MP-DGCNN for the semantic segmentation of Chinese ancient building point clouds

Abstract Point cloud semantic segmentation is a key step in the scan-to-HBIM process. In order to reduce the information in the process of DGCNN, this paper proposes a Mix Pooling Dynamic Graph Convolutional Neural Network (MP-DGCNN) for the segmentation of ancient architecture point clouds. The proposed MP-DGCNN differs from DGCNN mainly in two aspects: (1) to more comprehensively characterize the local topological structure of points, the edge features are redefined, and distance and neighboring points are added to the original edge features; (2) based on a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), an internal feature adjustment mechanism is established, and a learnable mix pooling operator is designed by fusing adaptive pooling, max pooling, average pooling, and aggregation pooling, to learn local graph features from the point cloud topology. To verify the proposed algorithm, experiments are conducted on the Qutan Temple point cloud dataset, and the results show that compared with PointNet, PointNet++, DGCNN, GACNet and LDGCNN, the MP-DGCNN segmentation network achieves the highest OA, mIOU and mAcc, reaching 90.19%,65.34% and 79.41%, respectively.