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P2V-RCNN: point to voxel feature learning for 3D object detection from point clouds
IEEE Access
  • Jiale Li, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University
  • Yu Sun, Zhejiang University
  • Shujie Luo, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University
  • Ziqi Zhu, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University
  • Hang Dai, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
  • Andrey S. Krylov, Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • Yong Ding, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University
  • Ling Shao, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence
Document Type
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Abstract

The most recent 3D object detectors for point clouds rely on the coarse voxel-based representation rather than the accurate point-based representation due to a higher box recall in the voxel-based Region Proposal Network (RPN). However, the detection accuracy is severely restricted by the information loss of pose details in the voxels. Different from considering the point cloud as voxel or point representation only, we propose a point-to-voxel feature learning approach to voxelize the point cloud with both the point-wise semantic and local spatial features, which maintains the voxel-wise features to build the high-recall voxel-based RPN and also provides the accurate point-wise features for refining the detection results. Another difficulty in object detection for point cloud is that the visible part varies a lot against the full view of object because of the perspective issues in data acquisition. To address this, we propose an attentive corner aggregation module to attentively aggregate the features of local point cloud surrounding a 3D proposal from the perspectives of eight corners in the proposal 3D bounding box. The experimental results on the competitive KITTI 3D object detection benchmark show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance.

DOI
10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3094562
Publication Date
7-5-2021
Keywords
  • 3D object detection,
  • attention mechanism,
  • autonomous driving,
  • point clouds
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License: CC BY NC-ND 4.0

Uploaded 30 March 2022

Citation Information
J. Li et al., "P2V-RCNN: point to voxel feature learning for 3D object detection from point clouds," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 98249-98260, Jul. 5, 2021. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3094562.