Point Transformer V3: Simpler, Faster, Stronger
Authors: Xiaoyang Wu, Li Jiang, Peng-Shuai Wang, Zhijian Liu, Xihui Liu, Yu Qiao, Wanli Ouyang, Tong He, Hengshuang Zhao
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- The paper focuses on addressing the trade-offs between accuracy and efficiency in point cloud processing
- The authors propose Point Transformer V3 (PTv3) as a solution, prioritizing simplicity and efficiency over minor mechanisms
- PTv3 replaces precise neighbor search with an efficient serialized neighbor mapping of point clouds organized with specific patterns
- This approach enables significant scaling, expanding the receptive field from 16 to 1024 points while maintaining efficiency
- Compared to PTv2, PTv3 offers notable improvements in processing speed (a 3x increase) and memory efficiency (a 10x improvement)
- PTv3 achieves state-of-the-art results on more than 20 downstream tasks spanning both indoor and outdoor scenarios
- The authors enhance PTv3 with multi-dataset joint training to push the results to a higher level
- Code for PTv3 implementation is available at Pointcept (https://github.com/Pointcept/PointTransformerV3)
- In summary, "Point Transformer V3: Simpler, Faster, Stronger" presents a novel approach that addresses accuracy-efficiency trade-offs in point cloud processing
Abstract: This paper is not motivated to seek innovation within the attention mechanism. Instead, it focuses on overcoming the existing trade-offs between accuracy and efficiency within the context of point cloud processing, leveraging the power of scale. Drawing inspiration from recent advances in 3D large-scale representation learning, we recognize that model performance is more influenced by scale than by intricate design. Therefore, we present Point Transformer V3 (PTv3), which prioritizes simplicity and efficiency over the accuracy of certain mechanisms that are minor to the overall performance after scaling, such as replacing the precise neighbor search by KNN with an efficient serialized neighbor mapping of point clouds organized with specific patterns. This principle enables significant scaling, expanding the receptive field from 16 to 1024 points while remaining efficient (a 3x increase in processing speed and a 10x improvement in memory efficiency compared with its predecessor, PTv2). PTv3 attains state-of-the-art results on over 20 downstream tasks that span both indoor and outdoor scenarios. Further enhanced with multi-dataset joint training, PTv3 pushes these results to a higher level.
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