4D Panoptic LiDAR Segmentation
Mehmet Aygun, Aljosa Osep, Mark Weber, Maxim Maximov, Cyrill Stachniss, Jens Behley, Laura Leal-Taixe
Abstract
Temporal semantic scene understanding is critical for self-driving cars or robots operating in dynamic environments. In this paper, we propose 4D panoptic LiDAR segmentation to assign a semantic class and a temporally-consistent instance ID to a sequence of 3D points. To this end, we present an approach and a novel evaluation metric. Our approach determines a semantic class for every point while modeling object instances as probability distributions in the 4D spatio-temporal domain. We process multiple point clouds in parallel and resolve point-to-instance associations, effectively alleviating the need for explicit temporal data association. Inspired by recent advances in benchmarking of multi-object tracking, we propose to adopt a new evaluation metric that separates the semantic and point-to-instance association aspects of the task. With this work, we aim at paving the road for future developments aiming at temporal LiDAR panoptic perception.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{cvpr2021_4dpanopticlidars,
title = {4D Panoptic LiDAR Segmentation},
author = {Mehmet Aygun and Aljosa Osep and Mark Weber and Maxim Maximov and Cyrill Stachniss and Jens Behley and Laura Leal-Taixe},
booktitle = {CVPR 2021},
year = {2021}
}