This paper focuses on the effective utilization of data augmentation techniques for 3Dlidar point clouds to enhance the performance of neural network models.These point clouds,which represent spatial information throu...This paper focuses on the effective utilization of data augmentation techniques for 3Dlidar point clouds to enhance the performance of neural network models.These point clouds,which represent spatial information through a collection of 3D coordinates,have found wide-ranging applications.Data augmentation has emerged as a potent solution to the challenges posed by limited labeled data and the need to enhance model generalization capabilities.Much of the existing research is devoted to crafting novel data augmentation methods specifically for 3D lidar point clouds.However,there has been a lack of focus on making the most of the numerous existing augmentation techniques.Addressing this deficiency,this research investigates the possibility of combining two fundamental data augmentation strategies.The paper introduces PolarMix andMix3D,two commonly employed augmentation techniques,and presents a new approach,named RandomFusion.Instead of using a fixed or predetermined combination of augmentation methods,RandomFusion randomly chooses one method from a pool of options for each instance or sample.This innovative data augmentation technique randomly augments each point in the point cloud with either PolarMix or Mix3D.The crux of this strategy is the random choice between PolarMix and Mix3Dfor the augmentation of each point within the point cloud data set.The results of the experiments conducted validate the efficacy of the RandomFusion strategy in enhancing the performance of neural network models for 3D lidar point cloud semantic segmentation tasks.This is achieved without compromising computational efficiency.By examining the potential of merging different augmentation techniques,the research contributes significantly to a more comprehensive understanding of how to utilize existing augmentation methods for 3D lidar point clouds.RandomFusion data augmentation technique offers a simple yet effective method to leverage the diversity of augmentation techniques and boost the robustness of models.The insights gained from this research can pave the way for future work aimed at developing more advanced and efficient data augmentation strategies for 3D lidar point cloud analysis.展开更多
This paper focuses on the task of few-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation.Despite some progress,this task still encounters many issues due to the insufficient samples given,e.g.,incomplete object segmentation an...This paper focuses on the task of few-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation.Despite some progress,this task still encounters many issues due to the insufficient samples given,e.g.,incomplete object segmentation and inaccurate semantic discrimination.To tackle these issues,we first leverage part-whole relationships into the task of 3D point cloud semantic segmentation to capture semantic integrity,which is empowered by the dynamic capsule routing with the module of 3D Capsule Networks(CapsNets)in the embedding network.Concretely,the dynamic routing amalgamates geometric information of the 3D point cloud data to construct higher-level feature representations,which capture the relationships between object parts and their wholes.Secondly,we designed a multi-prototype enhancement module to enhance the prototype discriminability.Specifically,the single-prototype enhancement mechanism is expanded to the multi-prototype enhancement version for capturing rich semantics.Besides,the shot-correlation within the category is calculated via the interaction of different samples to enhance the intra-category similarity.Ablation studies prove that the involved part-whole relations and proposed multi-prototype enhancement module help to achieve complete object segmentation and improve semantic discrimination.Moreover,under the integration of these two modules,quantitative and qualitative experiments on two public benchmarks,including S3DIS and ScanNet,indicate the superior performance of the proposed framework on the task of 3D point cloud semantic segmentation,compared to some state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
In recent years,semantic segmentation on 3D point cloud data has attracted much attention.Unlike 2D images where pixels distribute regularly in the image domain,3D point clouds in non-Euclidean space are irregular and...In recent years,semantic segmentation on 3D point cloud data has attracted much attention.Unlike 2D images where pixels distribute regularly in the image domain,3D point clouds in non-Euclidean space are irregular and inherently sparse.Therefore,it is very difficult to extract long-range contexts and effectively aggregate local features for semantic segmentation in 3D point cloud space.Most current methods either focus on local feature aggregation or long-range context dependency,but fail to directly establish a global-local feature extractor to complete the point cloud semantic segmentation tasks.In this paper,we propose a Transformer-based stratified