SWCF-Net: Similarity-weighted Convolution and Local-global Fusion for Efficient Large-scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11441v1
• Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:54:46 GMT
• Title: SWCF-Net: Similarity-weighted Convolution and Local-global Fusion for Efficient Large-scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
• Authors: Zhenchao Lin, Li He, Hongqiang Yang, Xiaoqun Sun, Cuojin Zhang, Weinan Chen, Yisheng Guan, Hong Zhang,
• Abstract summary: We propose a Similarity-Weighted Convolution and local-global Fusion Network, named SWCF-Net. Our method achieves a competitive result with less computational cost, and is able to handle large-scale point clouds efficiently.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large-scale point cloud consists of a multitude of individual objects, thereby encompassing rich structural and underlying semantic contextual information, resulting in a challenging problem in efficiently segmenting a point cloud. Most existing researches mainly focus on capturing intricate local features without giving due consideration to global ones, thus failing to leverage semantic context. In this paper, we propose a Similarity-Weighted Convolution and local-global Fusion Network, named SWCF-Net, which takes into account both local and global features. We propose a Similarity-Weighted Convolution (SWConv) to effectively extract local features, where similarity weights are incorporated into the convolution operation to enhance the generalization capabilities. Then, we employ a downsampling operation on the K and V channels within the attention module, thereby reducing the quadratic complexity to linear, enabling the Transformer to deal with large-scale point clouds. At last, orthogonal components are extracted in the global features and then aggregated with local features, thereby eliminating redundant information between local and global features and consequently promoting efficiency. We evaluate SWCF-Net on large-scale outdoor datasets SemanticKITTI and Toronto3D. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed network. Our method achieves a competitive result with less computational cost, and is able to handle large-scale point clouds efficiently.

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