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ArticleScientific reports2025

PillarFocusNet for 3D object detection with perceptual diffusion and key feature understanding.

Yuhan Gao, Peng Wang, Xiaoyan Li, Bo Sun, Mengyu Sun, Liangliang Li, Ruohai Di

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Yuhan GaoSchool of Electronics Information Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an, 710021, China.
Peng WangSchool of Electronics Information Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an, 710021, China. wp_xatu@163.com.
Xiaoyan LiSchool of Electronics Information Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an, 710021, China.
Bo SunSchool of Electronics Information Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an, 710021, China.
Mengyu SunSchool of Optoelectronic Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an, 710021, China.
Liangliang LiSchool of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an, 710021, China.
Ruohai DiSchool of Electronics Information Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an, 710021, China.

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Engineering Technology Research Center of Shaanxi Province for Intelligent Testing and Reliability Evaluation of Electronic Equipments 2024Key research and development program of Shaanxi Province 2024GX-YBXM-152National key research and development program 2022YFF0604900Shaanxi Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars 2024JC-JCQN-57Shaanxi University Engineering Research Center 2023Shaanxi University Youth Innovation Team Project 2022Xi'an Key Laboratory of Military Civilian Dual-Use Intelligent Evaluation Technology 2024
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Abstract

This study presents PillarFocusNet, a novel network about 3D point cloud object detection that optimizes the PointPillars framework to improve detection performance. First, we propose the Pillar Clustering Sampling Method to address the sparse and uneven distribution of 3D point cloud data. Second, we introduce the Mixed Pooling Dilated Convolution Layer (MPDC layer) to enhance feature extraction. Finally, we integrate the Space-Channel Synergistic Enhancement Module (SCS-EM) to improve feature representation across both spatial and channel dimensions. Results from KITTI dataset experiments demonstrate that PillarFocusNet enhances bbox, bev, and 3d detection performance by 1.3%, 2.9%, and 3.4%, respectively, when compared to PointPillars. The code and models are publicly available at https://github.com/Gaoooyhan/PillarFocusNet .

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3D point cloudAttention mechanismDeep learningFeature extractionObject detection

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PMID40082614
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