SPBA-Net point cloud object detection with sparse attention and box aligning

Abstract Object detection in point clouds is essential for various applications, including autonomous navigation, household robots, and augmented/virtual reality. However, during voxelization and Bird’s Eye View transformation, local point cloud data often remains sparse due to non-target areas and...

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Main Authors: Haojie Sha, Qingrui Gao, Hao Zeng, Kai Li, Wang Li, Xuande Zhang, Xiaohui Wang
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-11-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77097-z
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Qingrui Gao
Hao Zeng
Kai Li
Wang Li
Xuande Zhang
Xiaohui Wang
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description Abstract Object detection in point clouds is essential for various applications, including autonomous navigation, household robots, and augmented/virtual reality. However, during voxelization and Bird’s Eye View transformation, local point cloud data often remains sparse due to non-target areas and noise points, posing a significant challenge for feature extraction. In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism named Keypoint Guided Sparse Attention (KGSA) to enhance the semantic information of point clouds by calculating Euclidean distances between selected keypoints and others. Additionally, we introduce Instance-wise Box Aligning, a method for expanding predicted boxes and clustering the points within them to achieve precise alignment between predicted bounding boxes and ground-truth targets. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed SPBA-Net in 3D object detection on point clouds compared to other state-of-the-art methods.The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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spelling doaj-art-dca67bd8dc324770b0ad2bb38d0b088f2024-11-24T12:18:24ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222024-11-0114111010.1038/s41598-024-77097-zSPBA-Net point cloud object detection with sparse attention and box aligningHaojie Sha0Qingrui Gao1Hao Zeng2Kai Li3Wang Li4Xuande Zhang5Xiaohui Wang6College of Applied Technology, Qingdao UniversityCollege of Applied Technology, Qingdao UniversityInstitute of Software Chinese Academy of SciencesCollege of Applied Technology, Qingdao UniversityCollege of Applied Technology, Qingdao UniversityCollege of Applied Technology, Qingdao UniversityCollege of Applied Technology, Qingdao UniversityAbstract Object detection in point clouds is essential for various applications, including autonomous navigation, household robots, and augmented/virtual reality. However, during voxelization and Bird’s Eye View transformation, local point cloud data often remains sparse due to non-target areas and noise points, posing a significant challenge for feature extraction. In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism named Keypoint Guided Sparse Attention (KGSA) to enhance the semantic information of point clouds by calculating Euclidean distances between selected keypoints and others. Additionally, we introduce Instance-wise Box Aligning, a method for expanding predicted boxes and clustering the points within them to achieve precise alignment between predicted bounding boxes and ground-truth targets. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed SPBA-Net in 3D object detection on point clouds compared to other state-of-the-art methods.The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77097-z3D object detectionKeypoint guided sparse attentionInstance-wise box aligning
spellingShingle Haojie Sha
Qingrui Gao
Hao Zeng
Kai Li
Wang Li
Xuande Zhang
Xiaohui Wang
SPBA-Net point cloud object detection with sparse attention and box aligning
Scientific Reports
3D object detection
Keypoint guided sparse attention
Instance-wise box aligning
title SPBA-Net point cloud object detection with sparse attention and box aligning
title_full SPBA-Net point cloud object detection with sparse attention and box aligning
title_fullStr SPBA-Net point cloud object detection with sparse attention and box aligning
title_full_unstemmed SPBA-Net point cloud object detection with sparse attention and box aligning
title_short SPBA-Net point cloud object detection with sparse attention and box aligning
title_sort spba net point cloud object detection with sparse attention and box aligning
topic 3D object detection
Keypoint guided sparse attention
Instance-wise box aligning
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77097-z
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