A Point-Based Approach to Efficient LiDAR Multi-Task Perception

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Hauptverfasser: Lang, Christopher, Braun, Alexander, Schillingmann, Lars, Valada, Abhinav
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author Lang, Christopher
Braun, Alexander
Schillingmann, Lars
Valada, Abhinav
author_facet Lang, Christopher
Braun, Alexander
Schillingmann, Lars
Valada, Abhinav
contents Multi-task networks can potentially improve performance and computational efficiency compared to single-task networks, facilitating online deployment. However, current multi-task architectures in point cloud perception combine multiple task-specific point cloud representations, each requiring a separate feature encoder and making the network structures bulky and slow. We propose PAttFormer, an efficient multi-task architecture for joint semantic segmentation and object detection in point clouds that only relies on a point-based representation. The network builds on transformer-based feature encoders using neighborhood attention and grid-pooling and a query-based detection decoder using a novel 3D deformable-attention detection head design. Unlike other LiDAR-based multi-task architectures, our proposed PAttFormer does not require separate feature encoders for multiple task-specific point cloud representations, resulting in a network that is 3x smaller and 1.4x faster while achieving competitive performance on the nuScenes and KITTI benchmarks for autonomous driving perception. Our extensive evaluations show substantial gains from multi-task learning, improving LiDAR semantic segmentation by +1.7% in mIou and 3D object detection by +1.7% in mAP on the nuScenes benchmark compared to the single-task models.
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spellingShingle A Point-Based Approach to Efficient LiDAR Multi-Task Perception
Lang, Christopher
Braun, Alexander
Schillingmann, Lars
Valada, Abhinav
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multi-task networks can potentially improve performance and computational efficiency compared to single-task networks, facilitating online deployment. However, current multi-task architectures in point cloud perception combine multiple task-specific point cloud representations, each requiring a separate feature encoder and making the network structures bulky and slow. We propose PAttFormer, an efficient multi-task architecture for joint semantic segmentation and object detection in point clouds that only relies on a point-based representation. The network builds on transformer-based feature encoders using neighborhood attention and grid-pooling and a query-based detection decoder using a novel 3D deformable-attention detection head design. Unlike other LiDAR-based multi-task architectures, our proposed PAttFormer does not require separate feature encoders for multiple task-specific point cloud representations, resulting in a network that is 3x smaller and 1.4x faster while achieving competitive performance on the nuScenes and KITTI benchmarks for autonomous driving perception. Our extensive evaluations show substantial gains from multi-task learning, improving LiDAR semantic segmentation by +1.7% in mIou and 3D object detection by +1.7% in mAP on the nuScenes benchmark compared to the single-task models.
title A Point-Based Approach to Efficient LiDAR Multi-Task Perception
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12798