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Title: PointPWC-Net: Cost Volume on Point Clouds for (Self-)Supervised Scene Flow Estimation
We propose a novel end-to-end deep scene flow model, called PointPWC-Net, that directly processes 3D point cloud scenes with large motions in a coarse-to-fine fashion. Flow computed at the coarse level is upsampled and warped to a finer level, enabling the algorithm to accommodate for large motion without a prohibitive search space. We introduce novel cost volume, upsampling, and warping layers to efficiently handle 3D point cloud data. Unlike traditional cost volumes that require exhaustively computing all the cost values on a high-dimensional grid, our point-based formulation discretizes the cost volume onto input 3D points, and a PointConv operation efficiently computes convolutions on the cost volume. Experiment results on FlyingThings3D and KITTI outperform the state-of-the-art by a large margin. We further explore novel self-supervised losses to train our model and achieve comparable results to state-of-the-art trained with supervised loss. Without any fine-tuning, our method also shows great generalization ability on the KITTI Scene Flow 2015 dataset, outperforming all previous methods. The code is released at https://github.com/DylanWusee/PointPWC.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1751402
PAR ID:
10229106
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
ECCV 2020
Volume:
12350
Page Range / eLocation ID:
88-107
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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