Multi-View Partial (MVP) Point Cloud Challenge 2021

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Point Cloud Registration
July 12, 2021, midnight UTC

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Point Cloud Registration
July 12, 2021, midnight UTC

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Sept. 12, 2021, 11:59 p.m. UTC

2021 Multi-View Partial (MVP) Challenge

Overview

The 3D point cloud is an intuitive representation of 3D scenes and objects, which has extensive applications in various vision and robotics tasks. Unfortunately, scanned 3D point clouds are usually incomplete owing to occlusions and missing measurements, hampering practical usages. Specifically, we focus on two fundamental problems here in this challenge, i.e., point cloud completion (predicting the complete 3D shape from a partially observed point cloud) and registration (estimating a rigid transformation to align a source point cloud to the target one).

Towards an effort to build a more unified and comprehensive dataset for incomplete point clouds, we propose the MVP dataset, a high-quality multi-view partial point cloud dataset, to the community. It contains over 100,000 high-quality scans, which renders partial 3D shapes from 26 uniformly distributed camera poses for each 3D CAD model.

Besides the public training set we have released, the dataset also features a hidden extra test set. The evaluation of MVP Challenge is performed on this hidden test set. Users are required to submit final prediction files, which we shall proceed to evaluate.

 

Dataset

To access the MVP dataset and code base, please visit our gihub project, where you could find detailed data descriptions and examples of usage for the completion and registration tracks, respectively.

 

Submission

Users can participate in one or both of the following tracks:

Track-1 | Completion

This phase evaluates algorithms for point cloud completion on the MVP dataset. Submit the data in a .zip file, which compresses a .h5 file and it contains ALL the completion results in terms of a (N_test_samples, 2048, 3) array with the `key` set as "results" for online evaluation. Please carefully check the format to ensure a successful submission.

Track-2 | Registration

This phase evaluates algorithms for point cloud registration on the MVP dataset. Submit the data in a .zip file, which compresses a .h5 file and it contains ALL the predicted transformation matrixes in terms of a (N_test_samples, 4, 4) array with the `key` set as "results" for online evaluation. Please carefully check the format to ensure a successful submission.

 

Timeline

  • Jul. 12, 2021 - Submission start date
  • Sep. 12, 2021 - Public submission deadline
  • Sep. 19, 2021 - Private submission deadline
  • Oct. 04, 2021 - Technical report deadline
  • Oct. 17, 2021 - Awards at ICCV Workshop

Reminder: public submission is closed by Sep. 12; during the period of private submission (Sep. 12 - 19),  the TOP-5 of participants in each track are required to submit the source code and pre-trained model to us for online evaluation. The code would ONLY be used for verifying the legality of the algorithm and would NOT be further distributed.

General Rules

Please check the terms and conditions for further rules and details.

 

Contact Us

If you have any questions, please contact us by raising an issue on our gihub project.

 

 

Evaluation Criteria

Track-1 | Completion

We evaluate the reconstruction accuracy by computing the Chamfer Distance between the predicted complete shape (P) and the ground truth shape (Q) as below. The results are averaged across the whole test set for overall evaluation criteria.

Track-2 | Registration

We evaluate the reconstruction accuracy by computing the differences between the predicted Transformation (T_pred) and the ground truth Transformation (T_gt) as below. The metric is defined as a weighted summation (denoted as MSE on the leaderboard) for 1) rotation angle differences and 2) translation differences. The results are averaged across the whole test set for overall evaluation criteria.

 

Please visit our gihub project for details.

 

Terms and Conditions

General Rules

The MVP Challenge 2021 will be around eight weeks. The challenge will start together with ICCV 2021, the 3rd Workshop on Sensing, Understanding and Synthesizing Humans. Participants are restricted to train their algorithms on the publicly available MVP training dataset. A hidden test set is used for online evaluation and for maintaining a public leaderboard. The final awards will be revealed around Oct. 2021.

When participating in the competition, please be reminded that:

  • Results in the correct format must be uploaded to the evaluation server. The Evaluation page lists detailed information regarding how results will be evaluated.
  • Each entry must be associated with a team and provide its affiliation.
  • The online evaluation results must be submitted through this CodaLab competition site of the MVP Challenge. The participants can conduct five online evaluations per day. The organizer will offer some hints/codes to ensure a successful submission.
  • Using multiple accounts to increase the number of submissions and private sharing outside teams are strictly prohibited.
  • The organizer reserves the absolute right to disqualify entries that are incomplete or illegible, late entries, or entries that violate the rules.
  • The organizer reserves the right to adjust the competition schedule and rules based on situations.
  • The best entry of each team will be public on the leaderboard at all times.
  • To compete for awards, the participants must submit a technical report to describe their methods, and they are encouraged to provide detailed ablation studies on the Validation set. There is no other publication requirement.

Terms of Use

Before downloading and using the MVP dataset, please agree to the following terms of use. You, your employer, and your affiliations are referred to as "User." The authors and their affiliations, SenseTime, are referred to as "Producer."

  • The dataset is used for non-commercial/non-profit research purposes only.
  • All the data in MVP dataset can be used for academic purposes. However, the Producer is NOT responsible for any further use in a defamatory, pornographic, or any other unlawful manner, or violation of any applicable regulations or laws.
  • The User takes full responsibility for any consequence caused by his/her use of the dataset in any form and shall defend and indemnify the Producer against all claims arising from such services.
  • The User should NOT distribute, copy, reproduce, disclose, assign, sublicense, embed, host, transfer, sell, trade, or resell any portion of the dataset to any third party for any purpose.
  • This agreement is effective for any potential User of the MVP dataset upon the date that the User first accesses the dataset in any form.
  • For using MVP dataset, please cite the following paper:
    @inproceedings{pan2021variational,
        title={Variational Relational Point Completion Network},
        author={Pan, Liang and Chen, Xinyi and Cai, Zhongang and Zhang, Junzhe and Zhao, Haiyu and Yi, Shuai and Liu, Ziwei},
        journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.10154},
        year={2021}
      }
    

Point Cloud Completion

Start: July 12, 2021, midnight

Description: This track evaluates algorithms for point cloud completion on the MVP dataset.Submit the data in a .zip file, which compresses a .h5 file and it contains ALL the completion results in terms of a (N_test_samples, 2048, 3) array for online evaluation. Please carefuly check the format to ensure a successful submission.

Point Cloud Registration

Start: July 12, 2021, midnight

Description: This track evaluates algorithms for point cloud registration on the MVP dataset.Submit the data in a .zip file, which compresses a .h5 file and it contains ALL the predicted transformation matrixs in terms of a (N_test_samples, 4, 4) array for online evaluation. Please carefuly check the format to ensure a successful submission.

Competition Ends

Sept. 12, 2021, 11:59 p.m.

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