A multi-stream network for mesh denoising via graph neural networks with gaussian curvature

3D meshes are getting popular in both research and industry. However, the meshes obtained via the 3D scanning equipment frequently contain a high level of noise. In this paper, we present a Gaussian Curvature Driven Multi-stream Network (GCM-Net) based on graph convolutional networks. This network can remove the noise while preserving the essential features during the 3D mesh denoising process. Our method is the first attempt to apply the high-order feature (i.e., Gaussian curvature) in the denoising task, which is more descriptive for the shape of the mesh. GCM-Net consists of curvature stream, vertex stream, and face normal stream, where the curvature stream focuses on the high-order Gaussian curvature feature of 3D mesh. Our method achieves state-of-the-art results on a publicly available dataset, demonstrating its effectiveness. The proposed method can be applied in various applications, such as 3D human body modeling, metaverse, object tracking and biomedical visualization.