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Main Authors: Wang, Lichao, Yuan, Zhihao, Ren, Jinke, Cui, Shuguang, Li, Zhen
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17845
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author Wang, Lichao
Yuan, Zhihao
Ren, Jinke
Cui, Shuguang
Li, Zhen
author_facet Wang, Lichao
Yuan, Zhihao
Ren, Jinke
Cui, Shuguang
Li, Zhen
contents Text-to-point-cloud cross-modal localization is an emerging vision-language task critical for future robot-human collaboration. It seeks to localize a position from a city-scale point cloud scene based on a few natural language instructions. In this paper, we address two key limitations of existing approaches: 1) their reliance on ground-truth instances as input; and 2) their neglect of the relative positions among potential instances. Our proposed model follows a two-stage pipeline, including a coarse stage for text-cell retrieval and a fine stage for position estimation. In both stages, we introduce an instance query extractor, in which the cells are encoded by a 3D sparse convolution U-Net to generate the multi-scale point cloud features, and a set of queries iteratively attend to these features to represent instances. In the coarse stage, a row-column relative position-aware self-attention (RowColRPA) module is designed to capture the spatial relations among the instance queries. In the fine stage, a multi-modal relative position-aware cross-attention (RPCA) module is developed to fuse the text and point cloud features along with spatial relations for improving fine position estimation. Experiment results on the KITTI360Pose dataset demonstrate that our model achieves competitive performance with the state-of-the-art models without taking ground-truth instances as input.
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spellingShingle Instance-free Text to Point Cloud Localization with Relative Position Awareness
Wang, Lichao
Yuan, Zhihao
Ren, Jinke
Cui, Shuguang
Li, Zhen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Text-to-point-cloud cross-modal localization is an emerging vision-language task critical for future robot-human collaboration. It seeks to localize a position from a city-scale point cloud scene based on a few natural language instructions. In this paper, we address two key limitations of existing approaches: 1) their reliance on ground-truth instances as input; and 2) their neglect of the relative positions among potential instances. Our proposed model follows a two-stage pipeline, including a coarse stage for text-cell retrieval and a fine stage for position estimation. In both stages, we introduce an instance query extractor, in which the cells are encoded by a 3D sparse convolution U-Net to generate the multi-scale point cloud features, and a set of queries iteratively attend to these features to represent instances. In the coarse stage, a row-column relative position-aware self-attention (RowColRPA) module is designed to capture the spatial relations among the instance queries. In the fine stage, a multi-modal relative position-aware cross-attention (RPCA) module is developed to fuse the text and point cloud features along with spatial relations for improving fine position estimation. Experiment results on the KITTI360Pose dataset demonstrate that our model achieves competitive performance with the state-of-the-art models without taking ground-truth instances as input.
title Instance-free Text to Point Cloud Localization with Relative Position Awareness
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17845