Finding Outliers in a Haystack: Anomaly Detection for Large Pointcloud Scenes

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Hauptverfasser: Faulkner, Ryan, Haub, Luke, Ratcliffe, Simon, Chin, Tat-Jun
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author Faulkner, Ryan
Haub, Luke
Ratcliffe, Simon
Chin, Tat-Jun
author_facet Faulkner, Ryan
Haub, Luke
Ratcliffe, Simon
Chin, Tat-Jun
contents LiDAR scanning in outdoor scenes acquires accurate distance measurements over wide areas, producing large-scale point clouds. Application examples for this data include robotics, automotive vehicles, and land surveillance. During such applications, outlier objects from outside the training data will inevitably appear. Our research contributes a novel approach to open-set segmentation, leveraging the learnings of object defect-detection research. We also draw on the Mamba architecture's strong performance in utilising long-range dependencies and scalability to large data. Combining both, we create a reconstruction based approach for the task of outdoor scene open-set segmentation. We show that our approach improves performance not only when applied to our our own open-set segmentation method, but also when applied to existing methods. Furthermore we contribute a Mamba based architecture which is competitive with existing voxel-convolution based methods on challenging, large-scale pointclouds.
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spellingShingle Finding Outliers in a Haystack: Anomaly Detection for Large Pointcloud Scenes
Faulkner, Ryan
Haub, Luke
Ratcliffe, Simon
Chin, Tat-Jun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
LiDAR scanning in outdoor scenes acquires accurate distance measurements over wide areas, producing large-scale point clouds. Application examples for this data include robotics, automotive vehicles, and land surveillance. During such applications, outlier objects from outside the training data will inevitably appear. Our research contributes a novel approach to open-set segmentation, leveraging the learnings of object defect-detection research. We also draw on the Mamba architecture's strong performance in utilising long-range dependencies and scalability to large data. Combining both, we create a reconstruction based approach for the task of outdoor scene open-set segmentation. We show that our approach improves performance not only when applied to our our own open-set segmentation method, but also when applied to existing methods. Furthermore we contribute a Mamba based architecture which is competitive with existing voxel-convolution based methods on challenging, large-scale pointclouds.
title Finding Outliers in a Haystack: Anomaly Detection for Large Pointcloud Scenes
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17634