Lightweight Spatial Embedding for Vision-based 3D Occupancy Prediction

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Autores principales: Zhang, Jinqing, Zhang, Yanan, Liu, Qingjie, Wang, Yunhong
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author Zhang, Jinqing
Zhang, Yanan
Liu, Qingjie
Wang, Yunhong
author_facet Zhang, Jinqing
Zhang, Yanan
Liu, Qingjie
Wang, Yunhong
contents Occupancy prediction has garnered increasing attention in recent years for its comprehensive fine-grained environmental representation and strong generalization to open-set objects. However, cumbersome voxel features and 3D convolution operations inevitably introduce large overheads in both memory and computation, obstructing the deployment of occupancy prediction approaches in real-time autonomous driving systems. Although some methods attempt to efficiently predict 3D occupancy from 2D Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) features through the Channel-to-Height mechanism, BEV features are insufficient to store all the height information of the scene, which limits performance. This paper proposes LightOcc, an innovative 3D occupancy prediction framework that leverages Lightweight Spatial Embedding to effectively supplement the height clues for the BEV-based representation while maintaining its deployability. Firstly, Global Spatial Sampling is used to obtain the Single-Channel Occupancy from multi-view depth distribution. Spatial-to-Channel mechanism then takes the arbitrary spatial dimension of Single-Channel Occupancy as the feature dimension and extracts Tri-Perspective Views (TPV) Embeddings by 2D convolution. Finally, TPV Embeddings will interact with each other by Lightweight TPV Interaction module to obtain the Spatial Embedding that is optimal supplementary to BEV features. Sufficient experimental results show that LightOcc significantly increases the prediction accuracy of the baseline and achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Occ3D-nuScenes benchmark.
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spellingShingle Lightweight Spatial Embedding for Vision-based 3D Occupancy Prediction
Zhang, Jinqing
Zhang, Yanan
Liu, Qingjie
Wang, Yunhong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Occupancy prediction has garnered increasing attention in recent years for its comprehensive fine-grained environmental representation and strong generalization to open-set objects. However, cumbersome voxel features and 3D convolution operations inevitably introduce large overheads in both memory and computation, obstructing the deployment of occupancy prediction approaches in real-time autonomous driving systems. Although some methods attempt to efficiently predict 3D occupancy from 2D Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) features through the Channel-to-Height mechanism, BEV features are insufficient to store all the height information of the scene, which limits performance. This paper proposes LightOcc, an innovative 3D occupancy prediction framework that leverages Lightweight Spatial Embedding to effectively supplement the height clues for the BEV-based representation while maintaining its deployability. Firstly, Global Spatial Sampling is used to obtain the Single-Channel Occupancy from multi-view depth distribution. Spatial-to-Channel mechanism then takes the arbitrary spatial dimension of Single-Channel Occupancy as the feature dimension and extracts Tri-Perspective Views (TPV) Embeddings by 2D convolution. Finally, TPV Embeddings will interact with each other by Lightweight TPV Interaction module to obtain the Spatial Embedding that is optimal supplementary to BEV features. Sufficient experimental results show that LightOcc significantly increases the prediction accuracy of the baseline and achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Occ3D-nuScenes benchmark.
title Lightweight Spatial Embedding for Vision-based 3D Occupancy Prediction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05976