graph convolutional network(SGT-Net),which enlarges the effective receptive field and builds direct long-range dependency.Specifically,we first propose a novel dense-sparse sampling strategy that provides dense local vertices and sparse long-distance vertices for subsequent graph convolutional network(GCN).Secondly,we propose a multi-key self-attention mechanism based on the Transformer to further weight augmentation for crucial neighboring relationships and enlarge the effective receptive field.In addition,to further improve the efficiency of the network,we propose a similarity measurement module to determine whether the neighborhood near the center point is effective.We demonstrate the validity and superiority of our method on the S3DIS and ShapeNet datasets.Through ablation experiments and segmentation visualization,we verify that the SGT model can improve the performance of the point cloud semantic segmentation.展开更多
Semantic segmentation in the context of 3D point clouds for the railway environment holds a significant economic value,but its development is severely hindered by the lack of suitable and specific datasets.Additionall...Semantic segmentation in the context of 3D point clouds for the railway environment holds a significant economic value,but its development is severely hindered by the lack of suitable and specific datasets.Additionally,the models trained on existing urban road point cloud datasets demonstrate poor generalisation on railway data due to a large domain gap caused by non-overlapping special/rare categories,for example,rail track,track bed etc.To harness the potential of supervised learning methods in the domain of 3D railway semantic segmentation,we introduce RailPC,a new point cloud benchmark.RailPC provides a large-scale dataset with rich annotations for semantic segmentation in the railway environment.Notably,RailPC contains twice the number of annotated points compared to the largest available mobile laser scanning(MLS)point cloud dataset and is the first railway-specific 3D dataset for semantic segmentation.It covers a total of nearly 25 km railway in two different scenes(urban and mountain),with 3 billion points that are finely labelled as 16 most typical classes with respect to railway,and the data acquisition process is completed in China by MLS systems.Through extensive experimentation,we evaluate the performance of advanced scene understanding methods on the annotated dataset and present a synthetic analysis of semantic segmentation results.Based on our findings,we establish some critical challenges towards railway-scale point cloud semantic segmentation.The dataset is available at https://github.com/NNU-GISA/GISA-RailPC,and we will continuously update it based on community feedback.展开更多
The complexity of application scenarios and the enormous volume of point cloud data make it difficult to quickly and effectively segment the scenario only based on the point cloud.In this paper,to address the semantic...The complexity of application scenarios and the enormous volume of point cloud data make it difficult to quickly and effectively segment the scenario only based on the point cloud.In this paper,to address the semantic segmentation for safety driving of unmanned shuttle buses,an accurate and effective point cloud-based semantic segmentation method is proposed for specified scenarios(such as campus).Firstly,we analyze the characteristic of the shuttle bus scenarios and propose to use ROI selection to reduce the total points in computation,and then propose an improved semantic segmentation model based on Cylinder3D,which improves mean Intersection over Union(mIoU)by 1.3%over the original model on SemanticKITTI data;then,a semantic category division method is proposed for road scenario of shuttle bus and practical application requirements,and then we further simplify the model to improve the efficiency without losing the accuracy.Finally,the nuScenes dataset and the real gathered campus scene data are used to validate and analyze the proposed method.The experimental results on the nuScenes dataset and our data demonstrate that the proposed method performs better than other point cloud semantic segmentation methods in terms of application requirements for unmanned shuttle buses.Which has a higher accuracy(82.73%in mIoU)and a higher computational efficiency(inference speed of 90 ms).展开更多
Traditional models for semantic segmentation in point clouds primarily focus on smaller scales.However,in real-world applications,point clouds often exhibit larger scales,leading to heavy computational and memory requ...Traditional models for semantic segmentation in point clouds primarily focus on smaller scales.However,in real-world applications,point clouds often exhibit larger scales,leading to heavy computational and memory requirements.The key to handling large-scale point clouds lies in leveraging random sampling,which offers higher computational efficiency and lower memory consumption compared to other sampling methods.Nevertheless,the use of random sampling can potentially result in the loss of crucial points during the encoding stage.To address these issues,this paper proposes cross-fusion