Prototype Adaption and Projection for Few- and Zero-shot 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
This work addresses the problem of limited data and high annotation costs in 3D point cloud segmentation for computer vision applications, offering a novel approach that is incremental but with strong specific gains.
The paper tackles few-shot and zero-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation by proposing a Query-Guided Prototype Adaption module and a Self-Reconstruction module to address large intra-class feature variation, achieving improvements of 7.90% and 14.82% over state-of-the-art methods on S3DIS and ScanNet benchmarks under 2-way 1-shot settings.
In this work, we address the challenging task of few-shot and zero-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation. The success of few-shot semantic segmentation in 2D computer vision is mainly driven by the pre-training on large-scale datasets like imagenet. The feature extractor pre-trained on large-scale 2D datasets greatly helps the 2D few-shot learning. However, the development of 3D deep learning is hindered by the limited volume and instance modality of datasets due to the significant cost of 3D data collection and annotation. This results in less representative features and large intra-class feature variation for few-shot 3D point cloud segmentation. As a consequence, directly extending existing popular prototypical methods of 2D few-shot classification/segmentation into 3D point cloud segmentation won't work as well as in 2D domain. To address this issue, we propose a Query-Guided Prototype Adaption (QGPA) module to adapt the prototype from support point clouds feature space to query point clouds feature space. With such prototype adaption, we greatly alleviate the issue of large feature intra-class variation in point cloud and significantly improve the performance of few-shot 3D segmentation. Besides, to enhance the representation of prototypes, we introduce a Self-Reconstruction (SR) module that enables prototype to reconstruct the support mask as well as possible. Moreover, we further consider zero-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation where there is no support sample. To this end, we introduce category words as semantic information and propose a semantic-visual projection model to bridge the semantic and visual spaces. Our proposed method surpasses state-of-the-art algorithms by a considerable 7.90% and 14.82% under the 2-way 1-shot setting on S3DIS and ScanNet benchmarks, respectively. Code is available at https://github.com/heshuting555/PAP-FZS3D.