SL3D - Single Look 3D Object Detection based on RGB-D Images

We present SL3D, Single Look 3D object detection approach to detect the 3D objects from the RGB-D image pair. The approach is a proposal free, single-stage 3D object detection method from RGB-D images by leveraging multi-scale feature fusion of RGB and depth feature maps, and multi-layer predictions. The method takes pair of RGB and depth images as an input and outputs predicted 3D bounding boxes. The neural network SL3D, comprises of two modules: multi-scale feature fusion and multi-layer prediction. The multi-scale feature fusion module fuses the multi-scale features from RGB and depth feature maps, which are later used by the multi-layer prediction module for 3D object detection. Each location of prediction layer is attached with a set of predefined 3D prior boxes to account for varying shapes of 3D objects. The output of the network regresses the predicted 3D bounding boxes as an offset to the set of 3D prior boxes and duplicate 3D bounding boxes are removed by applying 3D non-maximum suppression. The network is trained end-to-end on publicly available SUN RGB-D dataset. The SL3D approach with ResNeXt50 achieves 31.77 mAP on SUN RGB-D test dataset with an inference speed of approximately 4 fps, and with MobileNetV2, it achieves approximately 15 fps with a reduction of around 2 mAP. The quantitative results show that the proposed method achieves competitive performance to state-of-the-art methods on SUN RGB-D dataset with near real-time inference speed.