用投票机制提升激光雷达场景流估计的运动一致性。
RVLoss: Runoff Vote Loss for Self-Supervised LiDAR Scene Flow Estimation

- 通过两阶段投票选出主导运动方向,强制点云运动保持刚性。
- 在Argoverse2上相比基线提升20%,跨数据集表现稳定。
- 无需额外模块,可直接接入现有网络结构,适合自动驾驶应用。
LiDAR场景流旨在估计连续两次扫描间的点级运动,即源帧与目标帧之间的位移。主流自监督方法通常最小化Chamfer损失,即流补偿后的源点与目标点之间的最近邻距离。然而,最近邻搜索无法保证物体内部运动的一致性,导致大物体上出现不一致的流动。现有方法虽引入正则项改善,但点间运动一致性仍有限。本文提出RVLoss,通过运行投票机制在设计中引入运动刚性。核心观察是:由最近邻搜索得到的点级运动常可通过投票(top-k)归纳为少数几个主导运动候选。进一步地,当用这些候选补偿源点时,最能代表刚性运动的流在二次投票(top-1)中获得最高共识。基于此,将双阶段投票机制融入损失设计,生成簇级刚性流与自由形态流作为伪标签用于自监督学习。RVLoss可无缝集成至现有前馈架构。在Argoverse2 2026挑战赛上的实验表明,使用RVLoss训练的模型在自监督方法中达到当前最优性能,相比其他损失设计的基线模型提升20%。跨数据集评估显示,在四个额外数据集上均实现一致性能提升。代码将在论文录用后发布。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
LiDAR scene flow estimates point-wise motion between two consecutive scans, referred to as the source and target. Leading self-supervised methods typically minimize the Chamfer loss, the nearest neighbor distance between the flow-compensated source and the target. However, nearest-neighbor search does not enforce motion rigidity, often leading to inconsistent flows within object instances. Existing approaches address this issue with additional regularization terms, but flow consistency among points remains limited, especially for large objects. We propose RVLoss, a self-supervised loss that incorporates motion rigidity by design through a runoff vote mechanism. Our key observation is that the point-wise motion, calculated from nearest neighbor search, can often be grouped into a small set of dominant flow candidates by voting (top-k voting). Furthermore, when compensating the source by these candidates, the flow that best represents the underlying rigid motion often yields the highest consensus after a second voting (top-1 voting). Based on this insight, we incorporate the two-stage runoff vote into loss design and create cluster-wise rigid flows and free-form flows as pseudo-labels for self-supervised learning. RVLoss can be seamlessly integrated into existing feedforward architectures. Experiments on the Argoverse2 2026 Challenge show that models trained with RVLoss achieve state-of-the-art performance among self-supervised approaches, outperforming baseline models trained with alternative loss designs by 20%. Moreover, cross-dataset evaluations demonstrate consistent performance improvements across four additional datasets. Code will be released upon acceptance.
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