SFD-ADNet: Spatial–Frequency Dual-Domain Adaptive Deformation for Point Cloud Data Augmentation

TL;DR

This paper introduces SFD-ADNet, a new method for improving 3D point cloud data by learning adaptive deformations in both spatial and frequency domains.

Contribution

The novel contribution is an adaptive deformation framework that jointly models spatial and spectral features for robust point cloud augmentation.

Findings

SFD-ADNet reduces mCE metrics of PointNet++ and other networks by over 20%.

The method preserves global geometric structures while enhancing robustness against point cloud attacks.

Experiments show state-of-the-art performance on both synthetic and real-world point cloud datasets.

Abstract

Existing 3D point cloud enhancement methods typically rely on artificially designed geometric transformations or local blending strategies, which are prone to introducing illogical deformations, struggle to preserve global structure, and exhibit insufficient adaptability to diverse degradation patterns. To address these limitations, this paper proposes SFD-ADNet—an adaptive deformation framework based on a dual spatial–frequency domain. It achieves 3D point cloud augmentation by explicitly learning deformation parameters rather than applying predefined perturbations. By jointly modeling spatial structural dependencies and spectral features, SFD-ADNet generates augmented samples that are both structurally aware and task-relevant. In the spatial domain, a hierarchical sequence encoder coupled with a bidirectional Mamba-based deformation predictor captures long-range geometric dependencies and local structural variations, enabling adaptive position-aware deformation control. In the frequency domain, a multi-scale dual-channel mechanism based on adaptive Chebyshev polynomials separates low-frequency structural components from high-frequency details, allowing the model to suppress noise-sensitive distortions while preserving the global geometric skeleton. The two deformation predictions dynamically fuse to balance structural fidelity and sample diversity. Extensive experiments conducted on ModelNet40-C and ScanObjectNN-C involved synthetic CAD models and real-world scanned point clouds under diverse perturbation conditions. SFD-ADNet, as a universal augmentation module, reduces the mCE metrics of PointNet++ and different backbone networks by over 20%. Experiments demonstrate that SFD-ADNet achieves state-of-the-art robustness while preserving critical geometric structures. Furthermore, models enhanced by SFD-ADNet demonstrate consistently improved robustness against diverse point cloud attacks, validating the efficacy of adaptive space-frequency deformation in robust point cloud learning.

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