Multiscale voxel feature fusion network for large scale noisy point cloud completion in cultural heritage restoration

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Authors: Weite Li, Jiao Pan, Kyoko Hasegawa, Liang Li, Satoshi Tanaka
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Abstract

The high-fidelity digitization of large-scale cultural heritage via point clouds is often hindered by occlusions and environmental noise during scanning, compromising morphological analysis and restoration. To address challenges such as noise interference and inadequate detail reconstruction, we propose a novel three-stage framework. It incorporates a Multistage Filtering Module to cleanse raw point clouds by balancing noise suppression with geometric preservation. A Multiscale Voxel Feature Fusion Framework hierarchically extracts and fuses features at varying voxel granularities, enhancing recovery of both global structures and local details. Additionally, a Curvature-guided Feature Enhancement Module sharpens reconstruction in high-curvature areas during skeleton point prediction. Experiments show our method outperforms existing approaches by 16% on the ShapeNet-55 and 12% on a real-world cultural heritage roof dataset. The application to Tamaki-jinja Shrine data effectively completed the missing roof regionsc and transparent visualization results confirmed improved perceptual clarity and structural visibility, thereby validating its utility for digital preservation.

Fields of Study & Subjects

3D Shape Modeling and Analysis 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction

Publication details

Journal / source
npj Heritage Science
Volume
14
Issue
1
Publication date
12 February 2026
Language
EN