Summary of Text3daug — Prompted Instance Augmentation For Lidar Perception, by Laurenz Reichardt et al.
Text3DAug – Prompted Instance Augmentation for LiDAR Perception
by Laurenz Reichardt, Luca Uhr, Oliver Wasenmüller
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers address the challenges of using LiDAR data for deep learning applications in urban scenarios. They propose Text3DAug, a novel approach that leverages generative models to augment instance data and annotations from text, eliminating the need for manual effort or costly annotation. This method is sensor-agnostic and can be applied regardless of the LiDAR sensor used. The authors demonstrate its effectiveness in LiDAR segmentation, detection, and class discovery tasks, performing on par or better than established methods while overcoming their specific drawbacks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Using LiDAR data to understand urban environments can be challenging due to unique issues like varying textures and class imbalance. To make deep learning work better for these situations, a team developed a new way to generate more training examples from text descriptions. This method doesn’t require labeled data and lets experts create fully automated workflows. The approach was tested on tasks like separating objects from the background, detecting specific things, and discovering new types of things in LiDAR data. It performed well compared to existing methods while being simpler and easier to use. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning
