Recently proposed neural network architectures, including PointNets and PointSetGeneration networks, allow deep learning on unordered point clouds. In this article, I present a Torch implementation of a PointNet auto-encoder — a network allowing to reconstruct point clouds through a lower-dimensional bottleneck. As loss during training, I implemented a symmetric Chamfer distance in C/CUDA and provide the code on GitHUb.
Adversarial examples are test images which have been perturbed slightly to cause misclassification. As these adversarial examples are usually unproblematic for us humans, but are able to easily fool deep neural networks, their discovery has sparked quite some interest in the deep learning and privacy/security communities. In this article, I want to provide a rough overview of the topic including a brief survey of relevant literature and some ideas on future research directions.