Summary of Trail-det: Transformation-invariant Local Feature Networks For 3d Lidar Object Detection with Unsupervised Pre-training, by Li Li et al.
TraIL-Det: Transformation-Invariant Local Feature Networks for 3D LiDAR Object Detection with Unsupervised Pre-Training
by Li Li, Tanqiu Qiao, Hubert P. H. Shum, Toby P. Breckon
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Aug 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 This paper proposes a novel approach to 3D point cloud object detection for autonomous driving applications. The current state-of-the-art methods focus on spatial positioning and distribution of points, but are limited by their reliance on coordinates and intensity, leading to inadequate isometric invariance and suboptimal detection outcomes. To address this challenge, the authors introduce Transformation-Invariant Local (TraIL) features and the TraIL-Det architecture, which utilize isotropic radiation to enhance local representation, improve computational efficiency, and boost detection performance. The TraIL features are designed to capture localized geometry of neighboring structures and exhibit rigid transformation invariance. The Multi-head self-Attention Encoder (MAE) is used to process geometric relations among points within each proposal, encoding high-dimensional TraIL features into manageable representations. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms contemporary self-supervised 3D object detection approaches on KITTI and Waymo datasets under various label ratios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us detect objects in 3D point clouds better, which is important for self-driving cars. The current methods are good at finding things, but they rely too much on the position of points and how bright they are. This makes it hard to detect things when they’re turned or moved. To fix this, the authors came up with new features called TraIL that can handle changes in point density and geometry. They also created a special way to process these features using something called MAE. The results show that their method does better than other methods on some popular datasets. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Encoder » Mae » Object detection » Self attention » Self supervised
