Summary of Slcf-net: Sequential Lidar-camera Fusion For Semantic Scene Completion Using a 3d Recurrent U-net, by Helin Cao et al.
SLCF-Net: Sequential LiDAR-Camera Fusion for Semantic Scene Completion using a 3D Recurrent U-Net
by Helin Cao, Sven Behnke
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel deep learning approach, SLCF-Net, is proposed for Semantic Scene Completion (SSC), a task that estimates missing geometry and semantics from LiDAR and camera data. The model sequentially fuses the two modalities using a 2D U-Net for semantic segmentation and depth-conditioned pipeline for dense depth estimation. A Gaussian-decay Depth-prior Projection module associates 2D features with the 3D scene volume, while a 3D U-Net computes volumetric semantics. The approach also incorporates sensor motion to propagate hidden states and ensures temporal consistency using a novel loss function. Evaluation on the SemanticKITTI dataset shows SLCF-Net outperforms leading SSC approaches in all metrics and demonstrates strong temporal consistency. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Solving puzzles is fun, but what if you could make scenes appear before your eyes? That’s basically what this paper does! It presents a new way to fill in missing details in 3D scenes from just a few images. This “Semantic Scene Completion” task is crucial for self-driving cars and robotics. The researchers developed an AI model called SLCF-Net that takes in LiDAR (like radar) and camera data, then uses it to create a complete 3D scene. It’s like taking a bunch of puzzle pieces and using them to make a beautiful picture! |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Depth estimation » Loss function » Semantic segmentation » Semantics
