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Efficient Multi-Task Scene Analysis with RGB-D Transformers

8 Jun 2023arXiv:2306.05242archive 2025-07-28

Söhnke Benedikt Fischedick, Daniel Seichter, Robin Schmidt, Leonard Rabes, Horst-Michael Gross

Scene analysis is essential for enabling autonomous systems, such as mobile robots, to operate in real-world environments. However, obtaining a comprehensive understanding of the scene requires solving multiple tasks, such as panoptic segmentation, instance orientation estimation, and scene classification. Solving these tasks given limited computing and battery capabilities on mobile platforms is challenging. To address this challenge, we introduce an efficient multi-task scene analysis approach, called EMSAFormer, that uses an RGB-D Transformer-based encoder to simultaneously perform the aforementioned tasks. Our approach builds upon the previously published EMSANet. However, we show that the dual CNN-based encoder of EMSANet can be replaced with a single Transformer-based encoder. To achieve this, we investigate how information from both RGB and depth data can be effectively incorporated in a single encoder. To accelerate inference on robotic hardware, we provide a custom NVIDIA TensorRT extension enabling highly optimization for our EMSAFormer approach. Through extensive experiments on the commonly used indoor datasets NYUv2, SUNRGB-D, and ScanNet, we show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance while still enabling inference with up to 39.1 FPS on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32 GB.

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Panoptic SegmentationScene ClassificationSemantic Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Semantic Segmentation NYU Depth v2 EMSAFormer (SwinV2-T-128-Multi-Aug) Mean IoU 51.26% #52 of 121 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation SUN-RGBD EMSANet (2x ResNet-34 NBt1D, PanopticNDT version, finetuned) Mean IoU 48.82% #26 of 44 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation ScanNetV2 EMSAFormer Mean IoU 56.4% #5 of 12 Archive leaderboard report

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