Mesh Classification With Dilated Mesh Convolutions

Unlike images, meshes are irregular and unstructured. Thus, it is not trivial to extend existing image-based deep learning approaches for mesh analysis. In this paper, inspired by dilated convolutions for images, we proffer dilated convolutions for meshes. Our Dilated Mesh Convolution (DMC) unit inflates the kernels’ receptive field without increasing the number of learnable parameters. We also propose a Stacked Dilated Mesh Convolution (SDMC) block by stacking DMC units. It considers spatial regions around mesh faces’ at multiple scales while summarizing the neighboring contextual information. We accommodated SDMC in MeshNet to classify 3D meshes. Experimental results demonstrate that this redesigned model significantly improves classification accuracy on multiple data sets. Code is available at https://github.com/VimsLab/DMC.