has_verts_normals for Meshes

Summary: Add ability to ask a Meshes if it already has normals. If it does, then requesting normals will not trigger a calculation. MeshesFormatInterpreters will therefore be able to decide whether to save normals.

Reviewed By: theschnitz, nikhilaravi

Differential Revision: D27765261

fbshipit-source-id: 7c87dbf999d5616d20f5eb2c01039ee5ff65a830

Author: bottler

pytorch3d/structures/meshes.py

@@ -732,6 +732,12 @@ def verts_padded_to_packed_idx(self):
         )
         return self._verts_padded_to_packed_idx
 
+    def has_verts_normals(self) -> bool:
+        """
+        Check whether vertex normals are already present.
+        """
+        return self._verts_normals_packed is not None
+
     def verts_normals_packed(self):
         """
         Get the packed representation of the vertex normals.

tests/test_meshes.py

@@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ def test_compute_normals(self):
             [[0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8], [9, 10, 11]], dtype=torch.int64
         )
         mesh = Meshes(verts=[verts], faces=[faces])
-
+        self.assertFalse(mesh.has_verts_normals())
         verts_normals_expected = torch.tensor(
             [
                 [0.0, 0.0, 1.0],
@@ -1025,6 +1025,7 @@ def test_compute_normals(self):
         self.assertTrue(
             torch.allclose(mesh.verts_normals_list()[0], verts_normals_expected)
         )
+        self.assertTrue(mesh.has_verts_normals())
         self.assertTrue(
             torch.allclose(mesh.faces_normals_list()[0], faces_normals_expected)
         )
@@ -1141,11 +1142,14 @@ def test_compute_normals(self):
     def test_assigned_normals(self):
         verts = torch.rand(2, 6, 3)
         faces = torch.randint(6, size=(2, 4, 3))
+        no_normals = Meshes(verts=verts, faces=faces)
+        self.assertFalse(no_normals.has_verts_normals())
 
         for verts_normals in [list(verts.unbind(0)), verts]:
             yes_normals = Meshes(
                 verts=verts.clone(), faces=faces, verts_normals=verts_normals
             )
+            self.assertTrue(yes_normals.has_verts_normals())
             self.assertClose(yes_normals.verts_normals_padded(), verts)
             yes_normals.offset_verts_(torch.FloatTensor([1, 2, 3]))
             self.assertClose(yes_normals.verts_normals_padded(), verts)