VoteFlow: Enforcing Local Rigidity in Self-Supervised Scene Flow

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22328v2
• Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:36:24 GMT
• Title: VoteFlow: Enforcing Local Rigidity in Self-Supervised Scene Flow
• Authors: Yancong Lin, Shiming Wang, Liangliang Nan, Julian Kooij, Holger Caesar,
• Abstract summary: Scene flow estimation aims to recover per-point motion from two adjacent LiDAR scans.<n>In real-world applications such as autonomous driving, points rarely move independently of others.<n>We introduce a lightweight add-on module in neural network design, enabling end-to-end learning.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Scene flow estimation aims to recover per-point motion from two adjacent LiDAR scans. However, in real-world applications such as autonomous driving, points rarely move independently of others, especially for nearby points belonging to the same object, which often share the same motion. Incorporating this locally rigid motion constraint has been a key challenge in self-supervised scene flow estimation, which is often addressed by post-processing or appending extra regularization. While these approaches are able to improve the rigidity of predicted flows, they lack an architectural inductive bias for local rigidity within the model structure, leading to suboptimal learning efficiency and inferior performance. In contrast, we enforce local rigidity with a lightweight add-on module in neural network design, enabling end-to-end learning. We design a discretized voting space that accommodates all possible translations and then identify the one shared by nearby points by differentiable voting. Additionally, to ensure computational efficiency, we operate on pillars rather than points and learn representative features for voting per pillar. We plug the Voting Module into popular model designs and evaluate its benefit on Argoverse 2 and Waymo datasets. We outperform baseline works with only marginal compute overhead. Code is available at https://github.com/tudelft-iv/VoteFlow.

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