InOR-Net: Incremental 3-D Object Recognition Network for Point Cloud Representation

doi:10.1109/TNNLS.2023.3247490

InOR-Net: Incremental 3-D Object Recognition Network for Point Cloud Representation

2023-10-01

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DOI：10.1109/TNNLS.2023.3247490

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3-D object recognition has successfully become an appealing research topic in the real world. However, most existing recognition models unreasonably assume that the categories of 3-D objects cannot change over time in the real world. This unrealistic assumption may result in significant performance degradation for them to learn new classes of 3-D objects consecutively due to the catastrophic forgetting on old learned classes. Moreover, they cannot explore which 3-D geometric characteristics are essential to alleviate the catastrophic forgetting on old classes of 3-D objects. To tackle the above challenges, we develop a novel Incremental 3-D Object Recognition Network (i.e., InOR-Net), which could recognize new classes of 3-D objects continuously by overcoming the catastrophic forgetting on old classes. Specifically, category-guided geometric reasoning is proposed to reason local geometric structures with distinctive 3-D characteristics of each class by leveraging intrinsic category information. We then propose a novel critic-induced geometric attention mechanism to distinguish which 3-D geometric characteristics within each class are beneficial to overcome the catastrophic forgetting on old classes of 3-D objects while preventing the negative influence of useless 3-D characteristics. In addition, a dual adaptive fairness compensations' strategy is designed to overcome the forgetting brought by class imbalance by compensating biased weights and predictions of the classifier. Comparison experiments verify the state-of-the-art performance of the proposed InOR-Net model on several public point cloud datasets.

Keywords:

Point cloud compression

Object recognition

Solid modeling

Feature extraction

Task analysis

Adaptation models

Training

3-D object recognition

catastrophic forgetting

class-incremental learning

point cloud representation

InOR-Net: Incremental 3-D Object Recognition Network for Point Cloud Representation

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