Helix4D
Official Pytorch implementation of the "Online Segmentation of LiDAR Sequences: Dataset and Algorithm" paper
Install / Use
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Description
Official PyTorch implementation of the paper "Online Segmentation of LiDAR Sequences: Dataset and Algorithm".
Please visit our webpage for more details.

Installation :construction_worker:
1. Clone the repository in recursive mode
git clone git@github.com:romainloiseau/Helix4D.git --recursive
2. Clone, create and activate conda environment
conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate helix4d_conda
Optional: some monitoring routines are implemented with tensorboard.
Note: this implementation uses spconv for sparse convolutions, pytorch_lightning for all training routines and hydra to manage configuration files and command line arguments.
3. Datasets
This implementation uses dedicated modules to perform slice-splitting on HelixNet and Semantic-KITTI datasets that can be found here. HelixNet's toolbox is used as a submodule for this repository.
Go to the website of desired datasets and download them at /path/to/datasets/ and use data.data_dir=/path/to/datasets/dataset-name as a command line argument for python to find your path when using this implementation.
How to use :rocket:
Training the model
To train our best model, launch :
python main.py \
+data=dataset \
+experiment=ours
Current available datasets
helixnet: HelixNet (9 classes)semantic-kitti: Semantic-KITTI (20 classes)semantic-kitti-all: Semantic-KITTI with moving objects (26 classes)
Testing the model
To test the model, launch :
python main.py \
+data=dataset \
+experiment=ours \
mode=test \
model.load_weights="/path/to/trained/weights.ckpt"
Note: pretrained weights to come in pretrained_models/
Reproduce results
To reproduce the <b>Table 4: Ablation Study</b> of the paper using slurm jobs, launch :
python ablations.py
Citation
@article{loiseau22online,
title={Online Segmentation of LiDAR Sequences: Dataset and Algorithm.},
author={Romain Loiseau and Mathieu Aubry and Loic Landrieu},
journal={ECCV},
year={2022}
}
