SceneGraphFusion: Incremental 3D Scene Graph Prediction from RGB-D Sequences

PubDate: June 2021

Teams: Technische Universitat Munchen；Google

Writers: Shun-Cheng Wu1 Johanna Wald1 Keisuke Tateno2 Nassir Navab1 Federico Tombari

PDF: SceneGraphFusion: Incremental 3D Scene Graph Prediction from RGB-D Sequences

Abstract

Scene graphs are a compact and explicit representation successfully used in a variety of 2D scene understanding tasks. This work proposes a method to incrementally build up semantic scene graphs from a 3D environment given a sequence of RGB-D frames. To this end, we aggregate PointNet features from primitive scene components by means of a graph neural network. We also propose a novel attention mechanism well suited for partial and missing graph data present in such an incremental reconstruction scenario. Although our proposed method is designed to run on submaps of the scene, we show it also transfers to entire 3D scenes. Experiments show that our approach outperforms 3D scene graph prediction methods by a large margin and its accuracy is on par with other 3D semantic and panoptic segmentation methods while running at 35Hz.