self-attention network(CFSA-Net),a lightweight and efficient network architecture specifically designed for directly processing large-scale point clouds.At the core of this network is the incorporation of random sampling alongside a local feature extraction module based on cross-fusion self-attention(CFSA).This module effectively integrates long-range contextual dependencies between points by employing hierarchical position encoding(HPC).Furthermore,it enhances the interaction between each point’s coordinates and feature information through cross-fusion self-attention pooling,enabling the acquisition of more comprehensive geometric information.Finally,a residual optimization(RO)structure is introduced to extend the receptive field of individual points by stacking hierarchical position encoding and cross-fusion self-attention pooling,thereby reducing the impact of information loss caused by random sampling.Experimental results on the Stanford Large-Scale 3D Indoor Spaces(S3DIS),Semantic3D,and SemanticKITTI datasets demonstrate the superiority of this algorithm over advanced approaches such as RandLA-Net and KPConv.These findings underscore the excellent performance of CFSA-Net in large-scale 3D semantic segmentation.展开更多
With the increasing popularity of 3D sensors(e.g.,Kinect)and light field cameras,technologies such as driverless,smart home and virtual reality have become hot spots for engineering applications.As an important part o...With the increasing popularity of 3D sensors(e.g.,Kinect)and light field cameras,technologies such as driverless,smart home and virtual reality have become hot spots for engineering applications.As an important part of 3D vision tasks,point cloud semantic segmentation has received a lot of attention from researchers.In this work,we focus on realistically collected indoor point cloud data and propose a point cloud semantic segmentation method based on PAConv and SE_variant.The SE_variant module captures global perception from a broad perspective of feature space by fusing different pooling methods,which fully utilize the channel information of point clouds.The effectiveness of the method is verified by comparing with other methods on S3DIS and ScanNetV2 semantic tagging benchmarks,and achieving 65.3%mIoU in S3DIS,47.6%mIoU in ScanNetV2.The results of the ablation experiments verify the effectiveness of the key modules and analyze how to use the attention mechanism to improve the 3D semantic segmentation performance.展开更多
Neurons can be abstractly represented as skeletons due to the filament nature of neurites.With the rapid development of imaging and image analysis techniques,an increasing amount of neuron skeleton data is being produ...Neurons can be abstractly represented as skeletons due to the filament nature of neurites.With the rapid development of imaging and image analysis techniques,an increasing amount of neuron skeleton data is being produced.In some scienti fic studies,it is necessary to dissect the axons and dendrites,which is typically done manually and is both tedious and time-consuming.To automate this process,we have developed a method that relies solely on neuronal skeletons using Geometric Deep Learning(GDL).We demonstrate the effectiveness of this method using pyramidal neurons in mammalian brains,and the results are promising for its application in neuroscience studies.展开更多
Volume parameter is the basic content of a spatial body object morphology analysis.However,the challenge lies in the volume calculation of irregular objects.The point cloud slicing method proposed in this study effect...Volume parameter is the basic content of a spatial body object morphology analysis.However,the challenge lies in the volume calculation of irregular objects.The point cloud slicing method proposed in this study effectively works in calculating the volume of the point cloud of the spatial object obtained through three-dimensional laser scanning(3DLS).In this method,a uniformly spaced sequent slicing process is first conducted in a specific direction on the point cloud of the spatial object obtained through 3DLS.A series of discrete point cloud slices corresponding to the point cloud bodies are then obtained.Subsequently,the outline boundary polygon of the point cloud slicing is searched one by one in accordance with the slicing sequence and areas of the polygon.The point cloud slice is also calculated.Finally,the individual point cloud section volume is calculated through the slicing areas and the adjacent slicing gap.Thus,the total volume of the scanned spatial object can be calculated by summing up the individual volumes.According to the results and analysis of the calculated examples,the slice-based volume-calculating method for the point cloud of irregular objects obtained through 3DLS is correct,concise in process,reliable in results,efficient in calculation methods,and controllable on accuracy.This method comes as a good solution to the volume calculation of irregular objects.展开更多
