In this paper, we propose the part-aware and aggregation neural network (Part-A^2 net) for 3D object detection from point cloud. The whole framework consists of the part-aware stage and the part-aggregation stage. Firstly, the part-aware stage learns to simultaneously predict coarse 3D proposals and accurate intra-object part locations with the free-of-charge supervisions derived from 3D ground-truth boxes. The predicted intra-object part locations within the same proposals are grouped by our new-designed RoI-aware point cloud pooling module, which results in an effective representation to encode the features of 3D proposals. Then the part-aggregation stage learns to re-score the box and refine the box location based on the pooled part locations. We present extensive experiments on the KITTI 3D object detection dataset, which demonstrate that both the predicted intra-object part locations and the proposed RoI-aware point cloud pooling scheme benefit 3D object detection and our Part-A^2 net outperforms state-of-the-art methods by utilizing only point cloud data.
Point cloud feature learning for 3D object detection. There are generally three ways of learning features from point cloud for 3D detection. @cite_32 @cite_27 @cite_0 @cite_8 @cite_12 projected point cloud to bird-view map and utilized 2D CNN for feature extraction. @cite_34 @cite_42 @cite_41 conducted PointNet @cite_1 @cite_31 to learn the point cloud features directly from raw point cloud. @cite_9 proposed VoxelNet and @cite_20 applied sparse convolution to speed up the VoxelNet for feature learning. Inspired by VoxelNet, we designed a UNet-like @cite_39 backbone network by using sparse convolution and deconvolution to extract discriminative point features for predicting intra-object part locations and 3D object detection.
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Accurate detection of objects in 3D point clouds is a central problem in many applications, such as autonomous navigation, housekeeping robots, and augmented virtual reality. To interface a highly sparse LiDAR point cloud with a region proposal network (RPN), most existing efforts have focused on hand-crafted feature representations, for example, a bird's eye view projection. In this work, we remove the need of manual feature engineering for 3D point clouds and propose VoxelNet, a generic 3D detection network that unifies feature extraction and bounding box prediction into a single stage, end-to-end trainable deep network. Specifically, VoxelNet divides a point cloud into equally spaced 3D voxels and transforms a group of points within each voxel into a unified feature representation through the newly introduced voxel feature encoding (VFE) layer. In this way, the point cloud is encoded as a descriptive volumetric representation, which is then connected to a RPN to generate detections. Experiments on the KITTI car detection benchmark show that VoxelNet outperforms the state-of-the-art LiDAR based 3D detection methods by a large margin. Furthermore, our network learns an effective discriminative representation of objects with various geometries, leading to encouraging results in 3D detection of pedestrians and cyclists, based on only LiDAR. Accurate detection of objects in 3D point clouds is a central problem in many applications, such as autonomous navigation, housekeeping robots, and augmented virtual reality. To interface a highly sparse LiDAR point cloud with a region proposal network (RPN), most existing efforts have focused on hand-crafted feature representations, for example, a bird's eye view projection. In this work, we remove the need of manual feature engineering for 3D point clouds and propose VoxelNet, a generic 3D detection network that unifies feature extraction and bounding box prediction into a single stage, end-to-end trainable deep network. Specifically, VoxelNet divides a point cloud into equally spaced 3D voxels and transforms a group of points within each voxel into a unified feature representation through the newly introduced voxel feature encoding (VFE) layer. In this way, the point cloud is encoded as a descriptive volumetric representation, which is then connected to a RPN to generate detections. Experiments on the KITTI car detection benchmark show that VoxelNet outperforms the state-of-the-art LiDAR based 3D detection methods by a large margin. Furthermore, our network learns an effective discriminative representation of objects with various geometries, leading to encouraging results in 3D detection of pedestrians and cyclists, based on only LiDAR. In this paper we present a novel street scene semantic recognition framework, which takes advantage of 3D point clouds captured by a high-definition LiDAR laser scanner. An important problem in object recognition is the need for sufficient labeled training data to learn robust classifiers. In this paper we show how to significantly reduce the need for manually labeled training data by reduction of scene complexity using non-supervised ground and building segmentation. Our system first automatically segments grounds point cloud, this is because the ground connects almost all other objects and we will use a connect component based algorithm to oversegment the point clouds. Then, using binary range image processing building facades will be detected. Remained point cloud will grouped into voxels which are then transformed to super voxels. Local 3D features extracted from super voxels are classified by trained boosted decision trees and labeled with semantic classes e.g. tree, pedestrian, car, etc. The proposed method is evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively on a challenging fixed-position Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Velodyne data set and two Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS), Paris-rue-Madam and NAVTEQ True databases. Robust scene parsing results are reported. In this paper, we propose the 3DFeat-Net which learns both 3D feature detector and descriptor for point cloud matching using weak supervision. Unlike many existing works, we do not require manual annotation of matching point clusters. Instead, we leverage on alignment and attention mechanisms to learn feature correspondences from GPS INS tagged 3D point clouds without explicitly specifying them. We create training and benchmark outdoor Lidar datasets, and experiments show that 3DFeat-Net obtains state-of-the-art performance on these gravity-aligned datasets.