A Real-Time Online Learning Framework for Joint 3D Reconstruction and Semantic Segmentation of Indoor Scenes

Davide Menini1
Suryansh Kumar1
Martin R Oswald1
Erik Sandstrom1
Cristian Sminchisescu2
Luc Van Gool1, 3
ETH Zurich1, Google Research2, KU Lueven3
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022, USA.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L) 2022.
(Oral Presentation)




Abstract
This paper presents a real-time online vision framework to jointly recover an indoor scene's 3D structure and semantic label. Given noisy depth maps, a camera trajectory, and 2D semantic labels at train time, the proposed deep neural network based approach learns to fuse the depth over frames with suitable semantic labels in the scene space. Our approach exploits the joint volumetric representation of the depth and semantics in the scene feature space to solve this task. For a compelling online fusion of the semantic labels and geometry in real-time, we introduce an efficient vortex pooling block while dropping the use of routing network in online depth fusion to preserve high-frequency surface details. We show that the context information provided by the semantics of the scene helps the depth fusion network learn noise-resistant features. Not only that, it helps overcome the shortcomings of the current online depth fusion method in dealing with thin object structures, thickening artifacts, and false surfaces. Experimental evaluation on the Replica dataset shows that our approach can perform depth fusion at 37 and 10 frames per second with an average reconstruction F-score of 88% and 91%, respectively, depending on the depth map resolution. Moreover, our model shows an average IoU score of 0.515 on the ScanNet 3D semantic benchmark leaderboard.




Paper

A Real-Time Online Learning Framework for Joint 3D Reconstruction and Semantic Segmentation of Indoor Scenes

Authors: Menini Davide, Suryansh Kumar, Martin R Oswald, Erik Sandstrom, Cristian Sminchisescu, Luc Van Gool.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022, Philadelphia, USA.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L), 2022.


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Few Results on Replica Dataset

Replica Dataset (office 2)

Replica Dataset (room 1)



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Acknowledgements

This work was funded by Focused Research Award from Google(CVL, ETH, 2019-HE-323). Suryansh Kumar's project is supported by "ETH Zurich Foundation and Google, Project Number: 2019-HE-323, 2020-HS-411" for bringing together best academic and industrial research. The authors thank Mr. Silvan Weder (CVG, ETH) for useful discussion.