Multi-resolution feature fusion for point cloud classification and segmentation network

Tao Zhiyong; Li Heng; Dou Miaosen; Lin Sen

doi:10.12086/oee.2023.230166

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Tao Z Y, Li H, Dou M S, et al. Multi-resolution feature fusion for point cloud classification and segmentation network[J]. Opto-Electron Eng, 2023, 50(10): 230166. doi: 10.12086/oee.2023.230166

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Tao Z Y, Li H, Dou M S, et al. Multi-resolution feature fusion for point cloud classification and segmentation network[J]. Opto-Electron Eng, 2023, 50(10): 230166. doi: 10.12086/oee.2023.230166

Multi-resolution feature fusion for point cloud classification and segmentation network

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School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Liaoning Technical University, Huludao, Liaoning 125100, China
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School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110159, China

Fund Project: Project supported by Department of Science & Technology of Liaoning Province Application Fundamental Research Project(2022JH2/101300274)

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Corresponding author: PaperLH@163.com

Received Date 07 July 2023

Revised Date 13 September 2023

Accepted Date 20 September 2023

Published Date 25 October 2023

Abstract

Abstract

To address the problem that existing networks find it difficult to learn local geometric information of point cloud effectively, a graph convolutional network that fuses multi-resolution features of point cloud is proposed. First, the local graph structure of the point cloud is constructed by the k-nearest neighbor algorithm to better represent the local geometric structure of the point cloud. Second, a parallel channel branch is proposed based on the farthest point sampling algorithm, which obtains point clouds with different resolutions by downsampling them and then groups them. To overcome the sparse characteristics of the point cloud, a geometric mapping module is proposed to perform normalization operations on the grouped point cloud. Finally, a feature fusion module is proposed to aggregate graph features and multi-resolution features to obtain global features more effectively. Experiments are evaluated using ModelNet40, ScanObjectNN, and ShapeNet Part datasets. The experimental results show that the proposed network has state-of-the-art classification and segmentation performance.
- point cloud /
- graph convolutional network /
- multi-resolution point cloud /
- feature fusion module

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Overview

Overview

In recent years, 3D point cloud analysis has become a hot topic in computer vision and been widely used in mapping, medical imaging, and autonomous driving. As a 3D image representation, point cloud contains rich geometric information. With the development of 3D scanning technologies such as LiDAR, the acquisition of point clouds is becoming more accessible. Since convolutional neural networks (CNN) have greatly improved the results of computer vision tasks, neural networks are becoming a mainstream approach in image processing. Traditional 2D images comprise regular and dense pixels, and CNNs apply to 2D image processing. However, point cloud data are sparse and disordered; each point does not contain additional information (e.g., RGB). Using traditional CNNs for point cloud learning tasks is a challenging task. The graph-like structure can effectively represent non-Euclidean data like point clouds, and this method largely solves the problem of difficulty in learning the local features of point clouds. Since the graph structure construction process is generally based on the k-nearest neighbor algorithm (kNN), the size of the predefined neighborhood limits the effectiveness of the local graph structure. If the value of k is too small, it will lead to an incomplete representation of local information. At the same time, too large a value of k will introduce information redundancy, leading to performance degradation. To this end, we propose a multi-resolution graph convolutional network to perform the point cloud analysis task. The network learns the local features of point clouds by constructing graph structures and then downsamples the point clouds using the farthest point sampling method (FPS) to obtain multi-resolution point cloud data, followed by feature learning for point clouds at different resolutions. To overcome the effect of predefined neighborhoods, we compensate local features with multi-resolution features and efficiently aggregate point cloud features by the feature fusion module. To verify the classification and segmentation performance of the model, we perform classification experiments on ModelNet40 and ScanObjectNN datasets and part segmentation experiments on ShapeNet Part dataset. It is experimentally verified that the compensation of point cloud local graph structure information with multi-resolution features can enhance point clouds' local feature learning ability. The multi-resolution graph convolutional network proposed in this paper can effectively capture the local features of point clouds and achieve good results in classification and segmentation tasks. A large number of ablation experiments verify the effectiveness and robustness of the model.