Consistent 3D Mask Labeling Made Simple

The 3DIML approach uses a three-step pipeline to convert erratic 2D instance masks into logical 3D instance segmentations. To ensure consistent object classification in spite of segmentation noise, InstanceMap uses a scalable mask association graph based on extended hLoc to associate masks across pictures in the first stage. After resolving ambiguities with a label NeRF, InstanceLift refines these pseudolabels. A quick post-processing step then effectively combines labels that are in disagreement.


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Abstract and I. Introduction

II. Background

III. Method

IV. Experiments

V. Conclusion and References

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III. METHOD

Given a sequence of N posed RGB images, (Ii , Ti) where I denotes the image and T pose, we first extract viewinconsistent instance masks Mi using a generic instance segmentation model such as Mask2Former or SAM.

\ A. Mask Association

\ We first generate pseudolabel masks with InstanceMap. Formally, define ϕ(M, r) to map a mask M and region r to a consistent label for the same 3D object across different masks and regions. We extend the popular hLoc [16] framework for scalable 3D reconstruction to mask association as follows:

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\ Fig. 2: Overview of 3DIML. A sequence of color images is segmented into object instances by an image segmentation backbone. The resulting masks produced are fed into InstanceMap, which produces instance masks consistent over all frames. These pseudo instance masks and their respective camera poses are used to supervise an instance label NeRF, which further improves consistency and resolves ambiguity present in the InstanceMap outputs. The feature extraction and global data association blocks together form InstanceMap.

\ Since NetVLAD and LoFTR don’t have 3D information, 3DIML only performs well if each image in the scan sequence contains enough context for these models. We observe empirically a good rule of thumb is to have at least one other recognizable landmark for frames containing near-identical objects.

\ Mask Association Graph: Insofar, our approach produces instance masks and dense pixel correspondences among images that share a visual overlap. However, segmentation models such as SAM [2] suffer multiple issues: (a) segmentations of the same object need not be consistent across images, owing to viewpoint and appearance variations; and (b) owing to over-segmentation of objects, there isn’t usually a one-one correspondence among masks.

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\ B. Mask Refinement

\ ϕ(M, r) is inherently noisy due to varying segmentation hierarchies for different instance masks due to differing viewpoints as well as design specifics. To address this, in InstanceLift we feed the pseudolabel masks to a label NeRF, which resolves some ambiguities. Still, NeRF cannot handle extreme cases of label ambiguity, to which we devise a fast post-processing method that determines and merges colliding labels based on random renders from the label NeRF. The few remaining, if any, ambiguities can be corrected via sparse human annotation.

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\ Fig. 3: InstanceLoc enables 3D-consistent instance segmentation for novel views of the scene unobserved by the InstanceMap pipeline. We leverage off-the-shelf instance segmentation models to first produce 3D-inconsistent instance labels for a new input image. We then query the label field over a sparse set of points on the image and use this to localize each 2D instance mask i.e., assign a 3Dconsistent label to each mask.

\ Post graph construction, we merge labels a, b if

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\ Since we only need coarse information i.e. instance mask noise, we render images downsampled by a factor of 2.

\ C. Fast Instance Localization and Rendering

\ Training a label field enables us to predict 3D-consistent instance labels for novel viewpoints without rerunning 3DIML. However, rendering every pixel is slow, and rendering from a novel viewpoint is often noisy. We propose a fast localization approach that instead precomputes instance masks for the input image using an instance segmentation model (here FastSAM [8]). Given this instance mask, for each instance region, we sample the corresponding pixelwise 3D object labels from the label NeRF and take the majority label. Another benefit is that the input instance masks can be constructed using prompts and edited before localization.

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:::info Authors:

(1) George Tang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;

(2) Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;

(3) Antonio Torralba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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:::info This paper is available on arxiv under CC by 4.0 Deed (Attribution 4.0 International) license.

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