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GFNet: Geometric Flow Network for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

6 Jul 2022arXiv:2207.02605archive 2025-07-28

Haibo Qiu, Baosheng Yu, DaCheng Tao

Point cloud semantic segmentation from projected views, such as range-view (RV) and bird's-eye-view (BEV), has been intensively investigated. Different views capture different information of point clouds and thus are complementary to each other. However, recent projection-based methods for point cloud semantic segmentation usually utilize a vanilla late fusion strategy for the predictions of different views, failing to explore the complementary information from a geometric perspective during the representation learning. In this paper, we introduce a geometric flow network (GFNet) to explore the geometric correspondence between different views in an align-before-fuse manner. Specifically, we devise a novel geometric flow module (GFM) to bidirectionally align and propagate the complementary information across different views according to geometric relationships under the end-to-end learning scheme. We perform extensive experiments on two widely used benchmark datasets, SemanticKITTI and nuScenes, to demonstrate the effectiveness of our GFNet for project-based point cloud semantic segmentation. Concretely, GFNet not only significantly boosts the performance of each individual view but also achieves state-of-the-art results over all existing projection-based models. Code is available at \url{https://github.com/haibo-qiu/GFNet}.

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3D Semantic SegmentationLIDAR Semantic SegmentationRepresentation LearningRobust 3D Semantic SegmentationSegmentationSemantic Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Semantic Segmentation SemanticKITTI GFNet test mIoU 65.4% #16 of 45 Archive leaderboard report
LIDAR Semantic Segmentation nuScenes GFNet test mIoU 0.76 #21 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Robust 3D Semantic Segmentation SemanticKITTI-C GFNet mean Corruption Error (mCE) 108.68% #13 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Robust 3D Semantic Segmentation nuScenes-C GFNet mean Corruption Error (mCE) 92.55% #1 of 12 Archive leaderboard report

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