Laser & Infrared, Volume. 55, Issue 5, 703(2025)

Point cloud semantic segmentation based on cross-layer attention feature fusion

WANG Jun-fu1, XUE Xiao-jie1、*, YANG Yi2,3, and WANG Ke-ping2,3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Zhengzhou Hengda Intelligent Control Technology Company Limited, Zhengzhou 450000, China
  • 2School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China
  • 3Henan Key Laboratory of Intelligent Detection and Control of Coal Mine Equipment, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China
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    To address the insufficient utilization of features and the significant semantic discrepancy between encoder and decoder features in existing point cloud semantic segmentation networks, a point cloud semantic segmentation method based on cross-layer attention feature fusion is proposed in this paper. Initially, a local feature encoding module is designed to refine neighboring points coordinates through polar coordinate encoding and offset updates, and the differences in relative semantic features are calculated to enhance the richness of neighborhood features, allowing the network to learn the local details of objects of different shapes and sizes. Then, an adaptive feature aggregation module is introduced to enhance the network's perception of local regional features, ensuring comprehensive utilization of neighborhood feature information. Finally, a cross-layer attention fusion network is incorporated to mitigate the semantic discrepancy between encoder and decoder layers. Experimental validations are conducted on the large-scale indoor scene point cloud dataset S3DIS and complex outdoor scene point cloud dataset Semantic3D. On the S3DIS dataset, Area 5 achieved a mean Intersection over Union of 65.2%, and a mean accuracy of 75.1%, showing improvements of 2.8% and 3.7%, respectively, compared to RandLA-Net. For the Semantic3D dataset, the mean Intersection over Union is 76.7%, and the overall accuracy is 94.6%, marking increases of 4.9% and 0.4% over RandLA-Net. The results substantiate the method's capability to extract distinctive features from complex point clouds and achieve precise segmentation across diverse scene categories.

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    WANG Jun-fu, XUE Xiao-jie, YANG Yi, WANG Ke-ping. Point cloud semantic segmentation based on cross-layer attention feature fusion[J]. Laser & Infrared, 2025, 55(5): 703

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    Received: Aug. 5, 2024

    Accepted: Jul. 11, 2025

    Published Online: Jul. 11, 2025

    The Author Email: XUE Xiao-jie (Jeremy648@163.com)

    DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1001-5078.2025.05.009

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