SEDFMNet: A Simple and Efficient Unsupervised Functional Map for Shape Correspondence Based on Deconstruction

In recent years, deep functional maps (DFM) have emerged as a leading learning-based framework for non-rigid shape-matching problems, offering diverse network architectures for this domain. This richness also makes exploring better and novel design beliefs for existing powerful DFM components to promote performance meaningful and engaging. This paper delves into this problem and successfully produces the SEDFMNet, a simple yet highly efficient DFM pipeline. To achieve this, we systematically deconstruct the core modules of the general DFM framework and analyze key design choices in existing approaches to identify the most critical components through extensive experiments. By reassembling these crucial components, we culminate in developing our SEDFMNet, which features a simpler structure than conventional DFM pipelines while delivering superior performance. Our approach is rigorously validated through comprehensive experiments on diverse datasets, where the SEDFMNet consistently achieves state-of-the-art results, even in challenging scenarios such as non-isometric shape matching and shape matching with topological noise. Our work offers fresh insights into DFM research and opens new avenues for advancing this field.