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4D Panoptic LiDAR Segmentation

24 Feb 2021CVPR 2021 1arXiv:2102.12472archive 2025-07-28

Mehmet Aygün, Aljoša Ošep, Mark Weber, Maxim Maximov, Cyrill Stachniss, Jens Behley, Laura Leal-Taixé

Temporal semantic scene understanding is critical for self-driving cars or robots operating in dynamic environments. In this paper, we propose 4D panoptic LiDAR segmentation to assign a semantic class and a temporally-consistent instance ID to a sequence of 3D points. To this end, we present an approach and a point-centric evaluation metric. Our approach determines a semantic class for every point while modeling object instances as probability distributions in the 4D spatio-temporal domain. We process multiple point clouds in parallel and resolve point-to-instance associations, effectively alleviating the need for explicit temporal data association. Inspired by recent advances in benchmarking of multi-object tracking, we propose to adopt a new evaluation metric that separates the semantic and point-to-instance association aspects of the task. With this work, we aim at paving the road for future developments of temporal LiDAR panoptic perception.

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4D Panoptic SegmentationBenchmarkingMulti-Object TrackingObject TrackingScene UnderstandingSegmentationSelf-Driving Cars

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4D Panoptic Segmentation SemanticKITTI 4D-PLS LSTQ 56.9 #7 of 7 Archive leaderboard report

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