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Main Authors: Chen, Bike, Tikanmäki, Antti, Röning, Juha
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14955
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author Chen, Bike
Tikanmäki, Antti
Röning, Juha
author_facet Chen, Bike
Tikanmäki, Antti
Röning, Juha
contents Point cloud segmentation (PCS) aims to separate points into different and meaningful groups. The task plays an important role in robotics because PCS enables robots to understand their physical environments directly. To process sparse and large-scale outdoor point clouds in real time, range image-based models are commonly adopted. However, in a range image, the lack of explicit depth information inevitably causes some separate objects in 3D space to touch each other, bringing difficulty for the range image-based models in correctly segmenting the objects. Moreover, previous PCS models are usually derived from the existing color image-based models and unable to make full use of the implicit but ordered depth information inherent in the range image, thereby achieving inferior performance. In this paper, we propose Depth-Aware Module (DAM) and Fast FMVNet V3. DAM perceives the ordered depth information in the range image by explicitly modelling the interdependence among channels. Fast FMVNet V3 incorporates DAM by integrating it into the last block in each architecture stage. Extensive experiments conducted on SemanticKITTI, nuScenes, and SemanticPOSS demonstrate that DAM brings a significant improvement for Fast FMVNet V3 with negligible computational cost.
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spellingShingle Depth-Aware Range Image-Based Model for Point Cloud Segmentation
Chen, Bike
Tikanmäki, Antti
Röning, Juha
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Point cloud segmentation (PCS) aims to separate points into different and meaningful groups. The task plays an important role in robotics because PCS enables robots to understand their physical environments directly. To process sparse and large-scale outdoor point clouds in real time, range image-based models are commonly adopted. However, in a range image, the lack of explicit depth information inevitably causes some separate objects in 3D space to touch each other, bringing difficulty for the range image-based models in correctly segmenting the objects. Moreover, previous PCS models are usually derived from the existing color image-based models and unable to make full use of the implicit but ordered depth information inherent in the range image, thereby achieving inferior performance. In this paper, we propose Depth-Aware Module (DAM) and Fast FMVNet V3. DAM perceives the ordered depth information in the range image by explicitly modelling the interdependence among channels. Fast FMVNet V3 incorporates DAM by integrating it into the last block in each architecture stage. Extensive experiments conducted on SemanticKITTI, nuScenes, and SemanticPOSS demonstrate that DAM brings a significant improvement for Fast FMVNet V3 with negligible computational cost.
title Depth-Aware Range Image-Based Model for Point Cloud Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14955