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Change detection needs change information: improving deep 3D point cloud change detection
Iris de Gélis, Thomas Corpetti, Sébastien Lefèvre
Change detection is an important task that rapidly identifies modified areas, particularly when multi-temporal data are concerned. In landscapes with a complex geometry (e.g., urban environment), vertical information is a very useful source of knowledge that highlights changes and classifies them into different categories. In this study, we focus on change segmentation using raw three-dimensional (3D) point clouds (PCs) directly to avoid any information loss due to the rasterization processes. While deep learning has recently proven its effectiveness for this particular task by encoding the information through Siamese networks, we investigate herein the idea of also using change information in the early steps of deep networks. To do this, we first propose to provide a Siamese KPConv state-of-the-art (SoTA) network with hand-crafted features, especially a change-related one, which improves the mean of the Intersection over Union (IoU) over the classes of change by 4.70%. Considering that a major improvement is obtained due to the change-related feature, we then propose three new architectures to address 3D PC change segmentation: OneConvFusion, Triplet KPConv, and Encoder Fusion SiamKPConv. All these networks consider the change information in the early steps and outperform the SoTA methods. In particular, Encoder Fusion SiamKPConv overtakes the SoTA approaches by more than 5% of the mean of the IoU over the classes of change, emphasizing the value of having the network focus on change information for the change detection task. The code is available at https://github.com/IdeGelis/torch-points3d-SiamKPConvVariants.
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