odometries through Classical, Deep and Inertial perspectives. In collaboration with François Goulette from ENSTA Paris and Raphaël Cazorla from Kitware (working now at ChapsVision Group as R&D engineer)
  • Jean-Pierre Richa (2019-2022): Urban Scene Modeling From 3D Point Clouds and Massive LiDAR Simulation for Autonomous Vehicles (working now at Outsight as R&D engineer)
  • Sofiane Horache (2019-2022): Pattern comparison on 3D point clouds and application on Celtic coins and objects (working now at TheraPanacea as R&D engineer)
  • David Duque (2018-2021): 3D urban scene understanding by analysis of LiDAR, color and hyperspectral data (working now in the start-up Thecrossproduct as R&D engineer)
  • Hugues Thomas (2016-2019): Learning new representations for 3D point cloud semantization (now Post-Doc at University of Toronto)
  • Xavier Roynard (2015-2019): On-the-fly semantization of 3D point clouds acquired by embedded systems (working now at SAFRAN as R&D engineer)
  • Hassan Bouchiba (2014-2018): Contributions in point-based processing for rendering and simulation in fluid mechanics (now co-founder of the start-up Exwayz)
  • Houssem Nouira (2013-2016): Point cloud refinement with self-calibration of a mobile multi-beam lidar (working now at MENSI/TRIMBLE as R&D engineer)

PUBLICATIONS


2023


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Domain generalization of 3D semantic segmentation in autonomous driving
J. Sanchez, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette
ICCV, 2023
Paper    Github

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MDT3D: Multi-Dataset Training for LiDAR 3D Object Detection Generalization
L. Soum-Fontez, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette
IROS, 2023
Paper    Github

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Multi-IMU Proprioceptive State Estimator for Humanoid Robots
F. Elnecave Xavier, G. Burger, M. Petriaux, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette
IROS, 2023
Paper

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COLA: COarse LAbel pre-training for 3D semantic segmentation of sparse LiDAR datasets
J. Sanchez, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette
ICRA, 2023
Paper    Github


2022


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AdaSplats: Adaptive Splatting of Point Clouds for Accurate 3D Modeling and Real-Time High-Fidelity LiDAR Simulation
J. P. Richa, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette, N. Dalmasso
MDPI Remote Sensing, 2022
Paper    Dataset

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CT-ICP: Real-time Elastic LiDAR Odometry with Loop Closure
P. Dellenbach, J.-E. Deschaud, B. Jacquet, F. Goulette
ICRA, 2022
Paper    Github


2021


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Paris-CARLA-3D: A Real and Synthetic Outdoor Point Cloud Dataset for Challenging Tasks in 3D Mapping
J.-E. Deschaud, D. Duque, J. P. Richa, S. Velasco-Forero, B. Marcotegui, F. Goulette
MDPI Remote Sensing, 2021
Paper    Dataset

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Riedones3D: a Celtic Coin Dataset for Registration and Fine-grained Clustering
S. Horache, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette, K. Gruel, T. Lejars, O. Masson
Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, 2021
Paper    Dataset

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3D Point Cloud Registration with Multi-Scale Architecture and Self-supervised Fine-tuning
S. Horache, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette
3DV, 2021
Paper    GitHub

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What’s in My LiDAR Odometry Toolbox?
P. Dellenbach, J.-E. Deschaud, B. Jacquet, F. Goulette
IROS, 2021
Paper    GitLab

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On power Jaccard losses for semantic segmentation
D. Duque-Arias, S. Velasco-Forero, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette, A. Serna, E. Decencière, B. Marcotegui
VISAPP, 2021
Paper


2020


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Automatic clustering of celtic coins based on 3D Point Cloud Pattern Analysis
S. Horache, F. Goulette, J.-E. Deschaud, T. Lejars, K. Gruel
ISPRS Congress, 2020
Paper    Video

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SHREC 2020 Track: 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation for Street Scenes
T. Ku, R. C. Veltkamp, B. Boom, D. Duque-Arias, S. Velasco-Forero, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette, B. Marcotegui, S. Ortega, A. Trujillo, J. Pablo Suárez, J. Miguel Santana, C. Ramírez, K. Akadas, S. Gangisetty
Computer & Graphics, 2020
Paper

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Computational Fluid Dynamics on 3D Point Set Surfaces
H. Bouchiba, S. Santoso, J.-E Deschaud, L. Rocha-Da-Silva, F. Goulette, T. Coupez
Journal of Computational Physics, 2020
Paper


2019


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KPConv: Flexible and Deformable Convolution for Point Clouds
H. Thomas, C. R. Qi, J.-E. Deschaud, B. Marcotegui, F. Goulette, L. J. Guibas
ICCV, 2019
Paper    GitHub TensorFlow    GitHub PyTorch

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A Graph-based Color Lines model for image analysis
D. Duque-Arias, S. Velasco-Forero, F. Goulette, J.-E. Deschaud, B. Marcotegui
ICIAP, 2019
Paper


2018


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Paris-Lille-3D: A large and high-quality ground-truth urban point cloud dataset for automatic segmentation and classification
X. Roynard, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette
IJRR, 2018
Paper    Dataset

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Classification of Point Cloud for Road Scene Understanding with Multiscale Voxel Deep Network
X. Roynard, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette
Workshop IROS, 2018
Paper    GitHub

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Semantic Classification of 3D Point Clouds with Multiscale Spherical Neighborhoods
H. Thomas, J.-E. Deschaud, B. Marcotegui, F. Goulette, Y. Le Gall
3DV, 2018
Paper

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Raw point cloud deferred shading through screen space pyramidal operators
H. Bouchiba, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette
Short Paper EUROGRAPHICS, 2018
Paper    Video

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IMLS-SLAM: scan-to-model matching based on 3D data
J.-E. Deschaud
ICRA, 2018
Paper


2017


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Point Cloud Refinement with Self-calibration of a mobile multi-beam Lidar Sensor
H. Nouira, J.-E. Deschaud, F. Goulette
The Photogrammetric Record, 2017
Paper


Current research projects

  • CIFRE thesis with Wandercraft (2022-2025): bring near 3D Vision for exoskeletons. Wandercraft Website
  • European project 5GMed (H2020, 2021-2024): LiDAR object detection through 5G for railway cases. Project Website

PAST research projects

  • CIFRE thesis with Kitware (2021-2023): improve LiDAR SLAM. Kitware Website
  • Research project with ANSYS (2020-2022): simulating LiDAR sensors with real LiDAR data. ANSYS Website
  • FUI24 REPLICA Project (2018-2022) : The REPLICA project was on complement existing simulation platforms with new bricks in order to bridge the gap expected in autonomous vehicle testing. Project Website

SPONSORS

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