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Point Transformer V3: Simpler, Faster, Stronger (arxiv.org)
2 points by georgehill on Dec 18, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | 1 comment on HN

In plain words: Instead of finding each point's nearest neighbors, it sorts points into a fixed order and reads neighbors straight from that order, making 3D scene processing cheaper. It scans a far wider neighborhood, runs three times faster than the last version, and leads on many tasks.

Abstract

This paper is not motivated to seek innovation within the attention mechanism. Instead, it focuses on overcoming the existing trade-offs between accuracy and efficiency within the context of point cloud processing, leveraging the power of scale. Drawing inspiration from recent advances in 3D large-scale representation learning, we recognize that model performance is more influenced by scale than by intricate design. Therefore, we present Point Transformer V3 (PTv3), which prioritizes simplicity and efficiency over the accuracy of certain mechanisms that are minor to the overall performance after scaling, such as replacing the precise neighbor search by KNN with an efficient serialized neighbor mapping of point clouds organized with specific patterns. This principle enables significant scaling, expanding the receptive field from 16 to 1024 points while remaining efficient (a 3x increase in processing speed and a 10x improvement in memory efficiency compared with its predecessor, PTv2). PTv3 attains state-of-the-art results on over 20 downstream tasks that span both indoor and outdoor scenarios. Further enhanced with multi-dataset joint training, PTv3 pushes these results to a higher level.

Xiaoyang Wu, Li Jiang, Peng-Shuai Wang, Zhijian Liu, Xihui Liu, Yu Qiao, Wanli Ouyang, Tong He, Hengshuang Zhao
arXiv:2312.10035 · cs.CV · submitted Dec 15, 2023 · updated Mar 25, 2024
abstract · pdf · html · CVPR 2024, code available at Pointcept (https://github.com/Pointcept/PointTransformerV3)

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