输电线路的关键部位包括塔身、导线、绝缘子、避雷线以及引流线,无人机精细化导航的首要任务是构造输电线路的点云地图并从中分割出上述部位。为解决现有算法在输电线路的绝缘子、引流线等精细结构分割时精度低的问题,通过改进PointNet+...输电线路的关键部位包括塔身、导线、绝缘子、避雷线以及引流线,无人机精细化导航的首要任务是构造输电线路的点云地图并从中分割出上述部位。为解决现有算法在输电线路的绝缘子、引流线等精细结构分割时精度低的问题,通过改进PointNet++算法,提出了一种面向输电线路精细结构的点云分割方法。首先,基于无人机机载激光雷达在现场采集的点云数据,构造了输电线路点云分割数据集;其次,通过对比实验,筛选出在本输电线路场景下合理的数据增强方法,并对数据集进行了数据增强;最后,将自注意力机制以及倒置残差结构和PointNet++相结合,设计了输电线路关键部位点云语义分割算法。实验结果表明:该改进PointNet++算法在全场景输电线路现场点云数据作为输入的前提下,首次实现了对引流线、绝缘子等输电线路中精细结构和导线、杆塔塔身以及输电线路无关背景点的同时分割,平均交并比(mean intersection over union,mIoU)达80.79%,所有类别分割的平均F_(1)值(F1 score)达88.99%。展开更多
Automatic plant growth monitoring is an important task in modern agriculture for maintaining high crop yield and boosting the breeding procedure.The advancement of 3D sensing technology has made 3D point clouds to be ...Automatic plant growth monitoring is an important task in modern agriculture for maintaining high crop yield and boosting the breeding procedure.The advancement of 3D sensing technology has made 3D point clouds to be a better data form on presenting plant growth than images,as the new organs are easier identified in 3D space and the occluded organs in 2D can also be conveniently separated in 3D.Despite the attractive characteristics,analysis on 3D data can be quite challenging.We present 3D-NOD,a framework to detect new organs from time-series 3D plant data by spatiotemporal point cloud deep semantic segmentation.The design of 3D-NOD framework drew inspiration from how a well-experienced human utilizes spatiotemporal information to identify growing buds from a plant at two different growth stages.In the training phase,by introducing the Backward&Forward La-beling,the Registration&Mix-up,and the Humanoid Data Augmentation step,our backbone network can be trained to recognize growth events with organ correlation from both temporal and spatial domains.In testing,3D-NOD has shown better sensitivity at segmenting new organs against the conventional way of using a network to conduct direct semantic segmentation.On a time-series dataset containing multiple species,Our method reached a mean F1-measure at 88.13%and a mean IoU at 80.68%on detecting both new and old organs with the DGCNN backbone.展开更多
The process of segmenting point cloud data into several homogeneous areas with points in the same region having the same attributes is known as 3D segmentation.Segmentation is challenging with point cloud data due to...The process of segmenting point cloud data into several homogeneous areas with points in the same region having the same attributes is known as 3D segmentation.Segmentation is challenging with point cloud data due to substantial redundancy,fluctuating sample density and lack of apparent organization.The research area has a wide range of robotics applications,including intelligent vehicles,autonomous mapping and navigation.A number of researchers have introduced various methodologies and algorithms.Deep learning has been successfully used to a spectrum of 2D vision domains as a prevailing A.I.methods.However,due to the specific problems of processing point clouds with deep neural networks,deep learning on point clouds is still in its initial stages.This study examines many strategies that have been presented to 3D instance and semantic segmentation and gives a complete assessment of current developments in deep learning-based 3D segmentation.In these approaches’benefits,draw backs,and design mechanisms are studied and addressed.This study evaluates the impact of various segmentation algorithms on competitiveness on various publicly accessible datasets,as well as the most often used pipelines,their advantages and limits,insightful findings and intriguing future research directions.展开更多
Point cloud segmentation is an essential task in three-dimensional(3D)vision and intelligence.It is a critical step in understanding 3D scenes with a variety of applications.With the rapid development of 3D scanning d...Point cloud segmentation is an essential task in three-dimensional(3D)vision and intelligence.It is a critical step in understanding 3D scenes with a variety of applications.With the rapid development of 3D scanning devices,point cloud data have become increasingly available to researchers.Recent advances in deep learning are driving advances in point cloud segmentation research and applications.This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent progress in point cloud segmentation for understanding 3D indoor scenes.First,we present public point cloud datasets,which are the foundation for research in this area.Second,we briefly review previous segmentation methods based on geometry.Then,learning-based segmentation methods with multi-views and voxels are presented.Next,we provide an overview of learning-based point cloud segmentation,ranging from semantic segmentation to instance segmentation.Based on the annotation level,these methods are categorized into fully supervised and weakly supervised methods.Finally,we discuss open challenges and research directions in the future.展开更多
基金funded in part by the Key Project of Nature Science Research for Universities of Anhui Province of China(No.2022AH051720)in part by the Science and Technology Development Fund,Macao SAR(Grant Nos.0093/2022/A2,0076/2022/A2 and 0008/2022/AGJ)in part by the China University Industry-University-Research Collaborative Innovation Fund(No.2021FNA04017).
