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Point Cloud and 3D Modeling (NPM3D)

We created NPM3D Benchmark Suite on 3D Point Clouds: http://npm3d.fr/

If you are interested for internship or thesis in our team, you can contact jean-emmanuel.deschaud@mines-paristech.fr or francois.goulette@mines-paristech.fr

Research Team NPM3D

Research areas of the NMP3D team are around 3D data as “point cloud”:

– Mobile LiDAR systems
– Point cloud rendering (screen-space rendering, splatting)
– LiDAR SLAM, Localization on Map
– HD Maps for autonomous vehicles
– Point Cloud processings from archeological sites / objects
– Object recognition / scene segmentation and classification in LiDAR data
– Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds

We have multiple 3D sensors (Kinect 2, scanner FARO Focus X130, Velodyne VLP16, HDL32) and two mobile mapping platforms:
– L3D2: vehicle with GPS/IMU localization system, Velodyne HDL32 and Ladybug5
– Drone with Velodyne VLP16 and Camera FLIR Blackfly

People

• Researchers:
– François Goulette: Full Professor, francois.goulette@mines-paristech.fr
– Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud: Associate Professor, jean-emmanuel.deschaud@mines-paristech.fr

• PhD students:
– Sofiane Horache (2019-): Automatic recognition of patterns on 3D curved surfaces and its application to Celtic art
– David Duque (2018-): Segmentation and classification of road scenes by analysis of LIDAR data, color and multi-spectral images (in cooperation with CMM lab)
– Hugues Thomas (2016-): Learning new representations for 3D point cloud semantization

• Research Engineers:
– Emmanuel Moisan (2018-): LiDAR+Cameras Mobile Mapping Systems
– Martin Dubreuil (2018-): 3D Point Cloud generation

• Former PhD students:
– Xavier Roynard (2015-2019): Semantization of 3D Points Clouds acquired by Embedded System
– Hassan Bouchiba (2014-2018): Contributions in point-based processing for rendering and simulation in fluid mechanics (working now at Terra3D)
– Houssem Nouira (2013-2016): Point cloud refinement with self-calibration of a mobile multi-beam lidar (working now at MENSI/TRIMBLE)

Selected Papers

KPConv: Flexible and Deformable Convolution for Point Clouds, ICCV, 2019, pdf, code

A Graph-based Color Lines model for image analysis, ICIAP, 2019, pdf

Paris-Lille-3D: A large and high-quality ground-truth urban point cloud dataset for automatic segmentation and classification, IJRR, 2018, pdf

Computational Fluid Dynamics on 3D Point Set Surfaces, arXiv, 2018, pdf

Classification of Point Cloud for Road Scene Understanding with Multiscale Voxel Deep Network, Workshop IROS, October 2018, pdf, code

Semantic Classification of 3D Point Clouds with Multiscale Spherical Neighborhoods, 3DV, September 2018, pdf

Raw point cloud deferred shading through screen space pyramidal operators, Short Paper EUROGRAPHICS, April 2018, video, pdf

IMLS-SLAM: scan-to-model matching based on 3D data, ICRA, May 2018, pdf

Point Cloud Refinement with Self-calibration of a mobile multi-beam Lidar Sensor, The Photogrammetric Record, September 2017, pdf

Current research projects

REPLICA : Massive computing platform for autonomous vehicle with realistic sensors simulation

ARCHEO 3D : Automatic recognition of shapes and more particularly carved patterns repeated by stamping on different celtic scanned object

Start-up Terra3D

A start-up based on the research work of the NPM3D team has been created in October 2015 : Terra3D

Teaching

• Course on 3D Point Clouds in the Master 2 MVA at ENS Paris-Saclay: course webpage here

If you do not know “3D Point Cloud data”

Point Cloud of MINES ParisTech (FARO Focus X130)

Point Cloud of MINES ParisTech (FARO Focus X130)

Point Cloud of the city of Lille (our plateform L3D2 with Velodyne HDL32)