Hierarchical Point Attention for Indoor 3D Object Detection

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Autori principali: Shu, Manli, Xue, Le, Yu, Ning, Martín-Martín, Roberto, Xiong, Caiming, Goldstein, Tom, Niebles, Juan Carlos, Xu, Ran
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author Shu, Manli
Xue, Le
Yu, Ning
Martín-Martín, Roberto
Xiong, Caiming
Goldstein, Tom
Niebles, Juan Carlos
Xu, Ran
author_facet Shu, Manli
Xue, Le
Yu, Ning
Martín-Martín, Roberto
Xiong, Caiming
Goldstein, Tom
Niebles, Juan Carlos
Xu, Ran
contents 3D object detection is an essential vision technique for various robotic systems, such as augmented reality and domestic robots. Transformers as versatile network architectures have recently seen great success in 3D point cloud object detection. However, the lack of hierarchy in a plain transformer restrains its ability to learn features at different scales. Such limitation makes transformer detectors perform worse on smaller objects and affects their reliability in indoor environments where small objects are the majority. This work proposes two novel attention operations as generic hierarchical designs for point-based transformer detectors. First, we propose Aggregated Multi-Scale Attention (MS-A) that builds multi-scale tokens from a single-scale input feature to enable more fine-grained feature learning. Second, we propose Size-Adaptive Local Attention (Local-A) with adaptive attention regions for localized feature aggregation within bounding box proposals. Both attention operations are model-agnostic network modules that can be plugged into existing point cloud transformers for end-to-end training. We evaluate our method on two widely used indoor detection benchmarks. By plugging our proposed modules into the state-of-the-art transformer-based 3D detectors, we improve the previous best results on both benchmarks, with more significant improvements on smaller objects.
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spellingShingle Hierarchical Point Attention for Indoor 3D Object Detection
Shu, Manli
Xue, Le
Yu, Ning
Martín-Martín, Roberto
Xiong, Caiming
Goldstein, Tom
Niebles, Juan Carlos
Xu, Ran
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
3D object detection is an essential vision technique for various robotic systems, such as augmented reality and domestic robots. Transformers as versatile network architectures have recently seen great success in 3D point cloud object detection. However, the lack of hierarchy in a plain transformer restrains its ability to learn features at different scales. Such limitation makes transformer detectors perform worse on smaller objects and affects their reliability in indoor environments where small objects are the majority. This work proposes two novel attention operations as generic hierarchical designs for point-based transformer detectors. First, we propose Aggregated Multi-Scale Attention (MS-A) that builds multi-scale tokens from a single-scale input feature to enable more fine-grained feature learning. Second, we propose Size-Adaptive Local Attention (Local-A) with adaptive attention regions for localized feature aggregation within bounding box proposals. Both attention operations are model-agnostic network modules that can be plugged into existing point cloud transformers for end-to-end training. We evaluate our method on two widely used indoor detection benchmarks. By plugging our proposed modules into the state-of-the-art transformer-based 3D detectors, we improve the previous best results on both benchmarks, with more significant improvements on smaller objects.
title Hierarchical Point Attention for Indoor 3D Object Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02650