文摘This paper focuses on the effective utilization of data augmentation techniques for 3Dlidar point clouds to enhance the performance of neural network models.These point clouds,which represent spatial information through a collection of 3D coordinates,have found wide-ranging applications.Data augmentation has emerged as a potent solution to the challenges posed by limited labeled data and the need to enhance model generalization capabilities.Much of the existing research is devoted to crafting novel data augmentation methods specifically for 3D lidar point clouds.However,there has been a lack of focus on making the most of the numerous existing augmentation techniques.Addressing this deficiency,this research investigates the possibility of combining two fundamental data augmentation strategies.The paper introduces PolarMix andMix3D,two commonly employed augmentation techniques,and presents a new approach,named RandomFusion.Instead of using a fixed or predetermined combination of augmentation methods,RandomFusion randomly chooses one method from a pool of options for each instance or sample.This innovative data augmentation technique randomly augments each point in the point cloud with either PolarMix or Mix3D.The crux of this strategy is the random choice between PolarMix and Mix3Dfor the augmentation of each point within the point cloud data set.The results of the experiments conducted validate the efficacy of the RandomFusion strategy in enhancing the performance of neural network models for 3D lidar point cloud semantic segmentation tasks.This is achieved without compromising computational efficiency.By examining the potential of merging different augmentation techniques,the research contributes significantly to a more comprehensive understanding of how to utilize existing augmentation methods for 3D lidar point clouds.RandomFusion data augmentation technique offers a simple yet effective method to leverage the diversity of augmentation techniques and boost the robustness of models.The insights gained from this research can pave the way for future work aimed at developing more advanced and efficient data augmentation strategies for 3D lidar point cloud analysis.
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62001341the National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant No.BK20221379the Jiangsu Engineering Research Center of Digital Twinning Technology for Key Equipment in Petrochemical Process under Grant No.DTEC202104.
文摘This paper focuses on the task of few-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation.Despite some progress,this task still encounters many issues due to the insufficient samples given,e.g.,incomplete object segmentation and inaccurate semantic discrimination.To tackle these issues,we first leverage part-whole relationships into the task of 3D point cloud semantic segmentation to capture semantic integrity,which is empowered by the dynamic capsule routing with the module of 3D Capsule Networks(CapsNets)in the embedding network.Concretely,the dynamic routing amalgamates geometric information of the 3D point cloud data to construct higher-level feature representations,which capture the relationships between object parts and their wholes.Secondly,we designed a multi-prototype enhancement module to enhance the prototype discriminability.Specifically,the single-prototype enhancement mechanism is expanded to the multi-prototype enhancement version for capturing rich semantics.Besides,the shot-correlation within the category is calculated via the interaction of different samples to enhance the intra-category similarity.Ablation studies prove that the involved part-whole relations and proposed multi-prototype enhancement module help to achieve complete object segmentation and improve semantic discrimination.Moreover,under the integration of these two modules,quantitative and qualitative experiments on two public benchmarks,including S3DIS and ScanNet,indicate the superior performance of the proposed framework on the task of 3D point cloud semantic segmentation,compared to some state-of-the-art methods.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.U20A20197,62306187the Foundation of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology TC220H05X-04.
