3D target detection using dual domain attention and SIFT operator in indoor scenes

In a large number of real-life scenes and practical applications, 3D object detection is playing an increasingly important role. We need to estimate the position and direction of the 3D object in the real scene to complete the 3D object detection task. In this paper, we propose a new network architecture based on VoteNet to detect 3D point cloud targets. On the one hand, we use channel and spatial dual-domain attention module to enhance the features of the object to be detected while suppressing other useless features. On the other hand, the SIFT operator has scale invariance and the ability to resist occlusion and background interference. The PointSIFT module we use can capture information in different directions of point cloud in space, and is robust to shapes of different proportions, so as to better detect objects that are partially occluded. Our method is evaluated on the SUN-RGBD and ScanNet datasets of indoor scenes. The experimental results show that our method has better performance than VoteNet.