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Point Cloud Instance Segmentation using Probabilistic Embeddings

30 Nov 2019CVPR 2021 1arXiv:1912.00145archive 2025-07-28

Biao Zhang, Peter Wonka

In this paper we propose a new framework for point cloud instance segmentation. Our framework has two steps: an embedding step and a clustering step. In the embedding step, our main contribution is to propose a probabilistic embedding space for point cloud embedding. Specifically, each point is represented as a tri-variate normal distribution. In the clustering step, we propose a novel loss function, which benefits both the semantic segmentation and the clustering. Our experimental results show important improvements to the SOTA, i.e., 3.1% increased average per-category mAP on the PartNet dataset.

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3D Instance SegmentationClusteringInstance SegmentationSegmentationSemantic Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Instance Segmentation PartNet Probabilistic Embeddings mAP50 57.5 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Instance Segmentation PartNet PE mAP50 57.5 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report

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