Summary of Gaussianformer: Scene As Gaussians For Vision-based 3d Semantic Occupancy Prediction, by Yuanhui Huang et al.
GaussianFormer: Scene as Gaussians for Vision-Based 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction
by Yuanhui Huang, Wenzhao Zheng, Yunpeng Zhang, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 May 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 This paper proposes a novel approach to 3D semantic occupancy prediction, which is essential for robust vision-centric autonomous driving. The authors argue that existing methods, which rely on dense grids like voxels, ignore the sparsity of occupancy and object scales, leading to inefficient resource allocation. To address this issue, they introduce an object-centric representation using sparse 3D semantic Gaussians, each representing a flexible region of interest with semantic features. They leverage attention mechanisms to aggregate image information and iteratively refine Gaussian properties. The proposed method, called GaussianFormer, generates 3D occupancy predictions through efficient Gaussian-to-voxel splatting. Experimental results on nuScenes and KITTI-360 datasets demonstrate that GaussianFormer achieves comparable performance to state-of-the-art methods while reducing memory consumption by up to 24.8%. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary GaussianFormer is a new way to predict what’s around us in 3D space. This is important for self-driving cars to be safe and reliable. Right now, most methods use tiny boxes (voxels) to describe the world, but this ignores how sparse or dense things are and how big or small they are. GaussianFormer uses special regions of interest with features that help it understand what’s going on. It looks at images, focuses on important parts, and refines its understanding. The results show that GaussianFormer works just as well as other methods but uses much less memory. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention
