Lidar Panoptic Segmentation in an Open World

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14273v1
• Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:10:20 GMT
• Title: Lidar Panoptic Segmentation in an Open World
• Authors: Anirudh S Chakravarthy, Meghana Reddy Ganesina, Peiyun Hu, Laura Leal-Taixe, Shu Kong, Deva Ramanan, Aljosa Osep,
• Abstract summary: Lidar Panoptics (LPS) is crucial for safe deployment of autonomous vehicles. LPS aims to recognize and segment lidar points wr.t. a pre-defined vocabulary of semantic classes. We propose a class-agnostic point clustering and over-segment the input cloud in a hierarchical fashion, followed by binary point segment classification.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Addressing Lidar Panoptic Segmentation (LPS ) is crucial for safe deployment of autonomous vehicles. LPS aims to recognize and segment lidar points w.r.t. a pre-defined vocabulary of semantic classes, including thing classes of countable objects (e.g., pedestrians and vehicles) and stuff classes of amorphous regions (e.g., vegetation and road). Importantly, LPS requires segmenting individual thing instances (e.g., every single vehicle). Current LPS methods make an unrealistic assumption that the semantic class vocabulary is fixed in the real open world, but in fact, class ontologies usually evolve over time as robots encounter instances of novel classes that are considered to be unknowns w.r.t. the pre-defined class vocabulary. To address this unrealistic assumption, we study LPS in the Open World (LiPSOW): we train models on a dataset with a pre-defined semantic class vocabulary and study their generalization to a larger dataset where novel instances of thing and stuff classes can appear. This experimental setting leads to interesting conclusions. While prior art train class-specific instance segmentation methods and obtain state-of-the-art results on known classes, methods based on class-agnostic bottom-up grouping perform favorably on classes outside of the initial class vocabulary (i.e., unknown classes). Unfortunately, these methods do not perform on-par with fully data-driven methods on known classes. Our work suggests a middle ground: we perform class-agnostic point clustering and over-segment the input cloud in a hierarchical fashion, followed by binary point segment classification, akin to Region Proposal Network [1]. We obtain the final point cloud segmentation by computing a cut in the weighted hierarchical tree of point segments, independently of semantic classification. Remarkably, this unified approach leads to strong performance on both known and unknown classes.

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