Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 6, 0615012(2025)

Improved PointPillars Algorithm Based on Point Cloud Feature Enhancement

Gan Zhang*, Yuhui Peng, Baozhe Sun, Shenyang Lin, and Jiaming Zhang
Author Affiliations
  • School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, Fujian , China
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    Figures & Tables(12)
    Improved PointPillars network architecture
    Number of different categories in the KITTI dataset[17]
    Flowchart of the Data-Aug++data enhancement algorithm
    Improved ECA attention mechanism
    Improved backbone network
    Density sampling result diagram
    EMA attention mechanism[14]
    Point cloud objects before and after sparsification
    Detection results. (a) Scene 1; (b) scene 2; (c) scene 3; (d) scene 4
    • Table 1. Comparison of AP for different algorithms

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      Table 1. Comparison of AP for different algorithms

      Modelcarpedestriancyclist
      easymoderatehardeasymoderatehardeasymoderatehard
      F-PointNet81.2070.3962.1951.2144.8940.2371.9656.7750.39
      VoxelNeXt83.8875.5870.7747.4639.9737.4378.1861.7454.68
      SECOND83.1373.6666.2051.0742.5637.2970.5153.8546.90
      PointRCNN85.9475.7668.3249.4341.7838.6373.9359.6053.59
      PointPillas82.5874.3168.9951.4541.9238.8975.7859.0752.92
      Proposed model85.9977.6672.5153.4744.6842.7579.5162.8557.11
    • Table 2. Comparison of AP for different models

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      Table 2. Comparison of AP for different models

      ModelDAECAEBcarpedestriancyclist
      easymoderatehardeasymoderatehardeasymoderatehard
      PointPillars86.176.975.254.047.842.580.061.658.3
      Model 186.376.774.555.149.545.681.962.660.1
      Model 286.877.175.759.853.948.981.362.859.8
      Model 386.477.275.455.752.047.584.463.761.1
      Proposed model87.477.776.761.956.450.884.064.562.1
    • Table 3. Comparison of AOS for different models

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      Table 3. Comparison of AOS for different models

      ModelDAECAEBcarpedestriancyclist
      easymoderatehardeasymoderatehardeasymoderatehard
      PointPillars90.188.886.447.244.542.385.371.167.1
      Model 190.789.288.146.544.341.785.770.966.4
      Model 290.489.388.554.351.347.187.374.172.1
      Model 390.790.088.450.648.044.087.073.069.8
      Proposed model90.889.688.854.752.448.289.776.373.2
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    Gan Zhang, Yuhui Peng, Baozhe Sun, Shenyang Lin, Jiaming Zhang. Improved PointPillars Algorithm Based on Point Cloud Feature Enhancement[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(6): 0615012

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    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Jul. 25, 2024

    Accepted: Sep. 3, 2024

    Published Online: Mar. 12, 2025

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    DOI:10.3788/LOP241730

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP241730

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