Unifying Voxel-based Representation with Transformer for 3D Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00630v1
• Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 17:02:40 GMT
• Title: Unifying Voxel-based Representation with Transformer for 3D Object Detection
• Authors: Yanwei Li, Yilun Chen, Xiaojuan Qi, Zeming Li, Jian Sun, Jiaya Jia
• Abstract summary: We present a unified framework for multi-modality 3D object detection, named UVTR. The proposed method aims to unify multi-modality representations in the voxel space for accurate and robust single- or cross-modality 3D detection. UVTR achieves leading performance in the nuScenes test set with 69.7%, 55.1%, and 71.1% NDS for LiDAR, camera, and multi-modality inputs, respectively.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this work, we present a unified framework for multi-modality 3D object detection, named UVTR. The proposed method aims to unify multi-modality representations in the voxel space for accurate and robust single- or cross-modality 3D detection. To this end, the modality-specific space is first designed to represent different inputs in the voxel feature space. Different from previous work, our approach preserves the voxel space without height compression to alleviate semantic ambiguity and enable spatial interactions. Benefit from the unified manner, cross-modality interaction is then proposed to make full use of inherent properties from different sensors, including knowledge transfer and modality fusion. In this way, geometry-aware expressions in point clouds and context-rich features in images are well utilized for better performance and robustness. The transformer decoder is applied to efficiently sample features from the unified space with learnable positions, which facilitates object-level interactions. In general, UVTR presents an early attempt to represent different modalities in a unified framework. It surpasses previous work in single- and multi-modality entries and achieves leading performance in the nuScenes test set with 69.7%, 55.1%, and 71.1% NDS for LiDAR, camera, and multi-modality inputs, respectively. Code is made available at https://github.com/dvlab-research/UVTR.

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