文摘In recent years,semantic segmentation on 3D point cloud data has attracted much attention.Unlike 2D images where pixels distribute regularly in the image domain,3D point clouds in non-Euclidean space are irregular and inherently sparse.Therefore,it is very difficult to extract long-range contexts and effectively aggregate local features for semantic segmentation in 3D point cloud space.Most current methods either focus on local feature aggregation or long-range context dependency,but fail to directly establish a global-local feature extractor to complete the point cloud semantic segmentation tasks.In this paper,we propose a Transformer-based stratified graph convolutional network(SGT-Net),which enlarges the effective receptive field and builds direct long-range dependency.Specifically,we first propose a novel dense-sparse sampling strategy that provides dense local vertices and sparse long-distance vertices for subsequent graph convolutional network(GCN).Secondly,we propose a multi-key self-attention mechanism based on the Transformer to further weight augmentation for crucial neighboring relationships and enlarge the effective receptive field.In addition,to further improve the efficiency of the network,we propose a similarity measurement module to determine whether the neighborhood near the center point is effective.We demonstrate the validity and superiority of our method on the S3DIS and ShapeNet datasets.Through ablation experiments and segmentation visualization,we verify that the SGT model can improve the performance of the point cloud semantic segmentation.
基金Key Laboratory of Degraded and Unused Land Consolidation Engineering,Ministry of Natural Resources of China,Grant/Award Number:SXDJ2024-22Technology Innovation Centre for Integrated Applications in Remote Sensing and Navigation,Ministry of Natural Resources of China,Grant/Award Number:TICIARSN-2023-06+2 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:42171446,62302246Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Number:LQ23F010008Science and Technology Program of Tianjin,China,Grant/Award Number:23ZGSSSS00010。
文摘Semantic segmentation in the context of 3D point clouds for the railway environment holds a significant economic value,but its development is severely hindered by the lack of suitable and specific datasets.Additionally,the models trained on existing urban road point cloud datasets demonstrate poor generalisation on railway data due to a large domain gap caused by non-overlapping special/rare categories,for example,rail track,track bed etc.To harness the potential of supervised learning methods in the domain of 3D railway semantic segmentation,we introduce RailPC,a new point cloud benchmark.RailPC provides a large-scale dataset with rich annotations for semantic segmentation in the railway environment.Notably,RailPC contains twice the number of annotated points compared to the largest available mobile laser scanning(MLS)point cloud dataset and is the first railway-specific 3D dataset for semantic segmentation.It covers a total of nearly 25 km railway in two different scenes(urban and mountain),with 3 billion points that are finely labelled as 16 most typical classes with respect to railway,and the data acquisition process is completed in China by MLS systems.Through extensive experimentation,we evaluate the performance of advanced scene understanding methods on the annotated dataset and present a synthetic analysis of semantic segmentation results.Based on our findings,we establish some critical challenges towards railway-scale point cloud semantic segmentation.The dataset is available at https://github.com/NNU-GISA/GISA-RailPC,and we will continuously update it based on community feedback.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62103064)Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2021YFG0295,2021YFG0133,2022YFN0020,2020YFG0177,2021YFG0187,2021YFN0104,2021YFH0069,2021YJ0086,21ZDY F3598)+2 种基金the Opening Project of Unmanned System Intelligent Perception Control Technology Engineering Laboratory of Sichuan Province(WRXT2020-005)Scientific Research Foundation of CUIT(KYTZ202109)Key Research and Development Support Program of Chengdu Science and Technology Bureau(2022-YF05-01128-SN).
文摘The complexity of application scenarios and the enormous volume of point cloud data make it difficult to quickly and effectively segment the scenario only based on the point cloud.In this paper,to address the semantic segmentation for safety driving of unmanned shuttle buses,an accurate and effective point cloud-based semantic segmentation method is proposed for specified scenarios(such as campus).Firstly,we analyze the characteristic of the shuttle bus scenarios and propose to use ROI selection to reduce the total points in computation,and then propose an improved semantic segmentation model based on Cylinder3D,which improves mean Intersection over Union(mIoU)by 1.3%over the original model on SemanticKITTI data;then,a semantic category division method is proposed for road scenario of shuttle bus and practical application requirements,and then we further simplify the model to improve the efficiency without losing the accuracy.Finally,the nuScenes dataset and the real gathered campus scene data are used to validate and analyze the proposed method.The experimental results on the nuScenes dataset and our data demonstrate that the proposed method performs better than other point cloud semantic segmentation methods in terms of application requirements for unmanned shuttle buses.Which has a higher accuracy(82.73%in mIoU)and a higher computational efficiency(inference speed of 90 ms).
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project(61603127).
