Point Cloud Data Augmentation for 4D Panoptic Segmentation

Abstract: 4D panoptic segmentation is an emerging topic in the field of autonomous driving, which jointly tackles 3D semantic segmentation, 3D instance segmentation, and 3D multi-object tracking based on point cloud data. However, the difficulty of collection limits the size of existing point cloud datasets. Therefore, data augmentation is employed to expand the amount of existing data for better generalization and prediction ability. In this thesis, we built a new point cloud dataset named VCE dataset from scratch. Besides, we adopted a neural network model for the 4D panoptic segmentation task and proposed a simple geometric method based on translation operation. Compared to the baseline model, better results were obtained after augmentation, with an increase of 2.15% in LSTQ.