SGPN: Similarity Group Proposal Network for 3D Point Cloud Instance Segmentation

CVPR 2018  ยท  Weiyue Wang, Ronald Yu, Qiangui Huang, Ulrich Neumann ยท

We introduce Similarity Group Proposal Network (SGPN), a simple and intuitive deep learning framework for 3D object instance segmentation on point clouds. SGPN uses a single network to predict point grouping proposals and a corresponding semantic class for each proposal, from which we can directly extract instance segmentation results. Important to the effectiveness of SGPN is its novel representation of 3D instance segmentation results in the form of a similarity matrix that indicates the similarity between each pair of points in embedded feature space, thus producing an accurate grouping proposal for each point. To the best of our knowledge, SGPN is the first framework to learn 3D instance-aware semantic segmentation on point clouds. Experimental results on various 3D scenes show the effectiveness of our method on 3D instance segmentation, and we also evaluate the capability of SGPN to improve 3D object detection and semantic segmentation results. We also demonstrate its flexibility by seamlessly incorporating 2D CNN features into the framework to boost performance.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
3D Object Detection NYU Depth v2 SGPN-CNN MAP 41.3 # 1
Instance Segmentation NYU Depth v2 SGPN-CNN mAP@0.5 30.5 # 1
3D Semantic Instance Segmentation ScanNetV1 SGPN mAP@0.25 35.1 # 1
3D Semantic Instance Segmentation ScanNetV2 SGPN mAP@0.50 14.3 # 5
3D Object Detection ScanNetV2 SGPN mAP@0.25 20.7 # 27
Semantic Segmentation ShapeNet SGPN Mean IoU 85.8% # 2
3D Part Segmentation ShapeNet-Part SGPN Instance Average IoU 85.8 # 36

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