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SGPN: Similarity Group Proposal Network for 3D Point Cloud Instance Segmentation
We introduce Similarity Group Proposal Network (SGPN), a simple and intuitive
deep learning framework for 3D object instance segmentation on point clouds.
SGPN uses a single network to predict point grouping proposals and a
corresponding semantic class for each proposal, from which we can directly
extract instance segmentation results. Important to the effectiveness of SGPN
is its novel representation of 3D instance segmentation results in the form of
a similarity matrix that indicates the similarity between each pair of points
in embedded feature space, thus producing an accurate grouping proposal for
each point. To the best of our knowledge, SGPN is the first framework to learn
3D instance-aware semantic segmentation on point clouds. Experimental results
on various 3D scenes show the effectiveness of our method on 3D instance
segmentation, and we also evaluate the capability of SGPN to improve 3D object
detection and semantic segmentation results. We also demonstrate its
flexibility by seamlessly incorporating 2D CNN features into the framework to
boost performance
Focused Proofreading: Efficiently Extracting Connectomes from Segmented EM Images
Identifying complex neural circuitry from electron microscopic (EM) images
may help unlock the mysteries of the brain. However, identifying this circuitry
requires time-consuming, manual tracing (proofreading) due to the size and
intricacy of these image datasets, thus limiting state-of-the-art analysis to
very small brain regions. Potential avenues to improve scalability include
automatic image segmentation and crowd sourcing, but current efforts have had
limited success. In this paper, we propose a new strategy, focused
proofreading, that works with automatic segmentation and aims to limit
proofreading to the regions of a dataset that are most impactful to the
resulting circuit. We then introduce a novel workflow, which exploits
biological information such as synapses, and apply it to a large dataset in the
fly optic lobe. With our techniques, we achieve significant tracing speedups of
3-5x without sacrificing the quality of the resulting circuit. Furthermore, our
methodology makes the task of proofreading much more accessible and hence
potentially enhances the effectiveness of crowd sourcing
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