Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence • Vol 36 • No 3
Sparse Cross-Scale Attention Network for Efficient LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation
June 2022 • Shuangjie Xu, Rui Wan, Maosheng Ye, Xiaoyi Zou, Tongyi Cao
Two major challenges of 3D LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation (PS) are that point clouds of an object are surface-aggregated and thus hard to model the long-range dependency especially for large instances, and that objects are too close to separate each other. Recent literature addresses these problems by time-consuming grouping processes such as dual-clustering, mean-shift offsets and etc., or by bird-eye-view (BEV) dense centroid representation that downplays geometry. However, the long-range geometry relationship has …