FEAST-Mamba: FEAture and SpaTial Aware Mamba Network with Bidirectional Orthogonal Fusion for Cross-Modal Point Cloud Segmentation

Abstract Point cloud segmentation has a wide range of applications in autonomous driving, augmented reality and virtual reality. Multi-modal fusion strategies have received increasing attention in point cloud segmentation recently. Despite the success, existing methods usually generate unnecessary information loss or redundancy. In this paper, we propose FEAST-Mamba, a novel FEAture and SpaTial aware Mamba network to tackle multi-modal point cloud segmentation. To exploit the complementarity between different modals, we propose a bidirectional orthogonal attention module, where features are first bidirectionally interacted with each other through cross-modal attention, and then orthogonal fusion is used to reduce feature redundancy. Furthermore, a reordering strategy is proposed for the Mamba architecture that takes into account both spatial and semantic information during cross-modal feature ordering. Experiments on indoor datasets, S3DIS and ScanNet, and outdoor datasets, nuScenes and SemanticKITTI, show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performances.