A geometry-aware attention network for semantic segmentation of MLS point clouds
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Abstract
Semantic segmentation of mobile laser scanning (MLS) point clouds can provide meaningful 3 D semantic information of urban facilities for various applications. However, it still remains a challenge to extract accurate 3 D semantic information from MLS point cloud data due to its irregular 3 D geometric structure in a large-scale outdoor scene. To this end, this study develops a geometry-aware attention point network (GAANet) with geometric properties of the point cloud as a reference. Specifically, the proposed method first builds a graph-like region for each input point to establish the geometric correlation toward its neighbors for robustly descripting local geometry-aware features. Thereafter, the method introduces a novel multi-head attention mechanism to efficiently learn local discriminative features on the constructed graphs and a feature combination operation to capture both local and global geometric dependencies inside fused point features for significantly facilitating the segmentation of small or incomplete 3 D objects at point-level. Finally, an adaptive loss function is appended to handle class imbalance for the overall performance improvement. The validation experiments on two challenging benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness and powerful generation ability of the proposed method, which achieves state-of-the-art performance with mean IoU of 65.09% and 95.20% in the Toronto-3D and Oakland 3-D MLS dataset, respectively.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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