TREND: Unsupervised 3D Representation Learning via Temporal Forecasting for LiDAR Perception

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Hauptverfasser: Chen, Runjian, Park, Hyoungseob, Zhang, Bo, Shao, Wenqi, Luo, Ping, Wong, Alex
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author Chen, Runjian
Park, Hyoungseob
Zhang, Bo
Shao, Wenqi
Luo, Ping
Wong, Alex
author_facet Chen, Runjian
Park, Hyoungseob
Zhang, Bo
Shao, Wenqi
Luo, Ping
Wong, Alex
contents Labeling LiDAR point clouds is notoriously time-and-energy-consuming, which spurs recent unsupervised 3D representation learning methods to alleviate the labeling burden in LiDAR perception via pretrained weights. Almost all existing work focus on a single frame of LiDAR point cloud and neglect the temporal LiDAR sequence, which naturally accounts for object motion (and their semantics). Instead, we propose TREND, namely Temporal REndering with Neural fielD, to learn 3D representation via forecasting the future observation in an unsupervised manner. Unlike existing work that follows conventional contrastive learning or masked auto encoding paradigms, TREND integrates forecasting for 3D pre-training through a Recurrent Embedding scheme to generate 3D embedding across time and a Temporal Neural Field to represent the 3D scene, through which we compute the loss using differentiable rendering. To our best knowledge, TREND is the first work on temporal forecasting for unsupervised 3D representation learning. We evaluate TREND on downstream 3D object detection tasks on popular datasets, including NuScenes, Once and Waymo. Experiment results show that TREND brings up to 90% more improvement as compared to previous SOTA unsupervised 3D pre-training methods and generally improve different downstream models across datasets, demonstrating that indeed temporal forecasting brings improvement for LiDAR perception.
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spellingShingle TREND: Unsupervised 3D Representation Learning via Temporal Forecasting for LiDAR Perception
Chen, Runjian
Park, Hyoungseob
Zhang, Bo
Shao, Wenqi
Luo, Ping
Wong, Alex
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Labeling LiDAR point clouds is notoriously time-and-energy-consuming, which spurs recent unsupervised 3D representation learning methods to alleviate the labeling burden in LiDAR perception via pretrained weights. Almost all existing work focus on a single frame of LiDAR point cloud and neglect the temporal LiDAR sequence, which naturally accounts for object motion (and their semantics). Instead, we propose TREND, namely Temporal REndering with Neural fielD, to learn 3D representation via forecasting the future observation in an unsupervised manner. Unlike existing work that follows conventional contrastive learning or masked auto encoding paradigms, TREND integrates forecasting for 3D pre-training through a Recurrent Embedding scheme to generate 3D embedding across time and a Temporal Neural Field to represent the 3D scene, through which we compute the loss using differentiable rendering. To our best knowledge, TREND is the first work on temporal forecasting for unsupervised 3D representation learning. We evaluate TREND on downstream 3D object detection tasks on popular datasets, including NuScenes, Once and Waymo. Experiment results show that TREND brings up to 90% more improvement as compared to previous SOTA unsupervised 3D pre-training methods and generally improve different downstream models across datasets, demonstrating that indeed temporal forecasting brings improvement for LiDAR perception.
title TREND: Unsupervised 3D Representation Learning via Temporal Forecasting for LiDAR Perception
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03054