文摘Traditional models for semantic segmentation in point clouds primarily focus on smaller scales.However,in real-world applications,point clouds often exhibit larger scales,leading to heavy computational and memory requirements.The key to handling large-scale point clouds lies in leveraging random sampling,which offers higher computational efficiency and lower memory consumption compared to other sampling methods.Nevertheless,the use of random sampling can potentially result in the loss of crucial points during the encoding stage.To address these issues,this paper proposes cross-fusion self-attention network(CFSA-Net),a lightweight and efficient network architecture specifically designed for directly processing large-scale point clouds.At the core of this network is the incorporation of random sampling alongside a local feature extraction module based on cross-fusion self-attention(CFSA).This module effectively integrates long-range contextual dependencies between points by employing hierarchical position encoding(HPC).Furthermore,it enhances the interaction between each point’s coordinates and feature information through cross-fusion self-attention pooling,enabling the acquisition of more comprehensive geometric information.Finally,a residual optimization(RO)structure is introduced to extend the receptive field of individual points by stacking hierarchical position encoding and cross-fusion self-attention pooling,thereby reducing the impact of information loss caused by random sampling.Experimental results on the Stanford Large-Scale 3D Indoor Spaces(S3DIS),Semantic3D,and SemanticKITTI datasets demonstrate the superiority of this algorithm over advanced approaches such as RandLA-Net and KPConv.These findings underscore the excellent performance of CFSA-Net in large-scale 3D semantic segmentation.
文摘With the increasing popularity of 3D sensors(e.g.,Kinect)and light field cameras,technologies such as driverless,smart home and virtual reality have become hot spots for engineering applications.As an important part of 3D vision tasks,point cloud semantic segmentation has received a lot of attention from researchers.In this work,we focus on realistically collected indoor point cloud data and propose a point cloud semantic segmentation method based on PAConv and SE_variant.The SE_variant module captures global perception from a broad perspective of feature space by fusing different pooling methods,which fully utilize the channel information of point clouds.The effectiveness of the method is verified by comparing with other methods on S3DIS and ScanNetV2 semantic tagging benchmarks,and achieving 65.3%mIoU in S3DIS,47.6%mIoU in ScanNetV2.The results of the ablation experiments verify the effectiveness of the key modules and analyze how to use the attention mechanism to improve the 3D semantic segmentation performance.
基金supported by the Simons Foundation,the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.NSFC61405038)the Fujian provincial fund(No.2020J01453).
文摘Neurons can be abstractly represented as skeletons due to the filament nature of neurites.With the rapid development of imaging and image analysis techniques,an increasing amount of neuron skeleton data is being produced.In some scienti fic studies,it is necessary to dissect the axons and dendrites,which is typically done manually and is both tedious and time-consuming.To automate this process,we have developed a method that relies solely on neuronal skeletons using Geometric Deep Learning(GDL).We demonstrate the effectiveness of this method using pyramidal neurons in mammalian brains,and the results are promising for its application in neuroscience studies.
文摘Volume parameter is the basic content of a spatial body object morphology analysis.However,the challenge lies in the volume calculation of irregular objects.The point cloud slicing method proposed in this study effectively works in calculating the volume of the point cloud of the spatial object obtained through three-dimensional laser scanning(3DLS).In this method,a uniformly spaced sequent slicing process is first conducted in a specific direction on the point cloud of the spatial object obtained through 3DLS.A series of discrete point cloud slices corresponding to the point cloud bodies are then obtained.Subsequently,the outline boundary polygon of the point cloud slicing is searched one by one in accordance with the slicing sequence and areas of the polygon.The point cloud slice is also calculated.Finally,the individual point cloud section volume is calculated through the slicing areas and the adjacent slicing gap.Thus,the total volume of the scanned spatial object can be calculated by summing up the individual volumes.According to the results and analysis of the calculated examples,the slice-based volume-calculating method for the point cloud of irregular objects obtained through 3DLS is correct,concise in process,reliable in results,efficient in calculation methods,and controllable on accuracy.This method comes as a good solution to the volume calculation of irregular objects.
