SSF: Sparse Long-Range Scene Flow for Autonomous Driving
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| author | Khoche, Ajinkya Zhang, Qingwen Sanchez, Laura Pereira Asefaw, Aron Mansouri, Sina Sharif Jensfelt, Patric |
| author_facet | Khoche, Ajinkya Zhang, Qingwen Sanchez, Laura Pereira Asefaw, Aron Mansouri, Sina Sharif Jensfelt, Patric |
| contents | Scene flow enables an understanding of the motion characteristics of the environment in the 3D world. It gains particular significance in the long-range, where object-based perception methods might fail due to sparse observations far away. Although significant advancements have been made in scene flow pipelines to handle large-scale point clouds, a gap remains in scalability with respect to long-range. We attribute this limitation to the common design choice of using dense feature grids, which scale quadratically with range. In this paper, we propose Sparse Scene Flow (SSF), a general pipeline for long-range scene flow, adopting a sparse convolution based backbone for feature extraction. This approach introduces a new challenge: a mismatch in size and ordering of sparse feature maps between time-sequential point scans. To address this, we propose a sparse feature fusion scheme, that augments the feature maps with virtual voxels at missing locations. Additionally, we propose a range-wise metric that implicitly gives greater importance to faraway points. Our method, SSF, achieves state-of-the-art results on the Argoverse2 dataset, demonstrating strong performance in long-range scene flow estimation. Our code will be released at https://github.com/KTH-RPL/SSF.git. |
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| spellingShingle | SSF: Sparse Long-Range Scene Flow for Autonomous Driving Khoche, Ajinkya Zhang, Qingwen Sanchez, Laura Pereira Asefaw, Aron Mansouri, Sina Sharif Jensfelt, Patric Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Scene flow enables an understanding of the motion characteristics of the environment in the 3D world. It gains particular significance in the long-range, where object-based perception methods might fail due to sparse observations far away. Although significant advancements have been made in scene flow pipelines to handle large-scale point clouds, a gap remains in scalability with respect to long-range. We attribute this limitation to the common design choice of using dense feature grids, which scale quadratically with range. In this paper, we propose Sparse Scene Flow (SSF), a general pipeline for long-range scene flow, adopting a sparse convolution based backbone for feature extraction. This approach introduces a new challenge: a mismatch in size and ordering of sparse feature maps between time-sequential point scans. To address this, we propose a sparse feature fusion scheme, that augments the feature maps with virtual voxels at missing locations. Additionally, we propose a range-wise metric that implicitly gives greater importance to faraway points. Our method, SSF, achieves state-of-the-art results on the Argoverse2 dataset, demonstrating strong performance in long-range scene flow estimation. Our code will be released at https://github.com/KTH-RPL/SSF.git. |
| title | SSF: Sparse Long-Range Scene Flow for Autonomous Driving |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17821 |