Summary of Rapid-seg: Range-aware Pointwise Distance Distribution Networks For 3d Lidar Segmentation, by Li Li et al.
RAPiD-Seg: Range-Aware Pointwise Distance Distribution Networks for 3D LiDAR Segmentation
by Li Li, Hubert P. H. Shum, Toby P. Breckon
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper addresses a challenge in 3D point cloud segmentation, specifically in the context of autonomous driving. Recent methods focus on spatial positioning and point intensity, but these approaches encounter limitations due to their sole reliance on coordinates and point intensity, leading to poor isometric invariance and suboptimal segmentation. To overcome this, the authors introduce Range-Aware Pointwise Distance Distribution (RAPiD) features and the associated RAPiD-Seg architecture. These features exhibit rigid transformation invariance, adapt to variations in point density, and capture localized geometry. They utilize isotropic radiation, semantic categorization, and a 4D distance metric for enhanced local representation and computational efficiency. The authors also propose a double-nested autoencoder structure with a novel class-aware embedding objective to encode high-dimensional features into manageable voxel-wise embeddings. Two RAPiD-Seg variants are further proposed, optimizing the embedding for enhanced performance and generalization. The method outperforms contemporary LiDAR segmentation work on SemanticKITTI (76.1) and nuScenes (83.6) datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper improves 3D point cloud segmentation, which is important for self-driving cars. Current methods have limitations because they only look at where points are and how bright they are. This makes it hard to accurately segment the scene. The authors introduce new features called RAPiD that capture the shape of nearby objects better. They also propose a new way to process these features using autoencoders. Two versions of this approach are tested, and results show that it outperforms other methods on two big datasets. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoencoder » Embedding » Generalization
