Title
3D Cascade RCNN: High Quality Object Detection in Point Clouds
Abstract
Recent progress on 2D object detection has featured Cascade RCNN, which capitalizes on a sequence of cascade detectors to progressively improve proposal quality, towards high-quality object detection. However, there has not been evidence in support of building such cascade structures for 3D object detection, a challenging detection scenario with highly sparse LiDAR point clouds. In this work, we present a simple yet effective cascade architecture, named 3D Cascade RCNN, that allocates multiple detectors based on the voxelized point clouds in a cascade paradigm, pursuing higher quality 3D object detector progressively. Furthermore, we quantitatively define the sparsity level of the points within 3D bounding box of each object as the point completeness score, which is exploited as the task weight for each proposal to guide the learning of each stage detector. The spirit behind is to assign higher weights for high-quality proposals with relatively complete point distribution, while down-weight the proposals with extremely sparse points that often incur noise during training. This design of completeness-aware re-weighting elegantly upgrades the cascade paradigm to be better applicable for the sparse input data, without increasing any FLOP budgets. Through extensive experiments on both the KITTI dataset and Waymo Open Dataset, we validate the superiority of our proposed 3D Cascade RCNN, when comparing to state-of-the-art 3D object detection techniques. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/caiqi/Cascasde-3D.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TIP.2022.3201469
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Three-dimensional displays, Proposals, Object detection, Point cloud compression, Detectors, Training, Task analysis, Point cloud, 3D object detection, cascade detection, sample re-weighting
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1057-7149
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qi Cai1132.18
Yingwei Pan235723.66
Ting Yao384252.62
Tao Mei44702288.54