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PointAugmenting: Cross-Modal Augmentation for 3D Object Detection

CVPR 2021 · Point clouds › Segmentation and detection · approach: LiDAR voxel and pillar detectors · 472 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Add point-wise detection CNN features and late fusion to LiDAR detectionCenterPoint · nuScenes testmAP: 60.3 -> 66.8Helped
Add camera features with cross-modal fusionCenterPoint · Waymo validation, L2mAP: 66.88 -> 69.22Helped
Use detection CNN features instead of segmentation scores (ablation)PointPainting-style point decoration · nuScenes 1/8 validationmAP: 42.3 -> 46.0Helped
Use late BEV fusion instead of point-wise concatenation (ablation)Detection features + point-wise concatenation · nuScenes 1/8 validationmAP: 46.0 -> 47.5Helped
Add cross-modal GT-Paste to the fused detector (ablation)PointAugmenting · nuScenes 1/8 validationmAP: 42.6 -> 47.5Helped
Add the fade strategy by stopping augmentation in the final 5 epochs (ablation)PointAugmenting · nuScenes 1/8 validationmAP: 47.5 -> 48.8Helped
Add naive GT-Paste to LiDAR-only detection (ablation)CenterPoint · nuScenes 1/8 validationmAP: 32.8 -> 37.6Helped
Replace naive GT-Paste with cross-modal GT-Paste (ablation)LiDAR-only CenterPoint · nuScenes 1/8 validationmAP: 37.6 -> 37.4No clear effect
Reduce input image size to 448 × 800 with late fusion (ablation)PointAugmenting · nuScenes validationmAP: 47.5 -> 47.3Hurt
Use point-wise concatenation instead of late fusion at 448 × 800 (ablation)PointAugmenting lite · nuScenes validationmAP: 47.3 -> 46.4Hurt

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