SSLFusion: Scale & Space Aligned Latent Fusion Model for Multimodal 3D Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05170v1
• Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:15:06 GMT
• Title: SSLFusion: Scale & Space Aligned Latent Fusion Model for Multimodal 3D Object Detection
• Authors: Bonan Ding, Jin Xie, Jing Nie, Jiale Cao,
• Abstract summary: Multimodal 3D object detection based on deep neural networks has indeed made significant progress.<n>However, it still faces challenges due to the misalignment of scale and spatial information between features extracted from 2D images and those derived from 3D point clouds.<n>We present SSLFusion, a novel scale & Space Aligned Latent Fusion Model, consisting of a scale-aligned fusion strategy, a 3D-to-2D space alignment module, and a latent cross-modal fusion module.
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• Abstract: Multimodal 3D object detection based on deep neural networks has indeed made significant progress. However, it still faces challenges due to the misalignment of scale and spatial information between features extracted from 2D images and those derived from 3D point clouds. Existing methods usually aggregate multimodal features at a single stage. However, leveraging multi-stage cross-modal features is crucial for detecting objects of various scales. Therefore, these methods often struggle to integrate features across different scales and modalities effectively, thereby restricting the accuracy of detection. Additionally, the time-consuming Query-Key-Value-based (QKV-based) cross-attention operations often utilized in existing methods aid in reasoning the location and existence of objects by capturing non-local contexts. However, this approach tends to increase computational complexity. To address these challenges, we present SSLFusion, a novel Scale & Space Aligned Latent Fusion Model, consisting of a scale-aligned fusion strategy (SAF), a 3D-to-2D space alignment module (SAM), and a latent cross-modal fusion module (LFM). SAF mitigates scale misalignment between modalities by aggregating features from both images and point clouds across multiple levels. SAM is designed to reduce the inter-modal gap between features from images and point clouds by incorporating 3D coordinate information into 2D image features. Additionally, LFM captures cross-modal non-local contexts in the latent space without utilizing the QKV-based attention operations, thus mitigating computational complexity. Experiments on the KITTI and DENSE datasets demonstrate that our SSLFusion outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Our approach obtains an absolute gain of 2.15% in 3D AP, compared with the state-of-art method GraphAlign on the moderate level of the KITTI test set.

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