A Multi-scale Network for Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental operation in scene analysis. In this paper, an effective multiscale network for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation was introduced. By using a multiscale local feature extraction module which composed of four feature extractors of different scales in parallel, the generalizability of network for complex structures is enhanced effectively. To adaptively learn important feature channels, an attention mechanism is designed. Combining multiple features through skip connection, the network can preferably assign the semantic label for every point by exploiting global and local features. Experiments on 3D dataset (S3DIS) verify that our network is able to learn local region features, and the results are superior or comparable to the state-of-the-art.