文摘输电线路的关键部位包括塔身、导线、绝缘子、避雷线以及引流线,无人机精细化导航的首要任务是构造输电线路的点云地图并从中分割出上述部位。为解决现有算法在输电线路的绝缘子、引流线等精细结构分割时精度低的问题,通过改进PointNet++算法,提出了一种面向输电线路精细结构的点云分割方法。首先,基于无人机机载激光雷达在现场采集的点云数据,构造了输电线路点云分割数据集;其次,通过对比实验,筛选出在本输电线路场景下合理的数据增强方法,并对数据集进行了数据增强;最后,将自注意力机制以及倒置残差结构和PointNet++相结合,设计了输电线路关键部位点云语义分割算法。实验结果表明:该改进PointNet++算法在全场景输电线路现场点云数据作为输入的前提下,首次实现了对引流线、绝缘子等输电线路中精细结构和导线、杆塔塔身以及输电线路无关背景点的同时分割,平均交并比(mean intersection over union,mIoU)达80.79%,所有类别分割的平均F_(1)值(F1 score)达88.99%。
基金supported by the self-collected funds from Dawei Li.
文摘Automatic plant growth monitoring is an important task in modern agriculture for maintaining high crop yield and boosting the breeding procedure.The advancement of 3D sensing technology has made 3D point clouds to be a better data form on presenting plant growth than images,as the new organs are easier identified in 3D space and the occluded organs in 2D can also be conveniently separated in 3D.Despite the attractive characteristics,analysis on 3D data can be quite challenging.We present 3D-NOD,a framework to detect new organs from time-series 3D plant data by spatiotemporal point cloud deep semantic segmentation.The design of 3D-NOD framework drew inspiration from how a well-experienced human utilizes spatiotemporal information to identify growing buds from a plant at two different growth stages.In the training phase,by introducing the Backward&Forward La-beling,the Registration&Mix-up,and the Humanoid Data Augmentation step,our backbone network can be trained to recognize growth events with organ correlation from both temporal and spatial domains.In testing,3D-NOD has shown better sensitivity at segmenting new organs against the conventional way of using a network to conduct direct semantic segmentation.On a time-series dataset containing multiple species,Our method reached a mean F1-measure at 88.13%and a mean IoU at 80.68%on detecting both new and old organs with the DGCNN backbone.
基金This research was supported by the BB21 plus funded by Busan Metropolitan City and Busan Institute for Talent and Lifelong Education(BIT)and a grant from Tongmyong University Innovated University Research Park(I-URP)funded by Busan Metropolitan City,Republic of Korea.
文摘The process of segmenting point cloud data into several homogeneous areas with points in the same region having the same attributes is known as 3D segmentation.Segmentation is challenging with point cloud data due to substantial redundancy,fluctuating sample density and lack of apparent organization.The research area has a wide range of robotics applications,including intelligent vehicles,autonomous mapping and navigation.A number of researchers have introduced various methodologies and algorithms.Deep learning has been successfully used to a spectrum of 2D vision domains as a prevailing A.I.methods.However,due to the specific problems of processing point clouds with deep neural networks,deep learning on point clouds is still in its initial stages.This study examines many strategies that have been presented to 3D instance and semantic segmentation and gives a complete assessment of current developments in deep learning-based 3D segmentation.In these approaches’benefits,draw backs,and design mechanisms are studied and addressed.This study evaluates the impact of various segmentation algorithms on competitiveness on various publicly accessible datasets,as well as the most often used pipelines,their advantages and limits,insightful findings and intriguing future research directions.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61972458)Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.LZ23F020002).
文摘Point cloud segmentation is an essential task in three-dimensional(3D)vision and intelligence.It is a critical step in understanding 3D scenes with a variety of applications.With the rapid development of 3D scanning devices,point cloud data have become increasingly available to researchers.Recent advances in deep learning are driving advances in point cloud segmentation research and applications.This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent progress in point cloud segmentation for understanding 3D indoor scenes.First,we present public point cloud datasets,which are the foundation for research in this area.Second,we briefly review previous segmentation methods based on geometry.Then,learning-based segmentation methods with multi-views and voxels are presented.Next,we provide an overview of learning-based point cloud segmentation,ranging from semantic segmentation to instance segmentation.Based on the annotation level,these methods are categorized into fully supervised and weakly supervised methods.Finally,we discuss open challenges and research directions in the future.
