MLCVNet

Introduction

This repository is the MLCVNet code implementation on ScanNet dataset. The main parts of the code are based on VoteNet.

Installation

Follow the Installation and Data preparation structions in VoteNet.

Train and Test

To train a MLCVNet model on Scannet data, you can simply run (it takes around 4 hours to convergence with one 1080ti GPU):

	CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python train.py

To test the trained model with its checkpoint:

	python eval.py --checkpoint_path demo_files/pretrained_mlcvnet_on_scannet.tar --dump_dir eval_scannet --use_3d_nms --use_cls_nms --per_class_proposal

Run demo

You can simply run the following command to use the pretrained model on a ScanNet:

    python demo.py

The default scene ID used here is scene0609_02_vh_clean_2 in demo_files. Detection results will be dumped to demo_files/scene0609_02_vh_clean_2. The data structure should be:

demo_files/scene0609_02_vh_clean_2
├── 2_pred_confident_nms_bbox.ply
├── 4_pred_confident_nms_bbox.ply
├── ...

You can use 3D visualization software such as the MeshLab to open the dumped file under demo_files/scene0609_02_vh_clean_2 to see the 3D detection output.

Detections Visualization

Step 1: generate the results

Run python demo.py to get the output results for a specific scene scene0609_02_vh_clean_2.ply.

(If you want to see results of another scene: Since the output boxes are in different coordination with the original scene, so you need first run rotate_val_scans.py in the scannet folder to tranform the original scenes into the boxes' coordination, for the proper visualization. Then, choose a scene ID, for instance scene0575_00, and find scene0575_00_vh_clean_2.ply in scans_val_transformed folder. Move it to the demo_files and run python demo.py scene0575_00_vh_clean_2.ply)

Step 2: visualization mode

Import the scene0609_02_vh_clean_2.ply and *_pred_confident_nms_bbox.ply to Meshlab. Set the correct visualization mode for the scene and all imported boxes, as shown in the below picture.

Step 3: Quad-mesh

Turn the boxes into Quad mode as shown in the following figure. Choose the box one by one in the Layer Dialog. Follow the operations by "Filters"->"Polygonal and Quad Mesh"->"Turn into Quad-Dominant mesh"->"Apply".

Setp 4: colorization

Choose one type of objects and change the color under the "Wireframe" visualization mode, in the Layer Dialog.

See more results in visualization examples.

Citation

If our work is useful for your research, please consider cite:

@inproceedings{xie2020mlcvnet,
	title={MLCVNet: Multi-Level Context VoteNet for 3D Object Detection},
	author={Qian, Xie and Yu-kun, Lai and Jing, Wu and Zhoutao, Wang and Yiming, Zhang and Kai, Xu and Jun, Wang},
	booktitle={The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
	year={2020}
}

Acknowledgemets

This code largely benefits from excellent works VoteNet and cgnl-network.pytorch repositories, please also consider cite VoteNet and CGNL if you use this code.