Dynamic 3D Scene Analysis by Point Cloud Accumulation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12394v1
• Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 17:57:46 GMT
• Title: Dynamic 3D Scene Analysis by Point Cloud Accumulation
• Authors: Shengyu Huang, Zan Gojcic, Jiahui Huang, Andreas Wieser, Konrad Schindler
• Abstract summary: Multi-beam LiDAR sensors are used on autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. Each frame covers the scene sparsely, due to limited angular scanning resolution and occlusion. We propose a method that exploits inductive biases of outdoor street scenes, including their geometric layout and object-level rigidity.
• Score: 32.491921765128936
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Multi-beam LiDAR sensors, as used on autonomous vehicles and mobile robots, acquire sequences of 3D range scans ("frames"). Each frame covers the scene sparsely, due to limited angular scanning resolution and occlusion. The sparsity restricts the performance of downstream processes like semantic segmentation or surface reconstruction. Luckily, when the sensor moves, frames are captured from a sequence of different viewpoints. This provides complementary information and, when accumulated in a common scene coordinate frame, yields a denser sampling and a more complete coverage of the underlying 3D scene. However, often the scanned scenes contain moving objects. Points on those objects are not correctly aligned by just undoing the scanner's ego-motion. In the present paper, we explore multi-frame point cloud accumulation as a mid-level representation of 3D scan sequences, and develop a method that exploits inductive biases of outdoor street scenes, including their geometric layout and object-level rigidity. Compared to state-of-the-art scene flow estimators, our proposed approach aims to align all 3D points in a common reference frame correctly accumulating the points on the individual objects. Our approach greatly reduces the alignment errors on several benchmark datasets. Moreover, the accumulated point clouds benefit high-level tasks like surface reconstruction.

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