UniDet3D: Multi-dataset Indoor 3D Object Detection

Abstract

Growing customer demand for smart solutions in robotics and augmented reality has attracted considerable attention to 3D object detection from point clouds. Yet, existing indoor datasets taken individually are too small and insufficiently diverse to train a powerful and general 3D object detection model. In the meantime, more general approaches utilizing foundation models are still inferior in quality to those based on supervised training for a specific task. In this work, we propose UniDet3D, a simple yet effective 3D object detection model, which is trained on a mixture of indoor datasets and is capable to work in various indoor environments. By unifying different label spaces, UniDet3D enables learning a strong representation across multiple datasets through a supervised joint training scheme. The proposed network architecture is built upon a vanilla transformer encoder, making it easy to run, customize and extend the prediction pipeline for practical use. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UniDet3D obtains significant gains over existing 3D object detection methods in 6 indoor benchmarks: ScanNet (+1.1 mAP50), S3DIS (+9.1 mAP50), ARKitScenes (+19.4 mAP25), MultiScan (+14.3 mAP50), 3RScan (+3.2 mAP50), and ScanNet++ (+2.7 mAP50).