PANet: LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation with Sparse Instance Proposal and Aggregation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15348v1
• Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 10:02:28 GMT
• Title: PANet: LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation with Sparse Instance Proposal and Aggregation
• Authors: Jianbiao Mei, Yu Yang, Mengmeng Wang, Xiaojun Hou, Laijian Li and Yong Liu
• Abstract summary: This work proposes a new LPS framework named PANet to eliminate the dependency on the offset branch. PaNet achieves state-of-the-art performance among published works on the Semantic KITII validation and nuScenes validation for the panoptic segmentation task.
• Score: 15.664835767712775
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Reliable LiDAR panoptic segmentation (LPS), including both semantic and instance segmentation, is vital for many robotic applications, such as autonomous driving. This work proposes a new LPS framework named PANet to eliminate the dependency on the offset branch and improve the performance on large objects, which are always over-segmented by clustering algorithms. Firstly, we propose a non-learning Sparse Instance Proposal (SIP) module with the ``sampling-shifting-grouping" scheme to directly group thing points into instances from the raw point cloud efficiently. More specifically, balanced point sampling is introduced to generate sparse seed points with more uniform point distribution over the distance range. And a shift module, termed bubble shifting, is proposed to shrink the seed points to the clustered centers. Then we utilize the connected component label algorithm to generate instance proposals. Furthermore, an instance aggregation module is devised to integrate potentially fragmented instances, improving the performance of the SIP module on large objects. Extensive experiments show that PANet achieves state-of-the-art performance among published works on the SemanticKITII validation and nuScenes validation for the panoptic segmentation task.

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