Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 58, Issue 20, 2028004(2021)

Semantic Segmentation of LiDAR Point Cloud Based on CAFF-PointNet

Ming Lai, Jiankang Zhao*, Chuanqi Liu, Chao Cui, and Haihui Long
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  • Department of Instrument Science & Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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    Herein, we propose a convolutional neural network based on channel attention mechanism for multiscale feature fusion regarding the characteristics of LiDAR point clouds, such as the complex geometric structure and extreme scale variations among different categories, resulting in the issue of low classification accuracy of small targets. First, low-level features (planarity, linearity, normal vector, and eigen entropy) are calculated for each point by setting a spherical neighborhood, and they are fused with high-level features acquired by the network to improve the geometry awareness of the constructed model. Then, a multiscale feature fusion module is designed based on the channel attention mechanism to learn fusion weight coefficient so that the network can adapt to the receptive field size of different scale objects and realize different scales information filtering, which improves the classification performance of the small-scale object. According to the experiments, the average F1 score using the ISPRS Vaihingen 3D Semantic Labeling benchmark is 72.2%. Compared with other algorithms, our model has the highest classification accuracy in the powerline and car categories with F1 scores of 64.3% and 79.9%, respectively.

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    Ming Lai, Jiankang Zhao, Chuanqi Liu, Chao Cui, Haihui Long. Semantic Segmentation of LiDAR Point Cloud Based on CAFF-PointNet[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(20): 2028004

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    Paper Information

    Category: Remote Sensing and Sensors

    Received: Nov. 17, 2020

    Accepted: Jan. 7, 2021

    Published Online: Oct. 15, 2021

    The Author Email: Zhao Jiankang (zhaojiankang@sjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP202158.2028004

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